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Anew McMaster (Christmas Eve 1894 - August 25th 1962) was an Anglo-Irish Actor-Manager.

McMaster was the last of the great actor-managers, being unconnected with film or television. From 1925, he and his company played a repertoire of Shakespeare plays across the world and the roles which made his reputation were Hamlet, Macbeth, Coriolanus, Petruchio, Richard III, Shylock and above all, Othello. He occasionally played outside his company but was never very far away from Shakespeare or Ireland. When asked why, he replied, 'I suppose I'm a wanderer and I like playing in the theatre. It makes no difference to me if I'm on Broadway or in the smallest village hall in Ireland. The only thing that matters is that I'm playing.'1