- (1878 - 1917) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1878) Stage Play: Diplomacy. Adapted from the French of Victorien Sardou. Musical Director: Thomas Baker. Music arranged by Thomas Baker. Incidental music by Thomas Baker. Written by Saville Rowe and Bolton Rowe. Directed by W.R. Floyd. Wallack's Theatre: 1 Apr 1878- unknown (unknown performances).
- (1888) Stage Play: Partners. Comedy/drama. Written by Robert Buchanan. Stage Manager: Eugene Wiley Presbrey [credited as Gene W. Prebrey]. Musical Director: Frank Howson. Scenic Design by Richard Marston. Madison Square Theatre: 9 Apr 1888- unknown (unknown performances). Cast: Herbert Ayling (as "Mrs. Harkaway's Husband"), Marie Burroughs, William Davidge, John Findlay, C.P. Flockton, E.M. Holland, Gertie Homan, Mathilde Madison, Kate Molony, E.J. Phillips, W.H. Pope, Walden Ramsay, May Robson (as "Alice Bellair, Her Sister"), Alexander Salvini, George S. Stevens, J.H. Stoddard. Produced by A.M. Palmer.
- (1895) Stage Play: The Imprudent Young Couple. Comedy. Written by Henry Guy Carleton. Empire Theatre: 23 Sep 1895- unknown (unknown performances). Cast: Annie Adams, Maude Adams (as "Marion"), C. Leslie Allen, Herbert Ayling (as "Langdon Endicott"), Lewis Baker, Ethel Barrymore, A.S. 'Pop' Byron, John Drew (as "John Annesley"), Harry Harwood, Frank E. Lamb. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1895) Stage Play: Christopher, Jr. Farce. Written by Madeleine Lucette Ryley. Empire Theatre: 7 Oct 1895- unknown (unknown performances). Cast: Maude Adams, C. Leslie Allen, Herbert Ayling (as "Glibb Lewis"), Baker, Anna Belmont, A.S. 'Pop' Byron, Elsie DeWolfe (as "Mrs. Glibb"), John Drew (as "Christopher Colt, Jr."), Harry Harwood Christopher Colt, Sr."), Joseph Humphries (as "Job"), Frank E. Lamb (as "Whimper"). Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1900) Stage Play: When We Were Twenty-one. Romance. Written by H.V. Esmond. Knickerbocker Theatre: 5 Feb 1900- Mar 1900 (closing date unknown/41 performances). Cast: Herbert Ayling, Helen Barney, Maxine Elliott, Jameson Lee Finney, Gertrude Gheen, Frank Gilmore, Nat C. Goodwin, Nina Gregory, S.M. Hall, Clarence Handyside, Ysobel Haskins, Florence Haverleigh, Florence Hayes, Rapley Holmes, Agnes Marks, Frank Mayne, Kathryn Morse, Estelle Mortimer, Thomas Oberle, Neil O'Brien, Florence Robinson, W.J. Thorold, Charles Thorp, Gertrude Tidball, Florence Wickliffe, Henry Woodruff, L.E. Woodthorpe.
