- (1916 - 1966) Active on Broadway. Mr. Stehli enjoyed a lengthy career on stage, appearing on Broadway from 1916-66. His final show closed a day before what would have marked his 50th year appearing there. Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1916) Stage Play: Six Who Pass While the Lentils Boil. Written by Stuart Walker. 39th Street Theatre (moved to The Princess Theatre on 11 Dec 1916 to close): 27 Nov 1916- 6 Jan 1917 (unknown performances). Cast: Dorothea Carothers, Robert Cook, Edmond Crenshaw, John Higgins, Judith Lowry [Broadway debut], Charles McHugh, Lew Medbury, McKay Morris, Agnes Rogers, Edgar Stehli [Broadway debut], Ward Thornton, Gitruda Tristjanski, Willard Webster, Nancy Winston, Florence Wollerson, Frank J. Zimmerer. Produced by Maximilian Elser, Jr., Russell Janney, The Stuart Walker Portmanteau Theatre and Stuart Walker. Note: This production played in repertory with Nevertheless, The Gods of the Mountain, The Trimplet, The Golden Doom, The Lady of the Weeping Willow Tree, The Birthday of the Infanta, Voices, Gammer Gurton's Needle, King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior, The Crier by Night, The Very Naked Boy, The Lady of the Weeping Willow Tree.
- (1918) Stage Play: Jonathan Makes a Wish. Written by Stuart Walker. Princess Theatre: 10 Sep 1918- Sep 1918 (closing date unknown/23 performances). Cast: Ainsworth Arnold', Elizabeth Black, George Gaul, Joseph Graham, Gregory Kelly, Beatrice Maude, Margaret Mower, Elizabeth Patterson, Edgar Stehli, John Talbott. Produced by Stuart Walker.
- (1919) Stage Play: A Night in Avignon. Music by Herbert E. Hyde. Written by Cale Young Rice. Punch and Judy Theatre: 15 Jan 1919- 22 Mar 1919 (unknown performances). Cast: Elizabeth Black, Aldrich Bowker, Leon Cunningham, Lael Davis, Morgan Farley, Richard Farrell [Broadway debut], George Gaul, Joseph Graham, Beatrice Maude, Donald McClelland, McKay Morris, Margaret Mower, Elizabeth Patterson, George Somnes, Edgar Stehli, Harold Winston. Produced by The Walker Portmanteau Season.
- (1920) Stage Play: The Treasure. Comedy. Written by David Pinski. Directed by Emanuel Reicher. Garrick Theatre: 4 Oct 1920- Nov 1920 (closing date unknown/40 performances). Cast: Celia Adler (as "Tille"), Florence Curran (as "The Young Woman's Little Daughter"), Dudley Digges (as "Chone"), Fred Eric (as "Judke"), Anthony Jochim (as "Member of Society For the Care of the Sick"), S. Karrakis (as "Member of Society For the Care of the Sick"), Edwin Knopf (as "A Lawyer"), Edith Leighton (as "Another Woman"), Rolla Lyons (as "An Old Woman"), Mary McAndrews (as "A Young Woman"), Saul Michaels (as "A Young Man"), Jennie Moscowitz (as "Jachne-Braine"), William Rochschid (as "Member of the Society for Prividing Dowries for Poor Maidens"), Erskine Sanford (as "The President of the Community"), Edgar Stehli (as "The Marriage Broker"), Lian Stephana (as "An Hysterical Woman"), Valerie Stevens (as "A Girl"), Adelina Thomason (as "A Woman"), Henry Travers (as "Soskin"), Jacob Weiser (as "Member of the Society For Providing Dowries for Poor Maidens"), William Wothington (as "Another Man"). Produced by The Theatre Guild.
- (1921) Stage Play: John Hawthorne. Tragedy. Written by David Liebovits. Directed by Philip Moeller. Garrick Theatre: 24 Jan 1921- Jan 1921 (closing date unknown/5 performances). Cast: Robert Babcock (as "Joe Phoenix"), William Franklin (as "1st Acrobat"), George Frenger (as "George"), Franklyn Hana (as "Judge Harlan"), Edgar Kent (as "Phil Boyerson"), Warren W. Krech (as "John Hawthorne"), Eugene Ordway (as "Henry Smart"), Camille Pastorfield (as "A Girl"), Sara Pierrin (as "Another Girl"), Muriel Starr (as "Laura Smart"), Edgar Stehli (as "Ace Rogers"), Lian Stephana (as "Helen Macey"), Jacob Weiser, Philip Wood (as "Jim Farrell"), Bert Young. Produced by The Theatre Guild.
