- (1905 - 1950) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1905) Stage Play: Lucky Durham. Drama. Written by Wilson Barrett. New Amsterdam Theatre: 22 Jan 1905- unknown (unknown performances/production played in repertory with The Brighter Side, The Middleman, The Professor's Love Story). Cast: Nelly Angell, H. Barfoot, Alice Belmore, Harry Cane, H. Cooper Cliffe [Broadway debut], J.R. Crauford, Arthur Curtis, Mabel Dubois, Walter Edmunds, Gladys Granger, John W. Lawrence, Marie Linden, Alice Lonnon, H.G. Lonsdale, Tom Lovell, Miss E. Page, Leila Repton, Faith Reynolds, Walter Sauter, Ivan F. Simpson, Ernest Stallard, Violet Vorley, E.S. Willard. Produced by Edward Smith Willard Repertory.
- (1905) Stage Play: The Brighter Side. Melodrama (revival). From the French work "La Chatelaine" by Alfred Capus. Translated by Louis N. Parker. New Amsterdam Theatre: 22 Jan 1905- unknown (unknown performances/production played in repertory with Lucky Durham, The Middleman, The Professor's Love Story). Cast: Nelly Angell, H. Barfoot, Alice Belmore, Harry Cane, H. Cooper Cliffe, J.R. Crauford, Arthur Curtis, Walter Edmunds, Gladys Granger, John W. Lawrence, Marie Linden, Alice Lonnon, H.G. Lonsdale, Tom Lovell, Miss E. Page, Leila Repton, Faith Reynolds, Walter Sauter, Ivan F. Simpson, Ernest Stallard, Violet Vorley, E.S. Willard. Produced by Edward Smith Willard Repertory.
- (1905) Stage Play: The Man Who Was. Written by Rudyard Kipling. Dramatized by F. Kinsey Peile. Dramatized by F. Kinsey Peile. New Amsterdam Theatre: 11 Dec 1905- unknown (unknown performances/played in repertory with "A Pair of Spectacles", "Tom Pinch", "The Middleman", "David Garrick", "The Fool's Revenge", "The Professor's Love Story"). Cast: Nelly Angell, Harry Barfoot, Alice Belmore, Mabel Bubois, Harry Cane, H. Cooper Cliffe, J.R. Crauford, Arthur Curtis, Walter Edmunds, Gladys Granger, John W. Lawrence, Marie Linden, Leila Repton, Walter Sauter, Ivan F. Simpson, Violet Vorley, E.S. Willard. Produced by Edward Smith Willard Repertory.
- (1907) Stage Play: The Evangelist. Written by Henry Arthur Jones. Knickerbocker Theatre: 30 Sep 1907- Oct 1907 (closing date unknnown/19 performances). Cast: Edgar Baume, Charles W. Butler, W.J. Constantine, W.H. Crompton, Maggie Holloway Fischer, Charles Fulton, Nina Herbert, Howard Kyle, Mrs. Felix Morris, Frederick Powell, Cecil Rose, Ivan F. Simpson, Edith Taliaferro, Conway Tearle, Dorothy Thomas, Fred Thorne. Produced by Klaw & Erlanger.
