M. R. Morand

[1] Morand was engaged by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in December 1894 to create the role of José in Burnand and Sullivans's The Chieftain at the Savoy Theatre.

In April 1895 Morand moved to a D'Oyly Carte touring company with which he played José in The Chieftain and Phantis in Gilbert and Sullivan's Utopia, Limited.

[1] In December 1896 Morand was an extra in a benefit matinee performance of Trial by Jury at the Lyceum Theatre, and in April 1897 he joined another D'Oyly Carte touring company as Ko-Ko in The Mikado, Shadbolt in The Yeomen of the Guard and Boodel in His Majesty; in August 1897 he was promoted to the lead comedy roles of Jack Point in Yeomen, Major-General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance, the Duke of Plaza-Toro in The Gondoliers, Sir Joseph Porter in H.M.S.

[1] He rejoined a D'Oyly Carte touring company, playing Bedford Rowe in The Vicar of Bray and Pennyfather in the companion piece After All!, from December 1898 to February 1899, and later as Tobasco and then Sirocco in The Lucky Star and also The McCrankie in Haddon Hall, until September 1899.

Morand was a replacement player as Silas Simpkins in the original production of Merrie England at the Savoy Theatre in November 1902, having played the role on tour the previous August.

[2] The couple divorced in 1912 in a celebrated case as a result of her "habitual adultery" with Captain James Archibald Morrison, formerly Member of Parliament for Nottingham East, including at a hotel in Paris.

[11] He acted in a number of silent films including Gloria (1916) playing the villain opposite Frank Cellier; was Gaspard the miser in Les Cloches de Corneville (1917); was John Melsher Snr in Daddy (1917) and appeared in The Land of Mystery (1920).