- Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- Romeo and Juliet (1930). Tragedy (revival).
- Camille (1931). Drama (revival).
- "Dear Jane" (1932). Comedy. Written by Eleanor Holmes Hinkley. Directed by Eva Le Gallienne. Civic Repertory Theatre: 14 Nov 1932- Nov 1932 (closing date unknown/11 performances).
- Alice in Wonderland (1932). Musical fantasy. Written by Eva Le Gallienne and Florida Friebus. Based on "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll. Directed by Eva Le Gallienne. Civic Repertory Theatre: 12 Dec 1932- Dec 1933 (closing date unknown/127 performances). Cast: Walter Beck (as "Humpty Dumpty/Lory"), Whit Bissell (as "Seven of Spades"), Donald Cameron, Sayre Crawley, Howard Da Silva (as "Cook" and "White Knight"), Charles Ellis, Adelaide Finch, Florida Friebus (as "Cheshire Cat" and "Beetle Voice"), Robert H. Gordon, Landon Herrick, Josephine Hutchinson, Joseph A. Kramm (as "Dodo"), Eva Le Gallienne (as "White Queen"), Margaret Love, David Marks, Agnes McCarthy, Burgess Meredith (as "Duck," "Doormouse," and "Tweedledee"), Harold Moulton, William S. Phillips, Leona Roberts, Robert F. Ross, Mary Sarton, Lester Scharff, Joseph Schildkraut, Tonio Selwart, Arthur Swenson, David Turk, Richard Waring (as "White Rabbit" and "Goat"), Nelson Welch, Ruth Wilton. Produced by Civic Repertory Company.
- (1934) Stage Play: L'Aiglon. Drama/tragedy (revival). Written by Edmond Rostand. Book adapted by Clemence Dane. Directed by Eva Le Gallienne. Broadhurst Theatre: 3 Nov 1934- Dec 1934 (closing date unknown/58 performances). Cast: Ethel Barrymore (as "Marie-Louise, Duchess of Parma"), Eva Le Gallienne (as "L'Aiglon"/"Franz, Duke of Reichstadt, Napoleon's son"), Walter Beck (as "Count Sedlinsky, Chief of Police"), Stiano Broggiotti ([credited as Stiano Braggiotti] (as "Count Bombelles, in attendance on Marie-Louise"), John H. Brewer (as "Gentz, a spy"), Hugh Buckler (as "Flambeau, a Grenadier"), Donald Cameron (as "A French Attache"), Bennett Challis (as "A Man/Marmont, a French Field Marshal"), Margaret Cloninger (as "A Lady-in-Waiting/Third Lilac Domino"), Barbara Cochrane (as "Ensemble"), Ethel Colt (as "Fanny Elssler, a dancer"), Samuel Colt (as "A Young Countryman/Fifth Conspirator"), Sayre Crawley (as "Franz, Emperor of Austria"), Martha Crego (as "Fourth Lilac Domino"), Marion Evenson (as "Countess Camerata, Napoleon's niece"), Betty Fouche (as "Ensemble"), Eugene Francis (as "Acolyte"), Helena Glenn (as "Second Lady/A Shepherdess"), Richard Heath (as "Ensemble"), Lionel Hogarth (as "Count Dietrichstein, the Duke's tutor/Second Conspirator/A Prelate"), Lawrence Hutt (as "Fourth Conspirator"), Dorothy Johnson (as "Singer"), Jane Kim (as "Ensemble"), Joseph A. Kramm (as "Foresti/a Captain/First Conspirator"), Paul Leyssac (as "Metternich, Chancellor of Austria"), Benedict MacQuarrie (as "General Hartmann, in attendance on the Duke"), Ysobel Martin (as "A Maid/Sixth Lilac Domino"), Edward McHugh (as "An Usher"), Georgie Drew Mendum (as "An Old Woman/A Princess"), Gabrielle Morgan (as "Ensemble"), Sam Pearce (as "A Harlequin/A Doctor"), Martin Pollock (as "A Tailor/Third Conspirator"), Stella Reynolds (as "First Lady/Fifth Lilac Domino"), Leona Roberts (as "The Archduchess, Marie-Louise's sister-in-law"), Douglas Rowland (as "First Servant"), John Salzman (as "First Swiss Guard"), Larry Schwimmer (as "Second Swiss Guard"), Charles Sedgwick (as "Third Servant/A Jester/Acolyte"), Alice Swanson (as "Singer"), Theodore Tenley (as "An Old Peasant/A Fop"), David Turk (as "A Farmer"), Helen Walpole (as "Therese de Lorget"), William Walsh (as "Second Servant"), Mary Ward (as "A Woman/Second Lilac Domino"), Richard Waring (as "Tiburce de Lorget, an exile in the Austrian pay"), Nelson Welch (as "Baron D'Obenaus, the Duke's history tutor/A Folly/Sixth Conspirator"), William Whitehead (as "Prokesch, the Duke's personal friend"), Ruth Wilton (as "Third Lady/Fifth Lilac Domino/Singer"). Produced by Archibald Selwyn and Harold B. Franklin.
