59 American theatre actor stubs

Asaneth Ann Adams Kiskadden, credited as Annie Adams, was an American actress. In 1869, she married James H. Kiskadden, who was involved in banking and mining. Their only child, Maude Adams, became a prominent actress known for playing Peter Pan.

J.B. Adams is an American character stage and film actor, director, and singer. He has credits in film, television and, most notably, musical theatre. Originally from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, he attended Oklahoma City University, where he studied voice, piano, opera, and musical theatre, after which he became a New York City-based Broadway actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the Broadway productions of Beauty and the Beast, Annie, Parade, Me and My Girl, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Elf: The Musical. He played the role of Morris Farnsworth in the film Far From Heaven, as well as originating the same role in the Off-Broadway musical adaptation (2013). On TV and the web, he has played Santa for Verizon FiOS and has had guest starring roles on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and The Michael J. Fox Show.

Vaughn Dale Armstrong is an American actor. He is noted for portraying many characters in the Star Trek franchise, across all Star Trek television series except the original, Star Trek: Discovery, and Star Trek: Picard. He is perhaps best known as the recurring character Admiral Maxwell Forrest in Star Trek: Enterprise. At the time of a 2003 interview, he had played eleven Star Trek characters.

James Otis Barrows was an American stage and film actor. He spent much of his adult life in the legitimate theater from the Victorian to Edwardian to Georgian eras. He left the legitimate theatre and spent half a dozen years in vaudeville. In 1919 he began appearing in silent feature films playing elderly roles much like theater colleagues of his generation i.e. Melbourne MacDowell, Ida Waterman, Joseph J. Dowling, Frank Currier and Theodore Roberts. Barrows can be seen in several surviving silent films, his last being the 1925 John Barrymore starrer The Sea Beast completed just before his death.

Derrick Baskin is an actor best known for his role of "Comfort Counselor" Mitch Mahoney in the popular Broadway show The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

William Rufus Blake was a Canadian stage actor.

Tiffany Bolling is a retired American actress, model and singer, best known for her appearances in cult movies.

Marjorie Bonner was an American dancer and actress who was a member of the Ziegfeld Follies of 1908. Produced by Florenz Ziegfeld, the Follies were presented in June 1908, at the Jardin de Paris, atop the New York Theatre.

Carrie Bowman (Bohrmann) was an American Broadway stage actress, active from 1901 to 1911.

May Brookyn was an English born American stage actress. Her name was spelled Brookyn but is often misspelled Brooklyn. On February 15, 1894 she died by suicide by taking carbolic acid in San Francisco several months after the death of her lover Frederic A. Lovecraft shot himself. Brookyn was born in Greater London, England and is buried in Brooklyn's Evergreen Cemetery.

Joseph Buloff was a Lithuanian-born American actor and director known for his work in Broadway and Yiddish theatre. He received the Itzik Manger Prize for contributions to Yiddish letters in 1974.

Laurie Kristi Cadevida is a musical theatre performer and the younger sister of Filipino singer Kris Lawrence. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She appeared on Ed McMahon's short-lived PAX Network talent competition Next Big Star. She is best known for her performances as "Kim" in Miss Saigon.

James Henry Caldwell (1793–1863), was an American actor and theatre manager. He introduced English language theatre in New Orleans, where he managed the St. Philip Street Theatre in 1820–22, the Camp Street Theatre in 1822-1835, and the St. Charles Theatre in 1835–1842.

Catherine Calvert was an American actress.

Anna Chandler was an American vaudeville actress and mezzo-soprano singer of popular and light classical songs.

Lawrence Chenault was an American vaudeville performer and silent film actor. He appeared in approximately 24 films between years 1920 and 1934; most of his performances were in films directed by pioneering African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux. His brother, Jack Chenault, was also a film actor.

George N. Christy was one of the leading blackface performers during the early years of the blackface minstrel show in the 1840s.

Charles Cissel is an American singer, dancer, director, choreographer and producer. He was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and graduated from Booker T. Washington High School. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Oklahoma, and was one of the first African Americans to graduate from the university's fine arts school. He was the CEO of the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame from 2000–2009 and is now the Artistic Director of the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, which is located in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Sarah Crocker Conway (1834–1875) was an American actress. She was a sister of Elizabeth Crocker Bowers, also an actress.

Thomas Abthorpe Cooper was an English actor.

