- (1905 - 1935) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1905) Stage Play: Before and After. Farce. Written by Leo Ditrichstein. Americanized from "La Poudre de l'escampette" by Albert Milhaud and Alfred Hennequin. Manhattan Theatre: 12 Dec 1905- Feb 1906 (closing date unknown/72 performances). Cast: Frederic Barton, Kenyon Bishop, George C. Boniface, Leo Ditrichstein, Roy Fairchild, Mabel Findlay, Katherine Florence, Georgie Lawrence, John Daly Murphy [Broadway debut], Jean Newcombe, Helen Warren, Fritz Williams, Thomas A. Wise. Produced by Robert Hunter.
- (1906) Stage Play: Bedford's Hope. Melodrama. Written by Lincoln J. Carter. Haverly's 14th Street Theatre (moved to The American Theatre from 12 Mar 1906- close): 29 Jan 1906- Mar 1906 (closing date unknown/56 performances). Cast: Fred Burkhart, Rignold Carrington, W.J. Cogswell, Griffith Evans, Marion Fairfax, William Forrester, O.B. Haiveere, Charles Hunter, Frank Huntley, E.M. Kimball, Frank H. La Rue, Charles Lambkin, Will Lippincott, A.B. Lynds, Case Martin, John Daly Murphy, Mabel Pardine, Frank Peters, Fred Russe, Herbert Sears, Mary Servoss, Oscar Sharp, John Sommers, Florence St. Leonard, George C. Staley, James Sulle, Louise Tapley, Moody Waters, Eugenie Webb, Jack Webster, Ogden S. Wright. Produced by Stair & Havlin.
- (1909) Stage Play: An International Marriage. Written by George Broadhurst. Directed by George Broadhurst. Weber's Music Hall: 4 Jan 1909- Jan 1909 (closing date unknown/16 performances). Cast: Digby Bell, Gertrude Dalton, Charles N. Greene, Cuyler Hastings, Florence Huntington, Edward Jack, William J. Kelley, Amelia Mayborn, John Daly Murphy, Christine Norman, Albert Perry, Frederick Peters [credited as Fred W. Peters], Florence Robertson, John Sainpolis. Produced by Currie and Gray. Note: Filmed by Oliver Morosco Photoplay Company [distributed by Paramount Pictures/Famous Players-Lasky Corporation] as An International Marriage (1916) [film survives in the Library of Congress collection].
- (1909) Stage Play: The Girl from Rector's. Written by Paul M. Potter. From the French of Pierre Veber. Weber's Music Hall: 1 Feb 1909- Jul 1909 (closing date unknown/184 performances). Cast: J.W. Ashley, Nena Blake, William Burress, Herbert Carr, Florence M. Constantine, Helena H. Constantine, Violet Dale, Max Freeman, Mildred McNeill, John Daly Murphy, Isabel O'Madigan, Elita Proctor Otis, Nella Webb, Dallas Welford, Van Rensselaer Wheeler.
- (1910) Stage Play: Getting a Polish. Written by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson Wallack's Theatre: 7 Nov 1910- 17 Dec 1910 (closing date unknown/48 performances). Cast: May Irwin (as "Mrs. Jim"), Frank Bixby, J.T. Chaillee, Rosalind Coghlan, George Fawcett, Charles A. Gay, Florence Glenn, Mary V. Hall, John Junior, Edward Leibert, John Daly Murphy, Albert Roccardi, Mary K. Taylor, Raymond Watson. Produced by Liebler & Co.
- (1911) Stage Play: The Red Rose. Musical comedy.
- (1912) Stage Play: The Man from Cook's. Musical comedy.
- (1912) Stage Play: Eva. Musical.
