Junius Brutus Booth, Junior. was an American actor and theatre manager.
Background
As a member of the illustrious Booth family of actors, Junius Brutus Booth, Junior. was overshadowed not only by his father Junius, Senior and brothers Edwin and John Wilkes (the assassin of Abraham Lincoln), but by his wife Agnes, who was a successful actress in her own right.
Career
Though a relatively undistinguished actor, Junius, Junior. was highly regarded for his performances as King John and Cassius in Julius Caesar, which he performed with Edwin as Brutus and John Wilkes as Mark Antony in 1864. At the time of the assassination, he was fulfilling an acting engagement in Cincinnati, Ohio. Even so, he was arrested and hurried by train to the Old Capitol Prison, where he was interrogated and released.
He retired in 1881 to Masconomo House in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, where he died on September 17, 1883.