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Chronology Of Theatre Performances

THEATRE:
* Key to Repertory Companies and Theatres:
P: Preston Repertory Company, Royal Hippodrome, Preston W: Wolverhampton Repertory Company, Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton
S: Salisbury Repertory Company, The Playhouse, Salisbury B: The Bristol Old Vic Company, Theatre Royal, Bristol

DATE:	PLAY:	ROLE:	AUTHOR:	DIRECTOR:	THEATRE*:
9/54	The Gay Dog	Bert Gray	Joseph Colton	Alan Foss	P
10/54	The Little Hut	First Stranger	Andre Roussin	Anthony Finigan	P
10/54	The Sleeping Prince	First Footman	Terence Rattigan	Geoff Wardwell	P
10/54	Come Live With Me	Gustave	D. & C. Christie	Geoff Wardwell	P
11/54	The Perfect Woman	Winkel	W. Geoffrey / B. Mitchell	Oliver Gordon	P
11/54	Dear Charles	Dominique Lecler	Alan Melville	Geoff Wardwell	P
11/54	The Burning Glass	Gerry Hardlip	Charles Morgan	Geoff Wardwell	P
12/54	Loophole	Emrys Garron	Cecil Madden	Geoff Wardwell	P
12/54	As Long As They're Happy	Hermann Schneider	Vernon Sylvaine	Geoff Wardwell	P
1/55	Thark	Mr. Jones	Ben Travers	Geoff Wardwell	P
1/55	The Man In Possession	McAllister	H. M. Harwood	Geoff Wardwell	P
1/55	The Orchard Walls	Godfrey Pritchard	R. F. Delderfield	Adrian Cairns	P
2/55	When We Are Married	Alderman J. Helliwell	J. B. Priestley	Geoff Wardwell	P
2/55	The Same Sky	Jeff Smith	Yvonne Mitchell	Geoff Wardwell	P
4/55	Angels In Love	Furse	Hugh Mills	John Barron	W
4/55	A Day By The Sea	David Anson	N. C. Hunter	John Barron	W
5/55	The Sleeping Prince	Major Domo	Terence Rattigan	John Barron	W
5/55	Peril At End House	Henry	Agatha Christie	Geoff Lumsden	W
5/55	A Question Of Fact	Charles Trafford	Wynyard Brown	John Barron	W
5/55	Both Ends Meet	Sir George Treherne	Arthur Macrae	John Barron	W
5/55	Rookery Nook	Harold Twine	Ben Travers	John Barron	W
6/55	The Secret Tent	Inspector Thornton	Elizabeth Addyman	John Barron	W
6/55	The Living Room	Fr. James Brown	Graham Greene	John Barron	W
6/55	Down Came A Blackbird	Ali	Peter Blackmore	John Barron	W
7/55	Love's A Luxury	Mr. Mole	G. Paxton & E.V. Hoile	Geoff Lumsden	W
7/55	A Streetcar Named Desire	Howard Mitchell	Tennessee Williams	John Barron	W
8/55	Meet A Body	Mr. Hawkins	F. Launder & S. Gilliat	John Barron	W
8/55	Little Lambs Eat Ivy	Corder	Noel Langley	Hazel V. Wallace	W
8/55	Witness For The Prosecution	Leonard Vole	Agatha Christie	John Barron	W
8/55	Sabrina Fair	Paul d'Argenson	Samuel Taylor	John Barron	W
8/55	Beside The Seaside	Wilf Pearson	Leslie Sands	John Barron	W
9/55	Lady Windermere's Fan	Mr. Dumby	Oscar Wilde	John Barron	W
9/55	It's Never Too Late	Stephen Hodgson	Felicity Douglas	Roger Winton	W
9/55	I Am A Camera	Clive Mortimer	John van Druten	John Barron	W
