# TV/movie actors you've seen live on stage. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 9, 2012, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-movie-actors-youve-seen-live-on-stage/621347 "2012-05-09T01:49:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2012, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-movie-actors-youve-seen-live-on-stage/621347/61 "2012-05-11T00:47:28Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > …Brent Spiner and Pat Hingle in 1776… Oh, cool. Tell us more! ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-movie-actors-youve-seen-live-on-stage/621347/62 "2012-05-11T01:45:51Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > **Patrick Stewart** and **Joshua Jackson** in _A Life in the Theatre_. Caught that same run! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2012, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-movie-actors-youve-seen-live-on-stage/621347/63 "2012-05-11T03:14:05Z")
A few years back, I saw a Broadway revival of \*\*\*Glengarry Glen Ross \*\*\*that featured the following TV stars: Alan (_ **MASH** _) Alda Jeffrey (Hank, on _ **The Larry Sanders Show** _) Tambor Gordon (_ **NYPD Blue** _) Clapp Tom (Luke Duke, on \*\*\*Dukes of Hazzard \*\*\*) Wopat In another Mamet play, _ **A Life in the Theater,** _ I saw Patrick (\*\*\*Star Trek: \*\*\*_ **The Next Generation** _) and TR (_ **Grey’s Anatomy** _) Knight. Who else… well, over the years, I’ve seen: Michael (Law & Order) Moriarty in _ **The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial** _ Anthony (_ **Psycho** _) Perkins in Equus. Christopher Plummer, James Earl Jones and Diane Wiest in _ **Othello.** _ Matthew Broderick in _ **Master Harold & the Boys.** _ Geraldine Page & Amanda Plummer in _ **Agnes of God.** _ Hugh Jackman, doing a one-man song and dance show. Barbara (Mrs Barney Miller) Barrie in _ **California Suite** _ Robert Preston in _ **Sly Fox.** _ Ron Silver, Candice Bergen, Judith Ivey and Jerry Stiller in \*\*\*Hurlyburly \*\*\* Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn (then, later, E.G. Marshal and Maureen Stapleton) in _ **The Gin Game** _ Frank Langella in _ **Dracula** _ and _ **Amadeus** _ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2012, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-movie-actors-youve-seen-live-on-stage/621347/64 "2012-05-11T03:23:51Z")
One more… Jeremy Irons in \*\*\*The Real Thing \*\*\*(Glenn Close was out sick, so I only saw her understudy). ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2012, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-movie-actors-youve-seen-live-on-stage/621347/65 "2012-05-11T03:31:02Z")
Still another… I didn’t see the famous 80s Broadway revival of _ **Pirates of Penzance** _ until late in its run., When I saw it, Gary Sandy (the program director on \*\*\*WKRP in Cincinnati \*\*\*) was the Pirate King. ---
**Author:** ![SuperNelson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@SuperNelson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNelson)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2012, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-movie-actors-youve-seen-live-on-stage/621347/66 "2012-05-11T03:59:22Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > John Larouquette, Angela Lansbury, Candace Bergen and Eric McCormick. > > And that’s only counting this month. The Best Man - saw it Friday. Loved it. (Plus, James Earl Jones, and Michael McKean) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2012, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-movie-actors-youve-seen-live-on-stage/621347/67 "2012-05-11T04:56:26Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Oh, cool. Tell us more! It was a big broadway revival. 1998 I believe. Gershwin theatre. Great cast, lots of other familiar faces from tv but not stars. Spiner was John Adams and Hingle was Franklin. It’s one of my favorite plays and Spiner did a great job. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2012, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-movie-actors-youve-seen-live-on-stage/621347/68 "2012-05-11T14:02:35Z")
oops, no… > [@JRDelirious](#): > > Caught that same run! …The one I caught was Stewart and **T.R. Knight** ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2012, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-movie-actors-youve-seen-live-on-stage/621347/69 "2012-05-13T01:06:21Z")
Kevin Spacey in Richard 111 at the Old Vic, not recommended. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2012, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-movie-actors-youve-seen-live-on-stage/621347/70 "2012-05-13T02:17:50Z")
