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Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity. ES-5943 John
Cullum (born March 2,
1930) is an American actor and singer. He has appeared in many stage musicals and dramas,
including Shenandoah (1975)
and On the Twentieth Century (1978),
winning the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for each. In 1966 he
gained his first Tony nomination as the lead in On a Clear Day You Can See
Forever, in which he introduced the title song,
and more recently received Tony nominations for Urinetown The Musical (2002)
(Best Actor
in a Musical) and as Best Featured Actor in the revival of 110 in the Shade (2007). Some of his other notable
roles included tavern owner Holling Vincoeur in the television drama
series Northern Exposure,
gaining an Emmy Award nomination
(Best Supporting Actor in a Drama). He was featured in fifteen episodes of the
NBC television series ER as Mark Greene's father. He also played the farmer, Jim Dahlberg,
in the landmark television drama The Day After. He has made multiple guest appearances
on Law & Order and Law &
Order: Special Victims Unit as attorney, now judge, Barry Moredock, and appeared as Big Mike in several episodes
of The Middle. He also
appeared as Senator Beau Carpenter on the CBS series, Madam Secretary.
He made his Broadway debut as Sir
Dinadan in Alan Jay Lerner's
and Frederick Loewe's Camelot in 1960. He also understudied Richard Burton (King Arthur) and Roddy McDowall (Arthur's son Mordred), going on four times when Burton became ill and
succeeding McDowall. He would go on to play Laertes opposite Burton's 1964 Broadway performance as Hamlet[8] (and in the film version of the
production) and in Burton's final Broadway appearance in Noël Coward's Private Lives in 1983. In
1965, he was called in to replace Louis Jourdan during the Boston tryout of the
musical On a Clear Day You Can See
Forever. It was his first starring role on Broadway,
netting him a Theatre World Award and his first Tony Award nomination. The original cast album received
a Grammy Award (presented to lyricist Alan Jay Lerner and
composer Burton Lane). He
portrayed Edward Rutledge of South Carolina in the Broadway musical 1776, providing a dramatic highlight with his performance
of "Molasses to Rum," a tirade against the hypocrisy of some
Northerners over the slave trade ("They don't keep slaves, but they are
willing to be considerable carriers of slaves to others. They're willing – for
the shilling.") Cullum had been the third Rutledge on Broadway, but played the role the longest and repeated
it for the 1972 film. He is well
known for premiering the role of Charlie Anderson in the musical Shenandoah, which
began at Goodspeed Opera House, Connecticut in 1974. Cullum won the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards when
the show was produced on Broadway in 1975. He also played the role at Wolf
Trap, Virginia, in June 1976, opened the national tour for 3 weeks in Fall
1977 in Chicago, and starred in the limited run Broadway
revival in 1989. He followed Shenandoah by playing the
maniacal Broadway producer Oscar Jaffee in the 1978 musical On the Twentieth Century,
opposite Madeline Kahn and
later Judy Kaye, earning his second Tony Award. He received his
fourth Tony nomination in 2002 for originating the role of evil moneygrubber
corporate president Caldwell B. Cladwell in Urinetown The Musical.[10] He earned his fifth Tony nomination in the
2007 revival of 110 in the Shade,
playing H.C. Curry, father to Audra McDonald's Lizzie. In 2003, Cullum co-starred with
Northern Exposure castmate Barry Corbin in 'Blackwater Elegy', an award-winning
short film written by Matthew Porter and co-directed by Porter and Joe
O'Brien Later Broadway appearances include the title role of William Shakespeare's
seldom-performed Cymbeline, at Lincoln Center in 2007 and August: Osage County,
by Tracy Letts for the week of September 16, 2008 and then
since November 11, 2008. In
addition to enjoying a long stage career, he is well known to television
audiences for his regular role as Holling Vincoeur on the quirky CBS series Northern Exposure, his extended appearances on the NBC medical
drama ER as Mark Greene's father, and on Law &
Order: Special Victims Unit as constitutional lawyer and
later judge, Barry Moredock. Cullum has also appeared as Lucky Strike
executive Lee Garner, Sr. on
AMC's Mad Men. He appeared as Leap Day William, the embodiment
of the fictional Leap Day national holiday, in the
"Leap Day" episode of
the sixth season of NBC's 30 Rock. John Cullum appeared on
Broadway in The Scottsboro Boys (2010),
a musical by Kander and Ebb about a notorious miscarriage of justice in the American South
in the 1930s. The Scottsboro Boys was directed by Susan Stroman. John Cullum was inducted into the Theatre Hall
of Fame in 2007. In 2015 Cullum appeared and sang in the satirical B&W
period movie-musical footage of Daddy's Boy on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
The "forgotten footage" features comically incestuous lyrics set in
an innocent context that apes classic 1930's films. Cullum joined
the cast of Waitress as Joe
on October 12, 2017, replacing Larry Marshall. |