Which actor featured in Stage Left: A Story of Theater in San Francisco passed away on August 11, 2014 ?
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Stage Left (film) Stage Left: A Story of Theater in San Francisco (2011) is a documentary film about the history of theater in the San Francisco Bay Area from about 1952 until 2010. The film was directed by Austin Forbord, and features Robin Williams, Peter Coyote, Herbert Blau, Tony Taccone, Oskar Eustis, Bill Irwin, Joan Holden, R. G. Davis, Richard "Scrumbly" Koldewyn, and is narrated by Marga Gomez.
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Robin Williams Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014) was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Starting as a stand-up comedian in San Francisco and Los Angeles in the mid-1970s, he is credited with leading San Francisco's comedy renaissance. After rising to fame as Mork in "Mork & Mindy" (1978–82), Williams established a career in both stand-up comedy and feature film acting. He was known for his improvisational skills.
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Victoria Theatre, San Francisco Victoria Theatre is a 480-seat theater in San Francisco's Mission District, which presents locally produced original plays, live concerts, film festivals, musicals, performances by international performing companies and other kinds of events. The theater is located at 2961 16th Street (at Capp Street) in San Francisco, California. It is not connected to the Red Vic, a now-closed repertory movie theater in the Haight.
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Wilmuth Merkyl Wilmuth John Merkyl (June 2, 1885 – May 1, 1954) was an American stage and screen actor popular in early silent films. On stage he had also been a singer in light operettas. He was born in Iowa and died in California.
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Victor Sutherland Victor Sutherland (February 28, 1889 – August 29, 1968) was an American stage, film, and television actor.
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Lawrence Kasha Lawrence Kasha (December 3, 1933 – September 29, 1990) was a Tony Award-winning American theatre producer and director, playwright, and stage manager.
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Don Stitt Don Stitt (born January 25, 1956) is an American actor and playwright who has been featured in four Broadway musicals, appeared 20 times on the "Late Show with David Letterman", and starred in countless commercials.
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Tom Aldredge Thomas Ernest Aldredge (February 28, 1928 – July 22, 2011) was an American television, film and stage actor, best known for various appearances in movies, theatre and television, with a notable role as Hugh De Angelis on "The Sopranos". He also appeared in the television shows "Damages" as Uncle Pete and "Ryan's Hope". He won a Daytime Emmy Award for playing the role of Shakespeare in "Henry Winkler Meets William Shakespeare" (1978). His last role was on the HBO series "Boardwalk Empire", playing the father of Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi).
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Clint Ritchie Clinton Charles Augustus Ritchie (August 9, 1938 – January 31, 2009) was an American actor.
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Jack Stauffer Jack Stauffer (born December 3, 1945 in New York, New York, U.S.) is an American actor of film, television, and theater. He is also a director of theater productions.
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Johnny Roventini Johnny Roventini, also known as John Louis Roventini and popularly as Johnny Philip Morris, (August 15, 1910 – November 30, 1998) was an American actor with dwarfism.
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Robert Emmett Keane Robert Emmett Keane (March 4, 1883 – July 2, 1981) was an American actor of both the stage and screen. He was also known professionally by the names: Emmett Keane, Robert Keane, R. Emmett Keane, and Robert E. Keane. He began on stage in the 1910s, with his first Broadway appearance being in the 1914 production of "The Passing Show of 1914". He would continue on the stage through the mid-1930s, appearing in both London and New York theater productions. His film career began in 1930, and over the twenty-five years of that career he would appear in between 170–200 films. At the very tail end of his acting life he would make several appearances on the small screen. Married twice, the first time would be a short-lived union with Muriel Inetta Window, an opera singer, vaudeville actress and 1913 Peacock Girl with the Ziegfeld Follies. They were married in approximately 1916 and divorced in 1920. After his divorce, he would marry the actress Claire Whitney in 1921, and they would remain married until her death in 1969. He retired in 1958, and would die on July 2, 1981 and be buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles, next to his wife, Claire (although her grave is unmarked).
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Louis Bennison Louis Bennison (October 17, 1884 – June 9, 1929) was an American stage and silent film actor, known for westerns. Born in Oakland, he attended the University of California, and performed in plays such as "The Unchastened Woman" and "Johnny Get Your Gun". His films include "Damaged Goods" (1914), "Pretty Mrs. Smith" (1915), "Oh, Johnny!" (1918) and "Speedy Meade" (1919). In the 1920s he developed a relationship with actress Margaret Lawrence, and on June 9, 1929, the two were found dead in Lawrence's New York apartment, the result of a murder-suicide.
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Frank Lanning Frank Lanning (August 14, 1872 – June 17, 1945) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 84 films between 1910 and 1934. He was born in Marion, Iowa and died in Los Angeles, California.
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Richard Derr Richard Derr (June 15, 1918 – May 8, 1992) was an American actor who worked on stage, screen and television, performing in both starring and supporting roles.
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Frank Keenan Frank Keenan (April 8, 1858 – February 24, 1929) was an American stage and film actor and stage director and manager during the silent film era. He was among the first stage actors to star in Hollywood, and he pursued work in film features for a number of years.
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Michael McGrath (actor) Michael McGrath (born September 25, 1957) is a Tony Award-winning American stage actor. He has appeared in many Broadway stage productions, and is especially noted for his roles in the musicals "Spamalot" and "Nice Work If You Can Get It".
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Kenny Marino Kenneth "Kenny" Marino (December 29, 1943 – September 27, 2010) was an American actor.
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Jeffrey Sanzel Jeffrey Sanzel is a theater director, stage actor, and playwright. He is best known for playing Scrooge over 1,000 times. He is also the author/director of "From the Fires: Voices of the Holocaust," that has been touring since 1996.
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John Raitt John Emmet Raitt (January 29, 1917 – February 20, 2005) was an American actor and singer best known for his performances in musical theater.
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Lon Clark Lon Clark (1912, Frost, Minnesota – October 2, 1998) was a New York City actor of stage and radio.
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Spalding Gray Spalding Rockwell Gray (June 5, 1941 – January 11, 2004) was an American actor and writer. He is best known for the autobiographical monologues that he wrote and performed for the theater in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as for his film adaptations of these works, beginning in 1987. He wrote and starred in several, working with different directors.