 He was one of W. S. Gilbert's favourite actors.and, besides the aforementioned "Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith", he also starred in Gilbert's "Randall's Thumb", (1871), and played Mousta in an 1882 revival of "Broken Hearts" alongside Gilbert himself as Florian (due to an accident incapacitating Kyrle Bellew).A benefit matinee was held for Vezin at the Haymarket Theatre on March 19, 1896.