Richard Waring

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Richard Waring (27 May 1911 – 5 December 1994) was an English actor, playwright, and television writer.

Waring was born Richard Stephens 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 also was a playwright and writer of books for teenagers.

Waring's best-known screen role was Fanny Trellis' brother Trippy, whose theft to pay off his gambling debts forces her to marry Mr. Skeffington. He appeared in many Hallmark Hall of Fame broadcasts and also appeared in many performances of the American Shakespeare Festival directed by John Houseman and the Phoenix Theatre in New York City, playing both bit roles and major parts in many of Shakespeare's plays, playing opposite Katharine Hepburn in both The Merchant of Venice and Much Ado About Nothing.

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

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