1. John Benjamin Myhers was an American stage and screen actor.
14 Facts About John Myhers
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John Myhers began singing at the age of 12 and won several leading roles in the St Paul Civic Opera during his student years at McPhail School of Music in St Paul.
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John Myhers served in the United States Armed Forces in Italy during World War II and stayed in Rome for 11 years after the war.
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John Myhers studied at the American Academy and earned a doctoral degree in literature from the University of Rome.
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John Myhers performed leading roles in Broadway shows such as Kiss Me Kate, The Golden Fleecing and The Good Soup, and most notably played the role of Captain Von Trapp in the First National Touring Company of The Sound of Music in the early 1960s and later.
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John Myhers played opposite Katharine Hepburn in a Stratford, Connecticut, production of Antony and Cleopatra.
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John Myhers appeared opposite actors such as Jack Lemmon and Charlton Heston in theatrical plays across the country.
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John Myhers played Robert Livingston in 1776, and appeared in Mel Brooks' History of the World, Part I as the leader of the Roman Senate.
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John Myhers wrote, directed and made a cameo appearance in the little-known 1965 comedy Saturday Night Bath in Apple Valley, which co-starred his wife Joan Benedict and was issued on VHS and DVD-R by Something Weird Video.
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John Myhers had a robust career on television, appearing on shows like Get Smart; Hogan's Heroes; The Mothers-in-Law; I Dream of Jeannie; Love, American Style; Alice; The Waltons and Fantasy Island.
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John Myhers was the voice of Hector Heathcote on The Hector Heathcote Show in 1961, and in a series of animated shorts that ran from 1959 to 1971.
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John Myhers's last acting appearance was in 1985 on The Twilight Zone in the episode "Ye Gods".
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John Myhers was married to Joan Benedict from 1962 to his death in 1992.
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John Myhers died of pneumonia on May 27,1992, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, and was survived by his wife and his daughter Claudia Myhers Tschudin.