- (1901) Stage Play: If I Were King. Drama. Written by Justin Huntly McCarthy. Garden Theatre: 14 Oct 1901- Dec 1901 (closing date unknown/56 performances). Cast: Herbert Ayling (as "Colin De Cayeulx"), B.B. Belcher (as "De Nontoillet"), Clara Blandick (as "Jehanneton") [Broadway debut], Miss Bolck (as "Lady of the Court"), Malcolm Bradley (as "Trois Echelles") [Broadway debut], Rowland Buckstone (as "Guy Tabarie"), Miss Burke (as "Lady of the Court"), Fanny I. Burt (as "Mother Villon"), Henry Carvill [credited as Henry C. Carvill] (as "Noel le Jolys"), Margaret B. Caskie (as "Queen"), Mr. Childs (as "Masquer"), Norman Conniers (as "Thibaut d'Aussigny"), Frederic Courtenay (as "Du Lau"), Rachel Crown (as "Isabeau"), Miss De Silva (as "Lady of the Court"), Charlotte Deane (as "Blanche"), Mr. Du Puy (as "Page"), Mr. Dunning (as "Masquer"), Miss Evans (as "Lady of the Court"), Mr. Ferrara (as "Masquer"), John Findlay (as "Olivier le Dain"), Miss Fursmann (as "Lady of the Court"), Fred B. Hanson (as "Poncet De Riviere"), Mr. Hayes (as "Masquer"), Mr. Hooves (as "Page"), Mr. Horton (as "Masquer"), Annette Huntington (as "Denise"), Miss Lashmutt (as "Lady of the Court"), Arthur Lawrence (as "Tristan l'Hermite"), Cecilia Loftus (as "Katherine de Vaucelles"), Helen Logan (as "Guillemette"), Frederic Lotto (as "Robin Turgis"), Sidney Mather [credited as Sydney C. Mather] (as "René De Montigny"), William Parke (as "Jehan Le Loup"), Mr. Patterson (as "Masquer"), Francis Powell (as "Montjoye"), George C. Rave (as "Petit Jean"), Charles Redmund (as "Captain of the Watch"), Miss Scott (as "Lady of the Court"), Suzanne Sheldon (as "Huguette du Hamel"), Miss Slavin (as "Lady of the Court"), William J. Sorelle (as "Casin Cholet"), E.H. Sothern (as "Francois Villon"), Mr. Swarz (as "Page"), Mr. Townsend (as "Masquer"), Charles Vane (as "Toison d'Or"), George W. Wilson (as "Louis XI"). Produced by Daniel Frohman.
- (1902) Stage Play: Hearts Aflame. Drama.
- (1902) Stage Play: The Stubbornness of Geraldine. Drama.
- (1903) Stage Play: Are You My Father? Written by Ernest Lacy. Loosely based on incidents in "Japhet in Search of a Father" by Captain Marryat. Bijou Theatre: 8 Oct 1903- Oct 1903 (closing date unknown/11 performances). Cast: Marion Abbott, Louise Allen, Herbert Ayling, William Collier Sr., Jane Dara, Leo Hawley, Wallace McCutcheon Jr. [Broadway debut], George Nash, Laura Palmer, Brigham Royce, John Saville, Redmond St. Croy, Charles Swain, Hugo Toland.
- (1904) Stage Play: Military Mad. Comedy. Written by Leo Ditrichstein. From the German of Fritz Von Schoenthan. Garrick Theatre: 22 Aug 1904- Sep 1904 (closing date unknown/16 performances). Cast: Herbert Ayling, Edith Barker, William Cline, Elly Collmer, Ida Conquest , Leo Ditrichstein, Henry V. Donnelly, John Emerson, Elizabeth Emmett, Charles J. Greene, Charles James, Henry Kolker, Amy Lesser, William Little, Jennie Reiffarth, Brinsley Shaw, Giles Shine, Harry Surgent, Margaret Sutherland, Florence Thornton, George Henry Trader, Thomas A. Wise.
- (1905) Stage Play: The Money Makers. Comedy.
- (1905) Stage Play: The Prince Consort. Comedy.
- (1905) Stage Play: London Assurance. Comedy (revival). Written by Dion Boucicault. Directed by Charles Cartwright. Knickerbocker Theatre: 3 Apr 1905- May 1905 (closing date unknown/32 performances). Cast: Herbert Ayling (as "Mr. Solomon Isaacs"), Murray Carson (as "Mark Meddle, Attorney-at-law"), Ida Conquest (as "Grace Harkaway"), C.M. Dowd (as "James, Servant at Oak Hall"), Ellis Jeffreys (as "Lady Gay Spanker"), Alfred Lester (as "Martin, Sir Harcourt's butler"), James Neill (as "Dazzle"), Kate Phillips (as "Pert, Grace Harkaway's maid"), Eben Plympton (as "Sir Harcourt Courtly"), Herbert Sleath (as "Cool, Sir Harcourt's valet"), William H. Thompson (as "Max Harkaway"), Ben Webster (as "Charles Courtly"), Joseph Wheelock Jr. (as "Dolly Spanker"). Produced by Liebler & Co.