- (1914) Stage Play: The Laughing Husband. Musical comedy. Book by Arthur Wimperis. Music by Edmund Eysler. Lyrics by Arthur Wimperis. Based on the German "Der lachende ebemann" by Julius Brammer and Alfred Grunwald. Featuring songs by Pedro de Zulueta. Musical Director: Gustave Selzer. Directed by Edward Royce. Knickerbocker Theatre: 2 Feb 1914- 14 Mar 1914 (48 performances). Cast: Gertrude Andea (as "Chorus"), Roy Atwell (as "Lutz Nachtigall"), Marie Barbara (as "Chorus"), Nigel Barry (as "Hans Zimt"), Betty Callish (as "Hella Bruckner"), Dorothy Chesmond (as "Marie"), Jeanne Crane (as "Chorus"), Jessie Crane (as "Chorus"), Frances Demarest (as "Etelka"), Leonard Feiner (as "Baldrian"), Venita Fitzhugh (as "Dolly"), George Fredericks (as "Chorus"), Marie George (as "Chorus"), William Gibney (as "Chorus"), Josephine Harriman (as "Dancer"), Beatrice Hoover (as "Chorus"), Constance Hunt (as "Chorus"), Josie Intropodi (as "Lucinda"), Frank Kenny (as "Chorus"), Regina Knott (as "Chorus"), Margaret Langdon (as "Chorus"), O.L. Love (as "Chorus"), Jack Mehl Chorus"), Bert B. Melville (as "Wiedehopf"), Margurete Milford (as "Chorus"), Florence Moll (as "Chorus"), George Mortimer (as "Chorus"), Kenneth Munro (as "Chorus"), John Daly Murphy (as "Herr von Basewitz"), Yetla Nicoll (as "Chorus"), William Norris (as "Mr. Rosenrot"), Genevieve O'Hara (as "Dancer"), Irene Palmer (as "Juliette"), Beatrice Percell (as "Chorus"), Paul Pollock (as "Chorus"), Courtice Pounds (as "Ottokar Bruckner"), Quentin Todd (as "Dancer"), Eve Turner (as "Chorus"), Fred Walton (as "Andreas Pipelhuber"), Gustav Werner (as "Count Selztal"), Dorothy West (as "Chorus"), Evelyn Wildner (as "Chorus"), Gertrude Wilson (as "Chorus"). Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1916) Stage Play: See My Lawyer. Written by Max Marcin. Directed by Frank M. Stammers. Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre: 2 Sep 1915- Sep 1915 (closing date unknown/12 performances). Cast: T. Roy Barnes, Sydney Booth, Inez Buck, Robert Burton, Conrad Cantzen, Jules Ferrar, John Flood, Walter Horton, Harry Lillford, Richard Lyle, Howard Mason, Frank Monroe, John Daly Murphy, Harold Russell, Amy Sumers, Gus Weinberg, Margot Williams. Produced by A.H. Woods.
- (1916) Stage Play: Erstwhile Susan. Written by Marian De Forest. Based on the novel "Barnabetta" by Helen R. Martin. Gaiety Theatre: 18 Jan 1916- Jun 1916 (closing date unknown/167 performances). Cast: Samuel Aidenfelder (as "Joseph Yoder"), Hugh Chilvers (as "Robert Marsh"), Anita Clarendon (as "Mrs. Winthrop"), John W. Cope (as "Barnaby Dreary"), Harry Cowley (as "Absalom Puntz"), Madeline Delmar (as "Barnabetta Dreary"), Anne Faystone (as "Alice Meredith"), Mrs. Fiske (as "Juliet Miller/Erstwhile Susan"), Robert Stowe Gill (as "Jacob Dreary"), Maude Longnecker (as "Em. Wackernagel"), Owen Meech (as "Emanuel Dreary"), Wylda Millison (as "Ramah Schwenkfelders"), John Daly Murphy (as "Abel Buchter"), Edward Robins (as "David Jordan"), Marie Sasee (as "Jennie Getz"), Henry B. Vogel (as "Abraham"). Produced by Corey-Williams-Riter Inc. Note: Filmed as Erstwhile Susan (1919).
- (1916) Stage Play: The Amber Empress.
- (1917) Stage Play: What Happened to Jones.