9/55	Seven Year Itch	Richard's conscience	George Axelrod	John Barron	W
10/55	Seagulls Over Sorrento	Able Seaman Badger	Hugh Hastings	John Barron	W
10/55	Anna Christie	Chris Christopherson	Eugene O'Neill	John Barron	W
10/55	Au Revoir	various	various	John Barron	W
11/55	The Bespoke Overcoat	Morry	Wolf Mankovitz	Joan White	S
11/55	The Respectable Prostitute	The Negro	Jean-Paul Sartre	Joan White	S
12/55	She Would And She Would Not	Trappanti	Colley Cibber	John Barron	S
12/55	Robinson Crusoe	King Neptune/Man Friday	Harry Bright & Peter Powell	Peter Powell	W
4/56	Book Of The Month	Dr. Maclure	Basil Thomas	John Barron	S
4/56	Busman's Honeymoon	Superintendent Kirk	Dorothy L. Sayers	Basil Foster	S
4/56	I Killed The Count	Samuel Diamond	Alec coppel	Peter Aldersley	W
4/56	Simon And Laura	Mr. Wolfstein	Alan Melville	Peter Aldersley	W
5/56	Spring At Marino	Prokovitch	Constance Cox	Peter Aldersley	W
5/56	My Three Angels	Joseph	Sam & Bella Spewack	Peter Aldersley	W
5/56	Alibi	Hercule Poirot	Agatha Christie	Peter Aldersley	W
5/56	All For Mary	Alphonse	H. Brooke & K. Bannerman	Peter Aldersley	W
6/56	Lucky Strike	Charlie Maggs	Michael Brett	Peter Aldersley	W
6/56	Jupiter Laughs	Dr. Drewett	A. J. Cronin	Peter Aldersley	W
6/56	The Miser	Harpagon	Moliere	Peter Aldersley	W
7/56	Murder At The Grand	Leonard	H. Bromley-Chapman	Peter Aldersley	W
7/56	The Middle Watch	Marine Ogg	Ian Hay & Stephen King-Hall	Peter Aldersley	W
7/56	Running Wild	Arthur Popplejoy	Ben Leather	Peter Powell	W
7/56	Appointment With Death	Dr. Theodore Gerard	Agatha Christie	Peter Aldersley	W
8/56	My Wife's Lodger	Willie Higginbotham	Dominic Roche	Peter Aldersley	W
8/56	The Red-Headed Blonde	Jonathan Maxwell	Val Guest	Kenneth Keeling	W
8/56	Of Mice And Men	Candy	John Steinbeck	Peter Aldersley	W
8/56	The Food Of Love	Owen Thomas	Christopher Bond	Peter Aldersley	W
9/56	Arsenic And Old Lace	Dr. Einstein	Joseph Kesselring	Peter Aldersley	W
9/56	Springtime	Dick Goddard	F. Ryerson & C. Clements	William Avenell	W
9/56	Ah, Wilderness	Richard	Eugene O'Neill	Nancy Poultney	W
9/56	Our Wife	Ted Sparrow	Leslie Sands	Leslie Sands	W
10/56	Shadow Of Doubt	Manning	Norman King	Peter Aldersley	W
10/56	The Happiest Days Of Your Life	Rainbow	John Dighton	Peter Aldersley	W
10/56	One Bright Day	Paul La Barca	Sigmund Miller	Peter Aldersley	W
10/56	The Tender Trap	Joe McGall	M. Shulman & R. Smith	Peter Aldersley	W
10/56	This Year Next Year	Martin Armitage	Lionel Brown	John Myers	W
11/56	East Lynne	Mr. Dill	Mrs. Henry Wood	Peter Aldersley	W
11/56	A Cuckoo In The Nest	Major George Bone	Ben Travers	Frederick Peisley	S
12/56	The Food Of Love	Owen Thomas	Christopher Bond	Frederick Peisley	S
12/56	A Christmas Carol	Ebenezer Scrooge	Charles Dickens	John Maxwell	Alex. Birm.
