- (1906) Stage Play: Julie Bonbon. Romance. Written by Clara Lipman. Lew M. Fields Theatre (moved to The Lyric Theatre from 9 Apr 1906-close): 1 Jan 1906- 15 Apr 1906 (106 performances). Cast: Anthony Asher, Kitty Barry, Gaston Bell, Beatrice Bertrand, Ray Beveridge, Wyrley Birch, William 'Stage' Boyd [Broadway debut], Meredith G. Brown, Edna Carroll, Mary Cecil [Broadway debut], Mr. Cloudman, Mr. Douglas, James Durkin [Broadway debut], Miss Edwards, Elsie Ferguson, Maggie Fielding, Katie Gillman, Dora Goldthwaite, Miss Hager, James Helton[only Broadway role], Percy Helton [Broadway debut], Miss Howland, Mr. Jones, J. Harry Knowles, Louise Laroux, Amy Lesser, Clara Lipman (as "Julie Bonbon"), Alice Loeber, Muriel MacArthur, Mr. Maley, Louis Mann, Marjorie Maxwell, Miss Miller, George Pauncefort, Alexandra Phillips, Edward Pierce, Otis Sheridan, R. Siato, W. Thornton Simpson, Mr. Smith, Miss Tracy, Mr. Walton, Jules Weitler, Sam White.
- (1911) Stage: Appeared in "The Return of Peter Grimm" on Broadway.
- (1913) Stage: Appeared in "The Madcap Duchess" on Broadway.
- (1914) Stage Play: The Miracle Man. Written by George M. Cohan. Astor Theatre: 21 Sep 1914- Dec 1914 (closing date unknown/97 performances). Cast: Frank Bacon (as "Hiram Higgins"), Earle Browne (as "Harry Evans"), Daniel Burns (as "Bobby"), Clifford Dempsey (as "Tom Holmes"; Broadway debut), Ada Gilman (as "Martha Higgins"), Percy Helton (as "Eddie Holmes"), Gail Kane (as "Helena"), James C. Marlowe (as "Michael Coogan"), Frederick Maynard (as "David"), Mary Murphy (as "Betty Higgins"), George Nash (as "John Madison"), Gerrie O'Brien (as "Mary Holmes"), William H. Thompson (as "The Patriarch"). Produced by George M. Cohan and Sam Harris. Note: One of Cohan's most successfully adapted plays for film. Filmed by Mayflower Photoplay Company, Paramount Pictures [distributed by Paramount Pictures--- this was a huge hit for Paramount, far more financially successful than the stage production] as a Lon Chaney vehicle, as _The Miracle Man (1919) [survives in fragments as of 2014], and by Paramount Pictures as The Miracle Man (1932) with John Wray assuming the late Lon Chaney role as "The Frog".
- (1915) Stage: Appeared in "Young America" on Broadway. Produced by George M. Cohan and Sam Harris.
- (1919) Stage Play: The Five Million. Comedy. Written by Guy Bolton and Frank Mandel. Directed by Robert Milton. Lyric Theatre: 8 Jul 1919- Sep 1919 (closing date unknown/91 performances). Cast: Charles S. Abbe (as "Jefferson Adams"), Marie Ahearn, Helen Barnes, James Gleason (as "Mac"), Harry Harwood, Percy Helton (as "Grant Adams"), June Holbrook, Harry MacFayden, Sue MacManamy, Robert McWade (as "Otis Weaver"), Ralph Morgan (as "Douglas Adams"), Beatrice Noyes, Amy Ongley, Marjorie Poir, Edward Poland, Purnell Pratt (as "Albert Weaver"), Ralph Stuart, Lucille Webster. Produced by F. Ray Comstock and Morris Gest.
- (1922) Stage Play: To the Ladies. Comedy. Written by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. Directed by Howard Lindsay. Liberty Theatre: 20 Feb 1922- 10 Jun 1922 (128 performances). Cast: William Canfield (as "The Politician"), Albert Cowles (as "Another Truckman/A Photographer"), Robert Fiske (as "Tom Baker"), Helen Hayes (as "Elsie Beebe"), Percy Helton (as "Chester Mullin"), George Howell (as "John Kincaid"), J.J. Hyland (as "A Truckman"), Isabel Irving (as "Mrs. Kincaid"), John Kennedy (as "The Barber"), Otto Kruger (as "Leonard Beebe"), John Maroni (as "The Bootblack"), Norma Mitchell (as "The Stenographer"), Grace Morgan (as "The Manicure"), William Seymour (as "The Toastmaster"). Produced by George C. Tyler and Abraham L. Erlanger.
- (1922) Stage Play: The Texas Nightingale. Comedy/farce.
- (1923) Stage Play: Go West, Young Man. Comedy.
