1. John Francis McMartin was an American actor of stage, film, and television.
26 Facts About John McMartin
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John McMartin made his off-Broadway debut in Little Mary Sunshine in 1959, and acted on Broadway for more than 50 years.
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John McMartin won a Theatre World Award in 1960 and was nominated for a Tony for his role in Sweet Charity in 1966.
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On television, McMartin appeared on the soap opera As the World Turns, and the TV shows East Side West Side, Beauty and the Beast, The Golden Girls, The Bob Newhart Show, and Murder, She Wrote.
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John McMartin had film roles in All the President's Men, Blow Out, and Legal Eagles.
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John McMartin was born in Warsaw, Indiana, on August 21,1929, and raised in St Cloud, Minnesota.
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John McMartin attended Columbia College Chicago, but did not graduate and later attended college in New York.
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John McMartin made his off-Broadway debut in Little Mary Sunshine in 1959, opposite Eileen Brennan and Elmarie Wendel.
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John McMartin won a Theatre World Award for his role as Corporal Billy Jester, and married one of the show's producers, Cynthia Baer, in 1960; they divorced in 1971.
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John McMartin created the role of Oscar in Sweet Charity in 1966, opposite Gwen Verdon, garnering a Tony nomination, and played the role again in the 1969 film opposite Shirley MacLaine.
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John McMartin was reportedly cast in Stephen Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum in 1962, but his role was cut before the show opened.
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John McMartin later starred in the original Broadway production of Sondheim's Follies opposite Alexis Smith in 1971 as Benjamin Stone, introducing the ballad "The Road You Didn't Take".
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The reviewer for the Orange County Register wrote that John McMartin was "aggressively deadpan as her rediscovered old flame".
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John McMartin appeared in the first Broadway revival of Into the Woods in 2002, in the dual role of the Narrator and the Mysterious Man.
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John McMartin was a leading member of the New Phoenix Repertory Company during its three Broadway seasons in the early 1970s, appearing onstage in Eugene O'Neill's The Great God Brown, Moliere's Dom Juan, and Luigi Pirandello's The Rules of the Game.
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John McMartin played Anton Schell opposite Chita Rivera in Kander and Ebb's musical The Visit at the Goodman Theatre.
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John McMartin played Thomas Jefferson in the original cast of John Guare's A Free Man of Color at Lincoln Center, and Elisha Whitney in the 2011 Broadway revival of Anything Goes, opposite Jessica Walter.
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On television, John McMartin appeared on the soap opera As the World Turns as Ed Rice.
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John McMartin was later in the CBS drama East Side West Side and the first two seasons of Beauty and the Beast as Charles Chandler, father of Catherine.
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John McMartin appeared in The Golden Girls as Frank Leahy who, unbeknownst to Dorothy who is romantically attracted to him, is a priest.
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John McMartin appeared as the Rev Dr Dan Bradford on The Bob Newhart Show in "Somebody Down Here Likes Me".
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John McMartin appeared as radio personality Fletcher Grey on Frasier.
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John McMartin appeared in four episodes of Murder, She Wrote.
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John McMartin appeared as Shirley Jones's love interest in The Partridge Family episode "When Mother Gets Married".
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John McMartin died of cancer in Manhattan on July 6,2016, aged 86.
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John McMartin was survived by his two daughters from his marriage, and his longtime partner, actress Charlotte Moore, artistic director of the Irish Repertory Theatre.