- (1918) Stage Play: Roads of Destiny. Written by Channing Pollock. Based on the story by O. Henry. Theatre Republic: 27 Nov 1918- Feb 1919 (closing date unknown/101 performances). Cast: Alma Belwin (as "Ann Harley"), Claude Brooke (as "Jennings"), Alma Kruger (as "A Voice"), Edmund Lowe (as "David Marsh"), Arnold Lucy (as "Robert McPherson"), John Miltern (as "Lewis Marsh"), John Daly Murphy (as "Andrew McPherson"), Florence Reed (as "Rosetta Clare"), Charles A. Sellon (as "The Butler"), Edwin Walter (as "Tom Church"), Malcolm Williams (as "Alec Harley"). Produced by A.H. Woods.
- (1919) Stage Play: Dark Rosaleen. Written by W.D. Hepenstall and Whitford Kane. Belasco Theatre: 22 Apr 1919- Jul 1919 (closing date unknown/87 performances). Cast: Charles Bickford, John Carmody [Broadway debut], Robert Cummings, Henry Duffey, Walter Edwin, George Fitzgerald, Eileen Huban, P.J. Kelly, Charles F. McCarthy, Beryl Mercer, Dodson Mitchell, Thomas Mitchell, Dan Moyles, John Daly Murphy, Seumas O'Brien, Farrell Pelly. Produced by David Belasco.
- (1920) Stage Play: The Bonehead. Comedy/satire. Written by Frederic Arnold Kummer. Directed by Frank McCormack. Fulton Theatre: 12 Apr 1920- May 1920 (closing date unknown/24 performances). Cast: Claude Beerbohm, David M. Callis, Leonard Doyle, Robert Paton Gibbs [credited as Paton Gibbs], Beatrice Moreland, John Daly Murphy, Nita Naldi (as "Mrs. Violet Bacon-Boyle"), Edwin Nicander, Vivienne Osborne (as "Jean Brent"), William St. James, Myrtle Tannehill. Produced by Claude Beerbohm.
- (1921) Stage Play: The Nightcap. Comedy/mystery. Written by Guy Bolton and Max Marcin. Directed by Max Marcin and Guy Bolton. 39th Street Theatre: 15 Aug 1921- Nov 1921 (closing date unknown/96 performances). Cast: Halbert Brown (as "Coroner Watrous), Ronald Colman (as "Charles"), Wilson Day, H. Dudley Hawley (as "Lester Knowles"), Walter Horton, Grant Mills, John Daly Murphy (as "Jerry Hammond"), Jerome Patrick, Jack Raffael, Elisabeth Risdon (as "Mrs. Lester Knowles"), Flora Sheffield, W.W. Shuttleworth, John Wray (as "Policeman"). Produced by Max Marcin. Note: Filmed as Secrets of the Night (1924).
- (1922) Stage Play: It's a Boy! Comedy.
- (1923) Stage Play: Virginia Runs Away. Comedy. Written by Sydney Rosenfeld. Daly's 63rd Street Theatre: 1 Oct 1923- Oct 1923 (closing date unknown/8 performances). Cast: Nellie Callahan, Roy Cochrane, Cyril Keightley (as "Roger Carlyle"), Lillian Kingsbury, William Leonard, Harry Minturn (as "Frederick Titus, M.D."), John Daly Murphy (as "Hastings Westover"), Josephine Stevens, Rose Winter, Mary Young. Produced by John Cort.
- (1923) Stage Play: Dumb-bell. Comedy. Written by J.C. Nugent and Elliott Nugent. Belmont Theatre: 26 Nov 1923- Nov 1923 (closing date unknown/2 performances). Cast: Jessie Crommette, Kenneth MacKenna (as "Ted Strone"), John Daly Murphy (as "Jones"), J.C. Nugent (as "Romeo"), Ruth Nugent, Gladys Wilson, Ethel Winthrop (as "Mrs. Stone") [final Broadway role]. Produced by Richard Herndon.
- (1924) Stage Play: She Stoops to Conquer. Comedy (revival).
