Bill Hinnant attended Yale University, but left after his sophomore year in 1955 to originate the role of the navigator in the Broadway play No Time for Sergeants.
11 Facts About Bill Hinnant
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Bill Hinnant later returned to Yale, and graduated in 1959.
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Bill Hinnant was cast as Bruce Carter, a 26-year-old college student who lives temporarily in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, with his aunt, Gladys, and her husband, insurance salesman, Pete Porter.
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Bill Hinnant appeared on the long-running CBS game show, To Tell the Truth.
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Bill Hinnant was cast in the revues, All Kinds of Giants and Put it in Writing in 1962 and 1963.
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Bill Hinnant was praised as the "most strikingly talented of the cast" and won a Drama Desk Award for his performance.
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When Bill Hinnant leapt from atop his doghouse and went into a cakewalk, the spirit and the show soared.
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Charlie Brown, Bill Hinnant appeared in Norman Kline's The American Hamburger League off-Broadway in September 1969.
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Bill Hinnant then appeared in the 1971 Broadway musical Frank Merriwell.
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When You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown was adapted for a Hallmark Hall of Fame television special in 1973, Bill Hinnant reprised his role as Snoopy.
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Bill Hinnant was the only member of the original off-Broadway cast to reprise his role in the special.