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Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1853 - 1917) was an English actor-manager. He ran the Haymarket Theatre, and later created His Majesty's Theatre, both in the West End of London. His productions included A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde (1893), Trilby by Paul Potter (1895), and Pygmalion by G.B. Shaw (1914). He played many of the leading roles. Tree directed and starred in the earliest surviving film of an excerpt from a Shakespearean play: King John in 1899. He founded the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1904, and was knighted in 1909.
