Claude Rains
Notable theatre performances
Rains starred in multiple plays and productions over the course of his career, playing a variety of leading and supporting parts.

Claude Rains

Section Title: Notable theatre performances
Table Section Text: Rains starred in multiple plays and productions over the course of his career, playing a variety of leading and supporting parts.

Year	Play title	Role	Theatre	Notes

1900	Sweet Nell of Old Drury	Child	Haymarket Theatre	Stage debut, aged 10 as an "unbilled child extra "running around a fountain."

1901	Herod	Child	His Majesty's Theatre	Unbilled

1904	Last of the Dandies	Winkles	His Majesty's Theatre	Rains' debut speaking role in the theatre

1911	The Gods of the Mountain	Thahn	Haymarket Theatre	Shared role with Reginald Owen

1913	The Green Cockatoo	Grasset	Aldwych Theatre	Stage Manager as well

1913	Typhoon	Omayi	Haymarket Theatre	First heavy character role

1919	Reparation	Ivan Petrovitch	St. James's Theatre	Stage Manager as well

1919	Uncle Ned	Mears	Lyceum Theatre	This supporting role marked Rains' return to the stage after being wounded in WWI

1920	Julius Caesar	Casca	St. James's Theatre	Ernest Milton played Brutus

1925	The Rivals	Faulkland	Lyric Hammersmith	According to John Gielgud, Rains' second wife Marie Hemingway joined the cast for a brief period, thereby bringing Rains' first 3 wives together in the same dressing room.

1926	The Government Inspector	The Inspector	Gaiety Theatre	Professional debut of his RADA student, Charles Laughton

1926	Made in Heaven	Martin Walmer	Everyman Theatre, London	This was Rains' last appearance on the London Stage.

1951	Darkness at Noon	Rubashov	Alvin Theatre/Royale Theatre	Won Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play

1954	The Confidential Clerk	Sir Claude Mulhammer	Morosco Theatre	Rains' first wife, Isabel Jeans played the role of Lady Elizabeth Mulhammer in the 1953 Edinburgh premiere.

1956	Night of the Auk	Doctor Bruner	Playhouse Theatre	Featuring Christopher Plummer

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In 1925, Claude Rains portrayed Faulkland in The Rivals, at Lyric Theatre.

final_sentence: In 1925, Claude Rains portrayed Faulkland in The Rivals, at Lyric Theatre.