Noël Coward on stage and screen

This is a list of works and appearances by the English playwright, actor, singer and songwriter Noël Coward.

Stage works

Stage appearances

<small>London, except where stated otherwise</small>

Source: Mander and Mitchenson.

Songs

Coward wrote more than three hundred songs. The Noël Coward Society's website, drawing on performing statistics from the publishers and the Performing Rights Society, names "Mad About The Boy" (from Words and Music) as Coward's most popular song, followed, in order, by:

• "I'll See You Again" (Bitter Sweet)
• "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" (Words and Music)
• "If Love Were All" (Bitter Sweet)
• "Someday I'll Find You" (Private Lives)
• "I'll Follow My Secret Heart" (Conversation Piece)
• "London Pride" (1941)
• "A Room With a View" (This Year of Grace)
• "Mrs Worthington" (1934)
• "Poor Little Rich Girl" (On with the Dance)
• "The Stately Homes of England" (Operette)

In the society's second tier of favourites are:

• "The Party's Over Now" (Words and Music)
• "Dearest Love" (Operette)
• "Dear Little Café" (Bitter Sweet)
• "Parisian Pierrot" (London Calling!)
• "Men About Town" (Tonight at 8.30)
• "Twentieth Century Blues" (Cavalcade)
• "Uncle Harry" (Pacific 1860)
• "Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans" (1943)
• "There Are Bad Times Just Around the Corner" (Globe Review)
• "Dance, Little Lady" (This Year of Grace)
• "Has Anybody Seen Our Ship?" (Tonight at 8.30)
• "I Went to a Marvellous Party" (Set to Music)
• "Nina" (Sigh No More)
• "A Bar on the Piccola Marina" (1954)
• "Why Must the Show Go On?" (Together With Music)
• "Sail Away" (Ace of Clubs and Sail Away)
• "Zigeuner" (Bitter Sweet)

:Source: Noël Coward Music Index and Lyrics of Noël Coward.

Cinema

Adaptations and original films

• The Queen Was in the Parlour, directed by Graham Cutts (UK, 1927, based on the play of the same name)
• Easy Virtue, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (UK, 1928, based on the play of the same name)
• The Vortex, directed by Adrian Brunel (UK, 1928, based on the play of the same name)
• Private Lives, directed by Sidney Franklin, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1931, based on the play of the same name)
• Tonight Is Ours, directed by Stuart Walker, Paramount (1933, based on the play The Queen Was in the Parlour)
• Cavalcade, directed by Frank Lloyd, 20th Century Fox (1933, based on the play of the same name)
• Bitter Sweet, directed by Herbert Wilcox (UK, 1933, based on the operetta of the same name)
• Design for Living, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, Paramount (1933, based on the play of the same name)
• Les amants terribles (The Terrible Lovers), directed by Marc Allégret (France, 1936, based on the play Private Lives)
• Bitter Sweet, directed by W. S. Van Dyke, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1940, based on the operetta of the same name)
• In Which We Serve, original film, directed by Coward and David Lean, British Lion (1942). Screenplay by Coward.
• We Were Dancing, directed by Robert Z. Leonard, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1942, based on the plays We Were Dancing, Ways and Means and Private Lives)
• This Happy Breed, directed by David Lean, Universal (UK, 1944, based on the play of the same name) (Coward was also a producer)
• Blithe Spirit, directed by David Lean (UK, 1945, based on the play of the same name) (Coward was also a producer)
• Brief Encounter, directed by David Lean (UK, 1945, based on the play Still Life) (Coward was also a screenwriter and producer)
• The Astonished Heart, directed by Terence Fisher (UK, 1950, based on the play of the same name) (Coward was also a screenwriter)
• Meet Me Tonight, directed by Anthony Pelissier (UK, 1952, based on the plays Ways and Means, Red Peppers, and Fumed Oak)
• Pretty Polly, directed by Guy Green (UK, 1967, based on the short story Pretty Polly Barlow)
• Brief Encounter, directed by Alan Bridges (UK, 1974, based on the play Still Life)
• Relative Values, directed by Eric Styles (UK, 2000, based on the play of the same name)
• Easy Virtue, directed by Stephan Elliott (UK, 2008, based on the play of the same name)
• Blithe Spirit, directed by Edward Hall (UK, 2020, based on the play of the same name)

:Source: Mander and Mitchenson.

Actor

• Hearts of the World (1918) (uncredited)
• The Scoundrel (1935) as Anthony Mallare
• Men Are Not Gods (1936) (uncredited)
• In Which We Serve (1942) as Captain E.V. Kinross (also a screenwriter, producer and co-director)
• Blithe Spirit (1945) (uncredited narrator) (also producer)
• Brief Encounter (1945) (uncredited narrator) (also a screenwriter and co-producer)
• The Astonished Heart (1950) as Dr. Christian Faber
• Blithe Spirit (1956 TV film) as Charles Condomine
• Around the World in 80 Days (1956) as Roland Hesketh-Baggott
• Our Man in Havana (1959) as Hawthorne
• Surprise Package (1960) as King Pavel II
• Paris When It Sizzles (1964) as Alexander Meyerheim
• Ninety Years On (1964 TV film) as Narrator / Host
• Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965) as Horatio Wilson
• Androcles and the Lion (1967 TV film) as Caesar
• Boom! (1968) as The Witch of Capri
• The Italian Job (1969) as Mr. Bridger

:Source: Mander and Mitchenson.

Awards and nominations

Notes, references and sources

Notes

References

Sources