- (1924) Stage Play: Top-Hole. Musical comedy. Music by Jay Gorney and Robert Braine. Choreographed by David Bennett and Seymour Felix. Directed by William Caryl. Fulton Theatre (moved to The Knickerbocker Theatre from 10 Oct 1924- 2 Nov 1924, then moved to The Liberty Theatre from 3 Nov 1924- 29 Nov 1924, then moved to The New Colonial Theatre from 22 Dec 1924- close): 1 Sep 1924- 3 Jan 1924 (120 performances). Produced by William Caryl.
- (1925) Stage Play: The Fourflusher. Comedy.
- (1926) Stage Play: The Virgin. Written by Arthur Corning White and Louis Bennison. Directed by Sam Forrest. Maxine Elliott's Theatre: 22 Feb 1926- Apr 1926 (closing date unknown/57 performances). Cast: Arthur Albertson (as "Dick Hayward"), Auguste Aramini, Lee Baker, Louis Bennison, Joseph Burton, Thomas Gunn, Bertha Mann, John Daly Murphy (as "Seth Brown"), Frank Parsons, Phyllis Povah (as "Ruth Whipple"), Jessie Ralph (as "Mrs. Grubb"), John Sharkey, Olaf Skavlan, Robert Thorne. Produced by Jules Hurtig.
- (1927) Stage Play: Julie.
- (1927) Stage Play: Storm Center. Comedy/farce. Written by Jessie Hein Ernst and Max Simon. Klaw Theatre: 30 Nov 1927- Dec 1927 (closing date unknown/29 performances). Produced by Personality Players Inc.
- (1928) Stage Play: A Free Soul. Written by Willard Mack. Based on the novel by Adela Rogers St. Johns. Directed by George Cukor. Playhouse Theatre: 12 Jan 1928- Apr 1928 (closing date unknown/100 performances). Cast: E.J. Barrett (as "Bailiff"), William E. Barry (as "Hooper"), George Baxter (as "Dwight Sutro"), James H. Bell (as "Bill Wilfong"), George Benson (as "Clerk of the Court"), George Christie (as "Ramsay Joliffe/Judge Beasley"), John Costello (as "Mullaly"), Ellen Dorr (as "Gwennie Wilfong"), Melvyn Douglas (as "Ace Wilfong") [Broadway debut], Jane Houston (as "Mrs. Dorothea Joliffe"), John Irwin (as "Fresno Kelly"), Kay Johnson (as "Jan Ashe"), Joseph Kennedy (as "Dean, Foreman of Jury"), Hugh Lester (as "Carroll"), Charles F. Lewis (as "Big Mack"), Lester Lonergan (as "Stephen Ashe"), Frank McGlynn (as "Nolan, District Attorney"), John Morris (as "Mullins"), John Daly Murphy (as "Abe Sloan"), Walter Powers (as "Red"), Adelaide Prince (as "Mrs. Deborah Ashe"), Edward F. Roseman (as "Nelson"), Charles Stanley (as "Patrolman"), Spencer Stoddart (as "Another Officer"), Lou Turner (as "A Gambler/Jack"), Ann Winston (as "Grace Carling"). Produced by William A. Brady. Note: Filmed as A Free Soul (1931), and as The Girl Who Had Everything (1953).
