This list includes every Role or Cabaret engagement Coward ever played, every Play, Unproduced Play, Musical, Revue, Film, Book, Unfinished Work or TV Special he ever wrote, every production he ever Directed, and all major revivals. An asterisk (*) marks repeated roles, secondary productions, revivals, and films based on Coward's previously existing works.

1911

• Role: Prince Mussel in The Goldfish (Various Theatres, London)
• Role: Cannard the pageboy in The Great Name (Prince of Wales, London)
• Role: William in Where the Rainbow Ends (Savoy, London)

1912

• Role: Mushroom in An Autumn Idyll (Ballet - Savoy, London)
• *Played William in return of Where the Rainbow Ends (Savoy, London)

1913

• Role: Angel in Hanelle (Liverpool Repertory and Manchester)
• Role: Slightly in Peter Pan (Duke of York's, London)

1914

• * Played Slightly in Peter Pan (British tour)
• * Played Slightly in Peter Pan (Duke of York's, London & tour)

1916

• Role: Charley in Charley's Aunt (British tour)
• Role: Basil Pycroft in The Light Blues (Shaftsbury, London)
• Cabaret: Danced at Elysee Restaurant (London)
• Role: Jack Morrison in The Happy Family (Price of Wales, London)

1917

• Role: "Boy pushing barrow" in D.W. Griffith's film Hearts of the World
• Play: Ida Collaborates, co-authored with Esme Wynne (Theatre Royal, Aldershot)
• Role: Ripley Guildford in The Saving Grace (Garrick, London)

1918

• Role: Courtenay Borner in Scandal (Strand, London)
• Play: Woman and Whiskey, co-authored with Esme Wynne (Wimbledon Theatre)
• Unproduced Plays: The Last Trick, The Imposible Wife
• Unpublished novels: Cats and Dogs, Cherry Pan

1919

• Role: Ralph in Knight of the Burning Pestle (Birmingham Repertory)

1920

• Play: I'll Leave It To You (New Theatre, London)
• Role: Bobbie Dermott in I'll Leave It To You

1921

• Role: Clay Collins in Polly With a Past (St. James, London)

1922

• Play: The Better Half (Little Theatre, London)

1923

• Role: Sholo Brent in The Young Idea (Savoy, London)
• Revue: London Calling! (Duke of York's, London - 316 perfs)
• Role: Himself in London Calling! 
• Unproduced Play: Weatherwise

1924

• Revue: Songs for Yoicks! (Kingsway, London - 271 perfs)
• Revue: Songs for Andre Charlot's London Revue (Times Square, NY - 298)
• Revue: Songs for Charlot's Revue (Prince of Wales, London - 518 perfs)
• Play: The Vortex (Everyman, Hampstead - Royalty, London)
• Role: Nicky Lancaster, The Vortex

1925

• Revue: On With the Dance (Pavilion, London - 229 perfs)
• Play: Fallen Angels (Globe, London)
• * Played Nicky Lancaster in The Vortex (Henry Miller, NY - 157 perfs)
• Play: Hay Fever (London)
• *Hay Fever produced on Broadway (Maxine Elliot's, NY - 49 perfs)
• Play: Easy Virtue (Empire, NY - 147 perfs)
• Revue: Charlot's Revue of 1926 (Selwyn, NY)

1926

• *Played Nicky Lancaster in The Vortex (U.S. tour)
• Play: The Queen Was in the Parlour (St. Martin's, London)
• Role: Lewis Dodd in The Constant Nymph (London)
• Play: This Was a Man (Klaw, NY - 31 perfs)
• Play: The Rat Trap (Everyman, Hampstead)
• Unproduced Play: The Rat Trap, Semi-Monde

1927

• Play: The Marquise (Criterion, London)
• *This Was a Man produced in Berlin
• *Fallen Angels produced on Broadway (49th St. Theatre, NY - 36 perfs)
• *The Marquise produced on Broadway (Biltmore, NY - 80 perfs)
• Play: Home Chat (London)
• Play: Sirocco (London)

