Leading Roles
Men - A thru L

Mr. Armbruster was literally born into show business. His parents toured the country during the hey-day of vaudeville, and also appeared in "Tattle Tails" with Frank Fay and Barbara Stanwyck. He made his debut at age six in a night-club act his parents were doing, and as a young boy he was an avid magic fan.

Further training in both music and drama came from College of the Pacific, Santa Barbara College and UCLA, and he also studied privately with John Charles Thomas and Richard Bonelli. Concurrently he appeared as guest soloist with the Stockton, Vallejo and Santa Rosa Symphonies and presented "Richard Armbruster In Concert." He performed with the San Francisco Drama Guild and at the Philadelphia Music Festival.

While in the army he appeared on "Soldiers Parade" and "Talent Patrol," and won first place in the All Army Talent Contest in the finals held on the Ed Sullivan Show. Upon discharge, he was selected to appear in the "Salute To France" production of "Oklahoma!" which led to his role in the road company of "Plain and Fancy." Since then Broadway has seen him as Marius in "Fanny," and in "Goldilocks," "Beg, Borrow or Steal," and "Lock Up Your Daughters." Both dramatic and musical stock have provided summer occupation, and he has appeared widely in television, commercials and industrial shows.

In addition to his duties as a leading baritone for the New York City Center Opera, Mr. Atkins has appeared frequently with the NBC-TV Opera and as soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the Boston, Rochester, Cleveland, Philadelphia and other major symphony orchestras.

Following his training at Juilliard, the American Theatre Wing, and City College, he was offered his first professional role in "Street Scene" by Kirt Weill, who had heard his first New York concert, and who was planning a special production of the opera in the Hollywood Bowl. New york critics hailed his debut in the title role of the City Center production of "Most Happy Fella." He also starred for two years in the Jones Beach extravaganza, "Paradise Island." On TV, he has appeared on the Hallmark Hall of Fame.

Known in New York as a singer, both in musicals and opera, Mr. Atkinson spent the past season playing coveted acting roles at the Vanguard Repertory Playhouse in Detroit, for example, the title roles of Ibsen's "The Master Builder," Pirandello's "Henry IV," and E. E. Cummings "him." This was not his first "straight" experience, however as he has played Macbeth as a guest artist at Rollins College, Petruchio at Bishop's College in Canada, in the University of Utah's production of Giraudoux' "On- dine." He was in City Center's "He Who Gets Slapped," and in the Winnipeg Players "The Caucasian Chalk Circle," as well as at the Montreal Repertory and the Pasadena Playhouse," he was directed by Ted Mann in Williams' "Period of Adjustment."

Arriving in New York from Northern Quebec on a Julliard scholarship, after a stint with the Montreal Opera Guild, Mr. Atkinson first found employment touring "Inside U. S. A," going on to "The Girl in Pink Tights," "The Vamp," with Carol Channing, "Kiss Me, Kate" with Kitty Carlisle, "Destry Rides Again" with Dolores Gray, and co-starring roles in the City Center productions of "Brigadoon," "Annie Get Your Gun," and "Say, Darling."

He played pivotal roles in premiers of music dramas by contemporary composers for the City Center Opera: "He Who Gets Slapped," "Wuthering Heights," "Taming of the Shrew," "Gallantry," "Trouble in Tahiti," "The Good Soldier Schweik," "The Consul," "Amahl and the Night Visitors," and "The Cradle Will Rock." He was Richard Rodgers' choice for Billy Bigelow when "Carousel" was presented at the Brussels Worlds Fair; he starred for two seasons in Guy Lombardo's "Show Boat" at Jones Beach; he co-starred with Paul Muni in a West Coast musical version of "Grand Hotel," and he starred in "Can-Can" with Genevieve in Central Park for the Hudson Celebration season.

Off Broadway has seen him as Macheath in "Threepenny Opera," "The Rivals," and in "All in Love." His small screen credits include Studio One, a feature role with Audrey Hepburn on the spectacular "Mayeriing," and in the title role of "The Importance of Being Earnest" on the Steel Hour. He has also been a guest on Ed Sullivan, Pack Paar, and the Gypsy Rose Lee Show.