- (1925) Stage Play: The Poor Nut. Comedy. Written by J.C. Nugent and Elliott Nugent. Directed by Howard Lindsay. Henry Miller's Theatre: 27 Apr 1925- May 1925 (closing date unknown/32 performances). Cast: Beach Cooke (as "Hub" Smith"), Joseph Dailey (as "Colonel" Small"), Margaret Fitch (as "Peggy"), Percy Helton (as "Magpie" Welch"), Cornelius Keefe (as "Walle" Pierce"), Wright Kramer (as "Professor Deming"), Norma Lee (as "Margerie Blake"), Joseph Loudon (as "Wisconsin Official"), Jean Mann (as "Betty"), Grant Mills (as "Spike" Hoyt"), Joseph Mitchell (as "A Freshman"), Elliott Nugent (as "John Miller"), Thomas Shearer (as "Doc" Spurney"), Florence Shirley (as "Julia Winters"), John Webster (as "Coach Jackson"). Produced by Patterson McNutt.
- (1927) Stage: Appeared (as "Siggy Sigler") in "Happy" on Broadway. Musical comedy. Music by Frank H. Grey. Book by Vincent Lawrence and McElbert Moore. Lyrics by Earle Crooker and McElbert Moore. Additional lyrics by Frank H. Grey and Ethelberta Hasbrook. Additional music by Ethelberta Hasbrook. Musical Director: Carlton Kelsey. Directed by Walter Brooks. Earl Carroll Theatre (moved to Daly's 63rd Street Theatre from 6 Feb 1928 to close): 5 Dec 1927-25 Feb 1928). Cast: Lois Alexander, Daisie Bay, Bill Brown, Donald Campbell, Joseph Clayton, Alice Cochran, Ann Cochran, Gene Collins, Don Cortez, Willard Dashiell, Harriett Dixon, Bill Eckhard, Madeleine Fairbanks, George Fredericks, Edwin Gaillard, Katherine Glading, John Kane, Rosa Lee, Clay Long, Mabel Martin, Anna Marie McKenney, Bob Nelson, Hermes Pan (as "Ensemble"), Vasso Pan, Nanie Possiel, Donald Rand, Lucile Reece, Betty Rourke, Fred Santley, Hugh Saunders, Shirley Sherman, Paula Sidman, Ruth Simmons, Virginia Smith, Richard Sumner, Hatty White, Edith Mae Wright. Produced by Murray Phillips.
- (1928) Stage Play: A Lady for a Night. Comedy/mystery. Written by Hutcheson Boyd. Directed by John Meehan. 49th Street Theatre: 16 Apr 1928- Apr 1928 (closing date unknown/8 performances). Cast: Frank Allworth, Warren Ashe (as "Jim Dexter") [Broadway debut], Robert Barrat, Gladys Feldman, Alden Gay [final Broadway role], Mark Haight, Dorothy Hall, Percy Helton, Esther Howard, Betty Lawrence, Helen Lowell, Mabel Montgomery, Edward E. Rose (as "Alf Weyland") [final Broadway role], Harry O. Studds, Joseph Thayer. Produced by Chamberlain Brown.
- (1930) Stage: Appeared in "Who Cares" on Broadway. Musical revue. Music by Percy Wenrich. Book by Edward C. Lilley (billed as "Edward Clarke Lilley"), Bertrand Robinson, Kenneth Webb and John Cantwell. Lyrics by Harry Clarke. Directed by George Vivian, Edward C. Lilley and William Holbrook. Chanin's 46th Street Theatre: 8 Jul 1930-Aug 1930 (closing date unknown/32 performances). Cast: Frank Allworth, Florenz Ames, Sibylla Bowman, John Cherry, Margaret Dale, Bobby Edwards, William Holbrook, Mignon Laird, Don Lanning, Dorothy Martin, Grant Mills, Peggy O'Neill, Robert Pitkin, Mary Ridgley, Templeton Brothers. Produced by The Satirists Inc.
- (1928) Stage: Appeared (as "Robert Metcalf") in "In Love With Love" on Broadway. Comedy. Written by Vincent Lawrence. Directed by Joseph E. Shea. Cosmopolitan Theatre: 14 May 1928-May 1928 (closing date unknown/8 performances). Cast: Flavia Arcaro (as "Julia"), Margaret Borough (as "Marion Sears"), Miriam Meehan (as "Ann Jordan"), Philip Tonge (as "Frank Oakes"), Brandon Tynan, Marshall Vincent. Produced by Joseph E. Shea.
