John Cullum has appeared in many stage musicals and dramas, including Shenandoah and On the Twentieth Century, winning the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for each.
18 Facts About John Cullum
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John Cullum was featured in fifteen episodes of the NBC television series ER as Mark Greene's father.
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John Cullum played the farmer, Jim Dahlberg, in the landmark television drama The Day After.
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John Cullum appeared as Senator Beau Carpenter on the CBS series, Madam Secretary.
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John Cullum attended Knoxville High School and the University of Tennessee.
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John Cullum played on the university's Southeastern Conference championship tennis team and was a member of Phi Gamma Delta.
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John Cullum starred in "Chucky Jack", an outdoor drama about Tennessee Governor John Sevier, at the old Hunter Hills Theater in Gatlinburg.
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John Cullum went on to play Laertes opposite Burton's 1964 Broadway performance as Hamlet and in Burton's final Broadway appearance in Noel Coward's Private Lives in 1983.
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John Cullum is well known for premiering the role of Charlie Anderson in the musical Shenandoah, which began at Goodspeed Opera House, Connecticut in 1974.
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John Cullum won the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards when the show was produced on Broadway in 1975.
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John Cullum 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.
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John Cullum 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.
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John Cullum received his fourth Tony nomination in 2002 for originating the role of evil moneygrubber corporate president Caldwell B Cladwell in Urinetown The Musical.
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In 2003, John 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.
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John Cullum has appeared as Lucky Strike executive Lee Garner, Sr.
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John Cullum 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.
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John Cullum appeared on Broadway in The Scottsboro Boys, a musical by Kander and Ebb about a notorious miscarriage of justice in the American South in the 1930s.
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John Cullum was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2007.