Ralph Sumpter

On stage 13 productions, 38 years

1921	The Squaw Man Astor Theatre · Revival · directed by William Faversham	50 perf.
1928	Major Barbara Guild Theatre · Revival · directed by Philip Moeller	84 perf.
1933	Young Sinners Ambassador Theatre · Revival · directed by Carl Hunt	72 perf.
1934	Within the Gates National Theatre · Original · directed by Melvyn Douglas	141 perf.
1935	Jubilee Imperial Theatre · Original · directed by Hassard Short, Monty Woolley	169 perf.
1937	Between the Devil Imperial Theatre · Original · directed by Hassard Short	93 perf.
1939	Journey's End Empire Theatre · Revival	16 perf.
1939	The Woman Brown Biltmore Theatre · Original	11 perf.
1940	At The Stroke of Eight Belasco Theatre · Original	8 perf.
1946	Second Best Bed Ethel Barrymore Theatre · Original	8 perf.
1950	The Day After Tomorrow Booth Theatre · Original	12 perf.
1956	Too Late the Phalarope Belasco Theatre · Original · directed by John Stix	36 perf.
1959	Redhead 46th Street Theatre · Original · directed by Bob Fosse	452 perf.

Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in. That is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.

Worked with more than once12 names

Vernon Hammer	2 productions
Valerie Cossart	2 productions
Richard Temple	2 productions
Reginald Mason	2 productions
Ralph Cullinan	2 productions
Melville Cooper	2 productions
Kay Cameron	2 productions
John Mckee	2 productions
Jessamine Newcombe	2 productions
Harold Murray	2 productions
Colin Keith Johnston	2 productions
Charles Walters	2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership. A long-running company puts the same forty people together every night, but it is where one would start looking. 10 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

What this page does not know

• What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
• Birth or death year. Neither is on the record.
• Any biography.
• Any portrait. Most people in this catalogue don't have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
• Which of the credits above the roles on this record () apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.