- (1909) Stage Play: Arsene Lupin. Written by Maurice Le Blanc and Francis De Croisset. Lyceum Theatre (moved to The Hudson Theatre from 13 Dec 1909- close): 26 Aug 1909- Jan 1910 (closing date unknown/144 performances). Cast: Anthony Burger, J. Palmer Collins, William Courtenay, J. Crosney Davidson, J. Davis, Harry Dodd, Louis Egan, Arthur Elliott, May Galyer, Ida Greeley-Smith, Virginia Hammond, Charles Harbury, Sidney Herbert, Doris Keane, Lawrence Knapp, Guy Nichols, Hollister Pratt, Alice Putnam, Joseph Robinson, Ivan F. Simpson, Beverly Sitgreaves, Maurice Sloan, Grace Walsh. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1910) Stage Play: Love Among the Lions. Written by Winchell Smith. Directed by Winchell Smith. Garrick Theatre: 8 Aug 1910- Sep 1910 (closing date unknown/48 performances). Cast: George T. Barber, May Blayney, Elsie Clarens, Ernest Cossart, Clarence Handyside, A.E. Matthews, John Miltern, Jane Oaker, Ivan F. Simpson, Ernest Stallard, Richard Sterling, Amy Sumers. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1910) Stage Play: The Speckled Band. Written by Arthur Conan Doyle. Garrick Theatre: 21 Nov 1910- Dec 1910 (closing date unknown/32 performances). Cast: Katherine Brook, W. Coats Bush, Cyril Chadwick, Ivo Dawson, Irene Fenwick, Ben Field, John Findlay, Alexander F. Frank, C. Later, H.H. McCollum, Kenneth Meinken, Charles Millward (as "Sherlock Holmes"), Frank Shannon, Ivan F. Simpson, Walter Soderling, Edwin Stevens, John M. Troughton. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1911) Stage Play: Becky Sharp. Comedy (revival). Written by Langdon Mitchell. Based on "Vanity Fair" by William Makepeace Thackeray.Lyceum Theatre: 20 Mar 1911- Apr 1911 (closing date unknown/16 performances). Cast: Thomas Clifton, Henry E. Dixey (as "The Marquis of Steyne"), Robert V. Ferguson (as "Sir Pitt Crawley"), Mrs. Fiske (as "Becky Sharp"), William Gordon, Ralph Harlow, Herbert Holt, Lewis Howard, Gregory Kelly, Reginald Mason, Henry Mathewson, George McLeod, Owen Meech, Harold Russell, Paul Scardon, Ivan F. Simpson, Henry Stephenson (as "Rawdon Crawley"). Note: Filmed by Pioneer Pictures Corporation [distributed by RKO Radio Pictures] as Becky Sharp (1935).
- (1911) Stage Play: A Single Man. Comedy.
- (1912) Stage Play: Hawthorne of the U.S.A. Written by James B. Fagan. Astor Theatre: 4 Nov 1912- Jan 1913 (closing date unknown/72 performances). Cast: Martin L. Alsop (as "Prince Vladimir"), Douglas Fairbanks (as "Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne"), Irene Fenwick (as "Princess Irma Augusta Elizabeth Overitch"), Ruth Allen, Eric Blind, Sam Hardy, Rapley Holmes, Wallie Howe [credited as Walter Howe], Walter Leonard Howe, Annie Hughes, Louis Le Bey, W. Mayne Lynton, Allan Pollock, Frederick Powell, Legai Robinson, Ivan F. Simpson, Henry Stephenson. Produced by Cohan & Harris. Note: Filmed by Paramount Pictures as _Hawthorne of the U.S.A._(1919) as a Wallace Reid vehicle.
- (1913) Stage Play: Nan. Written by John Masefield. Hudson Theatre: 13 Jan 1913 (1 performance). Cast: A.E. Anson, Mary Barton, Constance Collier, William Fazan, Walter Leonard Howe, Mary Murillo, Alice O'Dea, Sidney Porter, Frederick Powell, Ivan F. Simpson, Henry Stephenson, Hugh Trebay, Silvia Zan. Produced by Stage Society of New York.
- (1913) Stage Play: Shadowed. Written by Dion Clayton Calthrop and Cosmo Gordon Lennox. Fulton Theatre: 24 Sep 1913- Sep 1913 (closing date unknown/6 performances). Cast: William Conklin, Charles Francis, V.L. Granville, Eva MacDonald, Olive May, Kate Mayhew, Wilson Melrose, Frank Monroe, Emmett Shackelford, Ivan F. Simpson, Henry Warwick. Produced by James Forbes.
- (1913) Stage Play: Miss Phoenix.
