author
Charles Rock
1866–1919
A familiar face on the British stage in the late Victorian and Edwardian years, he also left behind fiction that still turns up in classic digital libraries. His career bridged theatre, early film, and writing in a way that feels distinctly of its time.
1 Audiobook
The Ghost of Jerry Bundler
by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs, Charles Rock
About the author
Born Arthur Charles Rock de Fabeck on May 30, 1866, in Vellore, India, Charles Rock became known in Britain as a stage actor and later appeared in early silent films. Reliable reference sources identify him as a British actor, and library records for his books show that his writing has remained available to later readers.
Rock was active in theatre long before film became established, and he is also credited with writing at least one stage adaptation, The Ghost of Jerry Bundler, based on a story by W. W. Jacobs. That mix of performing and writing helps explain why his name appears both in theatrical histories and in old book catalogs.
He died in London on July 12, 1919. Today, Charles Rock is remembered less as a celebrity than as one of those versatile late-19th- and early-20th-century figures who moved easily between the stage and the printed page.