- (1951 - 2003) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1951) Stage Play: The Wild Duck. Drama (revival). Written by Henrik Ibsen; Book adapted by Max Faber. Scenic Design by Peter Larkin [earliest Broadway credit]. Directed by Morton DaCosta. City Center: 26 Dec 1951- 6 Jan 1952 (15 performances). Cast: Walter F. Appler (as "Gentleman"), Bert Bartram (as "Gentleman"), Charles Campbell (as "Guest"), Leonardo Cimino (as "Molvik"), Mildred Dunnock (as "Gina"), Maurice Evans (as "Hjalmar Ekdal"), Frank Ford (as "Guest"), Carl Harms (as "Guest"), Jack Henderson (as "Guest"), Raymond Johnson (as "Jensen"), Wyman Kane (as "Waiter"), David Lewis (as "Relling"), Philip Loeb (as "Lt. Ekdal"), Diana Lynn (as "Hedvig"), Nan McFarland (as "Mrs. Sörby"), Robert Middleton (as "Werle"), Philip Remer (as "Guest"), Arthur Row (as "Guest"), Kent Smith (as "Gregers Werle"), George Sullivan (as "Waiter"), O. Tolbert-Hewitt (as "Gentleman"), Wendell Whitten (as "Petterson"). Produced by New York City Theatre Company.
- (1952) Stage Play: First Lady. Comedy (revival).
- (1957) Stage Play: Good as Gold. Comedy.
- (1956) Stage Play: Protective Custody.
- (1956) Stage Play: New Faces of 1956. Musical review.
- (1955) Stage Play: No Time for Sergeants. Comedy. Written by Ira Levin. Adapted from the novel by Mac Hyman. Scenic Design by Peter Larkin. Directed by Morton DaCosta. Alvin Theatre: 20 Oct 1955- 14 Sep 1957 (796 performances). Cast: Carl Albertson (as "Inductee/Lt. Gardella/Co-Pilot"), Royal Beal (as "General Pollard"), Floyd Buckley (as "Pa Stockdale") [died during production run], Maree Dow (as "Rosabelle/Cigarette Girl/A Nurse"), Rex Everhart (as "A Colonel/Lt. Abel"), Howard Freeman (as "General Bush"), Hazen Gifford (as "Lt. Bridges/Pilot"), Andy Griffith (as "Will Stockdale") [Broadway debut], William Hinnant (as "Lt. Cover/Navigator"), Earle Hyman (as "A Lieutennant"), Ray Johnson (as "Classification Corporal/Aide to General Pollard"), Edmund Johnston (as "Lt. Baker"), Arthur P. Keegan (as "An Infantryman/Inductee"), Don Knotts (as "Preacher/Corporal, Manual Dexterity") [Broadway debut], Myron McCormick (as "Sergeant King"), Roddy McDowall (as "Ben Whitledge"), Robert McQuade (as "Inductee"), James Millhollin (as "A Psychiatrist") [Broadway debut], Wynn Pearce (as "Capt. Charles/Inductee") [Broadway debut], Ed Peck (as "A Captain"), Jules Racine (as "Inductee/Air Force Policeman"), Cecil Rutherford (as "Inductee/Lt. Kendall/Engineer"), Michael Thoma (as "Bus Driver"), O. Tolbert-Hewitt (as "Draft Man/A Senator"), Robert Webber (as "Irvin Blanchard"), Van Williams (as "Inductee"). Replacement actors: Louis Beachner (as "Ben Whitledge"), Jack Collins (as "A Senator/Draft Man"), Ossie Davis (as "A Lieutennant"), Rex Everhart (as "Sergeant King"), Eric Fleming (as "Irvin Blanchard"), Will Geer (as "Pa Stockdale"), Charles Hohman (as "Will Stockdale"), Arte Johnson (as "Ben Whitledge"), Ray Johnson (as "A Colonel/Inductee/Lt. Abel"), Vincent Lynne (as "Lt. Cover/Navigator"), Robert McQuade (as "Classification Corporal"), William Mullaney (as "Corporal, Manual Dexterity/Preacher"), Karl K. Redcoff (as "Lt. Baker"), Alfred Sander (as "A Captain"), Elwood Smith (as "A Lieutennant"), Elwood Thompson (as "A Lieutennant"), John Topa (as "A Senator"), J. Robert Victor (as "Inductee/Lt. Gardella/Co-Pilot"), Van Williams (as "Aide to General Pollard"). Produced by Maurice Evans. Produced in association with Emmett Rogers. Notes: (1) Griffith was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor. (2) Filmed by Warner Bros. as No Time for Sergeants (1958) and inspired a short-lived TV series, No Time for Sergeants (1964).