- (1921) Stage Play: Liliom. Written by Ferenc Molnár. Music arranged by Deems Taylor. Scenic Design and Costume Design by Lee Simonson. Directed by Frank Reicher. Garrick Theatre: 20 Apr 1921- Jun 1921 (closing date unknown/65 performances). Cast: Hortense Alden (as "Marie"), Lela May Aultman, Robert Babcock, Willard Bowman, Walton Butterfield, Evelyn Chard, Lawrence Chrow, Howard Claney (as "Policeman"), John Crump, Anne de Chantal, Frances Diamond, Dudley Digges (as "The Sparrow"), Katherine Fahnestock, George Frenger, Ruth L. Gumming, Lilian Kingsbury, Eva Le Gallienne (as "Julie"), Margaret Mosier, Elizabeth Parker, Albert Perry, Erskine Sanford (as "Captain/First Policeman of the Beyond"), Joseph Schildkraut (as "Liliom"), Janet Scott, Maurice Sommers, Edgar Stehli (as "First Mounted Policeman/The Richly Dressed Man"), Gerald Stopp, Henry Travers (as "Wolf Berkowitz"), Lillian Tuchman, Jacob Weiser, Helen Westley (as "Mrs. Muskat"), Marion M. Winsten, Philip Wood. Produced by The Theatre Guild.
- (1922) Stage Play: He Who Gets Slapped. Tragedy. Adaption by Gregory Zillboorg from the book by Leonid Andreyev. Directed by Robert Milton. Garrick Theatre: 9 Jan 1922- Jun 1922 (closing date unknown/182 performances). Cast: Martha-Bryan Allen, Luigi Belastro, Richard Bennett, John Blair, Louis Calvert, Charles Cheltenham, Joan Clement (as "A Snake Charmer"), Richard Coolidge, Ernest Cossart (as "Briquet"), Sara Enright, Margalo Gillmore (as "Consuelo"), Oliver Grymes, Kenneth Lawton, Philip Leigh, Philip Loeb, Frank Reicher (as "Mancini"), John Rutherford, Frances Ryan, Francis G. Sadtler, Helen Sheridan, Adele St. Maur, Edgar Stehli (as "Polly"), Sears Taylor, Vera Tompkins, Anne Tonerri, Henry Travers (as "Jackson"), Dante Voltaire, Marguerite Wernimont, Helen Westley (as "Zinida"), Renée Wilde, Kathryn Wilson (as "Wardrobe Lady"), Edwin R. Wolfe. Produced by The Theatre Guild. Note: Significant as the first work purchased for newly formed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced as a Lon Chaney vehicle. It became a huge hit.
- (1922) Stage Play: From Morn to Midnight. Comedy/tragedy. Written by Georg Kaiser. Translated by Ashley Dukes. Directed by Frank Reicher. Garrick Theatre: 14 May 1922- closing date unknown (24 performances). Cast: Lela May Aultman (as "The Cashier's Daughter"), Samuel Baron (as "Fourth Gentleman"), Clelia Benjamin (as "First Mask"), Walton Butterfield (as "First Gentleman"), Charles Cheltenham (as "Porter"), Joan Clement (as "Fourth Mask"), Julia Cobb (as "The Cashier's Daughter"), Ernest Cossart (as "Stout Gentleman/Third Penitent"), William Crowell (as "Fifth Gentleman/First Soldier of Salvation Army"), Charles Ellis (as "Third Gentleman/First Penitent"), Caroline Hancock (as "Third Mask"), Stanley Howlett (as "Policeman"), Allyn Joslyn [credited as Allyn Morgan Joslyn] (as "Muffled Gentleman/Second Guest"), Ernita Lascelles (as "The Cashier's Wife/Officer of Salvation Army"), Philip Leigh (as "Second Gentleman/First Soldier of Salvation Army"), Camille Pastorfield (as "Second Soldier of Salvation Army"), Frank Reicher (as "Cashier"), Sam Rosen (as "Third Guest"), Sam Rosen (as "Third Guest"), Frances Ryan (as "Second Mask"), Francis Sadtler (as "Messenger Boy"), Helen Sheridan (as "Salvation Lass"), Adele St. Maur (as "Serving Maid"), Edgar Stehli (as "The Lady's Son/Waiter"), Sears Taylor (as "Clerk/First Guest"), Henry Travers (as "Bank Manager/Third Soldier of Salvation Army"), Helen Westley (as "Lady/Second Penitent"), Kathryn Wilson (as "The Cashier's Mother"). Produced by The Theatre Guild.
