- (1926 - 1959) Active on Broadway [credited as Donn Cook early in his stage career] in the following productions:
- (1926) Stage Play: Seed of the Brute. Drama. Written and directed by Knowles Entrikin. Little Theatre: 1 Nov 1926- Jan 1927 (closing date unknown/80 performances). Cast: Robert Ames, Sydney Booth, Adele Carples, Donald Cook [credited as Donn Cook] (as "John Roberts") [Broadway debut], Claude Cooper, Harold Elliott, David Glassford, Doris Rankin, Jane Seymour, Hilda Vaughn. Produced by William A. Brady and Dwight Wiman.
- (1926) Stage Play: New York Exchange. Written by Peter Glenny. Klaw Theatre: 30 Dec 1926- Mar 1927 (closing date unknown/82 performances). As "Ernest." Cast included: Alison Skipworth.
- (1927) Stage Play: Spellbound. As "Rowlie Bateson."
- (1927) Stage Play: Paris Bound. Comedy. Written by Philip Barry. Directed by Arthur Hopkins. Music Box Theatre: 27 Dec 1927- Jul 1928 (closing date unknown/234 performances). Cast: Marie Bruce (as "Julie"), Donald Cook [credited as Donn Cook] (as "Jim Hutton"), Gilbert Emery (as "James Hutton"), Madge Kennedy (as "Mary Hutton"), Donald MacDonald (as "Richard Parrish"), Martha Mayo (as "Helen White"), Mary Murray (as "Noel Farley"), Edwin Nicander (as "Peter Cope"), Ellen Southbrook (as "Nora Cope"), Hope Williams (as "Fanny Shippan"). Produced by Arthur Hopkins.
- (1929) Stage Play: Half Gods. Drama. Written by Sidney Howard. Directed by Arthur Hopkins. Plymouth Theatre: 21 Dec 1929- Jan 1930 (closing date unknown/17 performances). Cast: Philip Beveridge (as "Second Policeman"), Thaddeus Clancy (as "Third Porter"), Donald Cook (as "Stephen Ferrier"), Hal K. Dawson (as "Second Detective/Second Porter"), Elizabeth Goodyear (as "Ada"), Laura Hamilton (as "Pauline"), Mayo Methot (as "Hope Ferrier"), Paul Porter (as "Dennis"), Edward Reese (as "Dr. Mannering"), Walter Regan (as "Rush Bigelow"), Sig Ruman (as "Dr. Wolheim"), Dorothy Sands (as "Helena Grey"), Arthur Shaw (as "First Detective/First Porter"), Walter Walker (as "Judge Sturgis"), Robert Bunce Williams (as "First Policeman"). Produced by Arthur Hopkins. Note: Filmed as Free Love (1930).
- (1930) Stage Play: Rebound. Comedy. Written by Donald Ogden Stewart. Directed by Arthur Hopkins. Plymouth Theatre: 3 Feb 1930- May 1930 (closing date unknown/114 performances). As "Bill Truesdale." Cast included: Anne Lubow, George MacQuarrie, Hope Williams, Robert Williams. Produced by Arthur Hopkins. Note: His last production credited as "Donn Cook" after this run he left to work in Hollywood for most of the 1930's.
- Wine of Choice (1938). Comedy. As "Laddy Sears."
- American Landscape (1938). Drama. Written by Elmer Rice. Directed by Elmer Rice. Cort Theatre: 3 Dec 1938- Jan 1939 (closing date unknown/43 performances). Cast: Jules Bennett (as "Paul Kutno"), Donald Cook (as "Gerald Spinner"), John Hammond Dailey (as "Patrick O'Brien"), Pierre D'Ennery (as "Henri Dupont"), Charles Dingle (as "Captain Samuel Dale"), Isobel Elsom (as "Moll Flanders"), Lillian Foster (as "Harriet Beecher Stowe"), Phoebe Foster (as "Carlotta Dale"), Rachel Hartzell (as "Frances Dale Spinner"), Alfred Hesse (as "Klaus Stillgebauer"), Ethel Intropidi (as "Abby Kutno"), George Macready (as "Captain Anthony Dale"), Con MacSunday (as "Captain Heinrich Kleinschmidt"), Howard Miller (as "William Fiske"), Theodore Newton (as "Joe Kutno"), Patricia Palmer (as "Betty Kutno"), Emory Richardson (as "Reverend Jasper Washington"), Philip Singer (as "Abraham Cohen"), Aage Steenshorne (as "Nils Karenson"), Charles Waldron (as "Captain Frank Dale"), Sylvia Weld (as "Constance Dale"). Produced by The Playwrights' Company (Maxwell Anderson, S.N. Behrman, Elmer Rice, Robert E. Sherwood, Sidney Howard).
