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Edward Platt

Shows · Edward Platt

ActorOn stage 19421958

On stage 9 productions, 16 years

1942 H.M.S. Pinafore / The Green Table St James Theatre · Revival · directed by R.H. Burnside 18 perf.
1942 The Gondoliers St James Theatre · Revival 3 perf.
1947 Allegro Majestic Theatre · Original · directed by Agnes de Mille (Oscar Hammerstein II uncredited) 315 perf.
1948 The Silver Whistle Biltmore Theatre · Original · directed by Paul Crabtree 219 perf.
1949 Texas, Li'l Darlin' Mark Hellinger Theatre · Original · directed by Al White, Jr. 293 perf.
1950 Twentieth Century Anta Playhouse · Revival · directed by José Ferrer 233 perf.
1951 Stalag 17 48th Street Theatre · Original 472 perf.
1952 The Shrike Cort Theatre · Original 161 perf.
1958 Oh Captain! Alvin Theatre · Original · directed by Jose Ferrer 192 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

Vincent Donahue 3 productions
William Lynn 2 productions
Tommy Maier 2 productions
Ruth Ostrander 2 productions
Robinson Stone 2 productions
Robert Strauss 2 productions
Robert Pitkin 2 productions
Robert Carroll 2 productions
Ralph Patterson 2 productions
Phyllis Blake 2 productions
Otto Simanek 2 productions
Morton Bowe 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. 10 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.

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