12/56	Babes In The Wood	Len, robber	Henry Marshall	Terence Dudley	S
2/57	Full House	Mr. Rosenblatt	Ivor Novello	Frederick Peisley	S
3/57	The Cure For Love	Jack Hardacre	Walter Greenwood	Terence Dudley	S
6/57	Free As Air	John/A Reporter	J. Slade & D. Reynolds	Denis Carey	Savoy
11/58	The Iceman Cometh	Ed Masher	Eugene O'Neill	Tony Robertson	UK tour
3/59	The Brass Butterfly	Phanocles	William Golding	Oliver Gordon	S
3/59	Thark	Sir Hector Benbow	Ben Travers	Oliver Gordon	S
4/59	A View From The Bridge	First Immigration Officer	Arthur Miller	Oliver Gordon	S
4/59	French Without Tears	Monsieur Maingot	Terence Rattigan	Oliver Gordon	S
4/59	The Tunnel Of Love	Augie Poole	J. Fields & P. de Vries	Oliver Gordon	S/Guildford
5/59	Gigi	Victor	Colette & Anita Loos	Oliver Gordon	S
5/59	Something To Hide	Inspector Davies	Leslie Sands	Ian Mullins	S
6/59	Gaslight	Rough	Patrick Hamilton	Rolf Dieter	S
8/59	The Love Match	Bill Brown	Glenn Melvyn	Jack Williams	Richmond
8/59	The Clandestine Marriage	Canton	G. Colman & D. Garrick	John Hale	B
9/59	Romeo And Juliet	Sampson / Friar John	William Shakespeare	John Hale	B
11/59	The Silent Woman	Sir John Daw	Ben Jonson	John Hale	B
12/59	The Long & The Short & The Tall	Private Bamforth	Willis Hall	David Scace	B
12/59.	Hooray For Daisy!	Harry Tuck	J. Slade & D. Reynolds	Denis Carey	B
2/60	A Taste Of Honey	Peter	Shelagh Delaney	John Hale	B
3/60	Mary Stuart	Lord Burleigh	Schiller	John Hale	B
4/60	The Woodcarver	Griff	Morris Brown	Prunella Scales	B
4/60	She Stoops To Conquer	Tony Lumpkin	Oliver Goldsmith	Dudley Jones	B
6/60	The Hostage	Pat	Brendan Behan	John Hale	B
6/60	The Comedy Of Errors	Dromio of Syracuse	William Shakespeare	John Hale	B

DATE:	PLAY:	ROLE:	AUTHOR:	DIRECTOR:	THEATRE*:
7/60	Romeo And Juliet	Friar Lawrence	William Shakespeare	John Hale	Baalbek Festival
9/60	Rhinoceros	The Logician	Eugene Ionesco	John Hale	B
9/60	The Tempest	Stephano	William Shakespeare	John Hale	B
10/60	Caesar And Cleopatra	Rufio	G. Bernard Shaw	Toby Robertson	B
11/60	One-Way Pendulum	Art. Groomkirby	N. F. Simpson	Alan Bridges	B
12/60	Dick Whittington	Cicely Suett	V.C. Clinton-Baddeley & Gavin Gordon	Frank Dunlop	B
2/61	Roots	Mr. Bryant	Arnold Wesker	Duncan Ross	B
4/61	A Passage To India	Fielding	E. M. Forster	Alan Bridges	B
4/61	Richard II	Henry Bolingbroke	William Shakespeare	John Hale	B
5/61	The Killer	Architect/Policeman	Eugene Ionesco	John Hale	B
6/61	A Man For All Seasons	The Common Man	Robert Bolt	Warren Jenkins	B
6/61	Goat Song	Celestino	Martin Shuttleworth	John Hale	B
9/61	North City Traffic Straight Ahead	Harry Hopkins	James Douglas	Alan Simpson	Gaiety, Dublin
11/61	The Caretaker	Davies	Harold Pinter	Gareth Davies	Leatherhead
2/62	The Recruiting Officer	Sargeant Kite	George Farquhar	Frank Dunlop	Playhouse, Nottingham
6/62	Semi-Detached	Fred Midway	David Turner	Anthony Richardson	Belgrade, Coventry
6/62	Arms And The Man	Sergius Saranoff	G. Bernard-Shaw	David Forder	Belgrade, Coventry
9/62	Red Roses For Me	Brennan o' the Moor	Sean O' Casey	Julius Gellner	Mermaid
9/63	Semi-Detached	Fred Midway	David Turner	Anthony Richardson	Belgrade, Coventry
10/63	Semi-Detached	Fred Midway	David Turner	Anthony Richardson	Music Box, New York
8/64	Hamp	Lieut. Tom Webb	John Wilson	John Gibson	Th.Royal, Newcastle & Lyceum,Edinburgh
4/65	Ghosts	Pastor Manders	Henrik Ibsen	Adrian Rendle	Th. Royal, Stratford E.
