David James

David James was an English comic actor and one of the founders of London's Vaudeville Theatre. He made his stage debut as a child actor at the Princess's Theatre, London under Charles Kean, and appeared in supporting roles at, successively, the Royalty Theatre, where he made his mark in burlesques by F. C. Burnand and others, and then the Strand Theatre, still mainly in burlesque roles but also making an impression as a more serious actor in a revival of Thomas Morton's The Heir at Law.