Heggie, O. P.

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

Heggie, O. P. (1879–1936), character actor. Born in Australia, he spent many years on his native and London stages before coming to America in 1907 with Ellen Terry to appear as Alexander Oldworthy in Nance Oldfield and as Osman in Captain Brassbound's Conversion. He later returned to settle in New York and to become the first Australian Androcles in Androcles and the Lion (1915) in America. Subsequent memorable roles included the solicitor's clerk Robert Cokeson in Justice (1916), the phony poet Oliver Blayds in The Truth about Blayds (1922), Old Man Minick in Minick (1924), and numerous revivals of classics ranging from Shylock in The Merchant of Venice to Diggory in She Stoops to Conquer. His last Broadway assignment was as William Owen in The Green Bay Tree (1933). Although never a star of the first magnitude, Heggie was almost always praised for his singularly warm, knowing interpretations.

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