John Cullum

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John Cullum (born March 2, 1930 in Knoxville , Tennessee ) is an American singer and actor .

Life

Cullum was born the son of a banker. He attended Knoxville High School and the University of Tennessee , he participated in the in the tennis team in the Southeastern Conference played (SEC) and a member of the fraternity Phi Gamma Delta was.

Cullum has been married to Emily Frankel since 1959. In 1966 their son John David Cullum was born, who is also an actor.

Career

Cullum discovered his interest in acting while still a student. He starred in Chucky Jack , an open-air drama about Tennessee Governor John Sevier , at the old Hunter Hills Theater in Gatlinburg; in the 1770s Sevier founded the Mount Pleasant plantation along the Nolichucky River south of Jonesborough , which earned him the nickname "(Noli) Chucky Jack".

Cullum made his Broadway debut at the age of 30 as Sir Dinadan in Alan Jay Lerners and Frederick Loewe's musical Camelot in 1960. He represented Richard Burton four times as King Arthur when he fell ill, and Roddy McDowall in his role as Arthur's son Mordred; later he succeeded McDowall.

In a 1964 Broadway production of Hamlet by Richard Burton (as well as in his film adaptation Richard Burton's Hamlet ), Cullum played his opponent Laertes at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater . On Burton's last Broadway appearance in 1983, he played again at his side in Noël Cowards Private Lives .

In 1965, Cullum replaced Louis Jourdan during the test performances of the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever in Boston ; his first leading role on Broadway earned him a Theater World Award and his first Tony Award nomination. The album for the musical won a Grammy Award , given to lyricist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Burton Lane .

In the Broadway musical in 1776 he portrayed Edward Rutledge of South Carolina and made his performance of "Melasses to Rum" ( Molasses to Rum ), a tirade against the hypocrisy of some Northerners to slave trade , for a dramatic climax:

"They don't keep slaves, but they are willing to be considerable carriers of slaves to others. They're willing - for the shilling. (They don't keep slaves , but they are ready to be slavers for others. They are ready - for the shilling .) "

Cullum was the third actor to portray Rutledge on Broadway, whose role played the longest, and repeated it for the film adaptation of the musical in 1972.

In 1974 he played Charlie Anderson in the world premiere of the musical Shenandoah at the Goodspeed Opera House, Connecticut ; for his subsequent performance on Broadway, Cullum won the 1975 Tony Award , the Drama Desk Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award. He also played the role in June 1976 in "Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts" in Virginia and opened a three-week national tour in Chicago in the fall of 1977 ; In 1989 it was briefly revived on Broadway.

After Shenandoah , he played the egomaniac theater producer Oscar Jaffee in the musical On the Twentieth Century in 1978 alongside Madeline Kahn and later with Judy Kaye. He received his second Tony Award for his performance.

He received his fourth and fifth Tony nominations in 2002 for the impersonation of company president Caldwell B. Cladwell, the antagonist in the musical Pinkelstadt, and in the 2007 revival of 110 in the Shade , in which he played HC Curry, the father of Audra McDonald's Lizzie.

In 2003, Cullum starred with former Alaskan colleague Barry Corbin in Blackwater Elegy , an award-winning short film by Matthew Porter, co-directed by Porter and Joe O'Brien.

In 2007 John Cullum was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame.

Among the Broadway performances recently the title role in include William Shakespeare 's rarely performed stage play Cymbaline in Lincoln Center in 2007 and in Tracy Letts comedy In August, Osage County , which premiered on 16 September 2008 and then again from November 11 2008 was played.

John Cullum starred in 2010, directed by Susan Stroman in The Scottsboro Boys at the Vineyard Theater off-Broadway , a musical by John Kander and Fred Ebb about racism in the US judicial system - especially in the American South - in the 1930s Years. The Scottsboro Boys trials resulted in an end to all-white juries in the long term.

In addition to his long stage career, he was already known to a wide audience in the role of the tavern owner Holling Vincoeur in the bizarre CBS television series Just Alaska and as a lawyer and later judge Barry Moredock in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit .

Cullum starred as the fictional Lucky Strike executive Lee Garner, Sr. on the AMC series Mad Men . In the episode Leap Day (English leap day ) of the NBC series 30 Rock , he played "Leap Day William", the epitome of the fictional Leap Day national holiday; the episode was directed by Steve Buscemi .

In 2015, Cullum took part in the satirical black-and-white music film Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt , which contains "forgotten film material", which puts comical-incestuous texts in an innocent context and satirizes classic films of the 1930s.

On October 12, 2017, Cullum replaced Larry Marshall in the cast of the musical Waitress .

Filmography

Movie

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theatre

  • 1960: Camelot - Sir Dinadan
  • 1962: Infidel Caesar
  • 1963: The Rehearsal
  • 1963: Hamlet - Laertes
  • 1965: The day will come ... - Dr. Mark Bruckner
  • 1967: The Man from La Mancha - Cervantes / Don Quixote
  • 1970: 1776 - Edward Rutledge
  • 1972: Vivat! Vivat Regina!
  • 1975: Shenandoah - Charlie Anderson
  • 1977: The Trip Back Down
  • 1978: On the Twentieth Century
  • 1979: Deathtrap - Sidney Bruhl
  • 1983: Private Lives - Victor Prynne
  • 1985: doubles
  • 1986: The Boys in Autumn - Huck
  • 1986: You never know
  • 1989: Shenandoah (re-release) - Charlie Anderson
  • 1990: Aspects of Love - George Dillingham
  • 1994: Show Boat - Cap'n Andy Hawkes
  • 1995: The Man from La Mancha - Don Quixote / Cervantes
  • 2001: Pinkelstadt - Caldwell B. Cladwell
  • 2005: Sin: A Cardinal Deposed - Cardinal Law
  • 2006: Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The musical
  • 2007: 110 in the Shade - HC Curry
  • 2008: Cymbeline - King Cymbeline
  • 2009: August in Osage County
  • 2010: The Scottsboro Boys
  • 2011: Measure for Measure ("Shakespeare in the Park") - Vincentio
  • 2011: All's well that ends well ("Shakespeare in the Park") - The Duke
  • 2014: Casa Valentina
  • 2016: Waitress