In 1962, Variety reviewed his night club debut with high praise and his recordings include "Trouble in Tahiti," "Girl in Pink Tights," and "David Atkinson Sings." His greatest success on the stage came late in his career: the role of Cervantes in "Man of La" which he portrayed in the original Broadway production (replacing Richard Kiley), the 1968 national tour, and in the 1972 Broadway revival.

Gene Blakely, who worked on Broadway and Off Broadway in the 1940s and 1950s is best known for his TV work and presence on the silver screen. Blakely marked his early career with roles in "Three Steps to Heaven" (1953-55), "Battle of the Coral Sea" (1959) and the comedy adaptation "That Darn Cat" (1965) with Hayley Mills. Later, Blakely acted in "Beach Red" (1967), the comedic adaptation "The Prisoner of Second Avenue" (1974) with Jack Lemmon and the Kurt Russell comedy "Used Cars" (1980). He also appeared in "September Gun" (CBS, 1983-84) and the comedy "Murphy's Romance" (1985) with Sally Field. Later in his career, Blakely appeared in "Not Quite Human" (Disney, 1986-87). He died of bone cancer in 1987

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Mr. Brotherson appeared with Ethel Merman in "Call Me Madam and with Noel Harrison in "Half A Sixpence." He appeared in a comedy role in "Star," the Robert Wise film biography of Gertrude Lawrence's life, starring Julie Andrews. Mr. Brotherson appeared with Miss Lawrence in the original production of "Lady in the Dark," portraying Russell Paxton in over 700 performances. Noel Coward's "Set to Music" with Beatrice Lillie and "Blithe Spirit" with Mildred Natwick are among his memorable credits. He has appeared on Broadway in "Make Mine Manhattan," "The Fifth Season," "Room Service" and "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." For three years he was Carol Channing's leading man in the latter hit musical. He toured with the National Company of "My Fair Lady" for the length of its entire engagement from March 1957 to December 1963, including its tour of the Soviet Union. r. Brotherson has played in over forty regional theatre productions and has been seen periodically on television.

Larry Brooks achieved stardom as Edvard Grieg in the original Broadway production of "Song of Norway." He appeared on Broadway in "Silk Stockings" and had performed for 10 years in musical comedies and operettas throughout the country. He was also featured on the Ford Radio Show for 56 weeks.

Hugh Bryant made his stage debut in London's Jazz Train. A graduate of Brooklyn's Boys High School, he won a Metropolitan Opera scholarship to Juilliard School of Music. He sang in supper clubs, while going to school, and landed in London following a stint in the Marines. Following his debut in Jazz Train, he signed with the popular British revue Cranks and came to America in that production. From there, he stepped into the Broadway production of Jamaica.

Richard Totten "Dick" Button (born July 18, 1929 in Englewood, NJ) is an American former figure skater and skating analyst. He is a two-time Olympic champion (1948, 1952) and five-time World champion (1948-1952). He is also the only non-European man to have become European champion. Button is credited as having been the first skater to successfully land the double Axel jump in competition in 1948, as well as the first triple jump of any kind-a triple loop-in 1952. He also invented the flying camel spin, which was originally known as the "Button camel."

On Broadway he appeared in the revivals of "South Pacific" and "Mister Roberts" at the New York City Center. He spent three years in summer stock playing Sakini in "Teahouse of the August Moon," and the title role in "Pal Joey." On television he was seen on Omnibus, Robert Montgomery and the NBC spectaculars Androcles and the Lion and the George M. Cohan show.

Following his retirement from competition, Button signed on to skate with the Ice Capades. He toured with Holiday on Ice. He co-produced "Dick Button's Ice-Travaganza" for the 1964 New York World's Fair, starring 1963 World Champion Donald McPherson, but the ice show lost money and closed after a few months. Button was a guest on the television show I've Got A Secret as one of five former Olympic champions which aired October 13, 1954

As founder of Candid Productions, he created a variety of made-for-television sports events, including the World Professional Figure Skating Championships, Challenge of Champions, Dorothy Hamill specials for HBO. As an actor, Button performed in such films as The Young Doctors and The Bad News Bears Go to Japan starring Tony Curtis. He appeared in more television roles, including Hans Brinker and Mr. Broadway.

