- (1903 - 1939) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1903) Stage Play: The Frisky Mrs. Johnson. Drama. Written and directed by Clyde Fitch. Based on "Mme. Flirt" by Paul Gavault and Georges Berr. Princess Theatre: 9 Feb 1903- Apr 1903 (closing date unknown/80 performances). Cast: William L. Abingdon, F. Owen Baxter, Amelia Bingham, Madge Carr Cook, Minnie Dupree, Alfred Fisher, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Wilton Lackaye (as "Jim Morley"), Richard Lambart, Ernest Lawford [Broadway debut], George S. Probert, Alison Skipworth, Charles H. Wentz, Lillian Wright. Produced by Amelia Bingham. Note: Filmed by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation as The Frisky Mrs. Johnson (1920).
- (1903) Stage Play: Major Andre. Written by Clyde Fitch. Savoy Theatre: 11 Nov 1903- Nov 1903 (closing date unknown/12 performances). Cast: Arthur Byron, Arnold Daly, Wallace Eddinger, Adam Fox, Chrystal Herne, Angela Keir, Allan Kingsberry, Frederick Lane, Ernest Lawford, Frank J. McIntyre, Thomas Meighan, Dodson Mitchell, Guy Bates Post (as "Nathan Goodrich"), George Probert, James Ralls, Edward See. Produced by Frank McKee.
- (1904) Stage Play: Candida. Vaudeville Theatre: 11 Feb 1904- Mar 1904 (closing date unknown/48 performances/production played in repertory with The Man of Destiny). Produced by Arnold Daly.
- (1904) Stage Play: The Man of Destiny (Revival). Written by George Bernard Shaw. Directed by Arnold Daly. Vaudeville Theatre: 11 Feb 1904- Mar 1904 (closing date unknown/48 performances/production played in repertory with Candida). Cast: Arnold Daly (as "Napoleon Bonaparte"), Dorothy Donnelly (as "The Lady"), Ernest Lawford (as "The Lieutenant"), Edward Morrison (as "The Innkeeper"). Produced by Arnold Daly.
- (1904) Stage Play: The Coronet of the Duchess. Drama. Written by Clyde Fitch. Directed by Clyde Fitch. Garrick Theatre: 21 Sep 1904- Oct 1904 (closing date unknown/19 performances). Cast: Frederick E. Bean, Katherine Bell, Clara Bloodgood, Lou W. Carter, James Cooley, William Courtleigh, Frank De Kum, Elizabeth Emmett, Elsa Garrett, Edmund Hogan, Mrs. Hone, Ernest Lawford, Georgie Mendum, Florida Pier, Zelda Sears, Katherine Stewart, William H. Tooker, Austin Webb [Broadway debut], Flossie Wilkinson. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1904) Stage Play: The Rich Mrs. Repton. Written by R.C. Carton. Criterion Theatre: 16 Nov 1904- Nov 1904 (unknown closing date/5 performances). Cast: Edward Abeles, Beatrice Agner, Frederick E. Beane, Herbert Budd, Fay Davis, Arthur Elliott, Harold Hartsell, Ernest Lawford, Arthur Lawrence, Edgar Norton, Florida Pier, Vincent Serrano, Katherine Stewart. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1903) Stage Play: A Wife Without a Smile. Comedy/satire. Written by Arthur Wing Pinero. Criterion Theatre: 19 Dec 1904- Jan 1905 (closing date unknown/16 performances). Cast: Frank Atherley, J.H. Barnes, Elsie DeWolfe, Louis R. Grisel, Margaret Illington, Ernest Lawford, Esther Tittell, Flossie Wilkinson, Frank Worthing. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1905) Stage Play: Mrs. Leffingwell's Boots. Comedy. Written by Augustus Thomas. Savoy Theatre (moved to The Lyceum Theatre from 30 Jan 1905- close): 11 Jan 1905- 30 Apr 1905 (123 performances/production rotated with A Maker of Men for about 2 weeks during it's run at the Lyceum Theatre). Cast: Mrs. A.A. Adams, J.H. Barnes, Jessie Busley, William Courtenay (as "Walter Corbin"), Fay Davis (as "Mabel Ainslie"), Del De Louis, M.J. Gallagher, Dorothy Hammond (as "Mrs. Bonner"), Margaret Illington (as "Mrs. Leffingwell"), Ernest Lawford, Louis Payne, J. G. Saville, Vincent Serrano (as "Richard"), Jay Wilson. