- (1913 - 1959) Active on Broadway [sometimes credited as Jack Sheehan] in the following productions:
- (1932) Stage Play: Tell Her the Truth. Music by Jack Waller and Joseph Tunbridge. Book by R.P. Weston and Bert Lee. Based on "Nothing But the Truth" by Frederic S. Isham. from "Nothing But the Truth" by James Montgomery. Lyrics by R.P. Weston and Bert Lee. Musical Director: Gene Salzer. Directed by Morris Green and Henry Thomas. Cort Theatre: 28 Oct 1932- 5 Nov 1932 (11 performances). Cast: Cast: Hobart Cavanaugh (as "Maclean"), Edith Davis, Bertha Donn, Margaret Dumont, Lillian Emerson, Dorothy Essig, William Frawley, Louise Kirkland, May Muth, Muriel Muth, Lou Parker, John Sheehan, Andrew Tombes, Raymond Walburn, Thelma White. Produced by Tillie Leblang and Morris Green.
- (1929) Stage Play: Follow Thru. Musical comedy. Book by Laurence Schwab and Buddy G. DeSylva. Music by Ray Henderson. Lyrics by Lew Brown and Buddy G. DeSylva. Scenic Design by Donald Oenslager; Costume Design by Kiviette. Musical Numbers Staged by Bobby Connolly. Book Directed by Edgar J. MacGregor. Chanin's 46th Street Theatre: 9 Jan 1929- 21 Dec 1929 (401 performances). Cast: Arthur Aylesworth (as "Mac" Moore, a golf professional"), Margaret Banks (as "Lady"), John Barker (as "Jerry Downs, a young golf champion"), Jane Brown (as "Lady"), Arthur Bryan (as "Country Club Boy"), Hilda Burkhart (as "Lady"), Madeline Cameron (as "Ruth Van Horn, an amateur golf champion"), Edith Campbell (as "Mrs. Bascomb, the president's wife"), Dorothy Christy [credited as Dorothy Christie] (as "Olive") [final Broadway role], Katherine Cornell [Not the actress of the 1930s and 1940s] (as "Lady"), Arthur Craig (as "Gentleman"), W.E. Critzer (as "Country Club Boy"), Dorothy Day (as "Lady"), Zilpha De Witt (as "Lady"), Irene Delroy (as "Lora Moore, Mac's daughter"), Dody Donnelly (as "Lady"), Carrick Douglas (as "Country Club Boy"), Al Downing (as "Mr. Manning"), Dorothea Dunn (as "Lady"), Christine Ecklund (as "Lady"), Oscar Ellinger (as "Country Club Boy"), Joseph Evans (as "Gentleman"), Phil Farley (as "Gentleman"), Yvonne Grey (as "Glenna"), Jack Haley (as "Jack Martin"), Irene Hamlin (as "Lady"), John Hammond (as "Country Club Boy"), Paul Howard (as "Steve"), Claire Joyce (as "Lady"), Marguerite Kennedy (as "Lady"), Ruth Kent (as "Lady"), Philip King (as "Gentleman"), Frank Kingdon (as "Martin Bascomb, President of the Bound Brook Country Club"), Fred Kuhnly (as "Country Club Boy"), Constance Lane (as "Virginia"), Elaine Lank (as "Lady"), Ethel Lawrence (as "Lady"), Jack Lawrence (as "Country Club Boy"), Margaret Lee (as "Babs Bascomb, Martin's fifteen-year-old daughter"), Ann Lomax (as "Lady"), Bodil Lund (as "Lady"), Jocelyn Lyle (as "Lady"), Ned Lynn (as "Gentleman"), Paul Mann (as "Gentleman"), John McCahill (as "Gentleman"), Gordon Merrick (as "Gentleman"), Harry Moore (as "Gentleman"), Fred Murray (as "Gentleman"), Richard Neely (as "Gentleman"), Mortimer O'Brien (as "Gentleman"), Zelma O'Neal (as "Angie Howard, Lora's girl-friend"), Anita Pam (as "Lady"), Sherry Pelham (as "Cynthia/Lady"), Eleanor Powell (as "Molly"), Samuel Quinn (as "Gentleman"), Richard Renaud (as "Gentleman"), Herbert Rothwell (as Gentleman"), William Sahner (as "Gentleman"), John Sheehan (as "J.C. Effingham, a new member"), Maurice Siegel (as "Country Club Boy"), Mildred Stevens (as "Lady"), Drucilla Strain (as "Lady"), Don Tomkins (as Thomas Darcy "Dinty" Moore, Mac's sixteen-year-old son"), Renee Vilon (as "Lady"), Irene Warner (as "Lady"), Mildred Webb (as "Lady") [Broadway debut], Arlyne White (as "Lady"), Jerry White (as "Gentleman"), Minerva Wilson (as "Lady"). Produced by Laurence Schwab and Frank Mandel.
- (1951) Stage Play: Paint Your Wagon. Musical comedy. Based on material by Alan Jay Lerner (also lyrics). Music by Frederick Loewe. Directed by Daniel Mann. Shubert Theatre: 12 Nov 1951- 19 Jul 1952 (289 performances). Cast: James Barton (as "Ben Rumson"), Tony Bavaar, James Mitchell, Olga San Juan, Richard Aherne, Tom Aim Delbert Anderson, John Anderson, Gino Baldi, Edward Becker, Ralph Bunker, Mary Burr, Tamara Chapman, Stephen Cheng, Jack Dabdoub, Gemze de Lappe, Gordon Dilworth, Joan Djorup, John Faulkner, Robert Flavellem Katia Geleznova, Lorraine Havercroft, Dorothy Hillm Stuart Hodes, Jean Houloose, Carmelita Lanza, Marijane Maricle, Bert Mattews, Kay Medford, Robert Morrow, Ilona Murai, Paul Olson, Robert Penn Jake Whippany Dick Price, John Randolph, Charlotte Ray, Mavis Ray, Jared Reed, Frederick Schaeffen, John Schickling, John Schmidt, John Sheehan (as "Dutchie"), Jan Sherwood, Rufus Smith (as "Steve Bullnack"), John Smolko, John Spach, Guy Stanbaugh, Newton Sullivan, Gisella Svetlik, James Tarbutton, Feodore Tedick, David Thomas, Edgar Thompson, Ted Thurston, Norman Weise, Josh Wheeler. Produced by Cheryl Crawford. Replacement actor: Eddie Dowling (as "Ben Rumson" [from 12 Nov 1951- unknown]. Note: Burl Ives would later replace Dowling in role. Louis B. Mayer would buy the rights to this hit play but would be unable to produce it independently after his forced departure from MGM. It would be brought to the screen in drastically altered form in 1969 with mediocre box-office results.
- (1936) He acted in John Cecil Holm's play, "Three Men on a Horse," at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts with Majorie Lytell in the cast.
- (1930) Stage Play: The Imaginary Invalid by Molière, produced at the Music Box Theatre in Los Angeles by the Civic Repertory Theatre, playing the role of Argan.
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