Harry Northup

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Harry Northup (2009)

Harry E. Northup (born September 2, 1940 in Amarillo , Texas ) is an American actor and poet .

Life

Born in Texas in 1940, Northup grew up in Ordville and Sidney in western Nebraska . At the age of 14 he first appeared on stage in the Community Theater in a production of the play Time Out For Ginger .

After graduating from high school, Northup served in the United States Navy from 1958 to 1961 as a radioman . He then studied at the University of Nebraska at Kearney , where he returned to the theater and took on his first leading roles. In 1962 he finished his studies and moved to New York City , where in Frank Corsaro's method acting class he met the actor and poet Leland Hickman , who got him enthusiastic about poetry.

After moving to Los Angeles , Northup took his first roles in film and television productions and otherwise devoted himself increasingly to poetry. In Corsaro's acting class, Northup had also met Harvey Keitel , who recommended him to Martin Scorsese . As a result, Northup took on a role in each of Scorsese's first six films. In 1986 they worked together again for an episode of the television series Incredible Stories .

Further long-term collaborations connected Northup with the directors Jonathan Demme and Jonathan Kaplan . Northup has worked with Demme since 1975 on films such as Bad Blues Girls , Make a Cross and Go to Hell , Fleet Sayings on Channel 9 , Swing Shift - Love for Time , The Silence of the Lambs , Philadelphia , Human Child and The Manchurian Candidate . Jonathan Kaplan hired him for the first time in 1979 as Sgt. Doberman for Anger in the Belly . In total, Northup has worked on 12 film and television productions under Kaplan's direction.

Harry Northup's first volume of poetry, "Amarillo Born", was published in 1966. "The Jon Voight Poems" (1973), "Eros Ash" (1976), "Enough the Great Running Chapel" (1982), "The Images we Possess Kill the Capturing" followed "(1988)," The Ragged Vertical "(1996)," Reunions "(2001)," Greatest Hits, 1966-2001 "(2002)," Red Snow Fence "(2006)," Where Bodies Again Recline "(2011 ) and "East Hollywood: Memorial to Reason" (2015). In addition, Northup published regularly in magazines and literary journals. He is a co-founder of the Cahuenga Press publishing house. Northup graduated with a bachelor's degree in English from California State University in 1985.

Northup recorded some of his poems for spoken word publications. Two spoken word albums were released on the New Alliance Records label, “Personal Crime” and “Homes”. Occasionally he also performed live at readings.

In November 2002, the University of California, San Diego acquired Northup's previous professional and private correspondence, including his manuscripts, journals, correspondence, etc., and archived them in the University's Mandeville Special Collections Library.

Northup was dating the poet Holly Prado from 1977 . They were married in 1990 until Prado's death on June 14, 2019. Northup lives in Los Angeles. A son (* 1969) was born from an earlier relationship.

Filmography (selection)

Works (selection)

Volumes of poetry
  • 1966: Amarillo Born (Victor Jiminez Press)
  • 1973: The Jon Voight Poems (Mt. Alverno Press)
  • 1976: Eros Ash (Momentum Press)
  • 1982: Enough the Great Running Chapel (Momentum Press)
  • 1988: The Images we Possess Kill the Capturing (The Jesse Press)
  • 1996: The Ragged Vertical (Cahuenga Press)
  • 2001: Reunions (Cahuenga Press)
  • 2002: Greatest Hits, 1966–2001 (Pudding House Publications)
  • 2006: Red Snow Fence (Cahuenga Press)
  • 2011: Where Bodies Again Recline (Cahuenga Press)
  • 2015: East Hollywood: Memorial to Reason (Cahuenga Press)

Discography (selection)

Spoken word albums
  • 1993: Personal Crime (New Alliance Records)
  • 1995: Homes (New Alliance Records)

Web links

Commons : Harry Northup  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Harry Northup Papers, 1940-2002 (MSS 0598): Biography . In: UC San Diego Library, accessed September 30, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c Interview with Harry Northup ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cultfilmfreak.com archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: cultfilmfreak.com, accessed December 31, 2017
  3. ^ A b Harry E. Northup: Greatest Hits, 1966-2001 , Pudding House Publications, Johnston Ohio, 2002, pp. 2-6.
  4. ↑ Dorany Pineda: Holly Prado, poet who championed LA's literary scene, dies at 81 . In: latimes.com from June 25, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Northup, Harry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Northup, Harry E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor and poet
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Amarillo , Texas , United States