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1905) Stage Play: A Maker of Men. Written by Alfred Sutro. Lyceum Theatre: 21 Aug 1905- Sep 1905 (closing date unknown/14 performances/production played in repertory with Mrs. Leffingwell's Boots). Cast (as known): Margaret Illington, Ernest Lawford. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1905) Stage Play: Peter Pan. Fantasy (Original production). Written by J.M. Barrie. Empire Theatre: 6 Nov 1905- 20 May 1906 (223 performances). Cast included: Maude Adams (as "Peter Pan"), Margaret Gordon (as "Tiger Lilly"), Ernest Lawford (as "Captain Hook"), Thomas McGrath, Frederick Raymond, Jane Wren (as "Tinker Bell"). Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1908) Stage Play: Love Watches. Comedy. Written by Robert de Flers and Gaston Arman de Caillavet. Book adapted by Gladys Unger. Directed by William Seymour. Lyceum Theatre: 27 Aug 1908- Jan 1909 (closing date unknown/172 performances). Cast: Annie Bradley, Billie Burke (as "Jacqueline"), William Claire, Laura Clement, W.H. Crompton, Stanley Dark (as "Mons. Carteret"), Louise Drew, William Edgar, Ida Greeley-Smith, Cyril Keightley (as "Count Andre De Juvigny"), Ernest Lawford, Maud S. Love, Kate Meeks (as "Marquise de Juvigney"), Maude Odell, Horace H. Porter, Charlotte Shelby, Isabel West. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1910) Stage Play: Decorating Clementine. Comedy. Written by Gaston Arman de Caillavet and Robert de Flers. Lyceum Theatre: 19 Sep 1910- Oct 1910 (closing date unknown/48 performances). Cast: Joseph Allenton, Howard Bond, Edgar F. Hill, Homer Hunt [credited as J. Homer Hunt], G.P. Huntley, Gail Kane, Doris Keane, Ernest Lawford, Richie Ling, Frederick Macklyn, Louis Massen, Robert Millash, Frederick Powell, Alice Putnam, Francis Verdi, Ernest Whitney, Hattie Williams. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1911) Stage Play: Passers-by. Written by C. Haddon Chambers. Criterion Theatre: 14 Sep 1911- Dec 1911 (closing date unknown/124 performances). Cast: A.G. Andrews, Richard Bennett, Baby Davis, Ivy Herzog, Ernest Lawford, Julian Royce, Louise Rutter, Baby Smith, Rosalie Toller. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1913) Stage Play: A Good Little Devil. Written by Rosemonde Gerard and Maurice Rostand. Book adapted by Austin Strong. Theatre Republic: 8 Jan 1913- May 1913 (closing date unknown/133 performances). Cast: Mary Pickford (as "Juliet"), Ernest Truex (as "Charles MacLance"), Augusta Anderson (as "Lady Molineaux"), Wilda Bennett (as "Queen Mab"), Raymond J. Bloomer (as "Hon. Percy Cusack Smith"), Claire Burke (as "Titania"), Charles Castner (as "John"), Dennis Cleugh (as "The Solicitor from London"), Edward Connelly (as "Old Nick Sr."), Edward Dolly (as "Sandy"), Louis Esposit (as "Jock"), Amy Fitzpatrick (as "Miss Letterblair"), Georgia Mae Fursman (as "Thought-From-Afar"), Gerard Gardner (as "Wally"), Etienne Girardot (as "Old Nick Jr."), Lillian Gish (as "Morganie"), Laura Grant (as "Marion"), Edna Griffin (as "Viviane"), Arthur Hill (as "Rab, the dog"), Edna M. Holland (as "Lady Ralston"), Ernest Lawford (as "A Poet"), Iva Merlin (as "Betsy"), Harold Meyer (as "Neil"), Katherine Minihan (as "Lady Cavendish"), Adrian Morgan (as "Mack"), William Norris (as "Mrs. MacMiche"), Lauren Pullman (as "Angus"), David Ross (as "Davie"), Conway Shaffer (as "Lord H. De Bar"), Henry Stanford (as "Lord Colington of Pilrig"), Norman Taurog (as "Allan") [only Broadway role], Jeanne Towler (as "Lady Rosalind"), Robert Vivian (as "The Lawyer from Oban"), Reggie Wallace (as "Dewbright"), Roland Wallace (as "Jamie"), Pat Walshe (as "Huggermunk"), Joseph A. Wilkes (as "The Doctor from Inverary"). Produced by David Belasco.
