Frederick Combs

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Frederick Combs (born October 11, 1935 in Portsmouth , Virginia , † September 19, 1992 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American actor .

Life

Frederick Combs trained as an actor. He was seen in various theater roles on Broadway in Manhattan in the 1960s, including as Geoffrey in the play Bitter Honey and in Franco Zeffirelli's lavish production of The Lady of the Camellias . In the late 1960s, he took on the risky role of the gay Donald , who was under psychological treatment, in Mart Crowley's play The Boys in the Band , and the off-Broadway production was a surprise success. Combs played the role in the film adaptation of The Hard and the Tender by William Friedkin again. In addition, Combs also played other roles in film and television, but these were mostly small in nature, for example as a nameless reporter in the miniseries Roots .

With the support of a foundation by Edward Albee , he created his first play The Children's Mass , which premiered in New York in 1973. Combs then wrote other one-act plays with which he appeared in the Los Angeles area. From the end of the 1970s he also worked as an acting teacher and worked on a school project aimed at introducing children and young people to theater. Combs died of AIDS in September 1992 at the age of 56 .

Filmography

  • 1965: Preston & Preston ( The Defenders ; television series, episode) - Role: Robert Kraft
  • 1967: The Wild Wild West ( The Wild Wild West , television series, one episode) - Role: lift boy
  • 1970: Die Harten und die Zarten (The Boys in the Band) - Role: Donald
  • 1971: Bad Marien's Last Year (short film) - Role: Boyfriend
  • 1978: The Users (TV movie) - Role: Editor
  • 1979: Roots - The Next Generations (miniseries, one episode) - Role: Reporter
  • 1965: Fires of the Mind - Role: Robert Kraft
  • 1980: Moviola - Greta Garbo: The Divine ( The Silent Lovers ; TV movie) - Role: Howard Strickling
  • 1983: Another Woman's Child (TV movie) - Role: Doctor
  • 1988: David (TV movie) - role: Ken Curtis

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frederick Combs - Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB. Retrieved March 23, 2019 .
  2. ^ New York Times: Screen: 'Boys in the Band': Crowley Study of Male Homosexuality Opens
  3. ^ Lee A. Daniels: Frederick Combs, An Actor, Director And Playwright, 57 . In: The New York Times . October 2, 1992, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed March 23, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Combs, Frederick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Portsmouth , Virginia
DATE OF DEATH 19th September 1992
Place of death los Angeles