title: List of Westport Country Playhouse performers
text: # List of Westport Country Playhouse performers
  
  Westport Country Playhouse notable performers include
  
  * 1933: Kitty Carlisle in Champagne Sec
  * 1934: Burgess Meredith in Hide and Seek
  * 1935: Ruth Gordon in The Country Wife
  * 1936:
     * Eva Le Gallienne in Love for Love and Camille
     * Dorothy Gish in Russet Mantle
  * 1937: Henry Fonda in The Virginian
  * 1938: Ethel Barrymore in The Constant Wife
  * 1939:
     * Gene Kelly, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green in Magazine Page
     * Ruth Gordon in Here Today
  * 1940: Paul Robeson in The Emperor Jones
  * 1941: Tyrone Power in Liliom directed by Lee Strasberg.
  * 1942–1945:The Westport Country Playhouse closed because of World War II
  * 1946:
     * June Havoc in They Knew What They Wanted
     * Olivia de Havilland in What Every Woman Knows
     * Thornton Wilder as the stage manager for Our Town
  * 1947: Tallulah Bankhead in Private Lives
  * 1948: Thornton Wilder in The Skin of Our Teeth
  * 1949:
     * Helen Hayes and Mary MacArthur in Good Housekeeping
     * Carl Reiner in Pretty Penny
  * 1950:
     * Maureen Stapleton in My Fiddle Has Three Strings
     * Maurice Evans in The Devil's Disciple
     * Franchot Tone in The Second Man
     * Basil Rathbone in The Winslow Boy
  * 1951:
     * Claudette Colbert in Island Fling
     * Olivia de Havilland in Candida
  * 1952: John Forsythe in Dangerous Corner and The Hasty Heart
  * 1953:
     * Eva Gabor in Sailor's Delight and The Play's the Thing
     * Lillian Gish in The Trip to Bountiful
  * 1954:
     * Imogene Coca in Happy Birthday
     * Richard Kiley in Candle-Light
  * 1955:
     * Richard Kiley in Heaven Can Wait
     * Eva Marie Saint in The Rainmaker (play)
  * 1956:
     * Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish in The Chalk Garden
     * Bea Lillie in Beasop's Fables
  * 1957:
     * Eartha Kitt in Mrs. Patterson
     * Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn in Man in the Dog Suit
  * 1958:
     * Groucho Marx in A Time for Elizabeth
     * Bert Lahr in Visit to a Small Planet
  * 1959:
     * Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson in The Glass Menagerie
     * Tony Randall in Arms and the Man
  * 1960:
     * Joan Fontaine in Susan and God
     * Jane Fonda in No Concern of Mine
     * Mike Nichols and Elaine May in An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May
  * 1961:
     * Cyril Ritchard and Cornelia Otis Skinner in The Pleasure of His Company
     * Gloria Swanson in Between Seasons
  * 1962:
     * Tallulah Bankhead in Here Today
     * Sammy Davis Jr. in The Desperate Hours
  * 1963:
     * Teresa Wright in Tchin-Tchin
     * Carol Channing in The Millionairess
     * Hermione Gingold in Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad
  * 1964:
     * Joel Grey in Stop the World – I Want to Get Off
     * Helen Hayes in The White House
  * 1965:
     * Michael Allinson, Dina Merrill, Lois Nettleton, and Bramwell Fletcher in the George Bernard Shaw Repertory Festival
     * Tammy Grimes in The Private Ear and the Public Eye
     * Joan Fontaine in The Unexpected Guest
  * 1966:
     * Cicely Tyson and Alan Alda in The Owl and the Pussycat
     * Tom Ewell in Life With Father
  * 1967:
     * Barbara Bel Geddes in Wait Until Dark
     * E. G. Marshall in A Singular Man
     * Betsy Palmer in Luv
  * 1968:
     * Geraldine Page in The Little Foxes
     * Shirley Booth in Desk Set
  * 1969: Keir Dullea and Maureen O'Sullivan in Butterflies Are Free
  * 1970:
     * Noel Harrison in Blithe Spirit
     * Shirley Booth in Best of Friends
  * 1971:
     * Colleen Dewhurst in The Big Coca Cola Swamp in the Sky
     * Geraldine Page and Rip Torn in Marriage & Money
  * 1972:
     * Mickey Rooney in See How They Run
     * Robert Stack in Remember Me
  * 1973:
     * José Ferrer in A Song for Cyrano
     * Art Carney in The Prisoner of Second Avenue
  * 1974: Jack Gilford and Lou Jacobi in The Sunshine Boys
  * 1975:
     * Lynn Redgrave in The Two of Us
     * Theodore Bikel in The Good Doctor
     * Tammy Grimes in In Praise of Love
  * 1976: Eva Marie Saint in Fatal Weakness
  * 1977: Jane Alexander and Richard Kiley in The Master Builder
  * 1978:
     * Douglas Fairbank, Jr. in Out on a Limb
     * Louis Jordan in 13 Rue De L'Amour
  * 1979: Vincent Price in Diversions & Delights
  * 1980:
     * Sada Thompson in Children
     * Richard Thomas in Whose Life is it Anyway?
  * 1981: Eva Le Gallienne in To Grandmother's House We Go
  * 1982: Eileen Heckart in What I Did Last Summer
  * 1983: Shelley Winters in 84, Charing Cross Road
  * 1984: Betsy Palmer in Breakfast with Les and Bess
  * 1985: Christopher Walken and Katharine Houghton in A Bill of Development
  * 1986: Colleen Dewhurst in Real Estate
  * 1987: George Grizzard in The Perfect Party
  * 1988: Arlene Francis and David Birney in Social Security
  * 1989: Elizabeth Ashley in All the Queen's Men
  * 1990: Fritz Weaver and Elizabeth Wilson in The Cocktail Hour
  * 1991: Juliet Mills in Dangerous Obsession
  * 1992: Tony Roberts in The Fourth Wall
  * 1993: Charles Cioffi in The Substance of Fire
  * 1994: Elaine May and Gene Saks in Intimate Exchanges
  * 1996: Charles Durning, James Handy, and Dan Lauria in Men in Suits
  * 1997: Jean Powell, Anne Meara, Jerry Stiller and Paul Benedict in After-Play
  * 1998: Jean Stapleton in Eleanor - Her Secret Journey
  * 1999:
     * James Naughton in Street of Dreams
     * Michael Learned and Ralph Waite in Chasing Monsters
  * 2000:
     * Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, James Naughton, Swoosie Kurtz, Jane Curtin and Fritz Weaver in Ancestral Voices
     * Bronson Pinchot in Nicolette & Aucassin
  * 2001:
     * Gene Wilder in Don't Make Me Laugh
     * Leslie Uggams and Bruce Weitz in Heaven Can Wait
     * Karen Allen and Chad Allen in Temporary Help
  * 2002: Paul Newman, Jayne Atkinson, Frank Converse, Jane Curtin and Jeffrey DeMunn in Our Town
  * 2006: James Earl Jones in Thurgood
  