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Mr. Carter has been seen some fifty times in the Richard Kiley part in "No Strings" on Broadway in 1962 and 1963 when he was "stand-by." He was Arthur in "Take Me Along," Agydus in "Tamburlaine The Great," and Austria in "The Lovers" all on Broadway, and was featured in "What A Killing" and "Sandhog" off-Broadway.

In his dossier of stock credits, Mr. Carter lists "Stalag 17," "Mister Roberts," "The School For Scandal," "She Stoops to Conquer," "South Pacific," "Brigadoon," "Paint Your Wagon," and many others. He played the leading role on the U.S. Steel Hour, and has been variously employed in industrial shows, films, TV commercials.

A native of Center Ridge Arkansas, and a graduate of the University of Missouri, he attended the American Theatre Wing, and Madame Daykarhanova's School for the Stage. Before assaying a theatrical career, Mr. Carter was a farmer, an oil field worker, worked on road construction, and as a pipe salesman, among other things.

Alfred Cibelli comes. from a musical family. His father, the late Alfred Cibelli, Sr., sang at the Metropolitan Opera Company, and Alfred Jr., was guided by B. Gigli, the world renowned tenor. Alfred's first professional role was as "Jud" in the Broadway company of "Oklahoma!." He repeated this assignment in a long road tour and later in London where he also studied at the Royal Academy of Art. He understudied Yul Brynner in "The King and I" on Broadway.

Prior to his engagement at the Music Circus, Mr. Congdon appeared on Broadway as James Keller in "The Miracle Worker." He also appeared in "The Loud Red Patrick" on Broadway. He was a big screen film actor known for powerful performances. Congdon began his acting career in film, appearing in such titles as "The Left-Handed Gun" (1958) and "The Group" (1966) with Candice Bergen. He worked in television in his early acting career as well, including a part on "Another World" (NBC, 1963-1999). He continued to work steadily in film throughout the sixties and the seventies, appearing in the drama "300 Year Weekend" (1970) with Michael Tolan and the horror flick "The Gardener" (1974) with Katharine Houghton. He also worked in television during these years, including a part on "Somerset" (NBC, 1969-1977). During the latter half of his career, he continued to act in "Summerdog" (1977), the Katharine Houghton horror film "Seeds of Evil" (1980) and "Refuge" (1981). Congdon more recently acted in the Sarah Jessica Parker drama "Somewhere Tomorrow" (1984).

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In the 1957 Music Circus production, Mr Derr recreated the role he originated in the original Broadway production of "Plain and Fancy," an appropriate musical for his singing debut, since his maternal grandmother was a Mennonite from Lancaster, Pa. After a year on Broadway he recreated the role in the London production. His other New York shows include "Dial M For Murder," "The Traitor," "The Closing Door," "A Phoenix Too Frequent,' and "The Grand Tour.' He has been in a dozen Hollywood films including. "Joan of Arc," "Something To Live For, and "Commandos Strike At Dawn,"

In the 1950s, most of Derr's work was done on television. On November 21, 1950, he co-starred in "The Perfect Type" on Armstrong Circle Theatre. In 1959, he was the host of Fanfare, a summer dramatic anthology series on NBC-TV. In 1965, he played the role of Dr. Dwyer in the three-part serial, "The Adventures of Gallegher," on Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, and later made appearances in Barnaby Jones, in two episodes of Star Trek, and in the 1976 miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man Book II.

On May 8, 1992, at the age of 75, Derr died of pancreatic cancer in Santa Monica, California.

Born Stephen Fitch in Mount Vernon, Ohio in 1921, Douglass had a distinguished theatrical career and appeared occasionally on television. He was the last performer to play Billy Bigelow in the original Broadway production of "Carousel" and he created the role in the West End production in London. He was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor for his performance as Joe Hardy in "Damn Yankees," and he originated the role of Ulysses in Jerome Moross and John Latouche's "The Golden Apple." Other Broadway appearances included "Make A Wish," "Destry Rides Again," "110 in the Shade", "Rumple," and "I Do! I Do!." He also portrayed Gaylord Ravenal in the 1966 Lincoln Center revival of "Show Boat."

