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.
| Marion Sunshine | 1894–1963 | 14 productions |
| Paul Lukas | 1894–1971 | 4 productions |
| Sammy White | 1894–1960 | 6 productions |
| Tullio Carminati | 1894–1971 | 4 productions |
| Wilda Bennett | 1894–1967 | 9 productions |
| Will Mahoney | 1894–1967 | 4 productions |
| Bert Lahr | 1895–1967 | 20 productions |
| Bert Wheeler | 1895–1968 | 7 productions |
| Cliff Edwards | 1895–1971 | 5 productions |
| Eddie Buzzell | 1895–1985 | 8 productions |
| Gilda Gray | 1895–1959 | 5 productions |
| Harry Richman | 1895–1972 | 7 productions |
| John Boles | 1895–1969 | 4 productions |
| Justine Johnstone | 1895–1982 | 8 productions |
| Kitty Doner | 1895–1988 | 4 productions |
| Lea Penman | 1895–1962 | 22 productions |
| Olga Cook | 1895–1991 | 4 productions |
| Sig Arno | 1895–1975 | 3 productions |
| Ada May | 1896–1978 | 3 productions |
| Charles Butterworth | 1896–1946 | 7 productions |
| Constance Binney | 1896–1989 | 3 productions |
| Edith Day | 1896–1971 | 6 productions |
| Edith Hallor | 1896–1971 | 4 productions |
| Ethel Shutta | 1896–1976 | 6 productions |
| Ethel Waters | 1896–1977 | 10 productions |
| Margaret Bannerman | 1896–1976 | 5 productions |
| Melville Cooper | 1896–1973 | 18 productions |
| Ruth Etting | 1896–1978 | 5 productions |
| Ted Healy | 1896–1937 | 3 productions |
| Cyril Ritchard | 1897–1977 | 11 productions |
| Dennis King | 1897–1971 | 37 productions |
| Hermione Gingold | 1897–1987 | 7 productions |
| Hope Emerson | 1897–1960 | 7 productions |
| Inez Courtney | 1897–1975 | 9 productions |
| Ivy Sawyer | 1897–1999 | 10 productions |
| Jerome Cowan | 1897–1972 | 15 productions |
| Louise Groody | 1897–1961 | 10 productions |
| Luella Gear | 1897–1980 | 20 productions |
| Madeline Cameron | 1897–1990 | 7 productions |
| Margalo Gillmore | 1897–1986 | 38 productions |
| Marion Davies | 1897–1961 | 10 productions |
| Mary Ellis | 1897–2003 | 14 productions |
| Teddy Hart | 1897–1971 | 11 productions |
| Vera Allen | 1897–1987 | 25 productions |
| W. H. Post | 1897–1989 | 4 productions |
| Walter Pidgeon | 1897–1984 | 7 productions |
| Dave Chasen | 1898–1973 | 4 productions |
| Gertrude Lawrence | 1898–1952 | 17 productions |
| Gladys Hurlbut | 1898–1988 | 7 productions |
| Irving Jacobson | 1898–1978 | 3 productions |
| Jack Haley | 1898–1979 | 9 productions |
| Lotte Lenya | 1898–1981 | 6 productions |
| Marilyn Miller | 1898–1936 | 10 productions |
| Molly Picon | 1898–1992 | 7 productions |
| Odette Myrtil | 1898–1978 | 10 productions |
| Queenie Smith | 1898–1978 | 13 productions |
| Shirley Booth | 1898–1992 | 30 productions |
| Art Smith | 1899–1973 | 28 productions |
| Dorothy Mackaye | 1899–1940 | 10 productions |
| Eddie Phillips | 1899–1965 | 9 productions |