{{short description|American actor}} {{Use American English|date=January 2018}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2018}} {{Infobox person | name = Louis Mann | image = Louis Mann, stage actor. Baker.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Mann in 1901 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1865|04|20}} | birth_place = New York City, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1931|02|15|1865|04|20}} | death_place = New York City, U.S. | other_names = | occupation = Actor, director | years_active = 1916{{ndash}}1922 | known_for = | spouse = Clara Lipman | relatives = Nathaniel Mann (brother) }}
'''Louis Mann''' (20 April 1865 – 15 February 1931) was an American theatre actor and sometime director, who in his later life made a few appearances in motion pictures. He was married to actress and playwright Clara Lipman.
==History== [[File:Louis Mann and Clara Lipman.png|thumb|left|250px|Louis Mann and his wife Clara Lipman in 1901.]] Mann was born in New York City in 1865 to Daniel and Caroline Mann,<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=M&artid=146|title=Louis Mann personal history|encyclopedia=jewishencyclopedia.com}}</ref> and made his first theatrical appearances as a child actor, mainly in German-language theatricals. In 1896 he appeared in the Herald Square Theatre on Broadway, in the George Dance and Ivan Caryll production ''The Girl from Paris''. He played Hans Nix to Clara Lipman's Estelle Cookoo in the 1897 Morton-Kerker musical comedy ''The Telephone Girl'',<ref>{{cite book|title=Advertisement - Boston Daily Globe|location=Boston, Massachusetts|date=August 19, 1900|page=19; col. 8}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C5IXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA503|last=Brown|first=Thomas Alston|title=A History of the New York Stage|year=1908|page=583|accessdate=August 4, 2021}}</ref> and in 1899, the two appeared in the original run of the farce ''The Girl in the Barracks''. Mann and Lipman took the leads, and were well received.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1899/10/10/100454114.pdf|title=Louis Mann and Clara Lipman appear in a new farce from the German|work=The New York Times|accessdate=August 4, 2021|issue=October 10a|year=1899}}</ref> Mann continued appearing in original stage comedies, and in 1903 produced his own Broadway production, Charles Nirdlinger's ''The Consul'' at the Princess Theatre on 29th Street.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=5680|title=The Consul|work=Internet Broadway Database}}</ref> The play had a short run, and in the later half of 1903, Mann appeared in Weber and Fields low comedy musical ''Whoop-Dee-Doo'' at the Weber and Fields' Broadway Music Hall.<ref>{{cite news|title=Weber and Fields Again|work=New York Times|year=1903|issue=September 25b|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1903/09/25/290337822.pdf|accessdate=August 4, 2021}}</ref> thumb|right|200px|Louis Mann in "The Cheater," 1911<ref>{{cite web|title=Daily Illini|url=http://idnc.library.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/illinois?a=d&d=DIL19110108&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------#|website=Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections|accessdate=20 July 2015|page=7|format=Digital copy|date=January 8, 1911}}</ref> In 1906, Mann appeared in his wife's play ''Julie Bonbon'', which opened at Lew M. Field Theatre, New York. He appeared in all five of his wife's works, staging her final piece ''Nature's Nobleman''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=12686|title=Nature's Nobleman|work=Internet Broadway Database}}</ref> By 1914, Mann appeared in his first moving picture, Giles Warren's ''Your Girl and Mine: A Woman Suffrage Play''. In 1918 Mann appeared in his most notable role, that of Karl Pfeifer, in Aaron Hoffman's stage play ''Friendly Enemies''. His most notable film role was ''The Sins of the Children'' (1930) opposite Robert Montgomery and Leila Hyams.
His brothers were also in show business: Sam Mann was a comic actor and Nathaniel Mann was a theatrical composer and songwriter.<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Edward|last=Freiberger|title=Strange Theatrical Coincidences|magazine=The Theatre|url=https://archive.org/details/theatremagazine15newyuoft/page/96/mode/2up|year=1912|publisher=|page=70}}</ref><ref name="RogersGragert2001">{{cite book|author1=Will Rogers|author2=Steven K. Gragert|author3=M. Jane Johansson|title=The Papers of Will Rogers: From Vaudeville to Broadway: September 1908-August 1915|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qv0CWuFSxDoC&pg=PA223|date=2001|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|isbn=978-0-8061-3315-7|page=223}}</ref>
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==External links== {{Commons category}} * {{IBDB name|9615}} * {{IMDb name|0542864}}
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