1928

• Revue: Wrote and directed This Year of Grace (Pavilion, London - 316 perfs)
• *This Year of Grace produced on Broadway (Selwyn, NY - 158 perfs)
• Role: Appeared in This Year of Grace (NY)
• Role: Clark Storey in The Second Man (London)
• *Silent film version of The Queen Was in the Parlour
• *Silent film version of The Vortex starring Ivor Novello
• *Silent film version of Easy Virtue directed by Alfred Hitchcock
• Unproduced Screenplay: Concerto

1929

• Musical: Wrote and directed Bitter Sweet (His Majesty's, London - 617 perfs)
• Revue: Skits for Murray Anderson's Almanac (Erlanger's, NY - 69 perfs)
• *Bitter Sweet produced on Broadway (Ziegfeld, NY - 159 perfs)

1930

• Role: Stanhope in Journey's End (Singapore)
• Play: Wrote and directed Private Lives (Phoenix, London - 101 perfs)
• Role: Elyot Chase in Private Lives (London)
• Unfinished Novel: Julian Kane

1931

• Revue: Songs for Cochran's 1931 Revue (Pavilion, London - 27 perfs)
• *Played Elyot Chase and directed Private Lives (Times Square, NY - 248 perfs)
• Play: Wrote and directed Cavalcade (Theatre Royal, London - 405 perfs)
• *British film version of Private Lives
• *Hay Fever revived on Broadway (Avon, NY - 98 perfs)

1932

• Revue: Wrote and directed Words and Music (Adelphi, London - 164 perfs)
• *The Young Idea produced on Broadway (Heckscher, NY - 3 perfs)

1933

• Play: Wrote and directed Design For Living (Barrymore, NY - 135 perfs)
• Role: Leo in Design For Living (NY)
• *British Film version of Cavalcade - wins Oscar for Best Film
• *British Film version of The Queen Was in the Parlour - retitled Tonight is Ours
• *British Film version of Bitter Sweet
• Directed London revival of Hay Fever

1934

• Musical: Wrote and directed Conversation Piece (His Majesty's, London - 177 perfs)
• Role: Paul in Conversation Piece (London)
• Directed Ferber & Kaufman's Theatre Royal, a.k.a. Royal Family (Lyric, London)
• Directed Biography (Globe, London)
• *Conversation Piece produced on Broadway (44th St. Theatre, NY - 55 perfs)

1935

• Play: Wrote and directed Point Valaine (Barrymore, NY - 56 perfs)
• Role: Anthony Mallare in the US film The Scoundrel

1936

• Play: Wrote and directed Tonight at 8:30, a repertory of nine one act plays and musicals (Phoenix, London - 157 perfs)
• Role: All male leads in Tonight at 8:30 (London)
• *Tonight at 8:30 opened on Broadway (National, NY - 113 perfs)
• *Directed and played all male leads in Tonight at 8:30 (NY)
• Directed Jacques Deval's Mademoiselle (Wyndham's, London)

1937

• Directed Gerald Savory's George and Margaret (Morosco, NY - 85 perfs)
• Book: Present Indicative published - 1st Memoir

1938

• Musical: Wrote and directed Operette (His Majesty's, London - 132 perfs)

1939

• Revue: Wrote and directed Set to Music (Music Box, NY - 129 perfs)
• Book: Short story collection To Step Aside published

1940

• *MGM film version of Bitter Sweet starring Nelson Eddy & Jeanette MacDonald
• Unproduced play: Time Remembered

1941

• Play: Wrote and directed Blithe Spirit
• (Piccadilly, London - 1,997 perfs)
• *Blithe Spirit produced on Broadway (Morosco, NY - 650 perfs)