9/66	Volpone	Corvino	Ben Jonson	Frank Hauser	Playhouse, Oxford
10/66	The Rules Of The Game	Leone Gala	Luigi Pirandello	James Grout	Playhouse, Oxford
1/67	Volpone	Corvino	Ben Jonson	Frank Hauser	Garrick
9/67	The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui	Arturo Ui	Bertolt Brecht	Michael Blakemore	Citizens', Glasgow
8/68	The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui	Arturo Ui	Bertolt Brecht	Michael Blakemore	Lyceum, Edinburgh
11/68	The Strange Case Of Martin Richter	Martin Richter	Stanley Eveling	Michael Blakemore	Hampstead Theatre Club
4/69	The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui	Arturo Ui	Bertolt Brecht	Michael Blakemore	Playhouse, Nottingham
7/69	The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui	Arturo Ui	Bertolt Brecht	Michael Blakemore	Saville
7/70	The Heretic	Giordano Bruno	Morris West	Morris West & Joseph O' Connor	Duke Of York's
5/71	Disabled	Barker	Peter Ransley	Vivian Matalon	Hampstead
9/71	Richard III	Richard	William Shakespeare	Peter McEnery	Playhouse, Nottingham
3/72	The Caretaker	Davies	Harold Pinter	Chris Morahan	Mermaid
5/73	The Banana Box	Rooksby	Eric Chappell	David Scace	Hampstead
6/73	The Banana Box	Rooksby	Eric Chappell	David Scace	Apollo
5/74	Abel, Where Is Your Brother?	Narrator & I	Julius Edliss	Amos Mokadi	Act-Inn
10/74	The Looneys	Brian	John Antrobus	Michael Rudman	Hampstead
12/75	A Christmas Carol	Eben. Scrooge	Charles Dickens	Michael Fabian	UK tour
10/76	The Frontiers Of Farce: The Purging / The Singer	Follovoine / Dhuring	Georges Feydeau & Frank Wedekind	Peter Barnes	Old Vic, London
12/76	Tartuffe	Tartuffe	Moliere	David Thompson	Greenwich
2/77	The Frontiers Of Farce: The Purging / The Singer	Follovoine / Dhuring	Georges Feydeau & Frank Wedekind	Peter Barnes	Criterion, London
11/77	The Immortal Haydon	Haydon	John Wells	Alan Strachan	Mermaid
1/78	The Immortal Haydon	Haydon	John Wells	Alan Strachan	Greenwich
2/79	Semi-Detached	Fred Midway	David Turner	Leonard Rossiter & Alan Strachan	Greenwich & tour
3/80	Make And Break	Garrard	Michael Frayn	Michael Blakemore	Lyric,Hammersmith
5/80	Make And Break	Garrard	Michael Frayn	Michael Blakemore	Th.Royal, Haymarket
9/82	The Rules Of The Game	Leone Gala	Luigi Pirandello	Anthony Quayle	Th.Royal, Haymarket
12/82	The Rules Of The Game	Leone Gala	Luigi Pirandello	Anthony Quayle	Phoenix
6/83	Tartuffe	Tartuffe	Moliere	Peter Coe	Churchill, Bromley
3/84	Loot	Insp. Truscott	Joe Orton	Jonathon Lynn	Ambassadors
9/84	Loot	Insp. Truscott	Joe Orton	Jonathon Lynn	Lyric

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