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)