Charles Brookfield was a British actor, author and journalist. He was born in London on 19 May 1857 and died on 20 October 1913. Actors in period costume sharing a joke while waiting between takes during location filming An actor or actress is a person who acts, or plays a role, in a dramatic production. ... An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

A student at Cambridge University, he made his stage debut in 1879 in a production of Still Waters Run Deep. One of his last acting roles was in The Grand Duchess for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. ... The DOyly Carte Opera Company staged performances of Gilbert and Sullivans Savoy operas in the UK, Europe, America, South Africa and elsewhere from the nineteenth century to the twenty first. ...

Having given up acting due to illness, Brookfield took to writing for the theatre.

His works include the English adaptation of The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein, The Lucky Star, witten in conjunction with Adrian Ross and Aubrey Hopwood produced at the Savoy Theatre in 1899, and The Belle of Mayfair, together with Basil Hood and Cosmo Hamilton, with music by Leslie Stuart. During this period, Brookfield also wrote as a journalist. La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, in three acts and four tableaux by Jacques Offenbach to an original French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. ... Arthur Reed Ropes (December 23, 1859 – September 10, 1933) was better known under the psuedonym Adrian Ross a lyricist of British musical comedies in the late 19th and early 20th century. ... Savoy Theatre London, December 2003 The Savoy Theatre, which opened on 10 October 1881, was built by Richard DOyly Carte (1844 - 1901) on the site of the old Savoy Palace in London as a showcase for the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, which became known as the Savoy Operas... The Belle of Mayfair is a musical comedy composed by Leslie Stuart with a book by Basil Hood, Charles Brookfield and Cosmo Hamilton. ... Basil Charles Hood (April 5, 1864 – August 7, 1917) was a British librettist and lyricist, perhaps best known for his libretti of a half dozen Savoy Operas. ... Leslie Stuart (15 March 1863 – 27 March 1928) was an English composer of early musical theatre, best known for the hit show Florodora (1899) and many popular songs. ...

One of his later works, Dear Old Charley was to be branded unsuitable for the stage, and became the centre of controversy. It may thus be a surprise that Brookfiled became the 'Examiner of Plays' in 1911. His health continued to fail however, and Brookfield died in 1913.