- (1905) Stage Play: Trilby. Comedy (revival). Written by Paul M. Potter, from the novel by George L. Du Maurier. Choreographed by Carl Marwig. New Amsterdam Theatre: 8 May 1905- May 1905 (closing date unknown/24 performances). Cast: Herbert Ayling (as "Dodor"), Meredith G. Brown, Grace Campbell, Ulric B. Collins, Mathilde Cottrelly (as "Mme. Vinard"), William Courtenay (as "William Bagot/Little Billee"), 'Leo Ditrichstein' (as "Zou Zou"), Mabel Findlay, Maude Fisher, John Glendinning (as "Alexander McAllister, the Laird"), Virginia Harned (as "Trilby O'Ferrall"), Marie Horgan, Wilton Lackaye (as "Svengali"), Marguerite Lewis, Dorothy Maynard, Burr McIntosh (as "Taffy"), E.W. Morrison, Almas Peltier, Rosa Rand, Edmund H. Reardon, E.L. Walton. Produced by William A. Brady.
- (1905) Stage Play: Beauty and the Barge. Farce. Written by W.W. Jacobs and Louis N. Parker. Directed by William Seymour. Lyceum Theatre: 6 Sep 1905- 16 Sep 1905 (12 performances). Cast: Herbert Ayling, Harry Barton, Katherine Florence, Frank Goldsmith, Ina Goldsmith, Nat C. Goodwin, Owen Gwent, Harry Gwynette, Galwey Herbert, George Miller, Neil O'Brien, B.W. Parmenter, W.H. Post, Frederick Raymond, May Davenport Seymour, Katherine Stewart, George Sumner, Eva Vincent. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1906) Stage Play: What the Butler Saw. Farce.
- (1906) Stage Play: The Love Route. Melodrama. Written by Edward Peple. Directed by J.C. Huffman. Lincoln Square Theatre: 30 Oct 1906- Dec 1906 (closing date unknown/47 performances). Cast: Herbert Ayling, Elmer Booth, Sumner Gard, F.G. Hearn, J. Lanol, R.B. Mitchell, Guy Standing (as "John Ashby"), Odette Tyler (as "Allene Houston"), George Woodward. Produced by Lee Shubert and J.J. Shubert.
- (1907) Stage Play: Personal. Written by Eugene Wiley Presbrey. Bijou Theatre: 3 Sep 1907- Oct 1907 (closing date unknown/38 performances). Cast: Marion Abbott, Mary Alden, Louise Allen, Herbert Ayling, William Collier Sr., Louise Compton, Nannette Comstock, Cathryn Cooper, Brandon Hurst, Wallace McCutcheon Jr., George Nash, Laura Palmer, Jane Peyton, Brinsley Printie, Brigham Royce, Jack Saville, Grace Thorn. Produced by Weber & Fields (Lew Fields).
- (1907) Stage Play: Polly of the Circus. Written by Margaret Mayo. Scenic Design by Frederic Thompson. Liberty Theatre: 23 Dec 1907- May 1908 (closing date unknown/160 performances). Cast: Herbert Ayling, J.W. Benson, Joseph Brennan, James Cherry, The Famous St. Leon Family of European Acrobats, Mattie Ferguson, John Findlay, J.B. Hollis, W. Burton James, Desiree Lazard, Guy Nichols, Elsie St. Leon, Mabel Taliaferro (as "Polly"), Jennie Weathersby, Mathilde Weffing, Edith Wild, Malcolm Williams (as "Rev. John Douglass"). Produced by Frederic Thompson. Note: Filmed by Goldwyn Pictures Corporation [distributed by Goldwyn Distributing Company] as Polly of the Circus (1917), by MGM as Polly of the Circus (1932).