- (1915) Stage Play: Inside the Lines. Written by Earl Derr Biggers. Longacre Theatre: 9 Feb 1915- May 1915 (closing date unknown/103 performances). Cast: James Bradbury, H. Cooper Cliffe, Camilla Crume, Robert Fisher, Isabel Goodwin, Macy Harlam, William Keighley, Mayne Lynton, Carroll McComas, Robert McWade, Mildred Morris, Horace Pollock, Edward See, Ivan F. Simpson, Lewis Stone, Anne Sutherland. Produced by J. Fred Zimmerman Jr. and William H. Harris Jr. Note: Filmed by Delcah Photoplays Inc./Pyramid Film Corporation [distributed by World Film] as Inside the Lines (1918), and by Radio Pictures [later known as RKO] as Inside the Lines (1930).
- (1916) Stage Play: A Woman of No Importance (Revival). Written by Oscar Wilde. Fulton Theatre: 24 Apr 1916- Jun 1916 (closing date unknown/56 performances). Cast: Margaret Anglin, Holbrook Blinn, Carolyn Darling, Annie Hughes, Ralph Kemmett, George Le Guere, Alice Lindahl, Max Montesole, Ottola Nesmith [final Broadway role], Lionel Pape, Fanny Addison Pitt, Ivan F. Simpson, Marguerite St. John, Richard Temple, George Thorne. Produced by The Estate of Henry B. Harris and Margaret Anglin.
- (1920) Stage Play: The Charm School. Comedy. Written by Alice Duer Miller and Robert Milton. Bijou Theatre: 1 Aug 1920- Oct 1920 (closing date unknown/88 performances). Cast: Carolyn Arnold (as "Ethel Splevin"), Marie Carroll (as "Elise Benedotti"), Margaret Dale (as "Miss Hays"), Blythe Daly (as "Sally Boyd"), Minnie Dupree (as "Miss Curtis"), Morgan Farley (as "Tim Simpkins"), James Gleason, Sam Hardy, Rapley Holmes (as "Homer Johns"), Theodora Larocque (as "Alix Mercier"), Camilla Lyon (as "Charlotte Gray"), Nell Martin (as "Jim Simpkins"), Florence McGuire (as "Muriel Doughty"), Constance McLaughlin (as "Dotsie"), Frances McLaughlin (as "Lillian Stafford"), Mary Mead (as "Madge Kent"), Ivan F. Simpson (as "David MacKenzie"). Produced by Robert Milton.
- (1920) Stage Play: Rollo's Wild Oat. Comedy. Written by Clare Kummer. Directed by W.L. Gilmore. Punch and Judy Theatre: 23 Nov 1920- Jun 1921 (closing date unknown/228 performances). Cast: Manuel A. Alexander, J. Palmer Collins, Elinor Cox, Dore Davidson, Stanley Howlett, J.M. Kerrigan (as "Horatio Webster"), Marjorie Kummer, Grace Peters, Lotus Robb, Ivan F. Simpson, Edythe Tressider, Roland Young (as "Rollo Webster").
- (1921) Stage Play: The Green Goddess. Melodrama. Written by William Archer. Directed by Winthrop Ames. Booth Theatre: 18 Jan 1921- Jun 1921 (closing date unknown/175 performances). Cast: George Arliss (as "The Raja of Rukh"), Ronald Colman (as "The Temple Priest") [Broadway debut], Cyril Keightley (as "Dr. Basil Traherne"), David A. Leonard (as "The High Priest"), Helen Nowell (as "An Ayah") [only Broadway role], Herbert Ransome (as "Lieut. Denis Cardew"), Ivan F. Simpson (as "Watkins"), Herbert Waring (as "Major Antony Crespin"), Olive Wyndham (as "Lucilla"). Produced by Winthrop Ames. Note: Filmed by Distinctive Productions [distributed by Goldwyn-Cosmopolitan Distributing Corporation] as The Green Goddess (1923), by Warner Bros/Vitaphone Corp. as The Green Goddess (1930), by RKO Vaudeville Circuit [distributed by RKO Radio Pictures] as The Green Goddess (1939) [short subject, directed by Orson Welles], and by Warner Bros. as Adventure in Iraq (1943).
