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Year	Title	Role
1976	The Dancing Years (TV Movie)	play
1959	Musical Playhouse (TV Series)	original play \| play
1957	King's Rhapsody (TV Movie)	play
1955	King's Rhapsody	play
1953	BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series)	play
1952	Gay's the Word (TV Movie)	play
1950	The Dancing Years	based on the play devised by \| based on the play written by
1948	Kraft Theatre (TV Series)	story
1941	Free and Easy	play "The Truth Game"
1937	The Rat	play
1937	Glamorous Night	play
1933	I Lived with You	dialogue \| play "I Lived with You" \| story (uncredited)
1932	The Phantom Fiend	Writer (uncredited)
1932	-But the Flesh Is Weak	dialogue \| play "Truth Game"
1932	Tarzan the Ape Man	dialogue
1930	Symphony in Two Flats	play
1929	The Return of the Rat	play "The Rat"
1927	Downhill	play "Down Hill" (as David L'Estrange, uncredited)
1926	The Triumph of the Rat	characters
1925	The Rat	play

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