Background
Beal, Royal was born on June 2, 1899 in Brookline, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Henry Francis and Mary Isobel (Starkweather) Beal.
Beal, Royal was born on June 2, 1899 in Brookline, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Henry Francis and Mary Isobel (Starkweather) Beal.
Student Harvard, 1917-1918.
With Keith-Albee Stock Company, Boston, 1927-1928. Member road company The 19th Hole, 1928-1929, Journey’s End, 1929-1930, Angela is Twenty-Two, 1938-1939, The Doughgirls, 1943-1944, others Actor New York stage shows Take a Chance, 1932-1933, Alley Cat, 1934, Boy Meets Girl, 1935-1937, All that Glitters, 1937, The Lady Has a Heart, 1937, Papa is All, 1941, Without Love, 1942, Kiss and Tell, 1944-1945, Woman Bites Dog, 1946, Parlor Story, 1947, Red Gloves, 1948, Never Say Never, 1951.
With National Company in Death of a Salesman, 1949-1950, My Three Angels, 1953-1954, Number Time for Sergeants, 1955-1958, Advise and Consent, 1961-1962.
Numerous roles summer stock companies including Skowhegan, Dennis, Buckinghamshire County Company. Acting roles television shows, Philco, Kraft, United States Steel Hour, DuPont, others
Motion pictures include: Boomerang, Lost Boundaries, Death of a Salesman, Anatomy of a Murder. Appeared in Never Too Late, 1964.
Kiss Maine Kate, 1965. Trustee Equity-League Pension Fund, 1962-1963.
Member Actors Equity Association (chairman house affairs, investment committees 1961-1967, treasurer, 1960-1967).
Married Edda Frances Bennett, June 28, 1924. Children: Nancy (Mistress Conrad Ivan Gardner) Sally (Mistress Hugh Spencer Leather).