In the first production of Boucicault's The Colleen Bawn he played the part of Danny Mann, the villain of the piece.
Sullivan took her out on the River Shannon near Kilrush, County Clare where he killed her with a musket, stripped her and dumped her body in the river, tied to a stone.
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In 1924, a British edition was made, directed by W.P. Kellino.
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27 March - The melodrama The Colleen Bawn, or The Brides of Garryowen, written by and starring Dion Boucicault, is first performed at Miss Laura Keene's theatre, New York.
Among the films he acted in or directed were The Colleen Bawn (1911), From the Manger to the Cross (1912), The Shaughraun (1912), The Last of the Mafia (1915), A Fool's Paradise (1916), Audrey (1916), Pajamas (1927), Love and Learn (1928), and Broadway Howdy (1929).
At this period he had taken to playing female characters in burlesques, and he appeared at the Royal Theatre, Melbourne, in Valentine and Orson and in a travestie in The Colleen Bawn called "Eily O'Connor".
Boucicault was involved with over 150 plays, and is best known for The Shaughraun, yet also wrote “Napolean’s Old Guard”, “A Legend of the Devil’s Dyke”, “London Assurance”, and “The Colleen Bawn”.