- (1934 - 1970) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1934) Stage Play: Every Thursday. Comedy. Written by Doty Hobart. Scenic Design by Ackerman Studio. Directed by Theodore Viehman. Royale Theatre: 10 May 1934- Jul 1934 (closing date unknown/60 performances). Cast: George Carleton (as "Mr. Thomas Clark"), Jack Davis (as "Ferguson"), Ann Dere (as "Mrs. Thomas Clark"), Frederick Forrester (as "Dr. Adams"), Leon Janney (as "Raymond Clark") [Broadway debut], Tucker McGuire (as "Fern Adams"), Queenie Smith (as "Sadie"), Sheila Trent (as "Florence Amelia Elizabeth Lowell"). Produced by Wee and Leventhal Inc.
- (1935) Stage Play: The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles. Fantasy. Written by George Bernard Shaw. Directed by Harry Wagstaff Gribble. Guild Theatre: 18 Feb 1935- Mar 1935 (closing date unknown/40 performances). Cast: Romney Brent (as "The Clergyman"), Patricia Calvert, Franklin Gray, Lawrence Grossmith (as "Sir Charles Fairwaters"), Louis Hector, Leon Janney, Alma Lloyd, Reginald Malcolm, McKay Morris, Alla Nazimova, Rex O'Malley (as "The Emigration Officer"), Lionel Pape (as "Wilks"), Viola Roache (as "The Lady Tourist"), Rita Vale. Produced by The Theatre Guild.
- (1935) Stage Play: Parade. Musical revue/satire. Sketches by Paul Peters, George Sklar, Frank Gabrielson and David Lesan. Additional Sketches by Kyle Crichton, Michael Blankfort, Alan Baxter, Harold Johnsrud and Turner Bullock. Lyrics by Paul Peters, George Sklar and Kyle Crichton. Featuring songs with lyrics by Marc Blitzstein, Emmanuel Eisenberg and Michael Blankfort. Featuring songs by Will Irwin and Marc Blitzstein. Orchestral under the direction of Max Meth. Music orchestrated by Conrad Salinger, Robert Russell Bennett and David Raksin. Scenic Design by Lee Simonson. Musical and dance numbers supervised and staged by Robert Alton. Dialogue directed by Philip Loeb. Guild Theatre: 20 May 1935- 22 Jun 1935 (40 performances). Cast: George Ali, Edgar Allen, Wanda Allen, Avis Andrews, Eve Arden (as "Mrs. Brown"), Ethel Axel, Ida Bildner, Charles D. Brown, Andre Charise, Stella Claussen, Miriam Curtis, Evelyn Dall, Mary Katherine Dougherty, Geoffrey Errett, Dorothy Fox, Robert Gray, Beverly Hosier, William Houston, Leon Janney (as "Ronald"), Esther Junger, Grace Kaye, David Lawrence, Lois Leng, Joe Lennon, J. Elliott Leonard, David Lesan, Yisrol Libman, Norman Lind, Roger Logan, Robert Long, Vera Marche, Vera Marshe, Evelyn Monte, Lillian Moore, Melton Moore, Lulu Morris, Doris Newcomb, Earl Oxford, Susanne Remos, Ralph Riggs, Bradley Louis Roberts, Polly Rose, Jack Ross, Ruth Ross, Stella Sanders, Jimmy Savo, Ethel Selwyn, Irwin Shurack, Harry Smith, Ezra Stone, Ernest Taylor, Eunice Thawl, Jerome Thor, Jean Travers, Norman Van Emburgh, Charles Walters, John Weidler, Marguerite White. Produced by The Theatre Guild.
- (1937) Stage Play: The Bough Breaks. Drama. Written by James Knox Millen. Directed by Curtis Cooksey. Little Theatre: 19 Nov 1937- Nov 1937 (closing date unknown/3 performances). Cast: Eleanor Brent (as "The Boy's Mother"), Cyrilla Dorne (as "The Girl"), Leon Janney (as "The Boy"). Produced by Peggy Cleary and Paul Berney.
- (1939) Stage Play: Foreigners.
- (1941) Stage Play: Ghost for Sale.
- (1953) Stage Play: Madam, Will You Walk. Comedy.
- (1954) Stage Play: The Flowering Peach. Drama. Written by Clifford Odets [final Broadway credit during lifetime]. Incidental music by Alan Hovhaness. Directed by Clifford Odets. Belasco Theatre: 28 Dec 1954- 23 Apr 1955 (135 performances). Cast: Mario Alcalde (as "Japheth"), Sidney Armus (as "A Strange Man/Lion"), Marjorie Barrett (as "Fawn"), Barbara Baxley (as "Goldie"), Patricia Fay (as "Fawn"), Berta Gersten (as "Esther"), Leon Janney (as "Ham"), Barbara Kay (as "Goat"), Sidney Kay (as "Second Old Man"), Osna Palmer (as "Leah"), Martin Ritt (as "Shem"), Ludwig Roth (as "First Old Man"), Janice Rule (as "Rachel"), Menasha Skulnik (as "Noah"). Produced by Robert Whitehead and The Producers Theatre.
