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Mervin Williams

Shows · Mervin Williams

ActorOn stage 19311956

On stage 7 productions, 25 years

1931 Pillars of Society 48th Street Theatre · Revival · directed by Winifred Lenihan 2 perf.
1931 The Bride the Sun Shines On Fulton Theatre · Original · directed by Knowles Entrikin 77 perf.
1931 The Streets of New York, or Poverty is No Crime 48th Street Theatre · Revival · directed by Knowles Entrikin 87 perf.
1934 Dodsworth Shubert Theatre · Original · directed by Robert B. Sinclair 147 perf.
1938 On the Rocks Dalys 63rd Street Theatre · Original · directed by Robert Ross 66 perf.
1942 Cafe Crown Theatre not recorded · Original 141 perf.
1956 The Good Woman of Setzuan Phoenix Theatre · Original 24 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

Sam Wren 3 productions
Russell Rhodes 3 productions
Ronald Jones 3 productions
Robert Turney 3 productions
Jock Munro 3 productions
Jessie Busley 3 productions
Frank Conlan 3 productions
Fania Marinoff 3 productions
Eleanor Shaler 3 productions
Dorothy Gish 3 productions
Ann Tewksbury 3 productions
Alvin Barrett 3 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. 12 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.

Also credited on1 work

Cafe Crown

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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.
  • Any biography.
  • Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
  • 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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