- (1908) Stage Play: The Prima Donna. Musical comedy/opera. Music by Victor Herbert. Libretto by Henry Martyn Blossom. Orchestra under the direction of John Lund. Dresses by Mlle. Elsie de Wolfe. Directed by Fred G. Latham. Knickerbocker Theatre: 30 Nov 1908- 30 Jan 1909 (72 performances). Cast: St. Clair Bayfield (as "Colonel Dutois"), W.J. Ferguson (as "Monsieur Beaurivage, Athenee's father"), Donald Hall (as "Lieutenant Fernand Drouillard"), William Harcourt (as "Captain Bordenave"), Martin Haydon (as "Lieutenant Gaston de Randal"), Ruth Holt Boucicault (as "The Duchess of Montrose"), Blanche Morrison (as "Countess Helene"), William Raymond (as "Lieutenant Armand, Count de Fontenne") [Broadway debut], Fritzi Scheff (as "Mlle. Athenee, prima donna of the Opera Comique, Paris"), James E. Sullivan (as "Herr Max Gundelfinger, known as "Pop"), Herbert Ayling (as "Baron de Pompal"), Marie Barry (as "Ensemble"), Josephine Bartlett (as "Mother Justine, proprietress of the cafe"), Phil Branson (as "Signor Giuseppe Ciucicini"), Peter Canova (as "Second waiter"), Robert E. Clark (as "Lieutenant Eugene de Beaumont"), Ada Cooke (as "Ensemble"), Armand Cortes (as "First waiter"), Ailsa Craig (as "Ensemble"), Grace Crowley (as "Ensemble"), Beatrice Cummings (as "Ensemble"), Grace Delmar (as "Mlle. Mathilde, cafe chanteuse"), Albert A. Dennay (as "Metropolitan Octette/Ensemble"), Gertrude Doremus (as "Mignon, Cafe-concert girl"), Gertrude Douglas (as "Ensemble"), J.S. Duffus (as "Ensemble"), Renee Dyris (as "Mlle. Desiree, Cafe Chanteuse"), Clara Faye (as "Ensemble"), Florence Fisk (as "Metropolitan Octette/Ensemble"), Luivine Frankel (as "Ensemble"), Marie Franklin (as "Ensemble"), Josephine Gibbons (as "Ensemble"), Sidney Glass (as "Ensemble"), I. Goldman (as "Ensemble"), P. Hahn (as "Ensemble"), Evelyn Hall (as "Ensemble"), Muriel Harmon (as "Ensemble"), Margaret Harrison (as "Metropolitan Octette/Ensemble"), Leonard Hartley (as "Ensemble"), Genevieve Hawes (as "Ensemble"), Virgil Holmes (as "Metropolitan Octette/Ensemble"), Evelyn Jackson (as "Metropolitan Octette/Ensemble"), Fred Killeen (as "Metropolitan Octette/Ensemble"), La Noveta (as "The Dancer"), Katherine Leslie (as "Ensemble"), Margaret MacKenzie (as "Metropolitan Octette/Ensemble"), George W. MacNamara (as "Lieutenant Prosper Rousseau"), Eleanor Mansfield (as "Ensemble"), Marguerite May (as "Bebe/Cafe-concert girl"), Evelyn Mitchell (as "Ensemble"), Dottie Moyer (as "Ensemble"), Irene Moyer (as "Ensemble"), W.H. Mytinger (as "Ensemble"), Anna Pelham (as "Ensemble"), Alma Picard (as "Ensemble"), Lillian Randolph (as "Ensemble"), Virginia Reed (as "Clairette, Cafe-concert girl"), Vivian Rose (as "Ensemble"), Margaret Ross (as "Celeste, Cafe-concert girl"), H. Russell (as "Ensemble"), Harry Semels (as "Ensemble"), Vina Snyder (as "Ensemble"), Olive Stanley (as "Ensemble"), Katherine Stewart (as "Marquise du Perrifonds"), Emma Tritcheler (as "Ensemble"), Gwendolyn Valentine (as "Margot"), F. Von Gottfried (as "Ensemble"), Herman Walters (as "Ensemble"), Walter White (as "Metropolitan Octette/Ensemble"). Produced by Charles B. Dillingham.