- (1931) Stage: Appeared in "Shoot the Works" on Broadway. Musical revue. Book by Heywood Hale Broun, Peter Arno, Sig Herzig, Dorothy Parker, Nunnally Johnson, E.B. White, Milton Lazarus, Jack Hazzard, Edward J. McNamara and H.I. Phillips. Music by Michael H. Cleary, Philip Chagrig, Jay Gorney, Robert Stolz, Jimmy McHugh, Irving Berlin, Ann Ronell, Vernon Duke, Joseph Meyer, Alexander Williams, Herbert Goode and Muriel Pollock. Lyrics by Armin Robinson, Leo Robin, Dorothy Fields, Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, E.Y. Harburg, Max Lief, Nathaniel Lief, Walter Reisch, Alexander Williams, Muriel Pollock and Joe Young. Musical Director: Harry Archer. Music orchestrated by Frank E. Barry and King Ross. Scenic / Lighting Design by Henry Dreyfuss. Costume Design by Charles Le Maire and Kiviette. Dances by John Boyle. Dialogue directed by Ted Hammerstein. George M. Cohan's Theatre: 21 Jul 1931-3 Oct 1931 (87 performances). Cast: Rose Armand, Alice Bankert, Johnny Boyle, Lee Brody, Heywood Broun (as "Opening" / "In the Dressing Room" / "Man about Town" / "Turtle Bay Dover's and Breeder's Social Club" / ""I Want to Chisel in on Your Heart" (reprise)), Evelyn Carpenter, Cornelia Chason, Imogene Coca (as "(Let's Go) Out in the Open Air"), Fanille Davies, Frances Dewey, Margaret Doncaster, Frank Ericson, Mickie Forbs, Bobby Gillette, Al Gold, J. Gonzales, Taylor Gordon, Merena Grady, Francis Guinan, Frank Hauser, Jack Hazzard, Percy Helton (as Cornelius Swaggerbilt" / "Turtle Bay Dover's and Breeder's Social Club" / "Mr. Coe" / "Lo, the Poor Doctor" / "The Man" / "Another Triangle" / "The Patient" / "Death Says It Isn't So" / "Believe It or Not"), Jack Irwin, Julie Johnson, Albert Jordan, Tom Jordan, Joe Kaye, Irene Kelly, Don Lannon, James Libby, Constance Madison, Lila Manor, Vida Manuel, Dolly Martinez, Nellie Mayer, John McAvoy, Edward J. McNamara, Leslyn Miller, John Muccio, George Murphy (as "Slit-throat McGillicuddy"/Turtle Bay Dover's and Breeder's Social Club/"I Want to Chisel in on Your Heart"/"(Just) Begging for Love"/"Do As You Like"(Do What You Like) [Broadway debut], Edward Murray, Dick Neely, Edgar Nelson, Frances Nevins, James Notarro, William O'Neal, Lester Ostrander, Nora Puntin, Inez Purdy, Jack Ray, Jerry Reardon, Margot Riley, Virginia Smith, Dorothy Snowden, Marjorie Sohmer, Anne Stanley, Morris Tepper, Winnie Turner, Helen Tuttle, Florence Winkel. Produced by Heywood Broun. Produced in association with Milton Raison. Note: Heywood Broun [1888- 1939] was Heywood Hale Broun's father.
- (1932) Stage: Appeared (as "Percy Drury") in "Page Pygmalion" on Broadway. Comedy. Written by Carl Henkel. Directed by Paul Porter. Bijou Theatre: 3 Aug 1932-Aug 1932 (closing date unknown/13 performances). Cast: June Clayworth (as "Sally Gray"), Thomas Coffin Cooke (as "Henry Sewell"), Doris Eaton (as "Helen Brownell"), Robert Emmett Keane (as "John Coates"), Aline McDermott (as "Elvira Sewell"), Claire Whitney (as "Mrs. Brownell"), Carleton Young (as "Tony Walder"). Produced by A.I.M. Productions Corp. and Alan Morrill.
- (1933) Stage: Appeared in "One Sunday Afternoon" on Broadway.
- (1935) Stage: Appeared (as "Grimm") in "On to Fortune" on Broadway. Written by Lawrence Langner and Armina Marshall [credited as Armina Marshall]. Directed by Worthington Miner. Fulton Theatre: 4 Feb 1935-Feb 1935 (closing date unknown/8 performances). Cast: Glenn Anders (as "Chester Digges"), Roy Atwell (as "Talbot Sloan"), Edward Broadley (as "Peters"), Ilka Chase (as "Eleanor Sloan"), Robert T. Haines (as "State Sen. Parmelee"), Martha Hodge (as "Ella"), Josephine Hull (as "Miss Hedda Sloan"), Myron McCormick (as "Donald Sloan"), Edward McNamara (as "Capt. Halligan"), Worthington Miner (as "Tracy"), Hugh Rennie (as "Walter Sloan"), Mary Rogers (as "Anne"). Produced by Crosby Gaige and Charles P. Heidt.
