Moffat Johnston made his American debut in 1922 in the world premier of George Bernard Shaw’s Back to Methuselah. Johnston appeared in several important Broadway productions in the 1920s, such as Methuselah, R. U. R., Six Characters in Search of an Author and the 1923 production of John Barrymore’s Hamlet. Johnston created the role of Oscar Jaffe in the 1932 play Twentieth Century, which was later turned into a film and a musical. He also appeared with Lillian Gish in 1934’s Within the Gates and his last role before his death in The Flowers of the Forest with Burgess Meredith and Katharine Cornell.
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Elitch Theatre Connections:
- Moffat Johnston appeared in the 1934 film, Midnight, with HET Alumna, Cora Witherspoon. (The film was later released as Call It Murder.)
- PLUS, for the six-degrees of Elitch Theatre, Midnight, also starred Humphrey Bogart, who was married to HET Alumna, Helen Menken.