- (1913) Stage Play: The Honeymoon. Written by Arnold Bennett. Lyceum Theatre: 24 Feb 1913 (1 performance). Cast: George W. Anson, Laura Hope Crews, Howard Estabrook, William Frazan, Ernest Lawford, Sarah Cowell Le Moyne, Albert Reed, Frank Reicher, Richard Sterling. Produced by Stage Society of New York.
- (1914) Stage Play: The Beautiful Adventure. Written by Robert de Flers and Gaston Arman de Caillavet. Lyceum Theatre: 5 Sep 1914- Oct 1914 (closing date unknown/41 performances). Cast: Herbert Ayling, Charles Cherry, Annie Esmond, Edward Fielding, George Hubbard, Frances Landy, Ernest Lawford, Ann Murdock, Edgar Norton, Mrs. Thomas Whiffen. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1915) Stage Play: The Shadow. Drama. Written by Dario Niccodemi and Michael Morton. Empire Theatre: 25 Jan 1915- Mar 1915 (closing date unknown/72 performances). Cast: Ethel Barrymore, Grace Elliston, Edward Fielding, Ernest Lawford, Bruce McRae, Olive Murray, Amy Veness. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1915) Stage Play: The New York Idea (Revival). Written by Langdon Mitchell. Playhouse Theatre: 28 Sep 1915- unknown (unknown performances). Cast: Tracy Barrow (as "Tim Fiddler"), Richard Clarke (as "Monroe"), John Cromwell (as "William Ludley, Philip's cousin"), Grace George (as "Mrs. Cynthia Karslake"), Lumsden Hare (as "Philip Phillimore"), Selwyn Joyce (as "Brooks, Vida' footman"), Norah Lamison (as "Grace Phillimore, Philip's sister"), Ernest Lawford (as "Sir Wilfred Cates-Darby"), Josephine Lovett (as "Miss Heneage, Philip's aunt"), Guthrie McClintic (as "Nogam, Karslake's valet"), Mary Nash (as "Mrs. Vida Phillimore, Philip's divorced wife"), Albert Reed (as "The Rev. Matthew Phillimore, Philip's brother"), Conway Tearle (as "John Karslake"), Anita Wood (as "Benson, Vida's maid"), Eugenie Woodward (as "Mrs. Phillimore, Philip's mother"). Produced by Grace George and The New York Playhouse Company.
- (1915) Stage Play: The Liars (Revival).
- (1915) Stage Play: Major Barbara. Comedy. Written by George Bernard Shaw. Directed by Louis Calvert. Playhouse Theatre: 9 Dec 1915- unknown (unknown performances). Cast: Paul Bliss, Margaret Calvert, Richard Clarke, John Cromwell (as "Charles Lomax"), Clarence Derwent, Charlotte Granville, Norah Lamison, Ernest Lawford, Josephine Lovett, Guthrie McClintic (as "The Butler"), Mary Nash, Conway Tearle. Produced by Grace George.
- (1916) Stage Play: The Earth (Revival). Written by James B. Fagan. Playhouse Theatre: 15 Feb 1916- unknown (unknown performances/This production played in repertory with The New York Idea, The Liars, Major Barbara, Captain Brassbound's Conversion). Cast: George Bangs, Louise Calvert, Richard Clarke, John Cromwell, Clarence Derwent, Daniel Eames, Arthur Eldred, Grace George, Charlotte Granville, Rexford Kendrick, Norah Lamison, Ernest Lawford, Guthrie McClintic, Conway Tearle. Produced by Grace George and The New York Playhouse Company.
- (1916) Stage Play: Captain Brassbound's Conversion. Comedy (revival). Written by George Bernard Shaw. Playhouse Theatre: 29 Mar 1916- unknown (unknown performances/repertory production; rotated with The New York Idea, The Earth, The Liars, Major Barbara). Cast: William Balfour (as "Sidi El Assif"), Richard Clarke (as "Johnson"), John Cromwell (as "Capt. Kearney, U.S.N."), Clarence Derwent (as "The Cadi"), Hubert Druce (as "Rankin"), Daniel Eames (as "Petty Officer"), Lewis Edgard (as "Drinkwater"), Grace George (as "Lady Cicely Waynflete"), Rexford Kendrick (as "Ossman"), George Kent (as "Hassan"), Ernest Lawford (as "Sir Howard Hallam"), Guthrie McClintic (as "Marzo"), Malcolm Morley (as "Redbrook") [Broadway debut], Robert Warwick (as "Captain Brassbound"). Produced by Grace George and The New York Playhouse Company.
