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Name:
Keene Curtis
Geboren am: 15. Feb. 1923
Geboren in: Salt Lake City (Utah,
USA)
Verstorben am: 13.10.2002 an
Komplikationen
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In
Cheers: Dort spielt er den hochnäsigen und zynischen
Besitzer des Restaurants "Mellville's", das über dem Cheers
liegt. Mit Sam und den anderen aus der Bar hat er
häufig kleine Wort- gefechte oder es gibt irgendwelche Reibereien.
Privat:
Curtis spent 12 years as a stage manager, beginning in 1949 as
an assistant stage manager on a tour of the Martha Graham
Dance Company, and later for Katharine Cornell and Guthrie
McClintock.
He received bachelor's and master's degrees at the University
of Utah, where he was a student actor and cheerleader. Than he
served three years with the Navy.
As an actor he was discovered by Orson Welles when Welles
directed a college production of "Macbeth". Welles cast him in
the role of Lennox the following year in his 1948 adaptation
of the play, which launched his stage career.
Endowed a scholarship to help graduates embark on their own
acting careers and donated his Tony Award, theater memorabilia,
and personal correspondence to his alma mater, the Univer-
sity of Utah.
Best known for his bald-pated Daddy Warbucks in "Annie" and
flamboyant Alban in "La Cage aux Folles" on the musical stage,
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