- (1924) Stage Play: The Way Things Happen. Drama. Written by Clemence Dane. Directed by Guthrie McClintic. Lyceum Theatre: 28 Jan 1924- Feb 1924 (closing date unknown/24 performances). Cast: Lillian Brennard (as "Mrs. Hanbury"), Katharine Cornell (as "Shirley Pride"), Augusta Haviland (as "Harness"), Tom Nesbitt (as "Martin Farren"), Thomas Wigney Percyval (as "Dr. Rodson"), Helen Robbins (as "Muriel Hanbury"), Reginald Sheffield (as "Chussie Hare"), Ivan F. Simpson (as "Bennett Lomax"), Orlando Smith (as "A Porter"), Zeffie Tilbury (as "Mrs. Farren"). Produced by Guthrie McClintic.
- (1924) Stage Play: Old English. Written by John Galsworthy. Directed by Edward L. Swete. Ritz Theatre: 23 Dec 1924- Jun 1925 (closing date unknown/183 performances). Cast: George Arliss (as "Sylvanus Heythorp, Chairman of "The Island Navigation Company"), Norman Cannon (as "Mr. Brownbee, a Credito of old Heythorp"), Horace Cooper (as "Mr. Westgate, Shareholder of the Company"), Stafford Dickens (as "Charles Ventnor, a Solicitor"), Cecile Dixon (as "Phyllis, Larne's Child"), Thomas Donnelly (as "Mr. Appleby, Shareholder of the Company"), Frederick Earle (as "Gilbert Farney, Secretary of the same"), Edmund George (as "Clerk, of "The Island Navigation Company"), Henrietta Goodwin (as "Letty, the Larne's Maid-of-all-work"), Ethel Griffies (as "Adela Heythorp, Daughter of old Heythorp"), Langford Hayes (as "A Director"), James Hughes (as "Mr. Batterson, Shareholder of the Company"), Mollie Johnson (as "Molly, his Daughter's House-maid"), Irby Marshall (as "Rosamund Larne. a connection of Old Heythorp"), Henry Morrell (as "Meller, old Heythorp's Body-servant"), Ivan F. Simpson (as "Joseph Pillin, Senior Partner of Pillin & Son"), Murray Stephens (as "Mr. Winkley, Shareholder of the Company"), Arthur Villars (as "Mr. Budgeon, Shareholder of the Company"), Deering Wells (as "Bob Pillin, of Pillan & Son, shipowners"), Victor Weston (as "Clerk, of "The Island Navigation Company"), George Wolcott (as "Jock, Larne's Child"), Eustace Wyatt (as "Clergyman, another Creditor"). Produced by Winthrop Ames and Lyall Swete [credited as Edward L. Swete].
- (1927) Stage Play: Julius Caesar. Tragedy (revival).
- (1927) Stage Play: The Garden of Eden. Comedy.
- (1928) Stage Play: The Command Performance. Comedy. Written by Stafford Dickens. Directed by Clifford Brooke. Klaw Theatre: 3 Oct 1928- Oct 1928 (closing date unknown/29 performances). Cast: Lee Baker (as "Count Vellenburg"), William H. Barwald (as "Hildred Sabidoff"), Robert Clear (as "Blondel"), Hubert Druce (as "Nicholas, King of Wallachia"), Charlotte Granville (as "Elizabeth, Queen of Wallachia"), George Haight (as "Servant"), Rose Keane (as "Lydia Petrovic"), Ian Keith (as "Peter Kraditch/Alexis, Prince of Moldavia"), Jessie Royce Landis (as "Katerina, Princess of Wallachia"), Zvee Scooler (as "Ansche Milosovic"), Ivan F. Simpson (as "Paul Masoch"), Walter Soderling (as "Hugo"), Beatrice Terry (as Elinor, Queen of Wallachia"), Maria Ziccardi (as "Yana Lodoffski"). Produced by Herman Shumlin. Note: Filmed as Command Performance (1931).