- (1928) Stage Play: The Beaux Stratagem. Comedy (revival). Written by George Farquhar. Prologue by Edgar Lee Masters. Directed by Howard Lindsay. Hampden's Theatre: 4 Jun 1928- Jun 1928 (closing date unknown/8 performances). Cast: Robert I. Aitken (as "A Soldier"), Fay Bainter (as "Mrs. Sullen"), David Belasco (as "Epilogue"), Thomas Chalmers (as "A Soldier"), Joseph Cummings Chase (as "A Soldier"), William Courtleigh (as "Gibbet"), Henrietta Crosman (as "Lady Bountiful"), Paul A. Curtis (as "Hounslow"), Harry Grant Dart (as "Traveller"), F.H. Day (as "Servant in the Inn"), Edwin T. Emery (as "A Soldier"), Fred Eric (as "Archer"), George B. Fife (as "Traveller"), William Gustafson (as "A Soldier"), Ruth Hammond (as "Gipsey"), Lyn Harding (as "Sullen"), O.P. Heggie (as "Sir Charles Freeman"), Raymond Hitchcock (as "Boniface, Landlord of the Inn"), Brian Hooker (as "Traveller"), Pamela Hooker (as "Traveller"), Josephine Hull (as "Servant in the Inn"), Ernest Hunter (as "A Soldier"), John C. King (as "A Soldier"), Kate Mayhew (as "A Countrywoman"), Patterson McNutt (as "Traveller"), Owen Meech (as "A Countryman"), Helen Menken (as "Dorinda"), Essie Mercedes (as "Traveller"), John Daly Murphy (as "Foigard"), Jack O'Donnell (as "Traveller"), T.C. Pakenham (as "Traveller"), Eric Pape (as "Traveller"), James T. Powers (as "Scrub"), Herbert Ranson (as "Gagshot"), Wilfrid Seagram (as "Aimwell"), James Stanley (as "Soldier"), Frederic Dorr Steele (as "Traveller"), Dorothy Stickney (as "Cherry"), Loren Stout (as "Traveller"), Thompson Sweeny (as "Traveller"), William B. Taylor (as "A Soldier"), Raymond Thayer (as "A Soldier"), Ray Vir Den (as "A Soldier"), Judith Vosselli (as "Traveller"), Reinald Werrenrath (as "A Soldier"), John Westley (as "Count Bellair"). Produced by The Players. Note: This play was first performed in New York in 1751 at the Nassau Street Theatre, making it one of the earliest productions ever mounted in the U.S. It was revived again in 1959.
- (1928) Stage Play: The Wild Duck. Drama (revival).
- (1929) Stage Play: The Lady from the Sea. Drama (revival). Written by Henrik Ibsen. Directed by Cecil Clovelly. Bijou Theatre: 18 Mar 1929- Apr 1929 (closing date unknown/24 performances). Cast: Dallas Anderson (as "Professor Arnholm"), G. Pat Collins (as "Friman- Johnston"), Edward Fielding (as "Dr. Wangel"), Florida Friebus (as "Hilda"), John Daly Murphy (as "Ballested"), Walter Speakman (as "Lyngstrand"), Linda Watkins (as "Boletta"), Blanche Yurka (as "Ellida"). Produced by the Actors Theatre.
- (1931) Stage Play: Ziegfeld Follies of 1931. Musical revue. Sketches by Mark Hellinger, J.P. Murray and Gene Buck. Lyrics by Gene Buck, Joseph McCarthy, Charles Farrell, Mack Gordon, J.P. Murray, Barry Trivers, E.Y. Harburg, Jack Norworth and Noël Coward. Dialogue staged by Edward C. Lilley. Dances directed by Bobby Connolly and Albertina Rasch. Music by Harry Revel, Ben Oakland, Dave Stamper, Dimitri Tiomkin, Noël Coward, Nora Bayes, James Monaco, Chick Endor, Walter Donaldson, Jay Gorney and Hugo Riesenfeld. Music for "Pink Lady Waltz" by Ivan Caryll [final Broadway credit]. Music for "(Shine On) Harvest Moon" by Jack Norworth. Music for "(Who Paid the Rent for Mrs.) Rip Van Winkle" by Al Bryan. Lyrics for "(Who Paid the Rent for Mrs.) Rip Van Winkle" by Fred Fisher. Music for "You Made Me Love You" Dance by Mack Gordon. Lyrics for "I'm With You" by Walter Donaldson. Musical Director: Oscar Bradley. Music orchestrated by Maurice De