- (1935) Stage: Appeared (as "Tappin") in "The Hook-up" on Broadway. Comedy. Written by Jack Lait and Stephen Gross. Scenic Design by Nat Karson. Directed by Frank Merlin. Cort Theatre: 7 May 1935-May 1935 (closing date unknown/21 performances). Cast: Richard Abert (as "A Page Boy"), Mary Jane Barrett (as "Florence"), Elaine Blauvelt (as "Another Bridesmaid"), Gloria Castle (as "A Blonde"), Eva Condon (as "Mother Bryce"), Aristides de Leoni (as "Maestro Ciccolini"), Robert Elwyn (as "Another Page Boy"), Charles Engel (as "Radio Engineer"), Ruth Fallows (as "Kay Palmer"), Edward Ferguson (as "An Announcer"), Frederick Graham (as "Bishop Thorndyke"), Douglas Gregory (as "Hollis"), Georgette Harvey (as "Ruby"), Frederick Howard (as "Grant"), Helen Lynd (as "Virginia Bryce"), Saul Z. Martell (as "Misha"), Olive Miller (as "Miss Hemingway"), Harold Moffet (as "A.J. Lamb"), Russell Morrison (as "Lawrence"), Margaret O'Donnell (as "A Bridesmaid"), Patricia Peardon (as "Betty"), Peter Powers (as "Roper"), Wells Richardson (as "Jerry"), C. Jay Straight Jr. (as "Seth"), Edith Taliaferro (as "Mary Bainbridge"), Ernest Truex (as "Victor Vance" / "Harry"), Grace Valentine (as "Etta Lynch"), Philip Van Zandt (as "Bloomberg"). Produced by Leslie J. Spiller.
- (1935) Stage Play: Good Men and True. Drama.
- (1937) Stage: Appeared in "Naughty Naught '00" on Broadway. Musical drama.
- (1937) Stage: Appeared in "Robin Landing" on Broadway. Drama.
- (1938) Stage: Appeared (as "Saunders") in "The Fabulous Invalid" on Broadway. Written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman (also director). Scenic Design by Donald Oenslager. Broadhurst Theatre: 8 Oct 1938-3 Dec 1938 (65 performances). Cast: Iris Adrian (as "Daisy LaHiff"), Albert Amato, Jack Arnold, Bobbe Arnst, Donald Baker, Walter Beck (as "The Valet"), Douglas Beddingfield, Louise Blackburn, William E. Blake, Virginia Burke, Eileen Burns, Ruth Clayton, Ethel Colby, Gladys Conrad, Clancy Cooper (as "A Comedian"), Stephen Courtleigh, Alec Courtney, Doris Dalton, William Dorbin, Katherine Duncan, Marian Edwards, Edward Elliott, Elsa Ersi, Edward Fisher, Richard Gordon, Brant Gorman, Sydney Grant, Alan Handley, Joy Hathaway, Ferdi Hoffman, Louis Howard, Doris Jenkins, Roy Johnson, Gerry Jones, Janice Joyce, Curtis Karpe (as "Solinsky"), Charles King (as "Sheridan"), Ernest Lawford, David Leonard, George Lloyd, Richard Lloyd, John Lorenz, James MacDonald, Norman MacKay, Vera Fuller Mellish (as "The Maid"), John Moore, Mona Moray, Meg Mundy, Eddie Nelson, Jack Norworth, Barna Ostertag, Melvin Parks, Paul Payne, Robert Regent, Amy Revere, Robert Rhodes, Bonnie Roberts, Dora Sayers (as "Ethel Barrymore" / "Eva Le Galilienne"), Sydna Scott, Ada Sinclair, Sid Stone, Peggy Strickland, Ruth Strome, Jerome Thor (as "Newsboy"), Milano Tilden, Philip Truex (as "A Boy"), Grace Valentine (as "Annie"), Jay Velie, Beth Waller, Dorothy Waller, Solly Ward, Jeanne Wardley. Produced by Sam Harris.
- (1942) Stage Play: All the Comforts of Home. Farce. Written by William Gillette. Directed by Arthur Sircom. Longacre Theatre: 25 May 1942- 30 May 1942 (8 performances). Cast: Wallace Acton (as "Christopher Dabney"), William David, Percy Helton (as "Augustus McSnath") [final Broadway role], Celeste Holm (as "Fifi Oritanski"), Gene Jerrold, Nicholas Joy, Stuart Lancaster, Jordie McLean, Grace McTarnahan, Olive Prickett, John Regan, Virginia Runyon, Dorothy Sands, Guy Spaull, Richard Stevens, Peggy Van Fleet, Florence Williams. Produced by Edith C. Ringling and Mollie B. Steinberg.
- (1960s) Unsold pilot: Appeared in a pilot for a children's program to be called "Polly Pockets".
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