- (1917 - 1936) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1917) Stage Play: Lilac Time. Written by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin [earliest Broadway credit]. Theatre Republic: 6 Feb 1917- Jul 1917 (closing date unknown/176 performances). Cast: Michelette Burani [Broadway debut], Orme Caldara, Louise Coleman, Jane Cowl, Henry Crocker, Emile Detramont, Guilliame Deux, Charles Esdale [Broadway debut], Lawrence Grant, Charles Hampden, Harry Hanlon, Felix Krembs, Mayne Lynton [credited as W. Mayne Lynton], Cecil Owen, Henry Stephenson, Cecil Yapp. Produced by Selwyn & Co. Note: Filmed as Lilac Time (1928).
- (1919) Stage Play: See-Saw.
- (1920) Stage Play: Cornered. Comedy/drama. Written by Dodson Mitchell. Directed by John McKee. Astor Theatre: 8 Dec 1920- Apr 1921 (closing date unknown/143 performances). Cast: Leslie Austin [credited as Leslie Austen] (as "George Wells"), Nettie Bourne (as "Lola Mulvaney"), Morgan Coman (as "Nick") [final Broadway role], Elmer Cornell (as "Frank"), Charles Esdale (as "Dr. Emerson"), Edward Fielding (as "Jerry"), Edith Ford (as "Miss Watson"), Robert Forsyth (as "Brewster"), Amelia Gardner (as "Mrs. Wells"), Thomas Gunn (as "Casey"), Timothy Kane (as "Smithson"), Madge Kennedy (as "Mary Brennan/Margaret Waring"), Natalie Manning (as "Rose"), Edna May (as "Maid"), Therese Quadri (as "Leontine"), Charles Tong (as "Sing Hi"), Joseph V. Tullar (as "Flanagan"), Tom H. Walsh (as "Updike"). Produced by Henry W. Savage.
- (1921) Stage Play: Like a King. Drama. Written by John Hunter Booth. 39th Street Theatre: 3 Oct 1921- Oct 1921 (closing date unknown/16 performances). Cast: Arthur Allen (as "William Chubb"), E.L. Duane (as "Samuel Pemberton"), Charles Esdale (as "Thomas H. Coffin"), James Gleason (as "Nathaniel Artemus Alden"), Mina Gleason (as "Mrs. Alden"), Ann Harding (as "Phyllis Weston") [Broadway debut], John Hardtap (as "Policeman"), Robert Homans (as "Gen. Wade Weston"), Frances Howard (as "Arabella Alden") [Broadway debut], Dodson Mitchell (as "George W. Grubble"), Hale Norcross (as "Dan Riordan"), Lucille Parker (as "Abigail"), Edward Poland (as "Calvin Lowe"), James Seeley (as "Robert Alden"), Max Waizman (as "J.W. Savage"), Margaret Wiltshire (as "Norah Smuts"). Produced by Adolph Klauber.
- (1922) Stage Play: Rosa Machree. Comedy/drama. Written by Howard E. Rose. Lexington Theatre: 9 Jan 1922- Jan 1922 (closing date unknown/8 performances). Cast: Julia Adler (as "Rosa Goldran"), Mabel Allen (as "Ellen Carew"), Lucy Beaumont (as "Lady Ethel Carew"), Binks (as "Binks"), Clarence Derwent (as "Brian Delaney"), Charles Esdale (as "Lucius Marley"), Harry Green (as "Cyril Lardon"), Austin O. Huhn [credited as Austin Huhn] (as "Wharton"), Ryder Keane (as "Gordon Brae"), Sonia Marcelle (as "Rachel Goldran"), Fuller Mellish (as "Lord Ragdon"). Produced by Hudson Productions Co. Inc.
