1. Ed Flanders is best known for playing Dr Donald Westphall in the medical drama series St Elsewhere.
15 Facts About Ed Flanders
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Ed Flanders was nominated for eight Primetime Emmy Awards and won three times in 1976,1977, and 1983.
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Ed Flanders received a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for his performance in the 1973 production of A Moon for the Misbegotten.
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Ed Flanders was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of Bernice and Francis Michael Grey Ed Flanders.
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Ed Flanders's mother was killed in an automobile crash when he was 14.
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From 1967 through 1975, Ed Flanders appeared in more than a dozen American TV shows, including six appearances on Hawaii Five-O.
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In 1974, Ed Flanders won a Tony Award for Best Supporting or Featured Actor in a Dramatic Presentation for A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill on Broadway.
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Ed Flanders won an Emmy award in 1976 for the TV movie adaptation of A Moon for the Misbegotten.
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Ed Flanders continued his working relationship with executive producer Bruce Paltrow in the short-lived 1994 CBS series The Road Home.
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Ed Flanders portrayed Truman at the end of World War II and during the Korean War in Truman at Potsdam, Harry S Truman: Plain Speaking, and MacArthur.
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In MacArthur, Ed Flanders had second billing to Gregory Peck's lead as General Douglas MacArthur.
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In feature films, Ed Flanders performed major roles in two dark movies based on novels by William Peter Blatty.
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In 1990, Flanders played Father Dyer alongside star George C Scott in Blatty's The Exorcist III based on the novel Legion.
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Ed Flanders played nationally known journalist William Allen White in the 1977 made-for-TV movie Mary White.
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Ed Flanders appeared in the 1979 made-for-TV-horror-miniseries Salem's Lot as Dr Bill Norton, and played news anchor John Woodley in the 1983 made-for-TV suspense drama Special Bulletin, about a group of environmentalists who threaten to detonate a nuclear weapon in Charleston, South Carolina.