Pinero's Dandy Dick. While he was in the run of the latter, Arthur Sullivan saw him, and invited him to audition for the Savoy Theatre . Savoy Theatre years Denny joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company at the Savoy to replace Rutland Barrington in 1888 and remained there until 1893. He created the roles of Wilfred Shadbolt in The Yeomen of the Guard (1888), the Grand Inquisitor, Don Alhambra del Bolero, in The Gondoliers (1889) and Bumbo in The Nautch Girl (1891). He next played Bedford Rowe in the revival of The Vicar of Bray (1892), and he created the character of The McCrankie in Haddon Hall (1892), leaving the company when the run was completed. In 1893, he appeared in a musical comedy called Poor Jonathan before returning to D'Oyly Carte to create the part of Scaphio in Utopia, Limited (1893). He again left the company at the end of the run of that show. Later years After leaving the Savoy, Denny appeared again in musicals in London from 1895 to 1897. He created the roles of Pilkington Jones in Gentleman Joe (1895) and Robert White in Dandy Dan (1897). He later toured Australia and New Zealand in a Shakespeare company, playing Bottom and Touchstone. He was back on the New York stage beginning in 1905, appearing on Broadway in Julius Caesar (1902), The Proud Laird (a comedy, 1905), The Earl and the Girl (a musical, 1906), The Hypocrites (a drama, 1906), The Beauty Spot (a musical, 1909), The Gay Hussars (an operetta, 1909), Madame X (a melodrama, 1910), and The Blue Bird (a play, 1911). He once more returned to London, making his last appearance there as Stuff, a theatre manager, in Walter Browne's Everywoman in 1912. Denny also wrote several one-act plays, the best-known of which was A Mutual Mistake (1891). In addition, he wrote song lyrics, such as "How sweet thou art to me" ("Sleep, gentle sleep"), with music by Arthur Weld (1909). Denny was one of the founders of the Actors' Orphanage, and he maintained an active interest in it. He married Georgina Pike. Their son, Reginald Denny, became a popular film actor. Denny died in Herne Bay, Kent in 1915 at the age of 61. Notes References Adams, William Davenport (1904). A Dictionary of the Drama. London: Chatto & Windus External links Photos 1853 births 1915 deaths English male stage actors English opera singers