{{Short description|Music hall comedian and vocalist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{more citations needed|date=December 2021}} thumb|right|The Rudd family memorial to the west of the Church of Saint Lawrence in Morden '''Austin Rudd''' (4 December 1868 – 24 March 1929) was a British music hall comedian and vocalist.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |author=Tony Barker |title=Austin Rudd |year=1978 |encyclopedia=Music Hall Records |page=113 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z404AQAAIAAJ }}</ref>

==Biography== Rudd was born in London and made his first professional stage appearance at the age of 22 at Deacons Music Hall in Clerkenwell, where a reviewer called him a "comedian of decidedly modern stamp".<ref>''London and Provincial Entr'acte'', 4 January 1890</ref>

For the next forty years Rudd performed with success in all the major London music halls and in the British provinces as well as undertaking a number of tours abroad to the United States, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.{{citation needed|date=August 2017}}<ref>{{cite news|orig-date=8 January 1898 <!--17 January 1898, 7 February 1898-->|title=Amusements - Tivoli Theatre|publisher=Sydney Morning Herald}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Amusements - Tivoli Theatre |publisher=Sydney Morning Herald |date=14 March 1898}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Amusements - Tivoli Theatre |issue=7 May 1901, 20 May 1901, 27 May 1901, 10 June 1901 |publisher=Sydney Morning Herald}}</ref>

He had a large repertoire of songs, many of which he wrote and composed himself, including "Sailors Don’t Care", "Here We Suffer Grief and Pain" and "She Was In My Class".{{citation needed|date=August 2017}}<ref>{{cite web |author1=Grief & Pain words and music by Austin Rudd in Tivoli Annual #39 by Joe Slater |title=Trove, National Library of Australia |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-vn2418880 |pages=23–26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Caricature of Austin Rudd by George Harold Cooke with commentary |url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O85109/caricature-cooke-george-harold/ |website=V and A Museum Collections |date=January 1904 |access-date=6 October 2020}}</ref>

Rudd continued to work right up to his death in 1929, aged 60. He was buried in his family grave at St Lawrence Church, Morden.<ref name=Commemorated>[http://www.themusichallguild.com/news.php "Latest News: Austin Rudd Commemorated"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190518152923/http://www.themusichallguild.com/news.php |date=18 May 2019 }}, The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America. Retrieved 29 August 2018</ref><ref>[http://www.themusichallguild.com/news.php "Latest News: Grave of Austin Rudd Restored"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190518152923/http://www.themusichallguild.com/news.php |date=18 May 2019 }}, the Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America, accessed 29 August 2018</ref>

==Legacy== A commemorative blue plaque was unveiled at his former home at 254 Edgware Road, London, on September 5, 2015, by The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America<ref name=Commemorated/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk/page4411.htm |title=Austin Rudd |access-date=29 August 2018 |publisher= Plaques of London}}</ref>

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