Just saw Megan Hilty in _Gentlemen Prefer Blondes_ today, and she \*killed \*. I was really impressed. ---
**Author:** ![minionkat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@minionkat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minionkat)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-movie-actors-youve-seen-live-on-stage/621347/71 "2012-05-13T02:51:54Z")
I have tickets to see Christopher Plummer at the Stratford Festival this summer. He is doing an “autobiographical journey through the literature that has stirred his imagination since youth.” I can hardly wait. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2012, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-movie-actors-youve-seen-live-on-stage/621347/72 "2012-05-13T05:46:05Z")
Oh yes, Simon Callow doing a whole slew of characters from Dickens in a one man show, simply brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Halfling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9adbd/32.png) [@Halfling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Halfling)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2012, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-movie-actors-youve-seen-live-on-stage/621347/73 "2012-05-13T07:10:16Z")
I’m lucky enough to live just outside London, so In the last 12 months or so I’ve seen: **Benedict Cumberbatch/ Jonny Lee Miller** In _Frankenstein_. A fabulous production. So fabulous in fact that I saw it 3 times. **Zoe Wanamaker** in _The Cherry Orchard_ **David Tennant** and **Catherine Tate** in _Much Ado About Nothing_ **Rory Kinnear** in _Hamlet_ **Joely Richardson** in _The Lady From the Sea_ **Kristin Scott Thomas** in _Betrayal_ **Peter Capaldi** in _The Ladykillers_ **Billie Piper/Tom Burke** in _Reasons to be Pretty_ ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-movie-actors-youve-seen-live-on-stage/621347/74 "2012-05-14T09:34:01Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > oops, no… > > …The one I caught was Stewart and **T.R. Knight** Joshua Jackson was okay but not particularly stellar. Somewhat ironically given the play, he didn’t seem very comfortable doing stagework following his lengthy run on television. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-movie-actors-youve-seen-live-on-stage/621347/75 "2012-05-14T10:41:47Z")
I have only seen two Broadway plays in my life and seeing a third ranks near the bottom of things I want to do. I saw “Mame” in the late 1960s although I think Angela Lansbury had left by then…Janis Paige sounds familiar. The other one was “Deathtrap” in 1980 when I was given free tickets. That starred John Callum and Marian Seldes. Looking up both in IMDB the supporting cast could have had more famous TV stars. Bea Arthur is listed in “Mame” and Victor Garber for “Deathtrap” but I don’t know if they were in the play when I saw them. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-movie-actors-youve-seen-live-on-stage/621347/76 "2012-05-14T12:33:27Z")
Tons of them. I, too, have seen **William Daniels** and **Howard da Silva** in _1776_. I’ve also probably seen much of the cast from the movie on stage, since many went from the Broadway production to the film. My first Broadway show was _Hello, Doly!_, with **Ginger Rogers** (!) in the lead. I saw _Fiddler on the Roof_ several times. Although when I first saw it, it had Harry Goz in the lead, I eventually saw it on stage with both **Zero Mostel** and **Topol**. I saw **Patrick MacNee** in _Sleuth_. I saw **Lynn Redgrave** in Shaw’s _Saint Joan_ at New York’s Circle in the Square. A then-unknown **Armin Shimerman** was also in the cast. I saw **Yul Brynner** in a revival of _The King and I_ and **Richard Harris** as King Arthur in _Camelot_, but Richard Kiley was sick the day I went to _Man of la Mancha_. I’ve seen **Frank Langella** in _Amadeus_ and **John Wood** in _Sherlock Holmes_. I’ve seen **Imogene Coca** in _On the 20th Century_ and **Fred Gwynne** in Peter Shaeffer’s forgotten mystery/comedy _Whodunit?_ I saw one of the Sesame Street players ( **Norther Calloway** , I think) in the “Leading Player” role initiated by Ben Vereen in _Pippin_. I’ve seen **Nicol Williamson** as Henry VIII in Richard Rogers’ last musical, _Rex_. I saw **Raul Julia** as _Dracula_ – he was the eplacem,ent for Frank Langella. I’ve seen a great many singers and comedians in concert, but not in plays. And no doubt I’ve seen many who were unknowns at the time . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-movie-actors-youve-seen-live-on-stage/621347.md?page=3)