1942

• Film: Wrote, produced and co-directed In Which We Serve
• Role: Captain Edward V. Kincross in film In Which We Serve
• Role: Charles Condomine in Blithe Spirit (British tour)
• Role: Gary Essendine in Present Laughter (British tour)
• Role: Frank Gibbon in This Happy Breed (British tour)
• Film: We Were Dancing, based on one-act from Tonight at 8:30

1943

• Role: Played Gary Essendine in Present Laughter (Theatre Royal Haymarket, London)
• Role: Played Frank Gibbon in This Happy Breed (Theatre Royal Haymarket, London)
• Produced British film version of This Happy Breed
• Toured the Middle East to entertain Allied troops

1944

• Toured South Africa, India, Burma and France to entertain Allied troops
• Book: Middle East Diary published

1945

• Revue: Wrote and directed Sigh No More (Piccadilly, London - 213 perfs)
• Adapted: British Film version of Blithe Spirit starring Margaret Rutherford
• Film: Brief Encounter, based on Still Life from Tonight at 8:30

1946

• Musical: Wrote and directed Pacific 1860 (Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London - 129 perfs)
• *Present Laughter produced on Broadway, starring Clifton Webb (Plymouth, NY - 158)

1947

• *Played Gary Essendine in Revival of Present Laughter (Theatre Royal Haymarket, London)
• *Point Valaine produced in London
• Directed revival of Tonight at 8:30 (US tour)
Unproduced play: Long Island Sound

1948

• *Briefly took over male leads in US Tour of Tonight at 8:30 (San Francisco)
• Directed revival of Tonight at 8:30 on Broadway (National, NY - 26 perfs)
• Role: Max Aramont in Joyeux Chagrins, a.k.a. Present Laughter (Brussels)
• *Private Lives revived on Broadway (Plymouth, NY - 248 perfs)

1949

• Film: The Astonished Heart
• Role: Christian Faber in film The Astonished Heart
• Unproduced Musical: Hoi Polloi

1950

• Musical: Wrote and directed Ace of Clubs (Cambridge, London - 211 perfs)

1951

• Cabaret: October engagement at Cafe de Paris (London)
• Revue: Song for The Lyric Revue (Lyric, London - 141 perfs)
• Play: Wrote and directed Relative Values (London)
• Play: Island Fling (Regional, USA)

1952

• Revue: Songs for The Globe Revue (Globe, London - 234 perfs)
• *The Vortex revived in London (Lyric)
• Cabaret: June engagement (2nd) at Cafe de Paris (London)
• Play: Wrote and directed Quadrille (Phoenix, London)
• Film: Meet Me Tonight based on segments of Tonight at 8:30

1953

• Role: King Carl Magnus in George Bernard Shaw's The Apple Cart (London)
• Cabaret: 3rd engagement at Cafe de Paris (London)

1954

• Musical: After the Ball (Globe, London - 188 perfs)
• Cabaret: 4th engagement at Cafe de Paris (London)
• Book: Future Indefinite published - 2nd memoir
• *Quadrille produced on Broadway (Coronet, NY - 150 perfs)

1955

• Cabaret: Engagement at Desert Inn, June-July (Las Vegas)
• Role: Hesketh-Baggott in film version of Around the World in 80 Days
• TV Special: Wrote, directed and co-starred with Mary Martin in
• Together With Music on CBS, Oct. 22

1956

• *Fallen Angels revived on Broadway (Playhouse, NY - 239 perfs)
• *Played Charles Condomine in CBS TV production of Blithe Spirit
• Play: South Sea Bubble, revised Island Fling (Lyric, London)
• *Played Frank Gibbons and directed CBS TV production of This Happy Breed
• Play: Wrote and co-directed Nude With Violin (Dublin & London)
• Unproduced play: Volcano

1957

• Directed Nude With Violin on Broadway (Belasco, NY)
• Role: Sebastian in Nude With Violin (NY)

1958

• *Starred in Present Laughter and Nude With Violin (US Tour - Western States)