He retired to England in 1972, but continued working in musicals, most notably as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. His final musical appearance was in a U.K. production of Oklahoma! in 2003 at The New Vic Theatre in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.[1]

In addition to his work in musical theatre, Douglass also occasionally sang roles in operas. In 1960, he portrayed Olin Blitch in the Philadelphia Lyric Opera Company's production of Carlisle Floyd's "Susannah," with Phyllis Curtin in the title role and Richard Cassilly as Sam Polk. He appeared in several concerts for The Ivor Novello Appreciation Bureau at Littlewick Green.

He died at the age of 90 after a long battle with leukemia.

Mr. Earle has performed in many leading and supporting roles at the Music Circus as well as being the Choreographer from 1960 to 1964.

Off-Broadway, Mr Earle composed and choreographed "The Decameron." In the Lambertville area, he choreographed productions at Rider College, and directed at the McCarter Theater in Princeton. He also produced and staged the Spring Swing Spectacular for the Trenton Junior Chamber of Commerce in 1963.

Mr. Earle founded the Trenton Studio of Perfoming Arts—School of Drama and Dance, in which he also teaches. During his years at the Music Circus, he not only choreographed most of the shows, but also brought his talents to playing supporting and leading roles. After his years at the Music Circus he went on to understudy Anthony Newley on Broadway in "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off."

Mr. Earle was the choreographer at the Music Circus from 1960 to 1964.

Mr. Ferro is a veteran of many performances of "Can-Can," playing his role opposite Lilo in summer stock and dinner theatres. Actually, he came to musical theatre by way of the concert and opera stage, debuting in "South Pacific," and since then his singing career has ranged from musical comedy to oratorios and operas such as "Boris Godunov."

Other musicals include "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," "The Student Prince," and "The Red Mill," while New York audiences have seen him in the revival of Menotti's "The Saint of Bleecker Street," as well as in many concert and opera performances on the stages of Carnegie Hall and Philharmonic Hall, most recently in Rossini's "William Tell." Mr.Ferro was a concert artist in five European countries, and was a member of the Graz Opera Company in Austria, scoring further success on tour in Mozart's "Don Giovanni" with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. In Brussels, he was chosen as soloist with Birgit Nilsson in the Verdi "Requiem."

His musical training includes Juilliard, Columbia, Accademia Chigiana (Italy), Mozarteum (Austria), and he is a recipient of a Fulbright award. He was on the voice faculty of Hunter College.

Mr.Gannon hails from Providence, Rhode Island where he attained a BA in history from Providence College. After a season in which he sang in the chorus and understudied the tenor leading role in "Show Boat" at Jones Beach, on Long Island, NY, he captured a role in the original "The Music Man" on Broadway, and followed with appearances in "Camelot (Sir Sagramore) in 1960," "Donnybrook," and a baker's dozen of leading summer theatre musicals, including a tour as Billy Bigelow with Dorothy Collins. In "Camelot" he was standby for Robert Goulet, and in "Donnybrook," he filled in for Art Lund, also appearing on the Ed Sullivan show with Eddie Foy, Jr. in connection with that latter show. Just prior to his appearance in Lambertville he toured the U.S. readying a comedy act tabbed "Gannon & Gorsten Blatt" which opened at the Latin Quarter in New York in the Fall of 1963.

Ben was born as a first generation Sicilian immigrant in New York, NY on November 28, 1932. He began his stage career early in life as a professional pianist and then while participating in the High School for the Arts in New York, NY. His career gave him the opportunities to act on Broadway, in theaters abroad, in Los Angeles, and on television. He performed in the original "West Side Story" on Broadway as well as in London and Tokyo, and was involved as director, producer, actor, singer, musician and songwriter with many productions. He directed Red Buttons in "Play It Again Sam" by Woody Allen, was Associate Producer of the Bob and Ray radio program. He served in the military during the Korean War as a USO entertainer and cook. Ben Gerard passed away in Chesapeake, VA in 2016 at 83.

Long a favorite of the Music Circus, Mr. Goode is a seasoned comedian of stage, screen, operettas, summer theatres, television and industrial shows. He made his debut with the Shuberts in "Hello Paris," and also appeared in "Princess Charming," "Face the Music," and "The Show Is On."

