Moffat Johnston was born on August 18, 1886 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was an actor, known for Midnight (1934) and Richard III (1911). He was married to Winifred Durie Hodgson. He died on November 3, 1935 in Norwalk, Connecticut, USA.
In 1933 created the role of Oscar Jaffe in the play Twentieth Century. The play was later turned into a movie by Columbia pictures directed by Howard Hawks starring John Barrymore as Oscar Jaffe.
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In 1905 he made his first stage appearance in Manchester as a young Bensonian Shakespearian player. In 1924 he made his American stage debut as a member of Henry Jewett's repertory troop in Boston.
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His wife, Winifred Durie was also a student of Sir Francis Robert Benson.
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Taught at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
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Wounded in World War l, he spent eighteen months in hospital before returning to the stage. He had been performing in Berlin when the war broke out.
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A Shakespearian actor who performed across Europe and America.
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