- (1922) Stage Play: Fedora. Tragedy (revival). Written by Victorien Sardou. Directed by Marie Löhr. Hudson Theatre: 10 Feb 1922- Feb 1922 (closing date unknown/12 performances). Cast: Max Brent (as "Boris"), Howard Edwardes (as "Basil"), Sydney Ellis (as "Boleslav Lasinski"), Charles Esdale (as "Dr. Loreck"), Vane Featherston (as "Marka"), William Grayson (as "Ivan"), Edmund Gwenn (as "Gretch"), C.M. Hallard (as "Jean de Seriex"), Edward Lester (as "Pierre Boroff"), Marie Löhr (as "Princess Fedora Romazova"), Herbert Marshall (as "Count Loris Ipanoff"), Junius Matthews (as "Dmitri"), E. Rayson-Cousens (as "Tchileff"), E. Vivian Reynolds (as "Desire"), 'Hilda Spong' (as "Countess Olga Soukareva"), George Sydenham (as "Kirill"). Produced by Marie Lohr.
- (1922) Stage Play: Dolly Jordan.
- (1924) Stage Play: Ashes.
- (1924) Stage Play: Quarantine. Comedy.
- (1925) Stage Play: The Carolinian. Comedy.
- (1926) Stage Play: The Right Age to Marry. Comedy.
- (1927) Stage Play: Her Cardboard Lover. Written by Jacques Deval. Book adapted by Valerie Wyngate and P.G. Wodehouse. Directed by Gilbert Miller. Empire Theatre 21 Mar 1927- Aug 1927 (closing date unknown152 performances). Cast: Jeanne Eagels (as "Simone") [final Broadway role], Charles Esdale (as A Croupier"), Leslie Howard (as "Andre Sallicel"), Arthur Lewis (as "Charly"), Stanley Logan (as "Tony Lagorce"), Terence Neill (as "Paul Guisard"), Ernest Stallard (as "Monsieur Bonnavant"), Henry Vincent (as "Cloak Room Attendant"), Valerie Wyngate (as "Albine"). Produced by Gilbert Miller and A.H. Woods.
- (1928) Stage Play: The Money Lender. Written by Roy Horniman. Directed by Edward C. Lilley. Ambassador Theatre: 27 Aug 1928- Sep 1928 (closing date unknown/16 performances). Cast: Genevieve Belasco (as "Sarah Levi"), Herbert Clark (as "Samuel Levi"), Charles Esdale (as "Colonel Luttrell"), George Farren (as "Jacob Dacosta"), Marion Gray (as "Mrs. Luttrell"), Geoffrey Harwood (as "Capt. Harry Yarborough), Lulu Mae Hubbard (as "Rachel Levi "), A.C. Fotheringham-Lysons (as "Willoughby Heriot"), Isabel O'Madigan (as "Letitia Lady Ingleby"), Horace Pollock (as "Mr. Evan Jones"), Lester Salkow (as "Ike Levi"), Nan Sheldon (as "Maid/Sister of Mercy"), Louis Sorin (as "Solomon Levi"), Guy Standing Jr. (as "Lord Carhampton"), Katherine Standing (as "Lillian Luttrell"), Grant Stewart (as "Rev. Henry Luttrell"), Nina Walker (as "Miss Tallant"). Produced by Ned Jakobs.
