Raymond Hitchcock

Hitchcock, Raymond (1865–1929), comic actor and producer. Described by Stanley Green as “a lanky, raspy‐voiced comic with sharp features and straw‐colored hair that he brushed across his forehead,” he was born in Auburn, New York, and came to the theatre after some unhappy years in other trades. From 1890 on he began to call attention to himself in musicals such as The Brigands and The Golden Wedding. His performance in King Dodo (1901) made him a star, and he subsequently played principal roles in The Yankee Consul (1904), Easy Dawson (1905), The Galloper (1906), The Student King (1906), The Yankee Tourist (1907), The Man Who Owns Broadway (1909), The Red Widow (1911), and The Beauty Shop (1914). Beginning in 1917 Hitchcock produced and starred in a series of revues called Hitchy‐Koo. In 1921 he appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies. When another revue, Raymond Hitchcock's Pinwheel, failed in 1922, he took to the road as Clem Hawley in The Old Soak. Thereafter, his fortunes began to wane. His last Broadway appearance was as Boniface in The Beaux' Stratagem (1928). At his best, Hitchcock had a casual, homespun humor not unlike that of the later Will Rogers.

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