Charles Fredricksen

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Contributor Charles Fredricksen
Other Names Chas Fredrichsen
Gender Male
Nationality Australian
Date of Birth 28 November 1873
Date of Death 7 August 1956
Functions Announcer, Circus Style Performer, Performer, Stump Orator
Notes Showman and cinema commissionaire. At age 11 he had a song-and-dance act at the Bijou Theatre, then travelled Australia with a circus before returning to sing in a grand opera chorus at the Bijou. About 1901 he achieved fame with his Bourke Street ghost-house of illusions and horrors. In 1908, Hoyts' first picture-house opened, dand Fredricksen, the 'Sultan of Spruikers', was engaged.The octogenarian singer, showman and sharp-shooter, having treated Melbourne to forty-eight years of spreken from one Bourke Street pitch, retired in September 1956.
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Performer

Harry Cowan - Actor

Pearl Goodyear - Actor

Jessie Gray - MC

Cyril Iredale - Actor and Singer

Freda Maher - Performer

John Tudor - Actor

Gaiety Novelty Entertainers
Resources
Data Set AusStage
Contributor Identifier 466078