Robert Morley - Theatre Career

Theatre Career

  • First stage appearance in Dr Syn (Hippodrome, Margate, 28 May 1928)
  • First London role, a pirate in Treasure Island (Strand Theatre, Christmas 1929)
  • Touring, plus Playhouse Oxford and Festival Cambridge repertory, (1931–1933)
  • Oakes in Up In the Air (Royalty Theatre, London 1933)
  • Touring with Sir Frank Benson (1934–35)
  • Ran a repertory company with Peter Bull (Perranporth, Cornwall, 1935)
  • Title role in Oscar Wilde (Gate Theatre Studio, Villiers Street, London, 1936)
  • Alexandre Dumas in The Great Romancer (Strand Theatre and New Theatre, 1937)
  • Henry Higgins in Pygmalion (Old Vic Theatre, 1937)
  • Title role in Oscar Wilde (Fulton Theatre, New York, October 1938)
  • Title role in Springtime for Henry (Perranporth, 1939)
  • Descius Heiss in Play with Fire (try-out version of The Shop at Sly Corner, Theatre Royal, Brighton, 1941)
  • Sheridan Whiteside in The Man Who Came to Dinner (Savoy Theatre — and on tour — 1941–1943)
  • Charles in Staff Dance (also wrote, touring UK, 1944)
  • Prince Regent in The First Gentleman (New Theatre and Savoy, 1945–46)
  • Arnold Holt in Edward, My Son (also co-wrote, His Majesty's Theatre, 1947; also played this role at the Martin Beck Theatre New York 1948, and in Australia and New Zealand, 1949–50)
  • Philip in The Little Hut (Lyric Theatre, 1950)
  • Hippo in Hippo Dancing (also adapted, Lyric, 1954)
  • Oswald Petersham in A Likely Tale (Globe Theatre, 1956)
  • Panisse in the musical Fanny (Drury Lane, 1956
  • The Tunnel of Love (directed, Her Majesty's, 1957)
  • Sebastian Le Boeuf in Hook, Line and Sinker (also adapted, Piccadilly Theatre, 1958)
  • Once More, with Feeling (directed, New Theatre, 1959)
  • Mr Asano in A Majority of One (Phoenix Theatre, 1960)
  • Title role in Mr Rhodes (Theatre Royal Windsor, 1961)
  • The Bishop in A Time to Laugh (Piccadilly, 1962)
  • The Sound of Morley (One-man show, touring Australia 1966–67)
  • Sir Mallalieu Fitzbuttress in Halfway Up the Tree (Queen's Theatre, 1967)
  • Frank Foster in How the Other Half Loves (Lyric, 1970; also North America, 1972, and Australia, 1973)
  • Barnstable in A Ghost on Tiptoe (also co-wrote, Savoy, 1974)
  • Pound in Banana Ridge (Savoy, 1976)
  • Toured Robert Morley Talks to Everyone (1978)
  • Picture of Innocence (co-wrote and toured UK and Canada, 1978)
  • Hilary in Alan Bennett's The Old Country (Theatre Royal, Sydney, 1980)

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