- (1918 - 1941) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1918) Stage Play: Seventeen. Written by Hugh Stanislaus Stange and Stannard Mears. From the novel by Booth Tarkington. Directed by Stuart Walker. Booth Theatre: 22 Jan 1918- Aug 1918 (closing date unknown/225 performances) Cast: Morgan Farley [Broadway debut], George Gaul, Ruth Gordon (as "Lola Pratt"), Gregory Kelly, Paul Kelly, Judith Lowry, Neil Martin, Beatrice Maude, Henrietta McDannel, Lew Medbury, Lillian Ross, Eugene Stockdale, Arthur Wells. Produced by Stuart Walker. Note: Filmed by Paramount Pictures as Seventeen (1940).
- (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, 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.
- (1919) Stage Play: A Young Man's Fancy. Comedy. Written by John T. McIntyre. Playhouse Theatre: 15 Oct 1919- Oct 1919 (closing date unknown/13 performances). Cast: Frank Allworth (as "Handel"), Harry Barfoot (as "Martin"), Eugenie Blair (as "The Hostess"), Symona Boniface (as "The Tall Girl"), Frank Boyd (as "Congo"), Jessie Busley (as "Miss Carter"), Viola Cain (as "The Girl in Blue"), John Davidson (as "The Dark Young Man"), Jeanne Eagels (as "Mary Darling/Mary's Image"), Sidney Elliott (as "The Brown Haired Young Man"), Morgan Farley (as "The Pink Youth"), Alfred Kappeler (as "Leftwich"), Mary Kennedy (as "Miss Halsey"), J.M. Kerrigan (as "Costigan"), Howard Lindsay (as "Laramy"), Philip Merivale (as "Pickering"), Bessie Owens (as "The Blonde Girl"), Walter Percival (as "Devine"), John D. Seymour (as "The Man Servant"). Produced by George C. Tyler.
- (1920) Stage Play: The Charm School. Comedy. Written by Alice Duer Miller and Robert Milton. Bijou Theatre: 1 Aug 1920- Oct 1920 (closing date unknown/88 performances). Cast: Carolyn Arnold (as "Ethel Splevin"), Marie Carroll (as "Elise Benedotti"), Margaret Dale (as "Miss Hays"), Blythe Daly (as "Sally Boyd"), Minnie Dupree (as "Miss Curtis"), Morgan Farley (as "Tim Simpkins"), James Gleason, Sam Hardy, Rapley Holmes (as "Homer Johns"), Theodora Larocque (as "Alix Mercier"), Camilla Lyon (as "Charlotte Gray"), Nell Martin (as "Jim Simpkins"), Florence McGuire (as "Muriel Doughty"), Constance McLaughlin (as "Dotsie"), Frances McLaughlin (as "Lillian Stafford"), Mary Mead (as "Madge Kent"), Ivan F. Simpson (as "David MacKenzie"). Produced by Robert Milton.
- (1920) Stage Play: Deburau. Comedy/tragedy. Written by Harley Granville-Barker. Based on the French of Sacha Guitry. Directed by David Belasco. Belasco Theatre: 23 Dec 1920- Jun 1921 (closing date unknown/189 performances). Cast: Lionel Atwill (as "Jean-Gaspard Deburau"), St. Clair Bayfield (as "A Journalist"), Sallie Bergman (as "Maid"), Frederick Bickel (as "The Promoter"), Marie Bryar (as "Clara"), Rowland Buckstone (as "Laplace"), Lylia Burnand (as "The Unknown Lady"), Rose Coghlan (as "Madame Rabouin"), Hubert Druce (as "Robillard"), Morgan Farley (as "Charles Deburau"), Eden Gray (as "The Lady with the Lorgnette"), Edmund Gurney (as "Clement"), Joseph Herbert (as "Laurent"), Margot Kelly (as "Justine"), Isabel Leighton (as "Honorine"), Elsie MacKay (as "Marie Duplessis"), Pauline Merriam (as "Madame Rebard"), Helen Reimer (as "The Money Taker"), Bernard A. Reinold (as "Monsieur Bertrand"), John Roche (as "The Young Man"), Robert Roland (as "Scene Shifter"), George Ryan (as "Master Charles"), John L. Shine (as "A Doctor"), Sidney Toler (as The "Barker"). Produced by David Belasco.
- (1921) Stage Play: The Grand Duke.
- (1923) Stage Play: Mary the 3D. Comedy.
- (1923) Stage Play: Home Fires. Comedy.
