H.O. Nicholson was born on 5 January 1868 in Gothenburg, Sweden. He was an actor, known for The Cornor House Burglary (1914) and Richard III (1911). He died on 22 September 1940 in Kensington, London, England, UK.
He acted in William Shakespeare's plays, "The Merry Wives of Windsor," "The Merchant of Venice," and "Macbeth" in a F.R. Benson & Shakespeare Company production at the Grand Theatre in Croydon, Surrey, England with Frank Benson, A.E. George, Henry Baynton, Basil Rathbone (was Page, Bassanio, and Malcolm), Mrs. F.R. Benson, and Florence Glossop-Harris in the cast.