- (1935) Stage Play: Camille. Drama (revival). Written by Alexandre Dumas, fils. Translated by Henriette Metcalf. Directed by Eva Le Gallienne. Shubert Theatre: 4 Dec 1935- Dec 1935 (closing date unknown/7 performances). Cast: Walter Beck (as "Count De Giray/The Doctor"), Hugh Buckler (as "M. Duval"), Donald Cameron (as "Gaston Rieux'), Kendall Clark(as "Gustave") [Broadway debut], Sayre Crawley (as "Saint Gaudens"), Marion Evenson (as "Nanine"), Florida Friebus (as "Nichette"), Genevieve Frizzell (as "Anais"), Pedro Galván (as "Servant"), Averell Harris (as "Baron De Varville"), Eva Le Gallienne (as "Marguerite Gautier"), Eva Leonard Boyne (as "Olympe"), William Phillips(as "Servant/Arthur"), Leona Roberts (as "Prudence"), Richard Waring (as "Armand Duval"). Produced by Eva Le Gallienne.
- (1935) Stage Play: The Women Have Their Way.
- Come Across (1938).
- The Man Who Killed Lincoln (1940).
- At The Stroke of Eight (1940).
- The Corn is Green (1940).
- The Corn is Green (1943).
- Truckline Cafe (1946).
- Begin chronological additions here.
- (1952) He performed in the revue, "Bells of St. Martin's", at the St. Martin's Theatre in London, England with Duggie Byng, Hattie Jacques, Joan Sims and Roma Milne in the cast. Bill Lyon-Shaw was the director.
- (1935) Stage Play: A Sunny Morning. Comedy. [Rotated with The Women Have Their Way]. Written by Serafin Alvarez Quintero and Joaquín Alvarez Quintero. Translated by Harley Granville-Barker. Directed by Eva Le Gallienne. Shubert Theatre: 7 Dec 1935 (1 performance). Cast: Cast: Walter Beck, Hugh Buckler (as "Don Julian Figueredo"), Amy Chandler, Sayre Crawley, Marion Evensen, Florida Friebus (as "Angela"), Genevieve Frizell, Pedro Galván, Eva Le Gallienne (as "Juanita La Rosa"), Eva Leonard Boyne (as "Dieguilla"), Marion O'Neil, William S. Phillips, Leona Roberts, Richard Waring (as "Adolfo Adalid"). Produced by Eva Le Gallienne.
- (1958) He performed in Myers and Grahame's revue, "For Adults Only", at the Fortune Theatre in London, England with Miriam Karlin, Hugh Paddick, Ron Moody, Barry Took and Patricia Lancaster in the cast.