- (1922) Stage Play: Hamlet. Tragedy (revival).
- (1923) Stage Play: Launzi. Drama.
- (1923) Stage Play: Hamlet. Tragedy (revival).
- (1924) Stage Play: The Crime in the Whistler Room. Drama.
- (1924) Stage Play: S. S. Glencairn.
- (1924) Stage Play: Patience.
- (1925) Stage Play: Michel Auclair.
- (1925) Stage Play: Love for Love. Comedy (revival). Written by William Congreve. Daly's 63rd Street Theatre: 14 Sep 1925- Sep 1925 (closing date unknown/16 performances). Cast: Eve Balfour [credited as Eva Balfour] (as " Mrs. Foresight"), John H. Brewer (as "Foresight"), Clarence Derwent (as "Scandal"), Margaret Douglass (as "Angelica"), William Franklin (as "Jeremy"), Stanley Howlett (as "Valentine"), Louise Lorimer (as "Nurse"), John Mahin (as "Snap"), Norma Millay (as "Miss Prue"), Adrienne Morrison (as "Mrs. Frail"), Clement O'Loghlen (as "Trapland"), Henry O'Neill (as "Sir Sampson Legend"), Farrell Pelly (as "Buckram"), Charles Romano (as "Ben"), Gerald Sheridan (as "Steward to Sir Sampson"), Edgar Stehli (as "Tattle"), Joseph Thayer (as "Servant to Foresight"). Produced by 'Kenneth MacGowan', Robert Edmond Jones and Eugene O'Neill.
- (1925) Stage Play: Last Night of Don Juan.
- (1925) Stage Play: The Fountain. Written by Eugene O'Neill. Scenic Design by Macklin Morrow. Directed by Robert Edmond Jones. Greenwich Village Theatre: 10 Dec 1925- Jan 1926 (closing date unknown/28 performances). Cast: Morris Ankrum (as "Manuel de Castillo"), Ralph Benzies, Stanley Berry, Egon Brecher (as "Luis de Alvaredo"), Curtis Cooksey (as "Nano"), Ray Corning, Liza Dallett, Rosalinde Fuller, Walter Huston (as "Juan Ponce de Leon"), Perry Ivins (as "Alonzo de Oviedo"), Philip Jones, Pauline Moore (as "Maria de Cordova"), Henry O'Neill (as "Christopher Columbus/Father Superior"), William Stahl (as "Pedro/A Soldier"), Edgar Stehli (as "Vincente de Cordova/Friar Quesada"), John Taylor, Crane Wilbur (as "Diego Menendez"). Produced by 'Kenneth MacGowan', Robert Edmond Jones and Eugene O'Neill.
- (1925) Stage Play: You Can't Win. Drama. Written by Ralph Cullinan. Directed by Hubert Druce. Klaw Theatre: 16 Feb 1926- 19 Feb 1926 (2 performances). Cast: Claude Cooper (as "Pete Butler"), Carroll McComas (as "Laura Dawson"), W.J.P. O'Brien (as "Hewett Lysacht"), Henry O'Neill (as "Stanley Lysacht"), Jack Roseleigh, Edgar Stehli (as "Nick Favino"), Henrietta Tillman, William Williams. Produced by Hubert Druce and William Streett.
- (1926) Stage Play: East Lynne (Revival).
- (1926) Stage Play: The Ladder. Drama.
- (1929) Stage Play: Mystery Square.
- (1929) Stage Play: The Channel Road. Comedy.
- (1930) Stage Play: At the Bottom.
- (1930) Stage Play: Ada Beats the Drum. Comedy.
- (1930) Stage Play: Garrick Gaieties. Musical revue (revival). Directed by Philip Loeb. Guild Theatre: 16 Oct 1930- Oct 1930 ((closing date unknown/12 performances). Cast: Alice Bankert, Mary Brown, Donald Burr, Neal Caldwell, Katherine Carrington, Albert Carroll, Irene Carroll, Ruth Chorpenning, Imogene Coca, Anna Marie Cotter, Anne Delphin, Edwin Gilcher, Neila Goodelle, William Holbrook, Sterling Holloway', Otto Hulett, Robert La Branch, Philip Loeb, Ginger Meehan, Sylvia Miller, Mildred Muller, James Norris, Rosalind Russell [Broadway debut], Louis Simon, Roger Stearns, Edgar Stehli, Dot Stemme, Emily Thompson, Doris Vinton, Kathleen Whitcomb, Viola Wilson. Produced by The Theatre Guild.