- (1916) Stage Play: The Man Who Came Back. Written by Jules Eckert Goodman. Based on the story by John Fleming Wilson. Playhouse Theatre: 2 Sep 1916- Oct 1917 (closing date unknown/457 performances). Cast: Leonard Brooke (as "A Jap"), Maude Campbell (as "Olive"), Richard Clarke (as "Griggs"), Louise Coleman (as "First Girl"), Henry Davies (as "Waiter"), Edward Emery (as "Thomas Potter"), Juliet Fremont (as "Second Girl"), Charlotte Granville (as "Mrs. Gaynes"), Henry Hull (as "Henry Potter"), Wright Kramer (as "Reisling"), Ernest Lawford (as "Capt. Trevelan"), Nick Long (as "Sam Shen Sing"), Mary Nash (as "Marcelle"), Bennett Southard (as "Binksie"), Leighton Stark (as "Capt. Gallon"), J. Irving White (as "Gibson"). Produced by William A. Brady. Notes: (1) Production was considered a smash hit by the standards of pre-WWI Broadway. (2). Filmed by Fox Film Corp. twice, The Man Who Came Back (1924) starring George O'Brien and as The Man Who Came Back (1931), starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell.
- (1917) Stage Play: Why Marry? Written by Jesse Lynch Williams. Astor Theatre: 25 Dec 1917- Apr 1918 (closing date unknown/120 performances). Cast: Beatrice Beckley, Edmund Breese, Walter Goodson, Nat C. Goodwin, Shelly Hull, Ernest Lawford, Richard Pitman, Lotus Robb [Broadway debut], Harold West, Estelle Winwood. Produced by Selwyn & Co. Produced in arrangement with Roi Cooper Megrue. Note: No apparent connection to the short, Why Marry? (1924) [Hal Roach Studios].
- (1921) Stage Play: The New Morality. Comedy. Written by Harold Chapin. Playhouse Theatre: 30 Jan 1921- Feb 1921 (closing date unknown/5 performances). Cast: Kathleen Andrus (as "Lesceline"), Lillian Kemble-Cooper (as "Alice Meynell"), Warburton Gamble (as "Colonel Ivor Jones"), Grace George (as "Betty Jones"), John Gray (as "Wooton"), Lawrence Grossmith (as "E. Wallace Wister"), Ernest Lawford (as "Geoffrey Belasis, K. C."). Produced by Grace George.
- (1921) Stage Play: The Circle. Romantic comedy. Written by W. Somerset Maugham. Directed by Clifford Brooke. Selwyn Theatre: 12 Sep 1921- Feb 1922 (closing date unknown/175 performances). Cast: Mrs. Leslie Carter (as "Lady Catherine Champion-Cheney"), John Drew (as "Lord Porteous"), John Halliday (as "Edward Luton"), Ernest Lawford (as "Clive Champion-Cheney"), Maxine MacDonald (as "Mrs. Shenstone"), Robert Rendel (as "Spaulding"), Charles L. Sealy (as "Footman"), Walter Soderling (as "Butler"), Estelle Winwood (as "Elizabeth"). Produced by The Selwyns. Note: Filmed by MGM as The Circle (1925), by MGM as Strictly Unconventional (1930), and The Circle (1939).
- (1923) Stage Play: As You Like It. Comedy (revival).
- (1923) Stage Play: The School for Scandal. Comedy (revival). Written by Richard B. Sheridan. Lyceum Theatre: 4 Jun 1923- Jun 1923 (closing date unknown/8 performances). Cast: Albert G. Andrews (as "Moses"), Ethel Barrymore, Albert Bruning (as "Rowley"), John Craig, Henry F. Dixey, John Drew, Etienne Girardot (as "Mr. Crabtree"), Walter Hampden (as "Sneerwell Servant"), Violet Kemble Cooper (as "Lady Sneerwell"), Ernest Lawford, Robert Mantell, Carroll McComas (as "Maria"), Grant Mitchell, McKay Morris, Charles Richman, Charlotte Walker (as "Mrs. Candour"), Reinald Warrenrath, Francis Wilson, Thomas A. Wise. Produced by the Players Company Inc.
