Vincent J. Donehue

Who was Vincent J. Donehue?

Vincent Julian Donehue was an American director noted mainly for his theater work, with occasional film and television credits.

Donehue was born in Whitehall, New York. He was a graduate of the Christian Brothers Academy and the New York State Teachers' College, now University at Albany, both in Albany, New York. He served in the Army Air Force for 5 years.

His Broadway credits as director include The Trip to Bountiful starring Lillian Gish, Jo Van Fleet and Eva Marie Saint, The Traveling Lady with Kim Stanley, Tennessee Williams' 27 Wagons Full of Cotton with Maureen Stapleton, Sunrise at Campobello which won him the Tony Award for Best Direction, the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II musical The Sound of Music starring Mary Martin, which earned him another Tony nomination, Daughter of Silence, Lord Pengo with Charles Boyer and Agnes Moorehead, Jennie with Mary Martin and Catch Me if You Can. He also restaged the 1954 Mary Martin Peter Pan for television in 1960, the third telecast of the Broadway stage musical.