- (1870 - 1914) Stage actor. Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1870) Stage Play: Little Faust! Musical/opera. Book adapted by Henry B. Farnie. Music by Herve. Olympic Theatre: 22 Aug 1870- 1 Oct 1870 (48 performances). Cast: H.T. Allen, William H. Crane [Broadway debut], George L. Fox, Flora Lee, Mrs. James A. Oates, Marion Taylor. Produced by The Mrs. James A. Oates Burlesque Company. Presented by James E. Hayes.
- (1872) Stage Play: Fortunio and his Gifted Servants! Libretto by James Robinson Planche. Incidental music by Frank A. Howson. Musical Director: Frank A. Howson. Musical/burlesque. Union Square Theatre: 3 Jun 1872- 20 Jun 1872 (18 performances). Cast: H.T. Allen, H.E. Andrew, William H. Crane, Charles H. Drew, A.W. Maflin, Mrs. James A. Oates, H.H. Pratt. Produced by Mrs. James A. Oates Burlesque Company.
- (1872) Stage Play: Prima Donna of a Night. Musical/operetta. Music by Jaques Offenbach. Musical Director: Frank A. Howson. Union Square Theatre: 21 Jun 1872- 2 Jul 1872 (7 performances). Cast: H.T. Allen, Mrs. H.T. Allen, William H. Crane, Charles H. Drew, Edward Horan, Edward A. Horan, J.H. Jones, Mrs. James A. Oates. Produced by Mrs. James A. Oates Burlesque Company.
- (1872) Stage Play: The Fair One With Blonde Wig.
- (1872) Stage Play: The Grand Duchess.
- (1898) Stage Play: The Pacific Mail.
- (1895) Stage Play: His Wife's Father. Drama.
- (1896) Stage Play: The Governor of Kentucky. Melodrama.
- (1896) Stage Play: A Fool of Fortune. Drama. Written by Martha Morton. Miner's Fifth Avenue Theatre: 30 Nov 1896- unknown (unknown performances). Cast: Edwin Arden (as "Count de Cluny"), William H. Crane (as "Elisha Cunningham"), Kate Lester (as "Mrs. Cunningham"), F.F. MacKay (as "Ezekiel Powers"), Boyd Putnam (as "Karl Worresdorf"), Effie Shannon (as "Marjorie"), Dallas Tyler (as "Jennie").
- (1898) Stage Play: A Virginia Courtship. Comedy. Written by Eugene Wiley Presbrey. Knickerbocker Theatre: 31 Jan 1898- unknown (unknown performances). Cast: William H. Crane (as "Major Richard Fairfax"), Walter Hale (as "Tom") [Broadway debut], Percy Haswell (as "Prudence") [Broadway debut], Annie Irish (as "Madame Constance Robert"). Note: Filmed by Realart Pictures Corporation [distributed by Paramount Pictures] as A Virginia Courtship (1921).
- (1898) Stage Play: His Last Appearance.
- (1898) Stage Play: His Honor the Mayor. Comedy.
- (1898) Stage Play: Worth a Million.
- (1898) Stage Play: The Head of the Family. Drama.
- (1899) Stage Play: Peter Stuyvesant. Comedy. Written by Brander Matthews and Bronson Howard [final Broadway credit during lifetime]. Scenic Design by Homer Emens and Richard Marston. Wallack's Theatre: 2 Oct 1899- Oct 1899 (closing date unknown/28 performances). Cast: William H. Crane (as "Peter Stuyvesant"), Harvey Banks, Leila Bronson, William Courtleigh, George F. De Vere, Will Dupont, George Fawcett, Daniel Fingleton, Henry Greisman, Percy Haswell, Carl Herbert, William Ingersoll, Selene Johnson, Ferris Mason, Sandol Milliken, Frank Molburn, William Sampson, Thad Shine, George L. Stevens, Frederick Truesdell. Produced by Joseph Brooks.
- (1903) Stage Play: The Spenders. Written by Edward E. Rose. Adapted from the novel by H.L. Wilson. Savoy Theatre: 5 Oct 1903- Nov 1903 (closing date unknown/41 performances). Cast: William H. Crane (as "Peter Bines"), Freeman Barnes, Marie Bongham, Percy Brooke, Anne Caverley, Charles Crawford, Miss I. Darling, George De Vere, Lucille Flaven, John Flood, Marge Pollock Johnson, Lida MacMillan, Gabrielle Ravenell, George S. Spencer, William Wray. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1899) Stage Play: A Rich Man's Son. Comedy. Written by Michael Morton. Based on "Das Grobe Hemd" by H. Karlweiss. Wallack's Theatre: 21 Oct 1899- 22 Nov 1899 (36 performances). Cast: Evelyn Carter, William Courtleigh, William H. Crane, George F. De Vere, Will Dupont, Percy Haswell, William Ingersoll, Charles Jackson, Selene Johnson, Sandol Milliken, William Sampson. Produced by William H. Crane.