- (1955) Stage Play: Threepenny Opera. Musical drama (revival).
- (1957) Stage Play: Measure for Measure. Comedy.
- (1957) Stage Play: A Shadow of My Enemy.
- (1961) Stage Play: A Call on Kuprin. Written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. Based on the novel by Maurice Edelman. Directed by George Abbott. Broadhurst Theatre: 25 May 1961- 3 Jun 1961 (12 performances). Cast: John Allen (as "Arthur Harrington"), Marie Baratoff (as "Mrs. Kendall"), Lydia Bruce (as "Vera Kuprina"), Dabney Coleman (as "American Couple/Marine Sgt. Loomis/Guard/Second K.G.B. Guard/Guard at Yalta") [Broadway debut], John Garson (as "Col. I.L. Makarov"), Halyna Harcourt (as "Nina/Friend of Jazz Enthusiast/Singing Girl"), John Hirst (as "Russian Sailor"), Claude Horton (as "Holloway"), Lauri Ikonen (as "Chess Boy"), Leon Janney (as "Professor Trifonov"), Rita Karin (as "Head Intourist Clerk/Book Peddler"), Doreen Kay (as "Tourist Couple/Kvas Vendor"), Eugenie Leontovich (as "Madame Kuprina"), Jeffrey Lynne (as "Jonathan Smith"), Victor Merinow (as "Intourist Aide/Soviet Policeman/K.G.B. Interpretor"), Andre Pascal (as "Tourist Couple/Russian Sailor/K.G.B. Guard"), Gedda Petry (as "Woman Porter/Flower Peddler/Singing Girl"), Joe Ponazecki (as "Tourist/Drunk"), Nicholas Saunders (as "Mr. Kendall/Guard at Yalta"), Edmund Shaff (as "Tourist Guide/Friend of Jazz Enthusiast"), William Swetland (as "American Ambassador"), Ludmilla Tchor (as "Assistant Clerk"), Ludmila Toretzka (as "Old Woman/Woman Sweeping/Ted Vadim Tourist") [final Broadway role], Tania Velia (as "American Couple/Jazz Enthusiast/Singing Girl"), George Voskovec (as "Professor V.V. Kuprin"). Produced by Robert E. Griffith and Harold Prince.
- (1962) Stage Play: Venus at Large. Comedy.
- (1963) Stage Play: Nobody Loves an Albatross. Comedy.
- (1964) Stage Play: The Last Analysis. Farce. Written by Saul Bellow. Directed by Joseph Anthony. Belasco Theatre: 1 Oct 1964- 24 Oct 1964 (28 performances + 10 previews). Cast: Charles Boaz (as "Sheldon"), Edwin Bordo (as "Second Technician"), Bert Conway (as "Stickles"), James Dukas (as "Kalbfuss"), Alix Elias (as "Imogen"), Tresa Hughes, Leon Janney, Will Lee (as "Aufschnitt"), Sam Levene (as "Philip Bummidge"), Sully Michaels (as "Louis Mott"), Lucille Patton (as "Madge"), Minerva Pious (as "Tante Frumkah"), Phillip Pruneau, Tony Roberts [credited as Anthony Roberts] (as "Max"), Ted Schwartz, Michael Vale (as "Fiddleman"), Ann Wedgeworth (as "Pamela"), Walter Williams (as "First Technician"). Produced by Stevens Productions, Inc. Associate Producer: Lyn Austin and Victor Samrock.
- (1965) Stage Play: Kelly. Musical.
- (1969) Stage Play: Three Men on a Horse. Comedy (revival). Written by John Cecil Holm and George Abbott. Directed by George Abbott. Lyceum Theatre: 16 Oct 1969- 10 Jan 1970 (100 performances + 4 previews). Cast: Jack Gilford (as "Erwin Trowbridge"), Leon Janney (as "Clarence Dobbins"), Sam Levene (as "Patsy"), Dorothy Loudon, Butterfly McQueen (as "Dora Lee"), Al Nesor, Gloria Bleezarde, Dorothy Chace, Wally Englehardt, Paul Ford (as "Mr. Carver"), Hal Linden (as "Charlie"), Rosemary Prinz, Don Simms, John Svar, D. Brian Wallach. Produced by Ken Gaston, Leonard J. Goldberg and Bud Fillippo. Produced in association with Henry R. Stern.
- (1950) [Radio/Mutual Broadcasting System] Mysterious Traveler: "Operation Tomorrow." Episode broadcast: 11 April 1950. Note: While only 75 of the original 370 episodes of Mysterious Traveler exist, Mr. Janney's appearance in "Operation Tommorrow" is available. This anthology series was broadcast in various time slots from 5 Dec 1943- 16 Dec 1952.
- (Summer 1940) He acted in Elmer Harris' play, "Young Sinners," in a Kenley Players production in Deer Lake, Pennsylvania. John Kenley was artistic director.
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