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John Anderson

Shows · John Anderson

ActorOn stage 19401955

On stage 6 productions, 15 years

1940 It Happens on Ice Center Theatre · Original · directed by Leon Leonidoff 276 perf.
1941 It Happens on Ice Center Theatre · Return-Engagement · directed by Catherine Littlefield 386 perf.
1951 Flahooley Broadhurst Theatre · Original · directed by E. Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy 40 perf.
1951 Paint Your Wagon Shubert Theatre · Original · directed by Daniel Mann 289 perf.
1953 The Emperor's Clothes Ethel Barrymore Theatre · Original · directed by Harold Clurman 16 perf.
1955 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Morosco Theatre · Original · directed by Elia Kazan 694 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

Trudy Schneider 2 productions
Tommy Lee 2 productions
The Four Bruises 2 productions
Tex Mangrum 2 productions
Ted Thurston 2 productions
Scott Edwards 2 productions
Ruth Noland 2 productions
Rudy Richards 2 productions
Rona Thael 2 productions
Pearl Joseph 2 productions
Paul Castle 2 productions
Patsy O Day 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. 11 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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  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
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