Packh, Will Vodery, Howard Jackson and Joe Jordan. Featuring songs by Powell and Stevens. Assembled by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. Directed by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. and Gene Buck. Ziegfeld Theatre: 1 Jul 1931- 21 Nov 1931 (165 performances). Cast: Iris Adrian, The Albertina Rasch Dancers, Thomas Arace, Jack Arthur, Jean Audree, Faith Bacon, Robert Baldwin, Virginia Bethel, Virginia Biddle, Ethel Borden, Mildred Borst, Frank Britton, Milt Britton, Jack Bruns, John Bubbles, Buck & Bubbles, Joan Burgess, Katherine Burke, Alice Burrage, Arthur Campbell, Tito Carol, Gordon Carper, Albert Carroll, Helen Carson, Emmita Casanova, Catherine Clark, The Collette Sisters, Dorothy Dell, Netta Deuschateau, Dorothy Dodge, David Drollet, Betty Dumbris, Marguerite Durand, Marguerite Eisele, Georgia Ellis, Kay English (as "Hazel Dawn" and "Pink lady Waltz" performer) [final Broadway role], Caja Eric, Clayton Estes, Ruth Etting (as "Nora Bayes"), Dorothy Flood, Rosa Fromson, Rose Gale, Gladys Glad, Gene Gory, Yvonne Grey, John Gurney, Paul Gursdorff, Cliff Hall, Cassie Hanley, Helen Hannan, Pearl Harris, Eunice Holmes, Jean Howard, Billy Hughes, Russell Johns, Tom Kendall, George Lamar, Frank Lang, Hal Le Roy (as "Alphonso Smith"), Milton Le Roy, Marjorie Levoe, Boots Mallory, Christine Maple, Herschel Martin, Mitzi Mayfair, Lorelle McCarver, Ernest McChesney, Frank McCormack, Dennis McCurtin, Marjorie McLaughlin, Olive McLay, Frieda Mierse, Vera Milton, Grace Moore, Jim Moore, Helen Morgan, John Daly Murphy (as "Doctor Crechsen/A Drunk"), Dorissa Nelova, Pat O'Day, Pearl Osgood, Earl Oxford, Anne Lee Patterson, Ruth Patterson, Jack Pearl, Vivian Porter, Betty Real, Mary Alice Rice, Harry Richman, Bernice Roberts, William Royal, A. Samish, Blanche Satchell, Billie Seward, Barbara Smith, Conrad Sparin, Marie Stevens, Leonard Stokes, Lena Thomas, Joseph Toner, Synny Trowbridge, Robert Walker, Helen Walsh, Eileen Wenzel, Robert White. Produced by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr..
- (1931) Stage Play: Hamlet.
- (1932) Stage Play: The Moon in the Yellow River. Written by Denis Johnston. Directed by Philip Moeller. Guild Theatre: 29 Feb 1932- Apr 1932 (closing date unknown/40 performances). Cast: Wylie Adams (as "Larry"), Egon Brecher (as "Tausch"), Gertrude Flynn (as "Blanaid"), William Harrigan, Henry Hull (as "Darrell Blake"), Alma Kruger (as "Aunt Columba"), Barry Macollum, John Daly Murphy (as "Captain Potts"), Edward Nannery (as "George"), John O'Connor, Desmond O'Donnovan, Claude Rains (as "Dobelle"), Paul Stevenson, Josephine Williams. Produced by The Theatre Guild.
- (1932) Stage Play: Bulls, Bears and Asses.
- (1932) Stage Play: Firebird.
- (1932) Stage Play: Two Strange Women.
- (1933) Stage Play: Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- (1933) Stage Play: Thoroughbred. Comedy. Written by Doty Hobart. Directed by Theodore J. Hammerstein. Vanderbilt Theatre: 6 Nov 1933- 27 Nov 1933 (33 performances). Cast: Harry Ellerbe (as "Richard Westervail/Rickey"), Lillian Emerson, Clyde Fillmore, Louise Glover, Thurston Hall (as "John Collins"), John Lynds, Claudia Morgan, John Daly Murphy (as "Hickson"), Jerry Norris, Florence Reed, Hilda Spong (as "Clarissa Van Horne"), Charles Stepaneck. Produced by Theodore J. Hammerstein and Denis Du-For.
- (1934) Stage Play: False Dreams, Farewell.
- (1934) Stage Play: Within the Gates.
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