- (1929) Stage Play: Polly. Musical comedy. Music by Herbert Stothart and Philip Charig. Book by Guy Bolton, George Middleton and Isabel Leighton. Lyrics by Irving Caesar. Based on "Polly with a Past" by David Belasco. Musical Director: Herbert Stothart. Featuring songs by Harry Rosenthal. Featuring songs with lyrics by Douglas Furber. Directed by John Harwood. Lyric Theatre: 8 Jan 1929- 19 Jan 1929 (15 performances). Cast: Fred Allen (as "Addie Stiles"), Louise Allen (as "Ensemble"), Joseph Anderson (as "Ensemble"), George Andre (as "Ensemble"), Hal Bird (as "Ensemble"), Norine Bogan (as "Ensemble"), Howard Bradford (as "Ensemble"), Dorothy Brown (as "Ensemble"), Donald Buchanan (as "Ensemble"), Walter Bunker (as "Ensemble"), Martha Carroll (as "Ensemble"), Billie Cortez (as "Ensemble"), Hellene Counihan (as "Ensemble"), Inez Courtney (as "Betty"), Clifford Daly (as "Ensemble"), Louis Delgado (as "Ensemble"), Charles Esdale (as "Prentice Van Zile"), Anita Gordon (as "Ensemble"), Gus and Will (as "Ensemble"), Buddie Haines (as "Ensemble"), Robert Hall (as "Ensemble"), Evelyn Hannons (as "Ensemble"), Dorothy Hiller (as "Ensemble"), Hubert Hilton (as "Ensemble"), John Hundley (as "Rex Van Zile"), June (as "Polly Shannon"), Asya Kaz (as "Ensemble"), Sandra LaMar (as "Ensemble"), Jimmy Lee (as "Ensemble"), Geoffrey Luck (as "Ensemble"), Jessie Madison (as "Ensemble"), Dolly Mannon (as "Ensemble"), Robert Mathhews (as "Ensemble"), Peggy Messinger (as "Ensemble"), Lucy Monroe (as "Myrtle Grant"), Harry K. Morton (as "Harry Richards"), Edward Mowan (as "Ensemble"), Jack Norman (as "Ensemble"), Isabel O'Madigan (as "Mrs. Van Zile"), William Penney (as "Ensemble"), Tudor Penrose (as "Arturo"), Ruby Poe (as "Ensemble"), William Preston (as "Ensemble"), Alonzo Price (as "Bill Collector"), Howard Rand (as "Ensemble"), Lucile Reece (as "Ensemble"), Marcella Rio (as "Ensemble"), Marion Saki (as "Sue"), Bunny Schum (as "Ensemble"), Leonard Sillman (as "Clay Cullen"), Audrey Sturges (as "Ensemble"), Greta Swanson (as "Ensemble"), William Tasek (as "Ensemble"), Charles Townshend (as "Ensemble"), Paulette Wilson (as "Ensemble"), Edna May Wright (as "Ensemble"), Grace Wright (as "Ensemble"), Rosalie Wynn (as "Ensemble"), Thalia Zanou (as "Ensemble"). Produced by Arthur Hammerstein.
- (1929) Stage Play: The Whispering Gallery. Comedy/mystery.
- (1929) Stage Play: Her Friend the King. Comedy.
- (1931) Stage Play: The Bellamy Trial.
- (1931) Stage Play: Lean Harvest. Drama. Written by Ronald Jeans. Directed by Leslie Banks. Forrest Theatre: 13 Oct 1931- Nov 1931 (closing date unknown/31 performances). Cast: Vera Allen (as "Celila Hardman"), Leslie Banks (as "Nigel"), Paula Bauersmith (as "Carmen Bracegirdle"), Lillian Bronson (as "Gladys/Miss Moggs"), Nigel Bruce (as "Philip Downes"), Patricia Calvert (as "Anne"), Charles Esdale [erroneously credited as Charles Edsale on opening night] (as "Duckitt"), Alfred Flanders (as "Jack Crabb"), Peggy Hovenden (as "Leila Perrett"), John Hoyt [credited as John Hoysradt] (as "Dr. Plumtree/Mr. McGowan"), A.C. Fotheringham-Lysons (as "Mr. A. Tellworthy/Dr. Fisher"), Edwin Mills (as "Richard"), Evelyn Mills (as "Ann"), Warren Mills (as "Tommy"), Leonard Mudie (as "Steven"), Molly Pearson (as "Mrs. Trent"), Ada Potter (as "Mrs. Tellworthy"), Harry Sothern (as "Mr. Featherstone"), Joaquin Souther (as "Porteous"). Produced by Kenneth Macgowan and Joseph Verner Reed.
- (1933) Stage Play: Peace on Earth.
- (1934) Stage Play: Peace on Earth.
- (1935) Stage Play: Living Dangerously. Drama.
- (1936) Stage Play: American Holiday.
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