- (1900) Stage Play: David Harum. Comedy. Written by R. Hitchcock and M.W. Hitchcock, from the novel by Edward Noyes Wescott. Directed by Edward E. Rose. Garrick Theatre: 1 Oct 1900- Feb 1901 (closing date unknown/148 performances). Cast: Charles Avery, Frank Burbeck [Broadway debut], Lois Frances Clark, William H. Crane, George F. De Vere, Will Dean, William Dupont, Katherine Florence, Homer Granville, Charles Jackson, Kate Meeks [credited as Kate Meek], George S. Probert, William T. Sampson, Sheridan Tupper. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1902) Stage Play: David Harum. Comedy (revival). Written by R. Hitchcock and M.W. Hitchcock. Based on the novel by Edward Noyes Wescott. Criterion Theatre: 8 Sep 1902- Sep 1902 (closing date unknown/16 performances). Cast: Charles Avery (as "Peleg Hopkins"), Percy Brooke (as "Dick Larribee"), Frank Burbeck (as "General Wolsey"), Lois Frances Clark (as "Widow Cullum"), William H. Crane (as "David Harum"), George F. De Vere (as "Dug Robinson"), William Dupont (as "Bill Montaig"), Perdita Hudspeth (as "Mary Blake"), Charles Jackson (as "Chet Timson"), Kate Meeks [credited as Kate Meek] (as "Aunt Polly Bixbee"), Guy Nichols (as "Deacon Perkins"), Joseph Rawley (as "Amos Elright"), Earle Ryder (as "John Lenox"), Sheridan Tupper (as "'Zeke Swinney"). Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1904) Stage Play: David Harum. Comedy (revival). Written by R. Hitchcock and M.W. Hitchcock. Based on the novel by Edward Noyes Wescott. Academy of Music: 4 Apr 1904- May 1904 (closing date unknown/32 performances).
- (1904) Stage Play: Business Is Business. Comedy/Drama. Written by Octave Mirbeau. Translation by Robert Hichens. Criterion Theatre: 19 Sep 1904- Nov 1904 (closing date unknown/57 performances). Cast: George Backus, Sheridan Block, William H. Crane, George F. De Vere, Harriet Otis Dellenbaugh, W.H. Dupont, Emma Field, R.S. Fife, Isabel Garrison, Robert Paton Gibbs, Katherine Grey, Harry Gwynette, Walter Hale, Josephine Mack, Harry Saint Maur, Frederick Maynard, Guy Nichols, Gabriel Ravenelle, Madeline Rives, Joseph Wheelock Jr. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1906) Stage Play: The American Lord. Comedy. Written by Charles T. Dazey and George Broadhurst. Directed by Ben Teal. Hudson Theatre: 16 Apr 1906- May 1906 (closing date unknown/32 performances). Cast: Harry Blakemore, Herbert Budd, Rosalind Coghlan, William H. Crane (as "John Breuster"), George F. De Vere, Elmer Grandin, R. Johnson, Nellie Malcolm, John Nesbitt, Edgar Norton, Richard Pitman, Soldine Powel [credited as Soldene Powell], Gabriel Ravenelle, George E. Riddell, Hilda Spong, Frederick Tiden, Emmet Whitney. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1906) Stage Play: The Price of Money. Drama. Written by Alfred Sutro. Garrick Theatre: 29 Aug 1906- Oct 1906 (closing date unknown/42 performances). Cast: William L. Abingdon, F. Owen Baxter, Mabel Bert, William H. Crane, Margaret Dale, Florence Edney, Walter Hitchcock, Homer Hunt [credited as J. Homer Hunt], Harry Lillford, Olive Oliver, Inez Plummer, Gabriel Ravenelle, Madelaine Rives, Mrs. J.P. West. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1908) Stage Play: Father and the Boys. Written by George Ade. Empire Theatre: 2 Mar 1908- May 1908 (closing date unknown/88 performances). Cast: Percy Brooke, Adele Clarke, Dan Collyer, William H. Crane (as "Lemuel Moreword"), Scott Dailey, Margaret Dale (as "Bessie Brayton"), Harry Dodd, Edward Donnelly, Mary Faber, Robert MacKay (as "Tom"), Amelia Mayborn, Forrest Orr (as "Bill"), Gabriel Ravenelle, Fred W. Sidney, Marguerite St. John, Ivy Troutman. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1911) Stage Play: The Senator Keeps House. Written by Martha Morton.
- (1912) Stage Play: A Fool of Fortune (Revival). Written by Martha Morton. Produced by Joseph Brooks.
- (1913) Stage Play: The New Henrietta. Comedy. Written by Bronson Howard. Revised by Victor Mapes and Winchell Smith. Directed by Joseph Brooks. Knickerbocker Theatre: 22 Dec 1913- Feb 1914 (closing date unknown/48 performances). Cast: William H. Crane (as "Nicholas Van Alstyne/Old Nick") [final Broadway role], Amelia G. Bingham (as "Mrs. Cornelia Opdyke"), Malcolm Bradley, Halbert W. Brown, Lyster Chambers (as "Mark Turner, Nick's son-in-law"), Patricia Collinge (as "Agnes Gates, Nick's Ward"), Eileen Errol, Douglas Fairbanks (as "Bertie Van Alstyne, Nick's Son"), Arthur Stuart Hull (as "Dr. George Wainwright"), J.H. Huntley, Edward Poland, Zeffie Tilbury (as "Hattie, A strange young woman"), Bud Woodthorpe. Produced by Charles Frohman and Klaw & Erlanger. Note: Filmed as The Saphead (1920).
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