- (1928) Stage Play: The Perfect Alibi. Comedy. Written by A.A. Milne. Assistant Director: William Keighley. Directed by Charles Hopkins. Charles Hopkins Theatre: 27 Nov 1928- Jul 1929 (closing date unknown/255 performances). Cast: Harry Beresford, H. Langdon Bruce, Alan Bunce, Leo G. Carroll, Carson Davenport, Catherine Doucet, Richie Ling, Mary Newham-Davis, Ivan F. Simpson, Ernest Stallard [final Broadway role], Vivian Tobin. Produced by Charles Hopkins and William Keighley.
- (1930) Stage Play. A Kiss of Importance. Comedy. Written by Arthur Hornblow Jr.. From the French of André Picard and H.M. Harwood. Directed by Lionel Atwill. Fulton Theatre: 1 Dec 1930- Dec 1930 (closing date unknown/24 performances). Cast: Ann Andrews (as "Isabelle de Corquefon"), Johnnie Brewer (as "Fred"), Alice Burrage (as "Mlle. Thomas"), Frank Henderson (as "Comte de Cerisay"), Marjorie Hollis (as "Albertine"), Frederick Kerr (as "Octave de Corquefon"), Montagu Love (as "Gilbert Laurent Courcel"), Basil Rathbone (as "Christian Saint Obin"), Ivan F. Simpson (as "Arthur Dupin"), George Wright Jr. (as "Gardener"). Produced by Archibald Selwyn. Produced in association with Erlanger Productions, Inc.
- (1940) Stage Play: The Male Animal. Comedy.
- (1944) Stage Play: Bright Boy. Comedy.
- (1944) Stage Play: Sleep My Pretty One. Written by Charlie Garrett and Oliver H.P. Garrett [final Broadway credit]. Playhouse Theatre: 2 Nov 1944- 11 Nov 1944 (12 performances). Cast: Norma Chambers (as "Kathryn (Kitty) Sturdevant"), Theresa Dale (as "Emily Groat"), J. Colvin Dunn (as "Edward"), Harry Ellerbe (as "Donald Sturdevant"), Don Gibson (as "Lt. ("Hank") Williams"), Pauline Lord (as "Mrs. Alicia Sturdevant") [final Broadway role], Audrey Ridgewell (as "Eleanor Coates"), Ivan F. Simpson (as "Dr. Ogden Pomfret"), Julie Stevens (as "Winifred Agate"). Produced by Richard W. Krakauer. Produced in association with Roger Clark.
- (1947) Stage Play: Antony and Cleopatra. Tragedy.
- (1948) Stage Play: Make Way for Lucia. Comedy. Written by John Van Druten. Based on the novel by E.F. Benson. Scenic Design and Costume Design by Lucinda Ballard. Cort Theatre: 22 Dec 1948- 15 Jan 1949 (29 performances). Cast: Essex Dane (as "Mrs. Wyse"), Cherry Hardy (as "Grosvenor"), Isabel Jeans (as "Mrs. Emmeline Lucas/Lucia"), Kurt Kasznar (as "Signor Cortese"), Doreen Lang (as "Mrs. Bartlett"), Cyril Ritchard (as "Georgie Pillson"), Viola Roache (as "Godiva Plaistow"), Ivan F. Simpson (as "Mr. Wyse"), Guy Spaull (as "Rev. Kenneth Bartlett"), Philip Tonge (as "Maj. Benjamin Flint"), Catherine Willard. Produced by The Theatre Guild, Lawrence Langner, Theresa Helburn and Armina Marshall.
- (1949) Stage Play: Caesar and Cleopatra. Comedy (revival). Written by George Bernard Shaw. Directed by Cedric Hardwicke. National Theatre: 21 Dec 1949- 29 Apr 1950 (151 performances). Cast included: Cedric Hardwicke (as "Julius Caesar"), Lilli Palmer, Nicholas Joy (as "Ponthinus"), Ivan F. Simpson (as "Theodotus") [final Broadway role], Arthur Treacher, Ernest Butler, Jules Getlin, Ronald Telfer, John Ware. Produced by Richard Aldrich and Richard Meyers. Produced in association with Julius Fleischmann.
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