- (1911) Stage Play: Maggie Pepper. Comedy. Written by Charles Klein. Harris Theatre: 31 Aug 1911- Jan 1912 (closing date unknown/147 performances). Cast: Rose Stahl (as "Maggie Pepper"), Rachel Arliss (as "Miss Morton"), Herbert Ayling (as "Murchison"), J.H. Benrimo [credited as J. Harry Benrimo] (as "Jim Darkin"), Helen Dahl (as "Imogene Kelly"), Laurence Eddinger (as "Detective Bailey"), Jeanette Horton (as "Ethel Hargen"), Marie Hudson (as "Johanna"), W.J. Kline (as "Johnson"), Lee Kohlmar (as "Jake Rothchild"), Eleanor Lawson (as "Mrs. Thatcher"), Agnes Marc (as "Hattie Murphy"), Beatrice Prentice (as "Zaza"), Stuart Robson (as "Elevator Boy"), Beverly Sitgreaves (as "Ada Darkin"), Grant Stewart (as "Mr. Hargen"), Frederick Truesdell (as "Joe Holbrook").
- (1912) Stage Play: Monsieur Beaucaire (Revival). Written by Booth Tarkington and Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland. Daly's Theatre: 11 May 1912- 4 May 1912 (64 performances). Cast: Herbert Ayling, Lewis Broughton, Catherine Doucet [credited as Catherine Calhoun], Henry Carvill, Edith Charteris, Essex Dane, Reginald Dane, J. Malcolm Dunn, Elwin Eaton [credited as Elwyn Eaton], Rupert Julian, Dorothy Lane, Alice May, Henry Stanford, Vincent Sternroyd, Lewis Waller, Frank Wolfe. Produced by Lewis Waller.
- (1912) Stage Play: Never Say Die. Comedy. Written by William H. Post and William Collier Sr. 48th Street Theatre: 12 Nov 1912- Mar 1913 (151 performances). Cast: William Collier Sr. (as "Dionysius Woodbury"), John Adam, Jesse Arnold, Herbert Ayling, Charles Dow Clark, Emily Fitzroy, Nicholas Judels, John Junior, Paula Marr, Thomas McGrath, James Sheeran, Grant Stewart. Produced by Lew Fields. Note: Filmed by William MacLean Productions as Never Say Die (1924) and [significantly reworked] by Paramount Pictures as Never Say Die (1939) as a Bob Hope vehicle.
- (1913) Stage Play: The Madcap Duchess. Musical comedy/opera.
- (1914) Stage Play: The Beautiful Adventure. Written by Robert de Flers and Gaston Arman de Caillavet. Lyceum Theatre: 5 Sep 1914- Oct 1914 (closing date unknown/41 performances). Cast: Herbert Ayling, Charles Cherry, Annie Esmond, Edward Fielding, George Hubbard, Frances Landy, Ernest Lawford, Ann Murdock, Edgar Norton, Mrs. Thomas Whiffen. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1915) Stage Play: A Celebrated Case. Written by Adolphe d'Ennery and Eugene Cormon. Empire Theatre: 7 Apr 1915- Sep 1915 (closing date unknown/176 performances). Cast: George Alison, Herbert Ayling, Leon Brown, Esther Cornell, Ruth Farnum, Nat C. Goodwin, Minna Gale Haynes, Ann Murdock, Eugene O'Brien, Florence Reed, Walter F. Scott, Beverly Sitgreaves, Helen Ware, John Warnick, Robert Warwick, Mimi Yvonne. Produced by Charles Frohman and David Belasco. Note: In production at time of Mr. Frohman's death.
- (1915) Stage Play: The Lady of the Camellias. Written by Alexandre Dumas. Empire Theatre: 24 Dec 1917- Feb 1918 (closing date unknown/56 performances). Cast: Herbert Ayling (as "The Old Year") [final Broadway role], Ethel Barrymore (as "Marguerite Gautier"), Holbrook Blinn (as "Georges Duval"), Charles F. Coghlan, Rose Coghlan, Wallace Erskine (as "Doctor Guerin"), Mary Hampton, Percy Marmount, Leonard Mudie (as "Gaston Rieux"), Douglas Paterson, Allen Ramsey, Maxwell Ryder, Conway Tearle (as "Armand Duval"), John M. Thoughton, Charles Wallace, Mary Worth. Produced by Charles Frohman Inc.
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