- (1933 - 1948) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1933) Stage Play: The Curtain Rises. Comedy.
- (1933) Stage Play: The World Waits. Drama.
- (1934) Stage Play: Too Much Party. Comedy/farce. Written by Hiram Sherman [earliest Broadway credit]. Directed by William B. Friedlander. Theatre Masque: 5 Mar 1934- Mar 1934 (closing date unknown/8 performances). Cast: George Alison (as "Judge Everett"), Mady Correll (as "Falba Twentyman"), Claire Grenville (as "Edith Barstow"), Warda Howard (as "Hagar"), Reed McClelland (as "Kenneth"), Janet McLeay (as "Judy"), Maude Richmond (as "Kenneth"), Viola Swayne Agnes"), Philip Truex (as "Brian Smith"), Pierre Watkin (as "Daniel"). Produced by Metropolitan Players.
- (1939) Stage Play: Family Portrait. Drama. Written by Lenore J. Coffee and William J. Cowen. Incidental music by Lehman Engel. Scenic Design by Harry Horner. Costume Design by Harry Horner. Directed by Margaret Webster. Morosco Theatre: 8 Mar 1939- Jun 1939 (closing date unknown/111 performances). Cast: Judith Anderson (as "Mary"), Lois Austin (as "Reba"), Neal Berry (as "Joshua"), Virginia Campbell (as "Naomi"), Ruth Chorpenning (as "Anna"), Philip Coolidge (as "James"), Leonard Elliott (as "Disciple"), Tom Ewell (as "Simon"), William Foran (as "Mordecai"), Kathryn Grill (as "Selima"), Eula Guy (as "Hepziba"), Ronald Hammond (as "Nathan"), James Harker (as "Juda"), Lois Jameson (as "Woman of Jerusalem"), Max Leavitt (as "Shepherd"), Will Lee (as "Mendel"), Josephine McKim (as "Esther"), Bram Nossen (as "Rabbi Samuel"), Ronald Reiss (as "Daniel"), Hugh Rennie (as "Mathias"), Guy Spaull (as "Appius Hadrian/Leban of Damascus"), Norman Stuart (as "Joseph"), Philip Truex (as "Eben/Daniel, at age 16"), Evelyn Varden (as "Mary Cleophas"), Margaret Webster (as "Mary of Magdala "). Produced by Cheryl Crawford. Produced in association with Day Tuttle and Richard Skinner.
- (1938) Stage Play: The Fabulous Invalid. Written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman. Scenic Design by Donald Oenslager. Directed by George S. Kaufman. Broadhurst Theatre: 8 Oct 1938- 3 Dec 1938 (65 performances). Cast: Iris Adrian (as "Daisy LaHiff"), Albert Amato, Jack Arnold, Bobbe Arnst, Donald Baker, Walter Beck (as "The Valet"), Douglas Beddingfield, Louise Blackburn, William E. Blake, Virginia Burke, Eileen Burns, Ruth Clayton, Ethel Colby, Gladys Conrad, Clancy Cooper (as "A Comedian"), Stephen Courtleigh, Alec Courtney, Doris Dalton, William Dorbin, Katherine Duncan, Marian Edwards, Edward Elliott, Elsa Ersi, Edward Fisher, Richard Gordon, Brant Gorman, Sydney Grant, Alan Handley, Joy Hathaway, Percy Helton (as "Saunders"), Ferdi Hoffman, Louis Howard, Doris Jenkins, Roy Johnson, Gerry Jones, Janice Joyce, Curtis Karpe (as "Solinsky"), Charles King (as "Sheridan"), Ernest Lawford, David Leonard, George Lloyd, Richard Lloyd, John Lorenz, James MacDonald, Norman MacKay, Vera Fuller Mellish (as "The Maid"), John Moore, Mona Moray, Meg Mundy, Eddie Nelson, Jack Norworth, Barna Ostertag, Melvin Parks, Paul Payne, Robert Regent, Amy Revere, Robert Rhodes, Bonnie Roberts, Dora Sayers (as "Ethel Barrymore" and "Eva Le Galilienne"), Sydna Scott, Ada Sinclair, Sid Stone, Peggy Strickland, Ruth Strome, Jerome Thor, Milano Tilden, Philip Truex (as "A Boy"), Grace Valentine (as "Annie"), Jay Velie, Beth Waller, Dorothy Waller, Solly Ward, Jeanne Wardley. Produced by Sam Harris.