Shamika Cotton is an American actress from Cincinnati, Ohio. She is perhaps best known to television viewers as Michael Lee's drug-addicted mother Raylene Lee in the acclaimed HBO series The Wire.

Owen Gould Davis Jr. was an American actor, known primarily for his work in film. He also performed in the theatre, making his Broadway debut in the play Carry On (1928), which his father Owen Davis had written.

Frederic De Belleville was a Belgian born American stage actor.

Annette DeFoe, also known as Annette De Foe, was an American silent screen actress, known for her work in early romantic comedies.

Cleo Desmond was an American actress and vaudeville performer who had a long career on the stage and screen.

Brandon J. Dirden is an American actor, best known for portraying Martin Luther King Jr. in the Broadway production of Robert Schenkkan's All the Way.

Henry E. Dixey was an American actor and theatre producer.

Robert L. Downing (1857-1944) was an American stage actor who specialized in Shakespeare characterizations. As a young actor he toured with Mary Anderson 1880-1884 and Joseph Jefferson 1884-86. He became a star in his own right in 1886 and afterward performed Shakespearean parts. He was born in Washington D.C. and after retiring from acting in 1908 he became a preacher.

Virginia Dreher, was an American stage actress of the late Victorian era. She was a leading actress in the Augustin Daly company of the 1880s. She was in private life Mrs. Paul Dreher and later Mrs. George Postlethwaite. She died in Arizona from tuberculosis in 1898.

Blanche L. Friderici was an American film and stage actress, sometimes credited as Blanche Frederici.

Ruth Emily Gillmore was an English-born American stage actress.

Henrietta Luna Hawkins, known as Etta Hawkins, was an American comedic stage actress during the early 1900s. She gained prestige with her work in the productions of Lord Chumley with E.H. Sothern: The Charity Ball and The Lost Paradise.

John Henry was an Irish-born actor and early American actor and theatre manager.

Flora Zabelle was a Broadway actress who appeared in several early silent films.

William Thomas Hodge was an American actor, playwright, and theatrical producer. He was born to Thomas Hodge and Mary Anderson. He appeared in the original 1904 Broadway hit play Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, Dream City(1906) by Victor Herbert and the huge hit play for which he's best remembered The Man from Home (1908). The latter play was a huge success for him and he revived it over the years. With it he became along with other stars such as David Warfield and Rose Stahl an actor noted for a single huge success.

Shelley Vaughan Hull was an American stage actor who appeared in two motion pictures. His Broadway popularity as a suave handsome leading man was continually on the rise until his death at age 34 in the Influenza pandemic of 1918. He was married to actress Josephine Hull. Shelley was a particular favorite of the young Billie Burke and costarred with her in several plays. He had two brothers involved in the theater and films, Howard Hull, who was married to Margaret Anglin, and younger brother Henry Hull, who became a well known actor on stage and in film.

Glenn Hunter was a stage and silent film actor who gained popularity in the 1920s on the Broadway stage.

James Hewlett was an African-American actor. He was principal actor in and co-creator of William Alexander Brown's African Grove Theatre in New York City.

Orrin Johnson was an American stage actor. He also appeared in seven films during the silent era.

Susan Johnson, also known as Susan Johnson-Kehn, was an American actress and singer. She is most well known for her Broadway performances during the 1950s, but also appeared in several films and television shows.

Judith Kahan is a longtime American actress and television writer. She was born in Roslyn Heights, New York. Although she has primarily appeared in film and television roles, she has also appeared onstage in a number of theatrical productions, including a co-starring role as Fredrika Armfeldt in the original Broadway production of A Little Night Music from 1973–74.

Mrs. Edward Knight, nee Mary Ann Povey (1804–1861) was an English-American singer and actress in comic opera.

Gregory Kevin Krosnes was an American stage actor, educator, and director. A transplant to Memphis, Krosnes was a prominent member of the Memphis theatre community.

