Theatre Register

William Roerick

Shows · William Roerick

ActorOn stage 19381980

On stage 18 productions, 42 years

1938 Our Town Henry Millers Theatre · Original 336 perf.
1941 The Land Is Bright Music Box Theatre · Original 79 perf.
1942 Autumn Hill Booth Theatre · Original · directed by Ronald T. Hammond 8 perf.
1942 The Flowers of Virtue Royale Theatre · Original 4 perf.
1942 This Is the Army Broadway Theatre · Original · directed by Ezra Stone 113 perf.
1946 The Magnificent Yankee Royale Theatre · Original 159 perf.
1947 The Great Campaign Princess Theatre · Original · directed by Joseph Losey 5 perf.
1947 The Heiress Biltmore Theatre · Original · directed by Jed Harris 410 perf.
1948 Tonight at 8:30 National Theatre · Revival · directed by Richard Barstow 26 perf.
1954 The Burning Glass Longacre Theatre · Original · directed by Luther Kennett 28 perf.
1965 The Right Honourable Gentleman Billy Rose Theatre · Original · directed by Frith Banbury 118 perf.
1967 The Homecoming Music Box Theatre · Original · directed by Peter Hall 324 perf.
1967 The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade Majestic Theatre · Revival · directed by Donald Driver 55 perf.
1968 We Bombed in New Haven Ambassador Theatre · Original · directed by John Hirsch 85 perf.
1973 The Waltz of the Toreadors Circle In The Square Theatre · Revival · directed by Brian Murray 85 perf.
1976 The Night of the Iguana Circle In The Square Theatre · Revival · directed by Joseph Hardy 77 perf.
1977 The Merchant Plymouth Theatre · Original · directed by John Dexter 5 perf.
1980 Happy New Year Morosco Theatre · Original · directed by Burt Shevelove 17 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 once8 names

Philip Truex 2 productions
Louise Larabee 2 productions
Katharine Raht 2 productions
Jean Platt 2 productions
Isobel Elsom 2 productions
Frank Craven 2 productions
Dorothy Mcguire 2 productions
Alan Manson 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. 6 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.

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.

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