- (1923) Stage Play: Meet the Wife. Comedy. Written by Lynn Starling [earliest Broadway credit] Klaw Theatre: 26 Nov 1923- Jun 1924 (232 performances). Cast: Charles Bloomer (as " William"), Humphrey Bogart (as "Gregory Brown"), Mary Boland (as "Gertrude Lennox"), Patricia Calvert (as "Alice"), Charles Dalton (as "Harvey Lennox"), Eleanor Griffith (as "Doris Bellamy"), Ernest Lawford (as "Philip Lord"), Clifton Webb (as "Victor Staunton"). Produced by Stewart & French Inc.
- (1925) Stage Play: O, Nightingale. Comedy. Written by Sophie Treadwell. Directed by John Kirkpatrick. 49th Street Theatre: 15 Apr 1925- May 1925 (closing date unknown/29 performances). Cast: Martha-Bryan Allen (as "Appolonia Lee"), Harda Daube (as "Flora St. John"), Constance Eliot (as "Mme. Vera Istomina"), Ernest Lawford (as "Le Marquis de Severac"), Marcel Le Mans (as "A Waiter"), Fred Irving Lewis (as "Lawrence Gormont"), Lyonel Watts (as "Richard Warrington"), Suzanne Willa (as "Dot Norton"). Produced by Sophie Treadwell.
- (1925) Stage Play: Trelawny of the "Wells." Comedy (revival). Written by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero. Directed by William Seymour. Knickerbocker Theatre: 1 Jun 1925- 7 Jun 1925 (8 performances). Cast: Edith Barrett (as "Miss Brewster"), Amelia G. Bingham (as "Mrs. Telfer/Miss Violet Sylvester"), Charles Coburn (as "James Teifer"), Theresa Maxwell Conover (as "Miss Trafalger Gower"), Herbert Corthell (as "Mr. Augustus Colpoys"), William Courtleigh (as "Mr. Ferdinand Gadd"), John Cumberland, John Drew, John Evans, Mary Elizabeth Forbes, Harry Forsman (as "Charles"), Gladys Hanson, O.P. Heggie (as "Mr. Ablett"), Violet Heming, Claude King (as "Mr. Tom Wrench"), Saxon Kling (as "Mr. Arthur Gower"), Ernest Lawford (as "Capt. De Foenix"), Patterson McNutt (as "Mr. Mortimer"), Catherine Dale Owen, Molly Pearson, John Davenport Seymour, Laurette Taylor (as "Miss Rose Trelawny"), Mrs. Thomas Whiffen (as "Mrs. Mossop"), Douglas Wood. Produced by The Players.
- (1925) Stage Play: Hamlet. Tragedy (revival).
- (1925) Stage Play: Stronger Than Love. Written by Dario Niccodemi. Directed by Alfred Hickman and Frederick Stanhope. Belasco Theatre: 28 Dec 1925- Feb 1926 (closing date unknown/49 performances). Cast: Patricia Calvert (as "Florence Lumley"), Julia Duncan (as "Louise'), Ralph Forbes (as "Marius"), Echlin Gayer (as "Jean"), Katherine Grey (as "Countess de Bernois"), Borden Harriman (as "Gaston"), Lucille Husting (as "Marie"), Ernest Lawford (as "Regnault"), Beresford Lovett (as "Lord Michael Lumley"), Nance O'Neil (as "Anna de Bernois, Duchess de Nievres"), Frederick Perry (as "His Eminence Monseigneur Guido de Bernois"), Lois Ross (as "Marguerita"), Zolya Talma (as "Laura Regnault"). Produced by Carl Reed.
- (1926) Stage Play: Iolanthe. Musical/operetta (revival). Written by W.S. Gilbert. Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan. Directed by Winthrop Ames. Plymouth Theatre: 19 Apr 1926- Nov 1926 (closing date unknown/255 performances). Produced by Winthrop Ames.
- (October 4, 1937) He acted in Robert E. Sherwood's translation of Jacques Deval's play, "Tovarich," at the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio with Rudolph Forster, Marta Abba, Polly De Loos, Bram Nossen, Aristides De Leon, Margaret Dale, Jay Fassett, Barbara Gott, James E. Truex, Amanda Duff, Oscar Sterling, Leni Stengel, Andora Andrews, and Cecil Humphreys in the cast. Raymond Sovey was set designer. Gilbert Miller was producer and director.
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