Born before 1900
87 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.
87 in the catalogue.
| Willie Edouin | 1846–1908 | 3 productions |
| Robert Shackleton | 1860–1923 | 3 productions |
| George E. Mack | 1866–1948 | 5 productions |
| Claude Gillingwater | 1870–1939 | 3 productions |
| Ben Harney | 1872–1938 | 4 productions |
| Bessie Wynn | 1876–1968 | 4 productions |
| Margaret Dale | 1876–1972 | 4 productions |
| Victor Moore | 1876–1962 | 9 productions |
| Donald Brian | 1877–1948 | 8 productions |
| Frank Tinney | 1878–1940 | 4 productions |
| Helen Raymond | 1878–1965 | 4 productions |
| Fritzi Scheff | 1879–1954 | 5 productions |
| Harry Kelly | 1879–1955 | 3 productions |
| Edward H. Robins | 1880–1955 | 4 productions |
| George Hassell | 1881–1937 | 5 productions |
| Leon Errol | 1881–1951 | 6 productions |
| Bertha Belmore | 1882–1953 | 3 productions |
| Mabel Barrison | 1882–1912 | 3 productions |
| Mary Boland | 1882–1965 | 5 productions |
| Edna May Oliver | 1883–1942 | 3 productions |
| Florenz Ames | 1883–1961 | 5 productions |
| Georgette Harvey | 1884–1952 | 5 productions |
| Andrew Tombes | 1885–1976 | 5 productions |
| Anna Laughlin | 1885–1937 | 3 productions |
| Charles Purcell | 1885–1962 | 6 productions |
| Harland Dixon | 1885–1969 | 7 productions |
| Irene Bordoni | 1885–1953 | 4 productions |
| John Willard | 1885–1942 | 4 productions |
| Ralph Riggs | 1885–1951 | 8 productions |
| Ed Wynn | 1886–1966 | 3 productions |
| Julia Sanderson | 1887–1975 | 4 productions |
| Mabel Taliaferro | 1887–1979 | 3 productions |
| Oscar Shaw | 1887–1967 | 4 productions |
| Cathleen Nesbitt | 1888–1982 | 5 productions |
| Howard Marsh | 1888–1969 | 6 productions |
| Irving Berlin | 1888–1989 | 3 productions |
| Clifton Webb | 1889–1966 | 7 productions |
| Dudley Clements | 1889–1947 | 6 productions |
| Eddie Dowling | 1889–1976 | 3 productions |
| Eduardo Ciannelli | 1889–1969 | 3 productions |
| Ernest Truex | 1889–1973 | 3 productions |
| Harry K. Morton | 1889–1956 | 4 productions |
| Joseph Santley | 1889–1971 | 5 productions |
| Helen Broderick | 1891–1959 | 4 productions |
| Joe E. Marks | 1891–1973 | 5 productions |
| Joseph Macaulay | 1891–1967 | 7 productions |
| Marjorie Gateson | 1891–1977 | 4 productions |
| Philip Loeb | 1891–1955 | 7 productions |
| Alan Edwards | 1892–1954 | 3 productions |
| Eddie Cantor | 1892–1964 | 3 productions |
| Esther Howard | 1892–1965 | 4 productions |
| Eva Puck | 1892–1979 | 4 productions |
| Rex Ingram | 1892–1950 | 4 productions |
| Russ Brown | 1892–1964 | 4 productions |
| Jack Waldron | 1893–1969 | 4 productions |
| Jimmy Durante | 1893–1980 | 4 productions |
| William Gaxton | 1893–1963 | 7 productions |
| Allen Kearns | 1894–1956 | 7 productions |
| Beatrice Lillie | 1894–1989 | 4 productions |
| Billy Gilbert | 1894–1971 | 3 productions |