Movie The Rivals | ||
Played by James Corden, Dylan Charles | ||
Bob Acres is a character in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals.
Acres was a coward, whose “courage always oozed out at his finger ends”. He was popularly played in the 19th century by American actor Joseph Jefferson. (Jefferson named a Louisiana train station after this character; see Bob Acres, Louisiana.)
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Bob Acres Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA