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Sam Jaffe

Shows · Sam Jaffe

ActorOn stage 19221979

On stage 14 productions, 57 years

1922 The God of Vengeance Provincetown Playhouse · Original · directed by Rudolph Schildkraut 133 perf.
1924 Izzy Broadhurst Theatre · Original 71 perf.
1924 The Main Line Klaw Theatre · Original · directed by Horace Sinclair 18 perf.
1925 The Jazz Singer Fulton Theatre · Original · directed by Albert Lewis 303 perf.
1927 The Jazz Singer Century Theatre · Revival 16 perf.
1928 Poppa Biltmore Theatre · Original · directed by George Abbott 96 perf.
1930 Grand Hotel National Theatre · Original · directed by Fritz Feld 459 perf.
1934 The Bride of Torozko Henry Millers Theatre · Original 12 perf.
1937 The Eternal Road Manhattan Opera House · Original · directed by Max Reinhardt 153 perf.
1942 Cafe Crown Theatre not recorded · Original 141 perf.
1944 Thank You, Svoboda Mansfield Theatre · Original · directed by H. S. Kraft 6 perf.
1947 This Time Tomorrow Ethel Barrymore Theatre · Original · directed by Paul Crabtree 32 perf.
1954 Mademoiselle Colombe Longacre Theatre · Original · directed by Harold Clurman 61 perf.
1979 A Meeting by the River Palace Theatre · Original · directed by Albert Marre 1 perf.

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Worked with more than once10 names

Tony Kennedy 2 productions
Tom Johnstone 2 productions
Robert Leonard 2 productions
Morris Carnovsky 2 productions
Mary Ricard 2 productions
Lillian Taiz 2 productions
Joseph Hopkins 2 productions
George Jessel 2 productions
Dorothy Raymond 2 productions
Arthur Lane 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. 7 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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