- (1931) Stage Play: The Venetian Glass Nephew. Musical/operetta.
- (1931) Stage Play: Pillars of Society. Drama (revival). Written by Henrik Ibsen. Directed by Winifred Lenihan. 48th Street Theatre: 14 Oct 1931- Oct 1931 (2 performances). Cast: Alvin Barrett, Romney Brent (as "Hilmar Tonnesen"), Anton Bundsmann, Jessie Busley, Barbara Child (as "Miss Rummel"), Frank Conlan (as "Shipbuilder Aune"), Ann Dere (as "Mrs. Bernick"), Knowles Entrikin (as "Rector Rorlund"), Dorothy Gish (as "Dina Dorf"), H. Dudley Hawley (as "Vigeland"), Richard Jack, Moffat Johnston (as "Consul Bernick"), Ronald Jones, Cecilia Lenihan (as "Mrs. Holt"), Robert Lowe, Fania Marinoff (as "Martha Bernick"), Armina Marshall (as "Lona Hessel"), Nancy McKnight, Jock Munro, Rollo Peters (as "Johan Tonnesen"), Russell Rhodes (as "Ensemble"), Eleanor Shaler, Edgar Stehli (as "Krap"), Ann Tewksbury (as "Mrs. Lynge"), Robert Turney, Virginia Volland, Mervin Williams, Sam Wren (as "Sandstad"). Produced by New York Repertory Company.
- (1931) Stage Play: Steel. Drama. Written by John Wexley. Directed by John Wexley. Times Square Theatre: 17 Nov 1931- Nov 1931 (closing date unknown/14 performances). Cast: Seth Arnold (as "William Summers/Skinny"), Egon Brecher (as "Daniel Raldny"), Clarence Chase, George Colan, Hubert Courtney, Lew Eckles (as "Detective Johnson"), Paul Guilfoyle (as "Joe Raldny"), Everett Jonas, David S. Lifson, Byron McGrath (as "Jim Nelson"), Barton MacLane (as "Steve Dugan"), Eleanor Phelps, Truman Quevli, Frank Ray, Daniel Royal, Edgar Stehli (as "Bill Anderson"), Royal Dana Tracey (as "Detective Donovan"), Lili Zehner. Produced by Richard Geist Inc.
- (1931) Stage Play: Papavert. Comedy. Written by Charles K. Gordon. Based on a suggestion by George Froeschel. Directed by Charles K. Gordon. Vanderbilt Theatre: 29 Dec 1931- Jan 1932 (closing date unknown/13 performances). Cast: Hugh Cameron (as "Warden Flanningan"), Herbert Corthell (as "Jules Bavache"), Willard Dashiell (as "Inspector Vieth"), Jules Epailly (as "Meussel"), Max Figman (as "Siegbert Moses"), D.J. Hamilton, Arthur Hebert, David Hughes, Jack Klendon, Charles La Torre, Edward Leiter, Lottie Linthicum, James Malaidy, Dorothy Miller, Eileen Myers, Alice Reinheart, Milton Roberts, William Roselle, Edgar Stehli (as "Willi Papavert"), Stella Unger (as "Mrs. Weinstein"), George Vinton, Bert Wittly. Produced by Joe Zelli.
- (1933) Stage Play: Birthright. Drama. Written by Richard Maibaum. Directed by Robert Rossen. 49th Street Theatre: 21 Nov 1933- Nov 1933 (closing date unknown/7 performances). Cast: Jay Addison (as "Nazi Shock Trooper"), Don Beddoe (as "Kurt Strasser"), Julio Brown, Alan Bunce, Rose Burdick (as "Elga"), Charles P. Burrows, Stephen Courtleigh (as "Nazi Shock Trooper"), Harold Elliott (as "Friedrich Lowenberg"), Sylvia Field (as "Clara"), Alan Gould (as "Max"), Joseph Grant (as "Nazi Shock Trooper"), Dennis Gurney (as "Nazi Shock Trooper"), Thais Lawton, David Leonard, Henry Levian, Montagu Love, Charlotte Reynolds, Hayden Rorke [credited as Hayden Roike] (as "Karl"), Don Shelton (as "Nazi Shock Trooper"), Edgar Stehli (as "Joseph"), Milano Tilden (as "Dr. WEalter Federmann"), Herbert Warren, Courtney White (as "Hugo"), Larry Williams (as "Nazi Shock Trooper"). Produced by Robert Rossen and Irving Barrett. Note: This rather obscure production was likely the first to depict the recent rise of Nazi Germany.