A native of Columbus, Ohio, he attended Ohio State and was Lt. Jack Goode in the South Pacific, also dishing up entertainment for the troops in Guadalcanal, New Caledonia, and Vella Lovella.

A long series of musicals at the major summer musical theatres brought him back to Broadway in "Gypsy Lady," after which he was off to Hollywood to work with Fred Astaire in such pictures as "Top Hat," "Flying Down to Rio" and "Swingtime," and he also staged Shirley Temple's dances in "Poor Little Rich Girl."

One of the first comedians to appear in the musical arena theatres, he has worked not only at the Music Circus but with Cohasset, Hyannis, Warwick, Framingham,and Oakdale, starring in some sixty different roles, notably "Bells Are Ringing,""The Wizard of Oz," "Show Boat,""Naughty Marietta," "Guys and Dolls," "Babes in Toyland," "Good News," and "Louisiana Purchase."

Broadway saw him again when he took over the role of Hines in "The Pajama Game" and when it closed he repeated the role on a six-month South African tour. Also on Broadway he played Dr. Moon in "Anything Goes," Mr. Applegate in "Damn Yankees," and Benny in "Desert Song" and was recently in the revival of "Oh Kay."

Mr. Goode is the winner of the Ohio State Amateur Golf title and shares the course record for the Scioto Country Club with Sam Snead. On his farm near Frenchtown, NJ, he collects antiques, with emphasis on antique firearms.

Other Broadway credits include:
"Hello, Dolly!" (Horace Vandergelder) Jan 16, 1964 - Dec 27, 1970
"Sally" (Otis Hooper) May 6, 1948 - Jun 5, 1948
"The Show is On" ("Long as You've Got Your Health" Dancer) Sep 18, 1937 - Oct 2, 1937

Mr. Gregg's Broadway credits include:
"No Strings" Mar 15, 1962 - Aug 3, 1963
"The Unsinkable Molly Brown" Nov 3, 1960 - Feb 10, 1962
"Say, Darling" Apr 3, 1958 - Jan 17, 1959
"Happy Hunting" Dec 6, 1956 - Nov 30, 1957
"Music in the Air" revival, Oct 8, 1951 - Nov 24, 1951
"The Pajama Game".

On the night club circuit he appeared at the Versailles and the Diamond Horseshoe in New York, and on radio and television he was featured over the NEC network from California.

Earl Hammond (June 16, 1921, Manhattan, New York City, USA - May 1, 2002, Manhattan, New York City, USA) was an American theater, radio, film and television actor, and, in his later years, a voice actor for several animated films and TV series.

Earl Hammond began acting in radio at the age of 7, and continued working in that venue throughout his life. In the 1940s, he had a regular role as a young lawyer on the radio soap opera Days of Our Lives. From 1974 to 1982, he acted on the CBS Radio Mystery Theater, appearing in 189 episodes, over 12% of the entire run of the 1,399 episodes of that radio series.

Hammond started his television career in the early 1950s, his first major role being as a regular, Sergeant Lane, on the DuMont police drama Inside Detective. In the mid-1950s, he had a major role in the daily/noontime CBS television soap opera Valiant Lady.

Hammond was best remembered for providing the voices of Mumm-Ra, Jaga, and other characters on the 1980s animated TV series ThunderCats, and for being the voice of villain Mon*Star on the 1980s animated TV series Silverhawks. He was also the voice of the Transformers villain Megatron in a series of children's read-along books.

In 1994, Hammond was selected from several hundred actors who auditioned to be the voice of Pope John Paul II on the audiotape version of the Random House book Crossing the Threshold of Hope. The publisher said the pope personally selected Hammond.

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Miklos "Mickey" Hargitay (January 6, 1926 - September 14, 2006) was a Hungarian-American actor and the 1955 Mr. Universe. Born in Budapest, Hargitay moved to the United States in 1947, where he eventually became a citizen.

Hargitay's first film role came when Jayne Mansfield demanded he be cast in her movie, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957). The two had met the year before at The Mae West Show at the Latin Quarter. The two fell in love, and were described as inseparable. 20th Century Fox didn't want Hargitay in Rock Hunter, because they disliked Mansfield's view of Hargitay as her "only" lover; Fox preferred their sex symbols to be single.

