Other works

(1924 - 1966) Active on Broadway [sometimes credited as C. Stafford Dickens] in the following productions:

(1924) Stage Play: Old English. Written by John Galsworthy. Directed by Edward L. Swete. Ritz Theatre: 23 Dec 1924- Jun 1925 (closing date unknown/183 performances). Cast: George Arliss (as "Sylvanus Heythorp, Chairman of "The Island Navigation Company"), Norman Cannon (as "Mr. Brownbee, a Credito of old Heythorp"), Horace Cooper (as "Mr. Westgate, Shareholder of the Company"), Stafford Dickens (as "Charles Ventnor, a Solicitor") [Broadway debut], Cecile Dixon (as "Phyllis, Larne's Child"), Thomas Donnelly (as "Mr. Appleby, Shareholder of the Company"), Frederick Earle (as "Gilbert Farney, Secretary of the same"), Edmund George (as "Clerk, of "The Island Navigation Company"), Henrietta Goodwin (as "Letty, the Larne's Maid-of-all-work"), Ethel Griffies (as "Adela Heythorp, Daughter of old Heythorp"), Langford Hayes (as "A Director"), James Hughes (as "Mr. Batterson, Shareholder of the Company"), Mollie Johnson (as "Molly, his Daughter's House-maid"), Irby Marshall (as "Rosamund Larne. a connection of Old Heythorp"), Henry Morrell (as "Meller, old Heythorp's Body-servant"), Ivan F. Simpson (as "Joseph Pillin, Senior Partner of Pillin & Son"), Murray Stephens (as "Mr. Winkley, Shareholder of the Company"), Arthur Villars (as "Mr. Budgeon, Shareholder of the Company"), Deering Wells (as "Bob Pillin, of Pillan & Son, shipowners"), Victor Weston (as "Clerk, of "The Island Navigation Company"), George Wolcott (as "Jock, Larne's Child"), Eustace Wyatt (as "Clergyman, another Creditor"). Produced by Winthrop Ames and Edward L. Swete.

(1925) Stage Play: Hamlet.

(1926) Stage Play: The Chief Thing. Comedy/drama. Written by Nicolas Evreinoff [credited as Nikolai Evreinov]. Translated by Leo Randole and Herman Bernstein. Directed by Philip Moeller. Guild Theatre: 22 Mar 1926- Apr 1926 (closing date unknown/40 performances). Cast: Donald Angus (as "Tigelin"), Patricia Barron (as "A Fallen Woman"), Alice Belmore (as "Landlady in a Rooming House"), Romney Brent (as "Petronius"), Harold Clurman (as "Nero"), Peggy Conway (as "Popea Sabina"), Ernest Cossart (as "A Comedian"), Dickens, C. Stafford [credited as C. Stafford Dickens] (as "An Actor"), Dwight Frye (as "A Student"), William Griffith (as "Electrician"), Hildegarde Halliday (as "Nigidia, A Deaf Mute"), House Jameson (as "Lucian"), Kate Lawson (as "Ligia"), Edith Meiser (as "Lady With the Dog"), Esther Mitchell (as "Landlady's Daughter"), McKay Morris (as "Paraklete"), Edward G. Robinson (as "A Stage Director"), Lee Strasberg (as "A Prompter"), Willard Tobias (as "A Slave"), Henry Travers (as "Retired Government Clerk"), Mary True (as "Calvia Crispinilla"), Helen Westley (as "A School Teacher"), Estelle Winwood (as "A Dancer"), Stanley G. Wood (as "The Manager of a Provincial"). Produced by The Theatre Guild.

(1926) Stage Play: Beau-Strings. Comedy. Written by C.K. Munro. Directed by Sigourney Thayer. Mansfield Theatre: 26 Apr 1926- May 1926 (closing date unknown/24 performances). Cast: Maud Ainslie (as "Mrs. Newbury"), Essex Dane (as "Miss Kale"), Clarence Derwent (as "Lord Early"), Stafford Dickens (as "Dennis Welch"), T.A. Hamilton (as "Mr. Newbury"), Stanley Howlett (as "Mrs. Bolland"), Joan MacLean (as "Storm"), Marguerite St. John (as "Mrs. Bolland"), Lyonel Watts (as "Hon. Arthur Blount"), Margaret Wiltshire (as "Mrs. Blount"), Estelle Winwood (as "Miss Gee"). Produced by Francis B. Bradley and Sigourney Thayer.

(1927) Stage Play: The Garden of Eden.

(1928) Stage Play: The Command Performance. Comedy. Written by Stafford Dickens. Directed by Clifford Brooke. Klaw Theatre: 3 Oct 1928- Oct 1928 (closing date unknown/29 performances). Cast: Lee Baker (as "Count Vellenburg"), William H. Barwald (as "Hildred Sabidoff"), Robert Clear (as "Blondel"), Hubert Druce (as "Nicholas, King of Wallachia"), Charlotte Granville (as "Elizabeth, Queen of Wallachia"), George Haight (as "Servant") [Broadway debut/only acting role on Broadway], Rose Keane (as "Lydia Petrovic"), Ian Keith (as "Peter Kraditch/Alexis, Prince of Moldavia"), Jessie Royce Landis (as "Katerina, Princess of Wallachia"), Zvee Scooler (as "Ansche Milosovic"), Ivan F. Simpson (as "Paul Masoch"), Walter Soderling (as "Hugo"), Beatrice Terry (as Elinor, Queen of Wallachia"), Maria Ziccardi (as "Yana Lodoffski"). Produced by Herman Shumlin. Note: Filmed by James Cruze Productions [distributed by Tiffany Pictures] as Command Performance (1931).

(1929) Stage Play: Freddy. Comedy.

(1956) Stage Play: Child of Fortune. Drama. Written by Guy Bolton. Based on "The Wings of the Dove" by Henry James. Scenic Design and Lighting by Robert O'Hearn. Directed by Jed Harris. Royale Theatre: 13 Nov 1956- 1 Dec 1956 (23 performances). Cast: Bert Bertram (as "Bennett"), Anthony Di Palazzo (as "Eugenio"), Stafford Dickens (as "Sir Luke Strett, M.D."), Mildred Dunnock (as "Susan Shepherd"), Mary Foskett (as "Bianca"), Martyn Green (as "Lionel Croy"), Norah Howard (as "Mrs. Lowder"), Peter Pagan (as "Lord Marcus Annersley"), Edmund Purdom (as "Richard Denning"), Pippa Scott (as "Milly Temple"), Betsy von Furstenberg (as "Kate Croy"). Produced by Jed Harris.

(1961) Stage Play: Sail Away.

(1962) Stage Play: The Affair.

(1966) Stage Play: Hostile Witness.