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Rutherford Mayne

1878 - 1967

Born in Japan in 1878, son of Reverend Hugh Waddell, a Presbyterian minister and lecturer at the Imperial University of Tokyo, Rutherford Mayne is the pen name of actor and playwright Samuel John Waddell. He helped to found the Ulster Literary Theatre 1904 and his first play, The Turn of the Road, was produced by the theatre in Belfast in 1906. He wrote over a dozen plays and one of his best-known works, The Drone, had its first performance in 1908 in the Abbey Theatre. He died in Dalkey, Co. Dublin in 1967.

Playwriting Credits

Play Title Playwright
Bridge Head Rutherford Mayne
Captain of the Hosts Rutherford Mayne
Evening Rutherford Mayne
If Rutherford Mayne
Industry Rutherford Mayne
Peter Rutherford Mayne
Phantoms Rutherford Mayne
Red Turf Rutherford Mayne
The Drone Rutherford Mayne
The Gomeril Rutherford Mayne
The Turn of the Road Rutherford Mayne

Actor

Play Title Playwright
If Rutherford Mayne
Industry Rutherford Mayne
Leaders of the People Robert Harding
Love and Land Lynn Doyle
Phantoms Rutherford Mayne
Sincerity Gerald Macnamara
The Drone Rutherford Mayne
The Ship St. John Greer Ervine
The Skipper's Submarine Charles K. Ayre
The Spoiled Buddha Helen Waddell
The Throwbacks Gerald Macnamara
The Turn of the Road Rutherford Mayne
Three To Go Olga Fielden