In 1960, Hargitay and Mansfield played the lead roles in The Loves of Hercules. The film was shot in Italy, and has never been released in movie theaters in the United States, though it is available on Netflix under the title Hercules vs. Hydra. Over the next four years, Hargitay and Mansfield would appear together in Promises! Promises! (1963) and L'Amore Primitivo (1964). In 1965, Hargitay played the lead role in Bloody Pit of Horror without Mansfield.

In 2003, Hargitay made his final acting appearance on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the series in which his daughter Mariska stars.

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A native of Evanston, Illinois who attended Northwestern and currently lives in Tenafly, N. J., Mr. Harris first trod the boards as a "Shakespearwright" as Orsino in "Twelfth Night." Broadway first saw him as understudy to George Grizzard in "Desperate Hours," and he was Tiger in the original company of "West Side Story" in which he also understudied Tony. At the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Conn., he played in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and "Midsummer Night's Dream."

His stock credits include the Bucks County Playhouse, Falmouth, the Edgewater Beach Playhouse in Chicago, and Eaglesmere Playhouse, and he has sung in operettas and musicals at West Palm Beach Musicarnival, at Corning, the Lombard (Ill.) Civic Light Opera, Omaha Light Opera, Winnipeg Summer Theatre and the North Shore Music Festival.

Operatic roles have included Traviata, Belmonte, Rigoletto, Tosca, Iris, Faust, Cavallaria, Butterfly, Boheme, and Il Turko in Italia. Televiewers have caught Mr. Harris often and his wife, Inga Swenson was the lead in the musical "Rainbow," the musical version of "The Rainmaker."

Born in England and raised in Canada, Mr. Hawthorne made his Broadway bow in "The Red Mill," and followed that in "Sweethearts," "Inside USA," and "South Pacific." After the Rodgers and Hammerstein hit, Jim moved to the operetta circuit where he was a favorite in St. Louis, Dallas, and many of the other tent theatres in addition to Lambertville. He made his debut with the New York City Center Opera Company in the early 1950s in "Salome," and has also appeared in their productions of "Faust," "Carmen," "Tales of Hoffman," "Falstaff," and "Rigoletto."

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Mr. Herbert was born in Austria, where he earned a Doctor of Law degree at the University of Vienna while studying voice at the Vienna Conservatory. By 1938, his interest in opera won out. He made his debut at the Vienna Volksoper as Amonasro in Verdi's "Aida." in 1940 arrived in New York City, where he came to the attention of the prominent opera conductor Richard Stolz. He made his recital debut in 1949.

From the start of his career in America, Mr. Herbert associated himself with efforts to help opera reach larger audiences. He was a founding member of the American Lyric Theater, a company that presented opera in English translation. He performed with the NBC Opera Theater, which telecast English-language performances of such works as Rossini's "Barber of Seville," Strauss's "Rosenkavalier" and Tchaikovsky's "Pique Dame." Significantly, his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1955 was as Count Waldner in an English-language performance of Strauss's "Arabella."

Mr. Herbert taught at the Mannes College of Music and the Manhattan School of Music before joining the faculty of the University of Michigan School of Music, where he taught voice and directed opera productions from 1961 to 1981. Ralph Herbert died in 1995. He was 86.

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Mr. Herbert originated the role of Sammy Fong for the London production of "Flower Drum Song" and completed the year and a half run it had at the London Palace Theatre. He spent eighteen months on Broadway in "Follow the Girls," and starred in more than thirty other musicals, including "High Button Shoes," "Finian's Rainbow," "Anything Goes," Bye, Bye Birdie," "Damn Yankees," and "The Pajama Game." His television appearances included the Ed Sulivan Show, The Steve Allen Show, the Frank Sinaltra Show, Brenner, Dial O, Emergency, and Charlie Paradise.

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Playing opposite Martha Wright, Mr. Hollmann has starred in "South Pacific" all over the country in the early 60's. He sang the leading role in the City Center revival of "Most Happy Fella," and has toured in that role with Dorothy Collins, Miss Wright, and Jane Powell.

