Profile: Vivian Grimes

Loft credits (click a play title to view details)

• Bishop of Durham, The Lion in Winter (1969)
• 3rd Barrister, Witness for the Prosecution (1958)
• Abou Cassim, The Bears of Bay-Rum (1951)
• Boss Mangan, Heartbreak House (1951)
• Gryphon/Father William/Walrus, Alice in Wonderland (1950)
• Hilmar Tonson, Pillars of Society (1950)
• Mr Kirby, You Can’t Take it With You (1950)
• Charles, Fools Rush In (1949)
• Signor Ponza, Right You Are if You Think You Are (1948)
• Ballested, The Lady from the Sea (1948)
• Hector Malone Senior, Man and Superman (1947)
• Poet/Cicero/Publius, Julius Caesar (1947)
• Crabtree, The School for Scandal (1946)
• Old Gobbo, The Merchant of Venice (1946)
• Mr Knox, Fanny’s First Play (1945)
• Joe Smart, Queer Street (1945)
• Stepan, The House with the Twisty Windows (1945)
• Rosen, The Late Christopher Bean (1944)
• Major Pearson, Distinguished Gathering (1943)
• John Lassells, The Rose Without a Thorn (1942)
• Herbert, Family Affairs (1942)
• Clerk, Augustus Does His Bit (1941)
• Don Basilio, Dona Clarines (1940)
• Town crier, Dr Knock (1940)
• David, The Rivals (1939)
• Nicola, Arms and the Man (1938)
• Sir Hugh Evans, The Merry Wives of Windsor (1938)
• Scottish Doctor, Macbeth (1937)
• Antonio, Twelfth Night (1937)
• Brainworm, Every Man in His Humour (1936)
• Grumio, The Taming of the Shrew (1936)
• William Pargetter, The Tragedy of Nan (1935)
• Old Jordan, Yellow Roses (1934)
• Crabtree, Legatee (1934)
• Alfa, The Immortal Memory (1934)
• Smirnov, The Bear (1933)
• Company, Four Japanese Plays (1933)
• Pantalone, The Servant of Two Masters (1932)
• Pietro, The Cardinal (1932)
• First Watch/Friar Francis, Much Ado About Nothing (1931)
• Reginald Underwood, Rococo (1930)
• Kaprikan/Charles Lennard, The Rumour (1930)

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