Cyril Harcourt (1872–1924) was a noted writer for the London and New York City stages who appeared in his own plays.

He had greater success with A Place in the Sun, at the Comedy Theatre in 1913, in which he played a brilliant man of letters soured by early poverty.

However, his greatest success and his most well-known play was A Pair of Silk Stockings, produced at the Criterion Theatre in 1914, which transferred to New York City and had been adapted for the cinema three times by 1932.

[1] In May 1917, Wanted, A Husband, starring Gladys Cooper, was produced at the Playhouse Theatre.

[2] Cyril Harcourt set up a management company with Norman Pritchard at the Comedy Theatre, New York, in 1918.