Robert Sherman

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Robert Sherman , often Bob Sherman (* 16th November 1940 in Redwood City , California , † the thirtieth August 2004 in England , UK ) was an American actor and playwright .

Life

Sherman according to other sources in San Francisco born, came as a teenager in a reformatory ( Reform School ), got by with various odd jobs, including as a boat boy on the yacht of the actor Errol Flynn , on the coast of California drove along. Sherman later went to sea for a few years. At times he toured the world as a musician in a duo with Jacques Brel . At the end of the 1960s, Sherman settled permanently in Great Britain.

Sherman attended college in San Diego , went to the Old Globe Theater in San Diego as an actor . In the late 1950s / early 1960s he was a permanent member of the American Shakespeare Company and appeared, briefly under the stage name Bob Benedict , at the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford . Even in later years returned Sherman repeatedly to the stage: in 1969 he played in the Prince of Wales Theater in London alongside Betty Buckley the role of Chuck Baxter in the musical Promises, Promises by Burt Bacharach . In 1977 he played Larry Parks in London in Eric Bentley's play Are You Now Or Have You Have Ever Been? , a stage version of the Un-American Activities Committee hearings . Sherman edited the piece for the UK audience and also acted as producer. The play premiered at the Bush Theater in London, then went on tour and was later played for a long time at the Mayfair Theater . Sherman has also performed in London at the West End Theater at the Royal Court Theater and the Old Vic Theater .

He had his first proven ("credited") film role in 1955, under the name Robert Sherman , in the crime film Rattennest . In the 1950s he starred on American television with Wendell Corey in the series Alarm im Hafen ( Harbor Command ). From the 1970s Sherman was regularly employed as a concise supporting actor in British and American cinema productions. He played the minor cameo role of Bert in a television version of the musical Applause by John Kander with Lauren Bacall in 1973 . He played a CIA agent in Inspector Clouseau, the "best" man at Interpol , a US Senator in Superman IV and the CIA chief in the international coproduction Spy Games - Agents of the Night . As a talk show host, he had a role in the 2004 comic adaptation Hellboy by Guillermo del Toro .

On British television, Sherman was best known for his role as Jeff Ross in the British agent and spy series The Sandbaggers (1978-1980), in which he played the head of the London office of the Central Intelligence Agency , the main character Burnside in the 1975 fall of Saigon saved life. In 1978, he played the role of Captain John Cassidy in the US miniseries Holocaust - The Story of the Weiss Family . In one of his last television roles, he played the US President Ronald Reagan in the television film The Falklands Play , a cinematic analysis of the Falklands War .

Sherman also edited literary material for the theater and radio. He wrote a radio version of Ernest Hemingway's short novel The Old Man and the Sea , in which Rod Steiger participated. He has written pieces for BBC Radio 4 , including The Titanic Inquiry , which were based on the minutes of the US Senate's investigation into the sinking of the Titanic . Sherman's last completed piece was Hotel Arusha .

Sherman died of cancer .

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Musicals: 1969 ROB WILTON THEATRICALIA
  2. ↑ Applause (1973). In: Turner Classic Movies . Retrieved May 4, 2019 .
  3. ↑ The Sandbaggers PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS (with photo by Bob Sherman)
  4. ↑ HOLOCAUST. THE STORY OF THE FAMILY WEISS ( Memento from January 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ The Falklands Play ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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. BBC Four @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bbc.co.uk
personal data
SURNAME Sherman, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sherman, Bob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Redwood City , California
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 2004
Place of death England , UK