Awards and nominations

Awards
  • 1966: Theater World Award for On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
  • 1975: Drama Desk Award in the “Outstanding Actor, Musical” category for Shenandoah
  • 1975: Outer Critics Circle Award in the “Best Performances” category for Shenandoah
  • 1975: Tony Award in the category " Best Actor in a Musical " for Shenandoah
  • 1978: Tony Award in the category “Best Actor in a Musical” for On the Twentieth Century
  • 1982: Drama Desk Award in the “Unique Theatrical Experience” category for the one-man play Whistler
  • 1998: University of Tennessee Founders Day Medal
  • 2004: Lifetime Achievement Award from the Clarence Brown Theater Company, University of Tennessee
  • 2007: Induction into the American Theater Hall of Fame
Nominations
  • 1966: Tony Award in the category "Best Actor in a Musical" for On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
  • 1993: Emmy Award in the category “Best Supporting Actor in a Drama” for Alaska, of all places
  • 2002: Outer Critics Circle Award in the category “Outstanding Actor in a Musical” for Pinkelstadt
  • 2002: Tony Award in the category “Best Actor in a Musical” for Pinkelstadt
  • 2005: Drama Desk Award in the category "Outstanding Actor in a Play" for Sin (A Cardinal Deposed)
  • 2007: Tony Award in the category “Best Featured Actor in a Musical” for 110 in the Shade
  • 2008: Drama Desk Award in the category “Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play” for The Conscientious Objector

Source references

  1. ^ A b John Cullum Biography (1930-) . Filmreference.com. Retrieved June 16, 2017.
  2. ^ Cullum biography, All Movie Guide , The New York Times. Retrieved January 24, 2010. 
  3. ^ John Shearer: Famous alumni from Knoxville High School , Knoxville News Sentinel. May 28, 2010. 
  4. ^ Camelot listing . ibdb.com. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
  5. ↑ Hamlet 1964 . ibdb.com. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
  6. ^ Private Lives 1983 . ibdb.com. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
  7. ^ A b Harry Haun: His Kind of Town: John Cullum Is Right at Home in Urinetown: The Musical , playbill.com. November 21, 2001. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved June 19, 2019. 
  8. ↑ 1776 listing (Replacements) . ibdb.com. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
  9. ↑ 1776 (film) . imdb.com. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
  10. ↑ David Richards: Theater Review: 'Shenandoah' in a 20th-Anniversary Go-Round , The New York Times. August 18, 1994. 
  11. ↑ Levin Houston: Review: Shenandoah , The Free Lance Star. June 24, 1976. 
  12. ^ Haskel Frankel: Theater: Cullum Debut at Goodspeed Helm , The New York Times. August 28, 1977, p. 431. 
  13. ↑ Blackwater Elegy .
  14. ↑ Andrew Gans: Cymbeline, with Cerveris, Rashad, Cullum and Plimpton, Begins Broadway Run Nov. 1 , playbill.com. November 1, 2007. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved June 19, 2019. 
  15. ↑ Kenneth Jones: Cullum Is New Patriarch of Osage County Starting Nov. 11; Ross and Warren Also Join Cast , playbill.com. November 11, 2008. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved June 19, 2019. 
  16. ↑ a b Darren E. Burrows : Northern Exposed ( en ), 1st edition, Film Farms, USA 2013, ISBN 978-0615943626 , p. 228.
  17. ↑ Esther Zuckerman: 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt': Your guide to all the guest stars , Ew.com. March 10, 2015. Accessed June 16, 2017. 
  18. ↑ Ryan McPhee: Tony Winner John Cullum Joins Broadway's Waitress October 12 , playbill.com. October 5, 2017. Retrieved November 7, 2017. 
  19. ↑ 1974-75 Awards . dramadesk.com. Archived from the original on July 4, 2008. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
  20. ^ Outer Critics Circle Award, 1974-75 . outercritics.org. Archived from the original on April 27, 2009. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
  21. ^ Drama Desk Awards, 1981-82 . dramadesk.com. Archived from the original on December 15, 2010. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
  22. ^ Morgan Allen: PHOTO CALL: Tony Winner Cullum and Son Celebrate 30 Years of Theater at University of Tennessee , playbill.com. September 20, 2004. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved June 19, 2019. 
  23. ↑ Andrew Gans: Fierstein, O'Brien, Cullum and Ivey Among Theater Hall of Fame Inductees , playbill.com. October 12, 2007. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved June 19, 2019. 
  24. ^ Outer Critics Circle Award, 2001-02 , outercritics.org. Archived from the original on April 28, 2009. Retrieved January 24, 2010. 
  25. ^ Robert Simonson: Drama Desk Nominations Announced April 28 , playbill.com. April 28, 2005. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved June 19, 2019. 
  26. ↑ Andrew Gans: Drama Desk Nominees Announced; Catered Affair Garners 12 Noms , playbill.com. April 28, 2008. Archived from the original on April 21, 2010. Retrieved June 19, 2019. 

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personal data
SURNAME Cullum, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Knoxville , Tennessee