Richard Lyon is an American puppeteer, actor, puppet designer and builder. He has worked for The Jim Henson Company as one of the operators of Big Bird. He appeared on Broadway originating the roles of Trekkie Monster, Nicky, the blue Bad Idea Bear, and other characters in the Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q, a musical for which he designed and created all of the puppets. In the fall of 2005 he reprised his roles in the production of the show in Las Vegas for eight months before returning to the Broadway cast. Rick was a puppeteer on Sesame Street for 15 seasons, from 1987 to 2002. He also worked with Nickelodeon on the Stick Stickly project and on the Me + My Friends pilot. He was a lead puppeteer for the first season of Comedy Central's television program Crank Yankers. Rick has also appeared numerous times on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, for which he also provided the puppets he performed. Rick puppeteered a xenomorph chest burster in an "Alien" parody sketch with guest star Sigourney Weaver, and Yoda, Kermit the Frog, and Big Bird in satirical sketches. He also performed the puppets for the black and white throwback clip on the "15th Episode Anniversary Show" of At Home with Amy Sedaris.

George N. Martin was an American television, stage, and movie actor who is known for his role as the hotel receptionist in Léon: The Professional. A regular at Providence's Trinity Repertory Company, he was nominated for a Tony Award in 1983 for his role in David Hare's Plenty. He was born on August 15, 1929 in New York City, New York.

Priscilla Alden Morrill was an American actress. She is best known for playing Edie Grant on the sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1973 and 1975.

Morton and Mayo were a Vaudeville dance and comedy duo from approximately the 1920s to the 1940s who were predominately known for an artificial horse act known as Pansy the Horse. "Mayo" was Andy Mayo and "Morton" was portrayed by both Al Morton from 1923 to 1931 and by Nonnie Morton from 1931 to 1942.

Gertrude Niesen was an American torch singer, actress, comedian, and songwriter who achieved popular success in musicals and films in the 1930s and 1940s.

Tom Alan Robbins has performed in eight Broadway shows, including The Lion King in which he created the role of Pumbaa. Other Broadway Shows: Head Over Heels (Dametas), Newsies, Sunset Boulevard, Jerome Robbins Broadway, Threepenny Opera, Once Upon a Mattress, Is He Dead?. He played Thenardier in the first national tour of Les Misérables. Off-Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors, Brooklynite, On The Verge, Isn’t It Romantic, The Cradle Will Rock, The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket, Henry V, King Lear (Cornwall). Regional: The Whale, “Midsummer Nights Dream” (Bottom), Fiddler on the Roof (Tevye), The Producers (Franz). Man of La Mancha (Sancho). My Name is Asher Lev, Taming of the Shrew (Tranio). Encores: 1776, Music in the Air, Pardon My English, Tenderloin/ Training: The Juilliard School, The Acting Company He has been on television shows including The Good Wife, Seinfeld, NYPD Blue, Law & Order and Baby Talk.

Edmund Law Rogers, also known under the pseudonym Leslie Edmunds, was a stage actor who appeared in dramas such as The Octoroon. He is also a founding father of the Kappa Sigma fraternity at the University of Virginia.

Genevieve Rogers, born in Louisville, Kentucky on April 9, 1859, was a stage actress who began her career when she was four-years-old. Her father, J. Howard Rogers, was a well-known scenic artist of the time and her mother also held a prominent position in theatre before her retirement.

John Howard Rone was an American stage actor and director. A lifelong Memphian, Rone was a prominent member of the Memphis theatre community.

Mark Stolzenberg is an American film and stage actor, screenwriter, producer, physical comedian and Circus Artist. He is considered by Oscar Talent Search as among the top ten acting teachers on the east coast. He has appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman and All My Children, and acted in several films. He has also published several books - including Be a Clown and Be a Mime, which give advice on performing as a clown and mime respectively.

Willis Palmer Sweatnam, Sr. was a Broadway show actor and minstrel show performer.

Donald Leith Symington was an American stage, film and television actor. He appeared in such movies and television shows as Annie Hall, Spring Break, and Fantasy Island.

Robin Thorsen is an American actress best known for her role as Clara on the popular web series The Guild and as one of the longest running "Movie Mob" participants on the ReelzChannel show Movie Mob, under the name Robin+Boy Wonder.

Leonora von Ottinger was an American silent film and stage actress. She only starred in 16 films in total and concentrated on stage acting.

Lisa Vroman is an American lyric soprano and stage actress.

William Burke Wood was an American theatre manager and actor. He was brought as a child to New York City, where he began life as a clerk. Feeling that he had a vocation for the stage, he set out for Annapolis, Maryland, with a capital of three doubloons, and through the courtesy of Manager Wignell, an old family friend, he made his first appearance there on 26 June 1798 as George Barnwell. He was partially successful, and began an engagement the same year in Philadelphia in Secrets Worth Knowing.