1. Thomas Ernest Aldredge was an American television, film and stage actor.
16 Facts About Tom Aldredge
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Tom Aldredge won a Daytime Emmy Award for playing the role of Shakespeare in Henry Winkler Meets William Shakespeare.
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Tom Aldredge played both the Narrator and the Mysterious Man in the original Broadway cast of Into the Woods.
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Tom Aldredge appeared on television in programs including Ryan's Hope, Damages, and Boardwalk Empire, with a notable role as Hugh De Angelis, Tony Soprano's father-in-law, on The Sopranos.
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Tom Aldredge was born in Dayton, Ohio, the son of Lucienne Juliet and William Joseph Tom Aldredge, a colonel in the United States Army Air Corps.
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Tom Aldredge originally planned to become a lawyer and was a Pre-Law student at the University of Dayton in the late 1940s.
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Tom Aldredge carved out a respected career on the Broadway stage that spanned five decades, garnering five Tony Award nominations.
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Tom Aldredge made his Broadway debut as Danny in the 1959 musical The Nervous Set.
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Tom Aldredge played Henry VIII's fool, Will Sommers, in Richard Rodgers' penultimate musical Rex in 1976.
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Tom Aldredge was part of the 1997 all-star revival of Inherit the Wind produced by Tony Randall, playing Rev Brown in an ensemble that included George C Scott, Charles Durning, and Anthony Heald.
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Tom Aldredge recruited Tom Aldredge along with Joan Darling, George Segal and Dolores Welber as the initial improvisational cast fielding and reacting to suggestions from their audience.
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Tom Aldredge had a 50-year-long career working as a character actor on television and film.
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Tom Aldredge won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1978 for his portrayal of William Shakespeare in the episode Henry Winkler Meets William Shakespeare on the program The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People.
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Tom Aldredge was married to stage and screen costume designer Theoni V Aldredge from 1953 until her death on January 21,2011.
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Tom Aldredge died July 22,2011, under hospice in Tampa, Florida from lymphoma.
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Tom Aldredge died during the filming of Boardwalk Empire episode "Two Boats and a Lifeguard", in which his character died.