1959

• Play: Look After Lulu! (Henry Miller's, NY)
• *Look After Lulu! produced in London
• Role: Hawthorne in film Our Man in Havana
• Role: Former King of Anatolia in film Surprise Package
• Ballet: Composed London Morning

1960

• Play: Waiting in the Wings (Duke of York's, London)
• Novel: Pomp and Circumstance published
• Role: King Pavel II in UK film Surprise Package

1961

• Role: Alec Harvey in NBC TV production of Brief Encounter
• Musical: Wrote and directed Sail Away (Broadhurst, NY - 167 perfs)

1962

• *Sail Away produced in London

1963

• Musical: The Girl Who Came To Supper (Broadway, NY - 112 perfs)
• *Revival of Private Lives (Hampstead, UK)

1964

• Directed High Spirits, musical version of Blithe Spirit (Alvin, NY - 375 perfs)
• *Granada TV version of The Vortex
• *Granada TV version of Design for Living
• *Granada TV version of Present Laughter
• *Granada TV version of Blithe Spirit
• Directed revival of Hay Fever (National, London)
• Role: Alexander Mayerheim in US film Paris When It Sizzles
• Book: Short story collection Pretty Polly Barlow published

1965

• Role: Wilson (the landlord) in UK film Bunny Lake is Missing

1966

• Play: Suite in Three Keys (Queens, London)
• Role: Hugo Latymeyer in A Song At Twilight (Queens, London)
• Role: George Hilgay in Shadows of the Evening (Queens, London)
• Role: Verner Conklin in Come Into the Garden Maude (Queens, London)

1967

• Role: Caesar in Richard Rodgers' TV musical Androcles and the Lion
• Book: Short story collection Bon Voyage published

1968

• Role: Witch of Capri in Tennessee Williams UK film Boom
• Revue: Noel Coward's Sweet Potato, using existing material (Barrymore, NY - 44 perfs)

1969

• Role: Mr. Bridger in UK film The Italian Job
• *Private Lives revived on Broadway (Billy Rose Theatre, NY - 204 perfs)

1970

• *Hay Fever revived on Broadway (Helen Hayes Theatre, NY - 24 perfs)

1972

• Revue: Oh, Coward!, using existing songs & scenes (New Theatre, NY - 294 perfs)
• Revue: Cowardy Custard, using existing songs and scenes (Mermaid, London)

1974

• *Noel Coward in Two Keys (Come Into the Garden Maude, Song at Twilight) on Broadway (Barrymore, NY - 140)

1975

• Private Lives revived on Broadway, starring Maggie Smith (46th Street, NY - 92 perfs)

1982

• Present Laughter revived on Broadway, starring George C. Scott (Circle in the Square, NY - 175 perfs)

1983

• Private Lives revived on Broadway, starring Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor (Lunt-Fontanne, NY - 63 perfs)

1984

• Design for Living revived on Broadway (Circle in the Square, NY - 245 perfs)

1985

• Hay Fever revived on Broadway, starring Rosemary Harris (Music Box, NY - 124 perfs)

1986

• *Oh, Coward! revived on Broadway (Helen Hayes, NY - 56 perfs)

1987

• *Blithe Spirit revived on Broadway (Neil Simon, NY - 104 perfs)

1988

• *Bitter Sweet revived (Sadler's Wells, London)

1992

• *Private Lives revived on Broadway (Broadhurst, NY - 37 perfs)

1996

• *Present Laughter revived on Broadway, starring Frank Langella (Walter Kerr, NY - 175 perfs)

1999

• *Waiting in the Wings on Broadway (Walter Kerr, NY - 186 perfs)

2001

• *Design for Living revived on Broadway (American Airlines, NY - 69 perfs)

2002

• *Private Lives revived on Broadway (Richard Rodgers, NY - 124 perfs)

2006

• Hay Fever revived in London, starring Judi Dench

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