Occupation Actor Role Film actor Name Moffat Johnston | Children Peter Johnston Spouse(s) Winifred Durie Hodgson Movies Midnight | |
Born August 18, 1886 Edinburgh, Scotland Other names Moffat JohnsonMoffat Johnstone Died 1935, Norwalk, Connecticut, United States | ||
Moffat Johnston (1886 – 1935) was a Scottish-born actor with a substantial United States stage career.
Career
Johnston was born to John Moffat Johnston and Margaret Parke (Boyd). He was educated at Watson's School and the University of Edinburgh. He made his stage debut in 1905 at Manchester in Frank Benson's company. In 1914 he toured with his own theatre company in Germany before the outbreak of war. During the war he was a Lieutenant of the 8th Sherwood Forresters. He returned to theatrical work after the war making his American debut in 1922 in Back to Methuselah. Johnston appeared in several important Broadway productions in the 1920s, such as Methuselah, R. U. R., Six Characters in Search of an Author and the second revival of John Barrymore's Hamlet. Johnston created the role of Oscar Jaffe in the 1932 play Twentieth Century, which was later turned into a film and a musical.
Devoted to the stage, Johnston only appeared in two films: a 1911 Shakespearean silent Richard III starring Frank Benson and the 1934 sound drama Midnight.
He died after appendicitis surgery in 1935.