1. Eric Burroughs was an American stage and radio actor whose career spanned the 1930s to the early 1960s.
11 Facts About Eric Burroughs
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Eric Burroughs appeared in Orson Welles's all-Black Federal Theatre Project production of Macbeth.
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Eric Burroughs was born in The Bronx, New York on November 6,1911.
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Eric Burroughs was the son of postal worker and Shakespearean reader Charles Burroughs and Williana Burroughs, a New York City public school teacher and Communist party activist.
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Eric Burroughs's parents wanted him to have a profession, and sent him to Germany to study political science.
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Eric Burroughs appeared in a Piscator production of The Good Soldier Schweik, as well as various Shakespeare plays including The Merchant of Venice.
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Eric Burroughs remained until two weeks after Hitler came to power in 1933, then returned to New York.
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Eric Burroughs had a small speaking role in the 1959 film, Odds Against Tomorrow.
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Eric Burroughs married Melissa Broome in 1950 and had two children.
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Eric Burroughs died November 12,1992, at the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital.
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Eric Burroughs was 81 years old at the time of his death.