Fisher was born in July 1816 at East Dereham, Norfolk, the first child and only son of
David Fisher (II) (1788–1858), actor, musician, and painter, and his first wife F. B. Bane (1788/9–1818). East Dereham, was a town on a circuit established by his grandfather (
David Fisher (I) (1760–1832)), and managed by his father and his uncle. An accident to his leg disqualified him for the stage, and he appeared as principal violinist at local concerts. A recovery, never perfect, enabled him to join the company at the
Prince's Theatre, Glasgow. After a stay of four years he appeared 2 November 1853 at the Princess's Theatre, under
Charles Kean's management, as Victor in the ''Lancers, or the Gentleman's Son
, an adaptation of Le Fils de Famille
of Bayard. During six years he played at this house in various novelties and revivals, including a trifling production from his own pen entitled Music hath Charms'' (June 1858). In 1859 he joined the
Adelphi under B. Webster's management, where he was the original Abbé Latour in the
Dead Heart of
Watts Phillips. In 1863 he gave, at the
Hanover Square Rooms and at
St. James's Hall, an entertainment called
Facts and Fancies, accompanied by Kate Mellon and
Sarah Louisa Kilpack. In the autumn of the same year, he rejoined the Princess's, then under Vining's management. In 1865 he played, at the Haymarket, Orpheus in Blanche's
Orpheus in the Haymarket, In 1866–8 he was at Liverpool as stage-manager for Mr.
H. J. Byron, playing at The Amphitheatre and the Alexandra Theatre. When the
Globe Theatre, London, opened, 28 November 1868, he was the first Major Treherne in
Byron's ''Cyril's Success'', He appeared in succession at
Drury Lane, the Olympic, the Globe, the
Opera Comique, the Criterion, the Mirror (Holborn) Theatre, now destroyed, and the Princess's, playing in pieces by
H. J. Byron, Mr.
Boucicault, and other writers. His last appearance in London was at
the Lyceum in 1884, as Sir Toby Belch. After that period he played in the country. He died in St. Augustine's Road,
Camden Town, on 4 October 1887, and was buried at
Highgate cemetery. The
Era says that not a single actor attended his funeral. ==Assessment==