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Richard Waring was a British-born American actor, appearing in both Hollywood movies and in many Broadway plays.
Waring was born Richard Stephens in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, UK, the son of Thomas E. Stephens, a painter, whose portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower hangs in the Smithsonian Gallery of Presidents. Waring took on his mother Evelyn M. Stephens's maiden name, Waring, as his stage name.
He was the brother of Peter John Stephens who was a playwright and writer of books for teenagers. He had no natural children by his later wife, Kathy Waring. He was previously married in and divorced in to Florida Friebus known for her portrayal of the mother of the TV character Dobie Gillis.
Waring began his career in 1931 with Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theater in New York City in minor roles in Romeo and Juliet, Camille, and Cradle Song. In 1940 he played opposite Ethel Barrymore in The Corn is Green and later with Eva Le Gallienne and was signed to play the role in Hollywood opposite Bette Davis, but entered the army during World War II. Before that he was filmed in his best-known screen role in Mr. Skeffington as Fanny Trellis' brother Trippy, whose theft to pay off his gambling debts forces her to marry the eponymous lead character played by Claude Rains.
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