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Johnny Dooley on a bicycle on the set of When Knighthood Was in Flower, 1922
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John Dooley

John Dooley was a comedic acrobat who starred on the B.F. Keith vaudeville circuit in the 1900's and 1910s. Amongst other performances, he was part of Tydeman & Dooley .

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Tydeman and Dooley portrait photograph
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Tydeman & Dooley

Tydeman & Dooley were a pair of comedic acrobats who starred on the B.F. Keith vaudeville circuit in the 1900s and 1910s. Vincent A. Tydeman grew up in Camden, and also had a long career as a minor league baseball player.

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Courier-Post column, The Famous Dooley Family, from Dan McConnell's Scrapbook
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The Famous Dooley Family

Those of us who knew and esteemed the late H. Bart McHugh, Sr., recall the many-fold fine attributes of the man who was the heart and spirit of the annual Mummers Parade in Philadelphia for so many years.

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J. Gordon Dooley

J. Gordon Dooley, 31, comedian for the vaudeville team of Dooley and Morton, died January 24 at his home in Philadelphia of tuberculosis.

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Variety obituary of comedian Johnny Dooley, June 13, 1928
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Johnny Dooley

Johnny Dooley, 41, comedian, died June 7 in the Homeopathic Hospital, Yonkers, of intestinal trouble. He had recently been operated upon for appendicitis.

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Variety obituary of William Dooley, brother of Johnny, Gordon and Ray Dooley
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William Dooley

William Dooley, brother of Johnny, Gordon and Ray of the theatrical family of that name, died Sept. 29, at his home 308 west 97th street, New York.

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Philadelphia Inquirer article on the death of vaudeville comedian Billy Dooley, September 30, 1921
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Billy Dooley Killed in Fall From Cab

William (Billy) Dooley, born in Camden and a Philadelphia schoolboy, who was widely known among visitors at vaudeville theatres, died in New York yesterday following a fall from a taxi-cab on Tuesday.

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