- (1923) Stage Play: The Wild Westcotts. Comedy. Written by Anne Morrison Chapin [credited as Anne Morrison]. Frazee Theatre: 24 Dec 1923- Jan 1924 (closing date unknown/24 performances). Cast: Leslie Adams, Helen Broderick (as "Mrs. Taylor"), Claudette Colbert (as "Sybil Blake"), Boyd Davis (as "Capt. Hippesley Trenchard") [credited as W. Boyd Davis/Broadway debut], Morgan Farley (as "Anthony Westcott"), Charles Laite, Norma Lee, Fred Irving Lewis, Vivian Martin, Elliott Nugent (as "Eddie Hudson"), Cornelia Otis Skinner (as "Geraldine Fairmont"), Edith Campbell Walker, Isabel Withers, Douglas Wood. Produced by Lewis and Gordon.
- (1924) Stage Play: Fata Morgana. Drama. Written by Ladislaus Vajda, as translated by James L.A. Burrell. Directed by Philip Moeller. Garrick Theatre: 3 Mar 1924- Sep 1924 (closing date unknown/120 performances). Cast: Patricia Barclay (as "Annie"), Aline Berry (as "Therese"), Charles Cheltenham (as "Blazy"), Orlando Daly (as "Gabriel Fay"), Morgan Farley, Sterling Holloway (as "Henry"), Josephine Hull, William Ingersoll, James Jolly, Armina Marshall, Paul E. Martin, Edith Meiser (as "Katherine") [Broadway debut], Helen Sheridan, Emily Stevens, Helen Westley. Produced by The Theatre Guild.
- (1924) Stage Play: Paolo and Francesca. Drama (revival). Written by Stephen Phillips. Booth Theatre: 2 Dec 1924- Dec 1924 (closing date unknown/8 performances). Cast: Aline Berry, Adele Bradley, Ralph Bunker (as "Pulci"), Albert Carroll, Michael Daun, Morgan Farley (as "Paolo"), Cosette Faustine, Borden Harriman, Perry Ivins (as "Corrado"), Claude King (as "Giovanni"), James Meighan, Layelah Monif, Marian Moorehouse, Margaret Scott Oliver, Diantha Pattison (as "Costanza"), Phyllis Povah (as "Francesca"), Helen Stryker, Helen Ware (as "Lucrezia"). Produced by Cosmos Stage and Screens Production Inc.
- (1925) Stage Play: Tangletoes. Written by Gertrude Purcell (from the French, "Un bon Garcon"). Directed by Edwin Maxwell and Hubert Druce. 39th Street Theatre: 17 Feb 1925- Mar 1925 (closing date unknown/23 performances). Cast: Betty Alden (as "Maude Allaire"), Elizabeth Dunne (as "Mary"), Walker Ellis (as "Tony Kemp"), Morgan Farley (as "Arthur Griswold"), Lee Kohlmar (as "Julius Hart"), Mildred MacLeod (as "Francie"), Max Montesole (as "Freddie"), Beatrice Nichols (as "Elinor Blake"), Agnes Sanford (as "Stella LeRoy"), Joaquin Souther (as "Jean Baptiste"). Produced by Edmund Plohn.
- (1925) Stage Play: Candida. Comedy (revival).
- (1926) Stage Play: The Unchastened Woman. Comedy (revival).
- (1926) Stage Play: Easter One Day More. Drama.
- (1926) Stage Play: An American Tragedy. Drama. From the novel by Theodore Dreiser. Written by Patrick Kearney. Directed by Edward T. Goodman. Longacre Theatre: 11 Oct 1926- Apr 1927 (closing date unknown/216 performances). Cast: Violet Andrews, Harry Arnold, Sally Bates, Anthony Brown, Joan Brown, Sydney Coburn, Willard Dashiell, Morgan Farley (as "Clyde Griffiths"), Marian Florance, Grace Griswold, Miriam Hopkins (as "Sondra Finchley"), Frank Horan, Arthur Hughes, House Jameson (as "Gilbert Griffiths"), Philip Jones, Martha Lee Manners, Harold McCreery, Janet McLeay, Olive Mercer (as "Hester Griffiths"), Frank Moran, Caroline Newcombe, Albert Phillips, Jack Quigley, Frank Rutherford, Walter Walker, John Wheeler, Bert Wilcox, Katherine Wilson, Philip Wood. Produced by Horace Liveright. Note: Filmed by Paramount Pictures as An American Tragedy (1931) and remade by Paramount as A Place in the Sun (1951).
