Write Me A Murder is a 1961 mystery play in 3 acts by Frederick Knott

Frederick Knott

Frederick Major Paull Knott was an English playwright, best known for writing the London-based stage thriller Dial M for Murder, which was later filmed in Hollywood by Alfred Hitchcock....

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The play tells the story of the brothers Clive and David Rodingham, who inherit the family fortune upon the death of their father.

They then meet business man Charles and his wife Julie, a would-be thriller writer. Charles is anxious to work with the brothers on property deals, and so encourages David, who is also a writer, to co-author a murder story with Julie. It isn’t long before the two concoct the perfect crime, which is soon twisted into a reality…
The Original Broadway Cast

Write Me A Murder opened at the Belasco Theater on October 24, 1961, and ran for 196 performances.

The Hon. David Rodingham - James Donald

James Donald

James Donald was a Scottish actor. Tall and thin, he usually specialised in playing authority figures.Donald was born in Aberdeen, and made his first professional stage appearance sometime in the late-1930s, having been educated at Rossall School on Lancashire's Fylde coast...

The Hon. Clive Rodingham - Denholm Elliott

Denholm Elliott

Denholm Mitchell Elliott, CBE was an English film, television and theatre actor with over 120 film and television credits...

Julie Sturrock - Kim Hunter

Kim Hunter

Kim Hunter was an American film, theatre, and television actress. She won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, each as Best Supporting Actress, for her performance as Stella Kowalski in the 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire...

Dr. Elizabeth Woolley - Ethel Griffies

Ethel Griffies

Ethel Griffies was an English actress of stage, screen, and television....

Charles Sturrock - Torin Thatcher

Torin Thatcher

Torin Thatcher was an English actor born in Bombay, British India, India), to English parents. He was an imposing, powerfully built figure noted for his flashy portrayals of screen villains....

Mr. Tibbit - Robert Milli

Constable Hackett - Herbert Voland