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Stefan Schnabel

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Actor 1912–1999 On stage 19371986

Stefan Artur Schnabel (February 2, 1912 – March 11, 1999) was a German-American actor who worked in theatre, radio, films and television. After moving to the United States in 1937 he became one of the original members of Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre repertory company. He portrayed Dr. Stephen Jackson on the CBS daytime TV series Guiding Light for 17 years.

On stage 18 productions, 49 years

1937 Julius Caesar Mercury Theatre · Revival · directed by Hiram Sherman 157 perf.
1938 The Shoemakers' Holiday Mercury Theatre · Revival · directed by Hiram Sherman 69 perf.
1940 Glamour Preferred Booth Theatre · Original · directed by Antoinette Perry 11 perf.
1943 Land of Fame Belasco Theatre · Original 6 perf.
1944 The Cherry Orchard National Theatre · Revival · directed by Eva Le Gallienne 96 perf.
1946 Around the World Adelphi Theatre · Revival · directed by Orson Welles 75 perf.
1950 Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Broadhurst Theatre · Original · directed by Hume Cronyn 44 perf.
1951 Idiot's Delight City Center · Revival · directed by George Schaefer 15 perf.
1953 The Love of Four Colonels Shubert Theatre · Original · directed by Rex Harrison 141 perf.
1955 Plain And Fancy Mark Hellinger Theatre · Original · directed by Morton Da Costa 461 perf.
1957 Small War on Murray Hill Ethel Barrymore Theatre · Original · directed by Garson Kanin 12 perf.
1965 A Very Rich Woman Belasco Theatre · Original · directed by David Pardoll 28 perf.
1969 A Patriot for Me Imperial Theatre · Original · directed by Peter Glenville 49 perf.
1969 In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer Vivian Beaumont Theater · Original · directed by Gordon Davidson 54 perf.
1972 Enemies Vivian Beaumont Theater · Original · directed by Ellis Rabb 44 perf.
1975 Little Black Sheep Vivian Beaumont Theater · Original · directed by Edward Payson Call 33 perf.
1979 Teibele and Her Demon Brooks Atkinson Theatre · Original · directed by Stephen Kanee 25 perf.
1986 Social Security Ethel Barrymore Theatre · Original · directed by Mike Nichols 388 perf.

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Worked with more than once12 names

William Mowry 2 productions
Whitford Kane 2 productions
Robert Phalen 2 productions
Philip Bosco 2 productions
Norman Lloyd 2 productions
Joseph Wiseman 2 productions
Joseph Holland 2 productions
Joseph Cotten 2 productions
John Hoysradt 2 productions
John A Willard 2 productions
James O Rear 2 productions
George Duthie 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. 9 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 literature8 passages

  • Act Two: “How Do You Raise a Barn?” (Stefan Schnabel, Douglas Fletcher Rodgers, Nancy Andrews, Daniel Nagrin, Ensemble); “Follow Your Heart” (David Daniels, Gloria Marlowe, Barbara Cook); “City Mouse, Country Mouse” (Nancy Andrews, with Renee Orin, Sybil Lamb, Muriel Shaw, Ethel May Cody, Betty McGuire); “I’ll Show Him!” (Barbara Cook); “…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Cast: Richard Derr, Barbara Cook, David Daniels, Shirl Conway, Stefan Schnabel, Gloria Marlowe, Nancy Andrewsebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • With: Maximilian Schell, Dennis King, Salome Jens, Richard Jordan, Tom Lee Jones, Stefan Schnabelebooks/Kissel, Howard/David Merrick - The Abominable Showman_ The Unauthorized Biography (Applause Books) - Howard Kissel.txt
  • We had a fantastic cast—Olympia Dukakis, Marlo Thomas, Ron Silver, Stefan Schnabel—and Kenny Welsh, who one night, was in his dressing room watching the playoffs, and didn’t show up at all for our entrance. I came on alone one night!ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer/Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 2 PART 1, The - Jennifer Tepper.txt
  • LILLE PALMER, F REX HARR ISON, LEUEEN MacGRATH, STEFAN SCHNABEL in “THE LOVE OF FOUR COLONELS”theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
  • Will Hare, Bette Henritze, Stefan Schnabel, Polly Rowles, Barnard Hughes, Madeleine Sherwoodtheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1971-72 Season, v. 28 (Willis).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.

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