- (1958) Stage Play: Edwin Booth. Drama. Written by Milton Geiger. Incidental music by Paul Bowles. Scenic Design by Zvi Geyra. Costume Design by Edith Head. Directed by José Ferrer. 46th Street Theatre: 24 Nov 1958- 13 Dec 1958 (24 performances). Cast: José Ferrer (as "Edwin Booth"), Lorne Greene (as "William Winter"), Ian Keith (as "Junius Brutus Booth, the elder"), Lois Smith (as "Mary Devlin"), Richard Waring (as "John Wilkes Booth"), Stephen Franken (as "Edwin Booth, the boy"), Anne Helm (as "Edwina Booth"), Marion Ross (as "Asia Booth"), Sydney Smith (as "Junius Brutus Booth, the younger"). Understudies: Robert Carroll (as "John Wilkes Booth"), Dale Duffy (as "Asia Booth/Edwina Booth"), José Ferrer (as "Junius Brutus Booth, the elder"), Marion Ross (as "Mary Devlin"), Sydney Smith (as "William Winter"), Tom Toner (as "Edwin Booth, the boy/Junius Brutus Booth, the younger") [Broadway debut]. Produced by The Playwright's Company (Maxwell Anderson, S.N. Behrman, Elmer Rice, Robert E. Sherwood, Sidney Howard).
- (1946) Stage Play: King Henry VIII. Historical drama (revival/played in repertory with What Every Woman Knows, John Gabriel Borkman, A Pound on Demand/Androcles and the Lion). Written by William Shakespeare. Choreographed by Felicia Sorel. Scenic Design and Costume Design by David Ffolkes. Directed by Margaret Webster. International Theatre: 6 Nov 1946- 21 Feb 1947 (40 performances). Cast: Don Allen (as "Ensemble"), Emery Battis (as "Sir Thomas Lovell"), John Becher (as "Lord Sands"), John Behney (as "Ensemble"), Philip Bourneuf (as "The Prologue/First Chronicler"), Angus Cairns (as "Lord Chamberlain"), Michel Corhan (as "Ensemble"), Will Davis (I) (as "Ensemble"), June Duprez (as "Ann Bullen"), Marion Evenson (as "Patience"), Thomas Grace (as "Ensemble"), Raymond Greenleaf (as "Duke of Norfolk"), Walter Hampden (as "Cardinal Wolsey"), Bart Henderson (as "Ensemble"), Cavada Humphrey (as "Ensemble"), Frederic Hunter (as "Ensemble"), Anne Jackson (as "Ensemble"), Victor Jory (as "Henry VIII"), Arthur Keegan (as "Sir Harry Guildford/Garter King of Arms"), Donald Keyes (as "Sir Nicholas Vaux/Griffith"), Eva Le Gallienne (as "Katherine of Aragon"), Robert Leser (as "Ensemble"), Gerald McCormack (as "Ensemble"), Mary Alice Moore (as "Duchess of Norfolk/Ensemble"), Ruth Neal (as "Lady in Waiting to Katherine/Ensemble"), Walter Neal (as "Ensemble"), James Rafferty (as "Ensemble"), Robert Rawlings (as "Lord Abergavenny/A Messenger"), John Straub (as "Cardinal Campeius"), Eugene Stuckmann (as "Second Chronicler/Capucius"), Theodore Tenley (as "Archbishop of Canterbury/Ensemble"), Eli Wallach (as "Cromwell"), Richard Waring (as "Duke of Buckingham"), Margaret Webster (as "An Old Lady"), William Windom (as "Sergeant of the Guard/Earl of Surrey"), Ed Woodhead (as "Surveyor/Ensemble"), Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (as "Duke of Suffolk"). Produced by The American Repertory Theatre.
- (October 17, 1960) He acted in William Shakespeare's play, "A Midsummer's Night Dream," in an American Shakespeare Festival production at the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio with Bert Lahr, Mitchell Agruss, Rae Allen, Clayton Corzatte, Will Geer, John Harkins, Mariette Hartley, William Hickey, Patrick Hines, Margaret Phillips, Douglas Watson, Christopher Agruss, Alexandra Berlin, Constance Bollinger, John Dorman, Ellen Geer, Sheila Handelman, Joseph Klimowski, Alfred Lavorato, Christopher Lloyd, Susan Ludlow, Arthur Malet, David Margulies, Suzanne Osborne, Billy Partello, Howard Poyrow, Robert Reilly, George Sampson, Stephen Strimpell, Alex Viespi, and Wisner Washam in the cast. Marc Blitzstein was composer. David Hays and Peter Wexler were set designer. Thea Neu and Dorothy Jeakins were costume designers. George Balanchine and Diane Forhan were choreographers. Jack Landau was director.
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