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.
| Robert Woolsey | 1888–1938 | 10 productions |
| Clifton Webb | 1889–1966 | 21 productions |
| Dudley Clements | 1889–1947 | 19 productions |
| Eddie Dowling | 1889–1976 | 7 productions |
| Eduardo Ciannelli | 1889–1969 | 14 productions |
| Ernest Truex | 1889–1973 | 36 productions |
| Florence Tempest | 1889–1932 | 7 productions |
| Harry K. Morton | 1889–1956 | 10 productions |
| Howard Lindsay | 1889–1968 | 5 productions |
| Joseph Santley | 1889–1971 | 17 productions |
| James Barton | 1890–1962 | 12 productions |
| Joe Cook | 1890–1959 | 4 productions |
| Jose Ruben | 1890–1952 | 25 productions |
| Leslie Banks | 1890–1952 | 8 productions |
| Marc Connelly | 1890–1980 | 3 productions |
| Marjorie Main | 1890–1975 | 8 productions |
| Ray Dooley | 1890–1984 | 15 productions |
| Roberta Beatty | 1890–1978 | 17 productions |
| Stanley Ridges | 1890–1951 | 18 productions |
| Tom Powers | 1890–1955 | 32 productions |
| Alexander Gray | 1891–1976 | 9 productions |
| Ann Shoemaker | 1891–1978 | 18 productions |
| Fanny Brice | 1891–1951 | 12 productions |
| Helen Broderick | 1891–1959 | 16 productions |
| Joe E. Marks | 1891–1973 | 15 productions |
| Joseph Macaulay | 1891–1967 | 29 productions |
| Lester Allen | 1891–1949 | 12 productions |
| Madge Kennedy | 1891–1987 | 14 productions |
| Marjorie Gateson | 1891–1977 | 23 productions |
| Philip Loeb | 1891–1955 | 32 productions |
| Tom Patricola | 1891–1950 | 7 productions |
| Alan Edwards | 1892–1954 | 10 productions |
| Eddie Cantor | 1892–1964 | 7 productions |
| Esther Howard | 1892–1965 | 12 productions |
| Eva Puck | 1892–1979 | 6 productions |
| Florence Shirley | 1892–1967 | 14 productions |
| Gerald Oliver Smith | 1892–1974 | 11 productions |
| Jimmy Savo | 1892–1960 | 5 productions |
| John Litel | 1892–1972 | 10 productions |
| Lillian Lorraine | 1892–1955 | 11 productions |
| Peggy Wood | 1892–1978 | 30 productions |
| Rex Ingram | 1892–1950 | 12 productions |
| Russ Brown | 1892–1964 | 11 productions |
| Thomas Mitchell | 1892–1962 | 16 productions |
| William Demarest | 1892–1983 | 4 productions |
| Ann Pennington | 1893–1971 | 18 productions |
| Clarence Nordstrom | 1893–1968 | 16 productions |
| Dorothy Dickson | 1893–1995 | 7 productions |
| Ina Claire | 1893–1985 | 22 productions |
| Jack Waldron | 1893–1969 | 7 productions |
| Jimmy Durante | 1893–1980 | 6 productions |
| William Gaxton | 1893–1963 | 12 productions |
| Allen Kearns | 1894–1956 | 17 productions |
| Anna Wheaton | 1894–1961 | 13 productions |
| Arthur Treacher | 1894–1975 | 12 productions |
| Beatrice Lillie | 1894–1989 | 15 productions |
| Billy Gilbert | 1894–1971 | 3 productions |
| Delyle Alda | 1894–1927 | 5 productions |
| Helen Ford | 1894–1982 | 16 productions |
| Joseph Meyer | 1894–1987 | 3 productions |