- (1937) Stage Play: King Richard II. Historical drama. Written by William Shakespeare (I)'. Incidental music by Herbert Menges and Rupert Graves. Costume Design by David Ffolkes. Directed by Margaret Webster and Charles Alan. St. James Theatre: 5 Feb 1937- Jun 1937 (closing date unknown/133 performances). Cast: Robert K. Adams (as "Green, Favorite of King Richard/Servant to Exton"), Neal Berry (as "Ensemble"), Stephen Courtleigh (as "Lord Willoughby"), Charles Dalton (as "Earl of Northumberland"), Samuel Danzig (as "Ensemble"), Olive Deering (as "Queen to King Richard"), Augustin Duncan (as "John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, Uncle to the King"), Randolph Edhols (as "Henry Percy, Surnamed Hotspur, son to Northumberland Maurice Evans (as "King Richard the Second"), Reynolds Evans (as "Lord Marshal/Bishop of Carlisle"), John Halloran (as "Bushy, Favorite of King Richard"), Lionel Hogarth (as "Duke of York, Uncle to the King"), William Howell (as "Ensemble"), Lionel Ince (as "Earl of Salisbury/Keeper of the Prison"), Betty Jenckes (as "Lady attending on the Queen"), Whitford Kane (as "Gardener"), Ian Keith (as "Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Hereford, afterwards Henry IV"), Julia Lathrop (as "Lady attending on the Queen"), Lawrence Murray (as "First Herald/Duke of Surrey"), Bram Nossen (as "Lord Ross"), Sherling Oliver (as "Duke of Aumerle, Son to the Duke of York"), Alfred Paschall (as "Ensemble"), William Post (as "Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk"), Donald Randolph (as "Sir Stephen Scroop/Sir Pierce of Exton"), Everett Ripley (as "Bagot, Favorite of King Richard"), Irene Tedrow (as "Duchess of Gloucester"), Philip Truex (as "Second Gardener/Ensemble"), Rhys Williams (as "Second Herald/Captain of a band of Welshmen/Groom of the King's Stable"), Walter Williams (as "Ensemble"). Produced by Eddie Dowling and Robinson Smith.
- (1942) Stage Play: This Is the Army. Musical revue. Music by Irving Berlin. Book by James McColl and Irving Berlin. Lyrics by Irving Berlin. Musical Director: Milton Rosenstock. Dialogue for Minstrel Show by Pvt. Jack Mendelsohn, Pfc. Richard Burdick and Pvt. Tom McDonnell. Music arrangements for dances by Pvt. Melvin Pahl. Scenic Design and Costume Design by Pvt. John Koenig. Choreographed by Cpl. Nelson Barclift and Sgt. Robert Sidney. Additional direction by Joshua Logan. Military Formations by Chester O'Brien. Directed by Sgt. Ezra Stone. Broadway Theatre: 4 Jul 1942- 26 Sep 1942 (113 performances). Cast: Pvt. Juss Addiss, Alan Anderson, Arthur Atkins, Pvt. Leonard Berchman, Eugene Leander Berg, Sgt. Irving Berlin, Dick Bernie, Pvt. Howard Brooks, Marion Brown, Peter J. Burns, Joe Bush, Pvt. Samuel Carr, Pvt. Stewart Churchill, Joe Cook Jr., Pvt. Belmonte Cristiani, Cpl. James A. Cross, Pvt. Louis de Milhau, Ross Elliott, Derek Fairman, Pvt. Ray Goss, Dan Healy, Hank Henry, William Home, Richard Irving, Burl Ives, Fred Kelly, Harold J. Kennedy, Pvt. Robert Kinne, Alan Manson, Pvt. Ralph Margelssen, James McColl, Sgt. John Mendes, Pvt. Gary Merrill, Pvt. Pinkie Mitchell, Robert Moore, John Murphy, Peter O'Neill, Pvt. Jules Oshins, Earl Oxford, Tileston Perry, Pvt. William Pillich, Richard Reeves, Jack Riano, William Roerick, Hayden Rorke, Pfc. Anthony Ross, Louis Salmon, Robert Shanley, Sgt. Robert Sidney, Sgt. Arthur Steiner, Sgt. Ezra Stone, The Allon Trio, Philip Truex, Norman Van Emburgh, Pvt. Claude Watson, Pvt. Larry Weeks, Pvt. William Wykoff. Produced by Uncle Sam (U.S. Government). Produced on film as This Is the Army (1943).
- (1946) Stage Play: The Magnificent Yankee.
- (1947) Stage Play: Finian's Rainbow. Musical. Based on material by E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy. Choreographed by Michael Kidd. Directed by Bretaigne Windust. 46th Street Theatre: 10 Jan 1947- 2 Oct 1947 (725 performances). Cast: Lucas Aco, Anita Alvarez, Arlene Anderson, Bette Anderson, Robert Billheimer, Eddie Bruce, Robert Eric Carlson, Ralph Waldo Cummings, Royal Dano, Kenneth Davis, Harry Day, Charles Dayton, Nathaniel Dickerson, Jane Earle, Michael Ellis, Lorenzo Fuller, Cyprionne Gabel, Alan Gilbert, William Greaves, Eleanore Gregory, Erona Harris, Theodore Hines, Ann Hutchinson, Mimi Kelly, Jerry Laws, Ella Logan, The Lyn Murray Singers, Eve Lynn, Norma Jane Marlowe, Dolores Martin, Tom McElhany, Vera McNichols, Ann Mitten, Frank Neal, Roger Orhadieno, Eddie Phillips, Robert Pitkin, Donald Richards, Elayne Richards, James Flash Riley, Louis Sharp, Albert Sharpe, Maude Simmons, Roland Skinner, Augustus Smith Jr., Kathleen Stanford, Helen Stanton, Arthur Tell, Sonny Terry, Dorothy Tucker, Margaret Tynes, Edythe Udane, David Wayne, Gene Wilson, Eleanor Winter, Diane Woods. Produced by Lee Sabinson and William R. Katzell. Understudy: Philip Truex (as "Og") [replacement]. Note: Filmed by Warner Bros. as Finian's Rainbow (1968).
- (November 1963) Book: "The City Gardener" New York; Alfred Knopf - dedicated to his second wife Eve with whom he managed a garden shop in New York City after giving up his career as an actor.
- (July 1947) Philip Truex was engaged to perform the part of the leprechaun Og in the New York production of Finian's Rainbow. This was to be the biggest part he had played in his acting career.
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