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Charles King

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ActorOn stage 19081940

Charles King was an American singer-actor of the 1910s and 20s who originated featured roles in Vincent Youmans's Hit the Deck (1927), Cole Porter's The New Yorkers (1930), and multiple Ziegfeld Follies.

On stage 20 productions, 32 years

1908 The Mimic World [1908] Casino Theatre · Original · directed by J. C. Huffman 100 perf.
1911 The Slim Princess Globe Theatre · Original · directed by Austin Hurgon 104 perf.
1912 A Winsome Widow Moulin Rouge · Original · directed by Julian Mitchell 172 perf.
1913 The Geisha 44th Street Theatre · Revival · directed by Edwin T. Emery 52 perf.
1913 The Passing Show of 1913 Winter Garden Theatre · Original · directed by Ned Wayburn 58 perf.
1914 Watch Your Step New Amsterdam Theatre · Original · directed by R. H. Burnside 175 perf.
1917 Miss 1917 Century Theatre · Original · directed by Ned Wayburn 72 perf.
1919 Good Morning, Judge Shubert Theatre · Original · directed by Wybert Stamford 140 perf.
1921 George White's Scandals [1921] Liberty Theatre · Original 97 perf.
1921 It's Up To You Casino Theatre · Original · directed by Frank M. Stammers 24 perf.
1922 Little Nellie Kelly Liberty Theatre · Original · directed by Julian Mitchell 276 perf.
1924 Keep Kool Morosco Theatre · Original · directed by Walter Harvey 148 perf.
1924 Lollipop Knickerbocker Theatre · Original · directed by Ira Hards 152 perf.
1926 No Foolin' Globe Theatre · Original · directed by John Boyle 108 perf.
1927 Hit The Deck! Belasco Theatre · Original · directed by Alexander Leftwich 352 perf.
1928 Present Arms Mansfield Theatre · Original · directed by Alexander Leftwich 155 perf.
1930 The New Yorkers Broadway Theatre · Revival · directed by Monty Woolley 168 perf.
1937 Sea Legs Mansfield Theatre · Original · directed by Johnny Mattison 15 perf.
1938 The Fabulous Invalid Broadhurst Theatre · Original 65 perf.
1940 Panama Hattie 46th Street Theatre · Original · directed by Edgar MacGregor 501 perf.

Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in — that is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.

Worked with more than once12 names

Elizabeth Brice 4 productions
Peggy Dana 3 productions
Julia Beaubien 3 productions
Harry Kelly 3 productions
Ann Pennington 3 productions
Vernon Castle 2 productions
Sydney Grant 2 productions
Sam Burbank 2 productions
Ruth Heil 2 productions
Ruby Lewis 2 productions
Rachel Chester 2 productions
Pauline Hall 2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking. 8 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

In the literature8 passages

  • Cast: Vernon & Irene Castle, Frank Tinney, Charles King, Elizabeth Brice, Elizabeth Murray, Harry Kelly, Justine Johnstoneebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Cast: Louise Groody, Charles King, Stella Mayhew, Madeline Cameron, Brian Donlevy, Jack McCauleyebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Cast: Frances Williams, Charles King, Hope Williams, Ann Pennington, Richard Carle, Marie Cahill, Fred Waring Orchestra, Clayton, Jackson and Durante, Kathryn Crawford, Oscar Raglandebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • World” with Lotta Faust, Charles King, Vernon Castle, Roy Atwell and George W. Monroe; Cohan and Harris Minstrels GERTRUDE 106 cocHLANtheatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
  • CHARLES KING, ELIZABETH BRICE, EMMY WEHLEN, HARRY CONOR, IDA ADAMS, CHARLES J. ROSS, KATHLEEN CLIFFORD in “& WINSOME WIDOW”theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
  • Parker; “Ziegfeld Follies of 1913” with Bessie Clayton, Charles King, John Charles Thomas, Charlotte Greenwood, Mollie King and May Boley; Joseph Santley in “When Dreams Come True;” Richard Carle and Hattie Williams in “The Doll Girl;” Bessie Abbott in “Rob Roy;” “Her Little Highness” with Mitzi Hajos; “The Pleasure Seekers” with Florence…theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt

Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.

What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Birth or death year. Neither is on the record.
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  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — actor — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

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