Born before 1900
248 performers in this catalogue were born in the nineteenth century and have three or more productions attached. Willie Edouin was born in 1846. Victor Moore in 1876. They worked in a theatre lit by gas and finished in one with a sound desk.
248 in the catalogue.
| Mabel Barrison | 1882–1912 | 10 productions |
| Mary Boland | 1882–1965 | 26 productions |
| Thurston Hall | 1882–1958 | 24 productions |
| Anna Laughlin | 1883–1937 | 8 productions |
| Dorothy Jardon | 1883–1966 | 11 productions |
| Edna May Oliver | 1883–1942 | 13 productions |
| Elizabeth Brice | 1883–1965 | 16 productions |
| Florenz Ames | 1883–1961 | 34 productions |
| Matt Briggs | 1883–1962 | 17 productions |
| Paul Dickey | 1883–1933 | 3 productions |
| Reinald Werrenrath | 1883–1953 | 3 productions |
| Walter Huston | 1883–1950 | 9 productions |
| Abbie Mitchell | 1884–1960 | 9 productions |
| Alexander Leftwich | 1884–1947 | 3 productions |
| Aubrey Lyles | 1884–1932 | 4 productions |
| Georgette Harvey | 1884–1952 | 23 productions |
| Mlle. Dazie | 1884–1952 | 8 productions |
| Nicholas Joy | 1884–1964 | 35 productions |
| Andrew Tombes | 1885–1976 | 21 productions |
| Bert Lytell | 1885–1954 | 11 productions |
| Charles Purcell | 1885–1962 | 17 productions |
| Flournoy Miller | 1885–1971 | 5 productions |
| Gertrude Vanderbilt | 1885–1960 | 11 productions |
| Harland Dixon | 1885–1969 | 14 productions |
| Irene Bordoni | 1885–1953 | 15 productions |
| Irene Franklin | 1885–1941 | 5 productions |
| John Willard | 1885–1942 | 20 productions |
| Lois Ewell | 1885–1946 | 4 productions |
| Mae Murray | 1885–1965 | 13 productions |
| Ralph Riggs | 1885–1951 | 19 productions |
| Robert Milton | 1885–1956 | 3 productions |
| Vera Michelena | 1885–1961 | 10 productions |
| Al Jolson | 1886–1950 | 12 productions |
| Dooley Wilson | 1886–1953 | 3 productions |
| Ed Wynn | 1886–1966 | 10 productions |
| Hobart Cavanaugh | 1886–1950 | 14 productions |
| Sophie Tucker | 1886–1966 | 4 productions |
| Alexis Kosloff | 1887–1983 | 4 productions |
| Charles Dingle | 1887–1956 | 10 productions |
| Charles Irwin | 1887–1969 | 3 productions |
| Eric Blore | 1887–1959 | 12 productions |
| George Abbott | 1887–1995 | 10 productions |
| John Wray | 1887–1940 | 9 productions |
| Julia Sanderson | 1887–1975 | 18 productions |
| Mabel Taliaferro | 1887–1979 | 19 productions |
| Oscar Shaw | 1887–1967 | 14 productions |
| Raymond Walburn | 1887–1969 | 15 productions |
| Robert Gleckler | 1887–1939 | 13 productions |
| Vernon Castle | 1887–1918 | 11 productions |
| Walter Percival | 1887–1934 | 14 productions |
| Alexander Asro | 1888–1963 | 4 productions |
| Bernard Granville | 1888–1936 | 15 productions |
| Bessie McCoy Davis | 1888–1931 | 4 productions |
| Cathleen Nesbitt | 1888–1982 | 14 productions |
| Cecil Cunningham | 1888–1959 | 9 productions |
| George Meader | 1888–1963 | 6 productions |
| Howard Marsh | 1888–1969 | 23 productions |
| Irving Berlin | 1888–1989 | 3 productions |
| Monty Woolley | 1888–1963 | 3 productions |
| Nana Bryant | 1888–1955 | 12 productions |