Richard Waring

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Richard Waring (May 27, 1911–5 December 1994) was a playwright and television writer. He was born Richard Stephens.

Waring was born in Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, the son of Thomas E. Stephens, whose portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower hangs in the Smithsonian Gallery of Presidents. He took on his mother Evelyn's maiden name, Waring, as his stage name. His brother, Peter Stephens was also a playwright and teenage book writer.

Richard Waring's most well-known role was in Mr. Skeffington as Trippy, the brother to Fanny Trellis played by Bette Davis, who had stolen money to pay off his gambling debts forcing Fanny to marry Mr. Skeffington. He appeared in many Hallmark Hall of Fame TV broadcasts such as Macduff in Macbeth, 1954. He also appeared in many performances of The American Shakespeare Festival directed by John Houseman and Jack Landau that opened in 1955 in Stratford, Connecticut and the Phoenix Theater in New York acting in many of Shakespeare's plays from 1957-1959 from bit parts to major roles. Such as Antonio to Katharine Hepburn's Portia in The Merchant of Venice and Don John to Katharine Hepburn's Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing.

He wrote and appeared in many Broadway plays including Dear Jane (1932), L'Aiglon (1934), The Women Have Their Way (1935), Camille (1935), At The Stroke of Eight (1940), The Man Who Killed Lincoln (1940), Alice in Wonderland (1947), A Pound on Demand (1947), Androcles and the Lion (1947), What Every Woman Knows (1947), King Henry VIII (1947), Gramercy Ghost (1951), Edwin Booth (1958) and Portrait of a Queen (1968).

He also created the sitcoms ...And Mother Makes Three and its sequal ...And Mother Makes Five. He died of a heart attack in 1994 in City Island, The Bronx, New York, The USA.