- Skylark (1939). Comedy. Written and directed by Samson Raphaelson. Morosco Theatre: 11 Oct 1939- 25 May 1940 (256 performances). As "Tony Kenyon." Cast: Gertrude Lawrence, Glenn Anders, Gertrude Bryan, Robert Burton, William David, Ann Driscoll, Walter Gilbert, Horace Sinclair, Vivian Vance. Produced by John Golden.
- Claudia (1941). Comedy. As "David Naughton."
- Foolish Notion (1945). Comedy. As "Gordon Roark."
- Made in Heaven (1946). Comedy.
- Portrait in Black (1947). Drama. Written by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts. Directed by Reginald Denham. Booth Theatre: 14 May 1947- 5 Jul 1947 (61 performances). Cast included: Sidney Blackmer, Dorothea Jackson, Barry Kelley, Claire Luce. Produced by David Lowe and Edgar F. Luckenbach.
- (1948) Stage Play: Private Lives. Romantic comedy (revival). As "Elyot Chase."
- (1951) Stage Play: The Moon is Blue. Comedy. Written by F. Hugh Herbert. Directed by Otto Preminger. Henry Miller's Theatre: 8 Mar 1951- 30 May 1953 (924 performances). Cast included: Barbara Bel Geddes, Cast: Donald Cook (as "David Slater"), Barry Nelson, Ralph Dunn. Produced by Richard Aldrich and Richard Meyers in association with Julius Fleischmann.
- (1954) Stage Play: King of Hearts. Comedy/farce. Written by Jean Kerr and Eleanor Brooke. Directed by Walter Kerr. Lyceum Theatre (moved to The National Theatre from 4 Oct 1954 to close): 1 Apr 1954- 27 Nov 1954 (279 performances). Cast: Donald Cook (as "Larry Larkin"), Jackie Cooper (as "Francis X. Dignan"), Cloris Leachman (as "Dunreath Henry"), Rex Thompson, John Devereaux (as "Mike"), Hilda Haynes, David Lewis, Carl Low, Patchwork Peggy, Darryl Richard, William Sharon. Produced by Elaine Perry.
- (1955) Stage Play: Champagne Complex. Farce.
- (1956) Stage Play: Goodbye Again. Comedy (revival).
- (1958) Stage Play: Love Me Little. Comedy.
- (1959) Stage Play: Masquerade. Comedy.
- (1957) He acted in Carolyn Green's play, "Janus," at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts with Joan Bennett in the cast.
- (March 21, 1950) He played Elyot Chase in Noel Coward's play, "Privates Lives," at the Harris Theater in Chicago, Illinois with Barbara Baxley (Sibyl Chase); Tallulah Bankhead (Amanda Prynne); William Langford (Victor Prynne); and Claudia Le Due (Louise) in the cast.
- (1939) He acted in Samson Rafaelson's play, "Skylark," at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts with Gertrude Lawrence in the cast.
- (October 22, 1945) He acted in Philip Barry's play, "Foolish Notion," in a Theatre Guild production at the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio with Tallulah Bankhead, John Emery, Aubrey Mather, Marlyn Monk, Joan Shepard, Mary Howes, and Diane Chadwick in the cast. Jo Mielziner was set designer. Mainbocher was costume designer. John C. Wilson was producer.
- (1959) He acted in Harry Kurnitz's play, "Once More, With Feeling," at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey with Joan Bennett in the cast. Paul Leaf and Paul Stickles were directors.
- (August 31, 1937) He acted in Charles Beahan and Robert Buckner's play, "Dearly Beloved," at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, Maine with Jean Muir in the cast.
- (August 1938) He acted in Edward Sheldon's play, "Romance," at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, Maine with Cornelia Otis Skinner in the cast.
- (August 1938) He acted in Jacques Deval's play, "Soubrette," at the Ogunquit Playhouse on Ogunquit, Maine with Else Argal in the cast.
- (August 1938) He acted in Edward Childs Carpenter's play, "Snow Train," at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, Maine with Dorothea Burgess in the cast.
- (July 1949) He acted in Florence Ryerson and Colin Clements' play, "Strange Bedfellows," at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, Maine.
- (June 1955) He acted in Leslie Stevens' play, "Champagne Complex," at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, Maine with John Dall and Monica Lovett in the cast.
- (August 1956) He acted in Philip King's play, "The Golden Egg," at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, Maine.
- (June 1957) He acted in Carolyn Green's play, "Janus," at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, Maine with Joan Bennett in the cast.
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