Theatre Register

Eric Blore

Shows · Eric Blore

Actor 1887–1959 On stage 1926–1943

Eric Blore Sr. (23 December 1887 – 2 March 1959) was an English actor and writer. His early stage career, mostly in the West End, centred on revue and musical comedy, but also included straight plays. He wrote sketches for and appeared in variety. In the 1930s Blore acted mostly in Broadway productions. He made his last London appearance in 1933 in the Fred Astaire hit Gay Divorce. Between 1930 and 1955 he made more than 60 Hollywood films, becoming particularly well known for playing butlers and other superior domestic servants. He co-starred with Fred Astaire in six movies, Flying Down to Rio (1933), The Gay Divorcee (1934), Top Hat (1935), Swing Time (1936), Shall We Dance (1937), The Sky…

On stage 12 productions, 17 years

1926 The Ghost Train Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre · Original · directed by Norman Houston 61 perf.
1927 Just Fancy Casino Theatre · Original · directed by Johnny Ford 79 perf.
1927 Mixed Doubles Bijou Theatre · Original 15 perf.
1928 Angela Ambassador Theatre · Original · directed by George Marion 40 perf.
1928 Here's Howe Broadhurst Theatre · Original 71 perf.
1929 Meet the Prince Lyceum Theatre · Original · directed by Basil Sydney 96 perf.
1930 Roar China Martin Beck Theatre · Original · directed by Herbert J. Biberman 72 perf.
1931 Give Me Yesterday Charles Hopkins Theatre · Original 72 perf.
1931 Here Goes the Bride Chanins 46th Street Theatre · Original · directed by Edward Clarke Lilley 7 perf.
1932 Gay Divorce Ethel Barrymore Theatre · Original · directed by Howard Lindsay 248 perf.
1932 The Devil Passes Selwyn Theatre · Original 96 perf.
1943 Ziegfeld Follies of 1943 Winter Garden Theatre · Original · directed by John Murray Anderson 553 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 once2 names

John Williams 2 productions
Ethel Hampton 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. 2 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 literature3 passages

  • Cast: Fred Astaire, Claire Luce, Luella Gear, Betty Starbuck, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore, G. P. Huntley Jr.ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • New York Town (1941), Paramount, directed by Charles Vidor, and also featuring Fred MacMurray, Robert Preston, Akim Tamiroff, Lynne Overman, Eric Blore, and Fuzzy Knight. Birth of the Blues (1941), Paramount, directed by Victor Schertzinger, and also featuring Bing Crosby, Brian Donlevy, Carolyn Lee,theatre-pdfs/Mary Martin-Broadway Legend (Ronald L. Davis).txt
  • (Petroff) and Ginger Rogers (Linda Keene), featured Edward Everett Horton (Baird), Eric Blore (Cecil Flintridge), and Harriet Hoctor.theatre-pdfs/The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin - Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983.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.
  • 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.

Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.