- (1934) Stage Play: House of Remsen. Drama.
- (1936) Stage Play: Daughters of Atreus. Tragedy.
- (1937) Stage Play: Blow Ye Winds. Comedy.
- (1937) Stage Play: Something for Nothing. Comedy. Written by Harry J. Essex and Sid Schwartz. Directed by Harry Wagstaff Gribble. Windsor Theatre: 9 Dec 1937- Dec 1937 (closing date unknown/2 performances). Cast: Seth Arnold (as "Will Perkins"), Joe Brown, Sylvia Field (as "Una Perkins"), Ben Lackland (as "Kenneth Scott"), Lulu McConnell, Millard Mitchell (as "Mr. Boyle"), Edgar Stehli (as "Doc Piper"), Richard Taber, Kent Thurber. Produced by Stuart Drake Inc.
- (1938) Stage Play: The Greatest Show on Earth. Comedy.
- (1938) Stage Play: Eye On the Sparrow. Comedy.
- (1939) Stage Play: Brown Danube. Melodrama.
- (1940) Stage Play: A Passenger to Bali. Drama.
- (1940) Stage Play: Love for Love. Comedy (revival). Written by William Congreve.
- (1941) Stage Play: Arsenic and Old Lace. Comedy. Written by Joseph Kesselring. Directed by Bretaigne Windust. Fulton Theatre (moved to The Hudson Theatre on 25 Sep 1943 to close): 10 Jan 1941- 17 Jun 1944 (1444 performances). Cast: Jean Adair (as "Martha Brewster"), John Alexander, Wyrley Birch (as "Rev. Dr. Harper"), Helen Brooks, Bruce Gordon, Henry Herbert (as "Mr. Gibbs"), Josephine Hull, Allyn Joslyn (as "Mortimer Brewster"), Boris Karloff (as "Jonathan Brewster"), William Parke, John Quigg, Anthony Ross, Edgar Stehli (as "Dr. Einstein"), Victor Sutherland (as "Lieutenant Rooney"). Replacement actors [during Fulton Theatre run]: Patricia Collinge (as "Abby Brewster"), Ashley Cooper (as "Mr. Witherspoon"), Laura Hope Crews (as "Abby Brewster") [from Jun 1942- ?], Minnie Dupree (as "Martha Brewster"), Harry Gribbon (as "Teddy Brewster"), Margaret Joyce (as "Elaine Harper") [from 15 Jun 1942- ?], Clinton Sundberg (as "Mortimer Brewster"), Erich von Stroheim (as "Jonathan Brewster") [from Jun 1942 - ?]. Replacement actors [during Hudson Theatre run]: Wallace Acton (as "Dr. Einstein"), Richard Bishop (as "Lieutenant Rooney"), Helen Brooks (as "Elaine Harper"), Solen Burry (as "Officer Klein"), Ross Chetwynd (as "Officer Brophy"), Blaine Cordner (as "Officer O'Hara"), Gilbert Douglas (as "Mr. Witherspoon"), Harry Gribbon (as "Teddy Brewster"), Herbert Ranson (as "The Rev. Dr. Harper"), Effie Shannon (as "Martha Brewster"), Joseph Sweeney (as "Jonathan Brewster"), Walter Wagner (as "Mortimer Brewster"). Produced by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Note: Filmed as Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Arsenik og gamle kniplinger (2002), Arsènic i puntes de coixí (1995), Arsenic et vieilles dentelles (1971), Arsenicum en oude kant (1971), Arsenic and Old Lace (1969), Arsenik i stare cipke (1967).
- (1944) Stage Play: The Duke in Darkness.
- (1948) Stage Play: Bravo!
- (1950) Stage Play: The Happy Time. Comedy.
- (1953) Stage Play: Mid-Summer.
- (1955) Stage Play: The Wooden Dish.
- (1957) Stage Play: The Sin of Pat Muldoon.
- (1960) Stage Play: Semi-Detached.
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