- (1931) Stage Play: Camille. Drama (revival).
- (1931) Stage Play: The Passing Present. Drama.
- (1935) Stage Play: Crime and Punishment. Drama.
- (1941) Stage Play: The Distant City. Written by Edwin B. Self. Scenic Design by Samuel Leve. Costume Design by Helene Pons. Directed by Edward Byron. Longacre Theatre: 22 Sep 1941- 23 Sep 1941 (2 performances). Cast: Lee Baker (as "Reverend Jonas West") [final Broadway role], Burke Clarke (as "Warden"), Len Doyle (as "Sergeant McKiernan"), Morgan Farley (as "Chaplain") [final Broadway role], Gertrude Flynn (as "Edna Scott"), Gladys George (as "Mom Quigley"), Larry Hugo (as "Guard"), Merle Maddern (as "Mrs. Beatrice Prentiss West"), Gilbert Morgan (as "Policeman"), Leonard Penn (as "Lester Prentiss"), Ben Smith (as "Pete Quigley"), Louise Stanley (as "Mrs. Laura Prentiss"), Robert Vivian (as "David Hacket"). Produced by John Tuerk.
- (1938) Stage Play: Danton's Death. Drama (revival). Music by Marc Blitzstein. Written by Geoffrey Dunlop. Based on the German of Georg Buchner. Scenic Design by Jan Tichacek. Directed by Orson Welles. (1938). Mercury Theatre: 2 Nov 1938- Nov 1938 (closing date unknown/21 performances). Cast: William Alland (as "Servant to Danton"), Ellen Andrews (as "Voice in the Street"), Richard Baer (as "Convention Attendant"), Fay Baker (as "Voice in the Street"), Edgar Barrier (as "Camille Desmoulins"), John Berry (as "Gaoler"), Joseph Cotten (as "Barrere"), Helen Coule (as "Voice in the Street"), George Duthie (as "1st Old Man/President of the Convention"), Ross Elliott (as "Convention Attendant"), Morgan Farley (as "Heralut De Sechelles"), Ruth Ford (as "Rosalie"), Arlene Francis (as "Marion"), Martin Gabel (as "Danton"), Sparke Hastings (as "Member of the Convention"), Arthur Hoffe (as "Voice in the Street"), Guy Kingsley (as "Lacroix"), William Mowry (as "Member of the Convention"), Edgerton Paul (as "Servant to Danton"), Stanley Poss (as "Servant to Danton"), Stephen Roberts (as "Member of the Convention"), Erskine Sanford (as "Philppeau/2nd Old Man"), Sanford Siegel (as "Voice in the Street"), Vladimir Sokoloff (as "Robespierre"), Anna Stafford (as "Julie"), Fred Thompson (as "Voice in the Street"), Evelyn Wahl (as "Lucile"), Orson Welles (as "St. Just"), Mary Wickes (as "Christine"), Richard Wilson (as "Legendre"), Eustace Wyatt (as "Fouquier"). Produced by Orson Welles and John Houseman.
- (1937) Stage Play: Candida. Comedy (revival).
- (1936) Stage Play: Hamlet. Tragedy (revival). Written by William Shakespeare. Scenic and Costume Design by Jo Mielziner. Directed by Guthrie McClintic. Empire Theatre (moved to The St. James Theatre from Jan 1937- close): 8 Oct 1936- unknown (132 performances). Cast included: John Gielgud (as "Hamlet, son to the late, and nephew to the present King"), Judith Anderson, Arthur Byron, John Emery, Morgan Farley (as "Osric"), Lillian Gish (as "Ophelia"), Harry Andrews, John Cromwell (as "Rosencrantz"), Ivan Triesault, George Vincent, Murvyn Vye. Produced by Guthrie McClintic.
- (July 1936) He acted in Lynn Riggs' play, "Russet Mantle," at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, Maine with Charlotte Walker, Thomas W. Ross and Rosemary Ames in the cast.
- (July 1936) He acted in Merton Hodge's play, "The Wind and the Rain," at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, Maine with Anne Seymour and Rosemary Ames in the cast.
- (August 3, 1937) He acted in Edgar Wallace's play, "Criminal at Large," at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, Maine with Nance O'Neil in the cast.
- (August 24, 1937) He acted in R.C. Sherriff's play, "Journey's End," at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, Maine with John Williams, Carl Benton Reid and Wilfred Seagram in the cast.
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