William Roehrick was born in Hoboken, NJ on December 17, 1912. He was a classically trained stage actor who had a long career as an actor on the stage, film and television.
Stage performances on Broadway:
Romeo and Juliet (1935-1936)
Saint Joan (1936)
Hamlet (1936)
Our Town (1938)
The Importance of Being Ernest
The Land Is Bright (1941-1942)
Autumn Hill (1942)
The Flowers of Virtue (1942)
This Is The Army (1942)
The Magnificent Yankee (1946)
The Great Campaign (1947)
The Heiress (1947-1948)
Tonight at 8.30 (1948)
Medea (1960's)
Macbeth (1960's)
The Burning Glass (1954)
The Right Honorable Gentleman (1965-1966)
Marat/Sade (1967)
The Homecoming (1967)
We Bombed in New Haven (1968)
Elizabeth the Queen
Waltz of the Toreadors (1973)
Night of the Iguana (1976-1977)
The Merchant (1977)
Happy New Year (1980)
Stage performances off Broadway:
Madam, Will You Walk?
The Cherry Orchard
Come Slowly Eden
Passage to E. M. Forster
Trials of Oz
Close of Play
Stage performances on touring and out of town:
Our Town (1939)
Sabrina Fair (1954)
Dear Charles (1955)
Glad Tidings (1960s)
Medea (1960s)
Macbeth (1960s)
Marat/Sade (1960s)
Janus (1969)
Film performances:
This Is the Army (1943)
The Harder They Fall (1956)
Not of This Earth (1957)
The Wasp Woman (1959)
A Lovely Way to Die (1968)
The Sporting Club (1971)
The Love Machine (1971)
A Separate Peace (1972)
The Day of the Dolphin (1973)
92 in the Shade (1975)
The Other Side of the Mountain (1975)
God Told Me To (1976)
The Betsy (1978)
Television performances:
Suspense (1952)
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1953)
Kraft Theatre (1953)
Studio 57 (1955)
Big Town (1956)
Climax! (1956)
The Millionaire (1956)
The Ford Television Theatre (1957)
Playhouse 90 (1956)
Lux Video Theatre (1957)
Perry Mason (1957)
The Thin Man (1957)
Playhouse 90 (1957)
How to Marry a Millionaire (1958)
Playhouse 90 (1958)
The Gale Storm Show (1958)
Mike Hammer (1958)
Hudson's Bay (1958)
The Third Man (1959)
The Man from Blackhawk (1959)
Five Fingers (1960)
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1960)
Shotgun Slade (1960)
The Clear Horizon (1959–1962)
Dr. Kildare (1962)
Follow the Sun (1962)
Another World (1974-1975, 1977)
For the People (1965)
This Town Will Never Be the Same (1969)
NET Playhouse (1972)
Particular Men (1972)
Madigan ( 1973)
The Adams Chronicles (1976)
Guiding Light (1974, 1980–1995)
Freedom to Speak (1983)
The Thorns (1988)
Law & Order (1990–1991)
Writing credits:
"Forster in America" (1969)
The Happiest Years (play)
Passage to E. M. Forster (play)
TV scripts:
Mama
Crime Photographer
Claudia
The Billy Rose Show
The Kate Smith Show