John Dunn

John Dunn (c. 1813 – 17 August 1875) was a comic actor who had a considerable career in Australia.

History Dunn, born John Benjamin Donoghue, but born in Surrey, England. He studied Law for a time before abandoning it for the London stage, first playing Shakespeare, and was noticed by Charles Kean, then low comedy with David Osbaldiston (1794–1850), when he came under the influence of Thomas D. Rice, whose eccentric Jim Crow routine had become hugely popular.

Australia He arrived in Sydney from California with his family in mid-1856 and first appeared in (That) Rascal Jack with his daughter Rosa Dunn and Thomas Smith Bellair at the Victoria Theatre on 21 July 1856, but soon moved to Melbourne, where his first appearance was at the Theatre Royal on 3 November 1856, when he and Rosa played The Cobbler and his Wife. He enjoyed considerable success in comedy, frequently appearing with comic Richard Stewart. He tried to repeat his success in England and America playing Jim Crow routines, but failed to enthuse Australian audiences, so was abandoned. and Greville.

Family Dunn married Maria Louisa Campbell-Voullaire; She married prominent grain merchant L. L. Lewis (c. 1835 – 21 December 1910) on 16 October 1863. Marian (often "Marion") Dunn (born c. 1847 – 4 December 1914) married Marcus Clarke on 22 July 1869; they had six children, including Marian Marcus Clarke. son, yet to find Arthur Dunn (c. 1851 – 4 August 1888), employed by the Bank of New South Wales They had a home at 244 Cardigan Street, Carlton, Victoria.