- (1955) Stage Play: Inherit the Wind. Drama.
- (1960) Stage Play: Greenwillow. Musical comedy. Music by Frank Loesser. Lyrics by Frank Loesser. Book by Lesser Samuels and Frank Loesser. Based on the novel by B.J. Chute. Music orchestrated by Don Walker. Musical Director: Abba Bogin. Scenic Design by Peter Larkin. Choreographed by Joe Layton. Directed by George Roy Hill. Alvin Theatre,: 8 Mar 1960- 28 May 1960 (97 performances). Cast: Anthony Perkins (as "Gideon Briggs"), William Chapman, Cecil Kellaway (as "Reverend Birdsong"), Pert Kelton (as "Gramma Briggs"), Ellen McCown, Kenny Adams, Jere Admire, Don Atkinson, Estelle Aza, Betsy Bridge, Lynn Brinker, Lee Cass, Joan Coddington, Saralou Cooper, Grover Dale, Dortha Duckworth, Ethelyne Dunfee, Richard Englund, Marie Foster, Rico Froehlich, David Gold, Russell Goodwin, Margery Gray, Mickey Gunnerson, Brenda Harris, Jordon Howard, Patsi King, Jack Leigh, Bruce MacKay, John Megna, Marian Mercer, Carl Nicholas, Thomas Norden, Virginia Oswald, Bob Roman, Elaine Swann, Shelia Swenson, Maggie Task, Karen Thorsell, Ian Tucker, Nancy Van Rhein, Jimmy White. Produced by Robert A. Willey. Produced in association with Frank Productions, Inc.
- (1957) Stage Play: Miss Isobel.
- (1957) Stage Play: Compulsion. Drama. Dramatization (Producer's Version) by Meyer Levin. Original Music by Cy Coleman. Musical Director: Cy Coleman. Scenic Design by Peter Larkin. Costume Design by John Boxer. Lighting Design by Charles Elson. Directed by Alex Segal. Ambassador Theatre: 24 Oct 1957- 22 Feb 1958 (140 performances). Cast: Roddy McDowall (as "Artie Straus"), Dean Stockwell (as "Judd Steiner [1924]"), Howard Da Silva (as "Horn, The Prosecuting Attorney"), Ben Astar (as "Charles Kessler/Dr. Allman") [final Broadway role], Ina Balin (as "Ruth Goldenberg"), Helen Baron (as "Sandra Mannheimer"), Julian Barry (as "Willie Weiss"), James Bender (as "Tom Daly, A Reporter"), Joseph Beruh (as "A Prison Guard/A Drugstore Clerk/A Waiter/Danny Mines, A Reporter"), Michael Constantine (as "Al, Owner of a Speakeasy/Jonathan Wilk, The Defense Attorney"), Joan Croydon (as "Mrs. Straus"), Edward Cullen (as "Judge Matthewson"), Roger De Koven (as "Ferdinand Feldscher "), Reynolds Evans (as "Dr. Stauffer"), Chris Gampel (as "Judd Steiner [today]/Emil, The Steiners' Chauffeur"), Stefan Gierasch (as "Max Steiner"), Gerald Gordon (as "Sid Silver [today]/Sid Silver [1924]), Mark Gordon (as "A Bartender/Prison Guard"), Lloyd Gough (as "Dr. McNarry"), Michael Gough (as "Dr. Ball"), James Greene (as "Mr. Farmer/Dr. Vincenti"), Ted Gunther (as "Swasey, A Detective"), Earl Hammond (as "James Straus"), Muriel Higgins (as "First Girl"), Bernard Lenrow (as "Judah Steiner Jr."), Barbara Loden (as "Myra Seligman"), John Marley (as "Mike Prager/Another Reporter"), Barbara Miners (as "Third Girl"), Gina Petrushka (as "Elsie Kessler"), Suzanne Pleshette (as "Fourth Girl"), James Ray (as "Lyman/A Third Reporter/Raphael Goetz"), Dorothy Raymond (as "A Medium/Aunt Bertha"), Patricia Roe (as "A Girl on the Telephone/Second Girl"), Luchino Solito de Solis (as "Billy Straus"), Paul Stevens (as "Padua, Assistant to the Prosecutor"), D.J. Sullivan (as "Milt Lewis"), Elliot Sullivan (as "McNamara, A Detective"), Maybelle Wright (as "Peg Sweet/A Newspaper Woman"), Ben Yaffee Oliver Steger"). Replacement actors: Joseph Beruh (as "Al, Owner of a Speakeasy"), Frank Conroy (as "Jonathan Wilk, The Defense Attorney"), Elizabeth Hubbard (as "Sandra Mannheimer/Third Girl"), Suzanne Pleshette (as "Ruth Goldenberg"). Produced by Michael Myerberg. Produced in association with Len S. Gruenberg. Note: This was a thinly veiled dramatization of the infamous Leopold-Leob murder. Filmed as Compulsion (1959).
- (1956) Stage Play: Shangri-La.
- (1954) Stage Play: Peter Pan. Musical comedy.
- (1954) Stage Play: Ondine.
- (1953) Stage Play: The Teahouse of the August Moon. Comedy. Written by John Patrick. Based on the novel by Vern J. Sneider. Music composed by Dai-Keong Lee. Scenic Design and Lighting Design by Peter Larkin. Directed by Robert Lewis. Martin Beck Theatre: 15 Oct 1953- 24 Mar 1956 (1027 performances). Cast: John Forsythe (as "Capt. Fisby"), David Wayne (as "Sakini"), Paul Ford (as "Col. Wainright Purdy III"), Larry Gates (as "Capt. McLean"), William Hansen, Mariko Niki, Richard Akagi, Joyce Chen, Norman Chi, Kaie Deei, Jerry Fujikawa (as "A Villager"), Kikuo Hiromura, Kame Ishikawa, Harry Jackson, Laurence Kim, Mara Kim, Naoe Kondo, Chuck Morgan, Shizu Moriya, Frank Ogawa, Mary Ann Reeve, Saki, Kuraji Seida, Yuki Shimoda, Moy Moy Thom, Vivian Thom, Haim Winant, Kenneth Wong. Produced by Maurice Evans. Produced in association with George Schaefer. Note: Filmed by MGM as The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956).
- (1952) Stage Play: Slavenska-Franklin Co.
- (1952) Stage Play: Dial "M" for Murder. Thriller. Written by Frederick Knott. Scenic Design by Peter Larkin. Lighting Design by Peter Larkin. Directed by Reginald Denham. Plymouth Theatre (moved to The Booth Theatre from 11 Jan 1954- close): 29 Oct 1952- 27 Feb 1954 (552 performances). Cast: Maurice Evans (as "Tony Wendice"), Anthony Dawson (as "Captain Lesgate"), Richard Derr (as "Max Halliday"), Gusti Huber (as "Margot Wendice"), Porter Van Zandt (as "Thompson"), John Williams (as "Inspector Hubbard"). Replacement cast during Plymouth Theatre run: Francis Bethencourt (as "Captain Lesgate"), Bruce Jewell (as "Thompson"), J. Pat O'Malley (as "Inspector Hubbard"). Produced by James P. Sherwood. Associate Producer: Emmett Rogers. Note: Filmed by Warner Bros. as Dial M for Murder (1954).
- (December 26, 1972 - January 2, 1973) He was set designer for Leonora Thuna and Harry Cauley's play, "Let Me Hear You Smile," at the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio with Sandy Dennis, James Broderick and Jack Zaharia in the cast. Carrie F. Robbins was costume designer. Harry Cauley was also director. Michael and Barclay Macrae were producers.
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