For two seasons he appeared with the N. Y. City Ballet in "Seven Deadly Sins." Other roles have been opposite Nancy Walker in "Wonderful Town," Anna Maria Alberghetti in "Fanny," "Paint Your Wagon," "Show Boat," and "Annie Get Your Gun".

Before his appearance in Lambertville he was in Columbus Ohio where he played Cesar in "Fanny" with Miss Alberghetti. Mr. Hollmann was the bass soloist with the 250 voice New Jersey Masterworks Chorus and Orchestra in their Carnegie Hall presentation of The Messiah and Brahms' German Requium. Earlier in 1963 he soloed in Philharmonic Hall with the same group in the St. John Passion.

For the past ten years he has been soloist at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, and has been featured soloist with the Miami, Vermont, Omaha, Seattle, Louisville, Kansas City, Pittsburgh and New Jersey Symphony Orchestras. He was nominated for the Ford Foundation Award in the Humanities and Arts, and was seen on television in a weekly filmed series entitled "A Song Is Born."

Jack Irwin understudied the role of Joe in the Broadway production of "The Most Happy Fella," and played the part for 46 performances. He was a winner of the Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts TV show in 1954 and has been a radio announcer and disc jockey. He made his Broadway debut in "Plain and Fancy."

A native born Greenwich Villager, Mr. Kirby did not decide to become a thespian until after he was married and his two sons were born. He held a variety of jobs, ranging from exterminator to singing waiter—in which latter position he was advised by Alice Ghostley and Kaye Ballard to go on the stage. He began by studying with Lee Strassberg, and since has acted in "The Ponder Heart," "La Ronde" at the Circle in the Square and "Morning's at Seven" at the Cherry Lane. In fact, he played in both of these last two at the same time, changing costumes in the car taking him from one theatre to the other. Televiewers have seen him on Philco, Goodyear, Omnibus, Bilko, The Nurses and The Defenders, and he was regularly Patrolman Kissel on Car 54 in 1962.

Mr. Kirby made his Broadway bow at age 40 in the 1965 production "Diamond Orchid." More stage work followed, and then movie assignments, commencing with the all-star "Catch 22" (1970), and continuing into the 1980s with such productions as "Sweet Dreams" (1985) and "Throw Momma from the Train" (1987).

Kirby's TV career has embraced both series successes (1989's "Anything But Love," as Jamie Lee Curtis' father), ignoble failures (1976's "Holmes and Yoyo," as Henry Sedford), and a few projects which never sold (Kirby was in two busted pilots for something called "McNamara's Band"). In 1984, Kirby returned to Broadway to understudy Dustin Hoffman as Willy Loman in the revival of "Death of a Salesman."

Bruce Kirby, sometimes billed as Bruce Kirby Sr., was the father of actor Bruno Kirby, who formerly billed himself as B. Kirby Jr.

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Jeffrey Lynn began his professional career in summer stock at Virginia's famous Barter Theatre. He spent several years playing small parts on Broadway and on the road before he was spotted by Warner Brothers while playing in a West Coast company of "Brother Rat." Six months later he was a motion-picture success with his performance in "Four Daughters" and in the next three years starred in fifteen films, including "Yes, My Darling Daughter," "Four Wives," "Fighting 69," "All This and Heaven Too," and "Underground."

With the outbreak of World War II, he joined the U.S. Signal Corps, won his Second Lieutenant's bars, transferred to the Air Corps and served thirty months overseas in Africa, Italy and Austria. Honorably discharged in 1946 with the rank of Captain, he returned to Hollywood and such films as "A Letter to Three Wives," "Black Bart," and "Up Front." He toured for one season opposite Sarah Churchill in "The Philadelphia Story," starred in "Lo and Behold" for The Theatre Guild and toured Australia in "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial." He has starred each summer in such stock productions as "The Hasty Heart," "John Loves Mary," "Mister Roberts," and "Stalag 17." His television career has included starring roles on such dramatic programs as Philco Playhouse, Lux Video Theatre, Studio One, Robert Montgomery Presents, Kraft Theatre, and Suspense. He made a national tour in "Two for the Seesaw.".