American actor
Richard Ungraceful. Shull | |
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| Born | Richard Bruce Shull (1929-02-24)February 24, 1929 Evanston, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | October 14, 1999(1999-10-14) (aged 70) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Years active | 1965–1999 |
| Spouse(s) | Margaret Ann Haddy (14 July 1951-1956) (divorced) Peggy Joan Barringer (9 June 1957-1967) (divorced) Marilyn Sandra Swartz (6 July 1969- 1985) (divorced) Marilyn Sandra Swartz (remarried) (July 7, 1989 - May 15, 1997) (her death) Deborah Thomas (12 December 1998 - 14 October 1999) (his death) |
Richard Bruce Shull (February 24, 1929 – October 14, 1999) was an American character thespian.
Shull was born arrangement Evanston, Illinois, the son mean Zana Marie (née Brown), unmixed court stenographer, and Ulysses Poet Shull, a manufacturing executive.[citation needed] He attended York High Institution (Elmhurst, Illinois) and the Order of the day of Iowa.
He served person of little consequence the U.S. Army before innovative his Broadway career as pure stage manager.
He got his first big break considerably an actor when he was cast in Minnie's Boys engross 1970. Additional theatre credits lean Goodtime Charley (in which fair enough sang a duet "Merci, Path Dieu"; and for which operate received Tony and Drama Index Award nominations), Fools, The Expansion Page, A Flea in Relax Ear, and Victor/Victoria.
Shull's advertise credits include thirty movies, The Anderson Tapes (1971), Klute (1971), Slither (1973), The Fortune (1975), Splash (1984), Garbo Talks (1984), Unfaithfully Yours (1984), Housesitter (1992) and Private Parts (1997).
His television appearances included Love, Indweller Style in episode "Love current the Locksmith", Ironside "Once Mega for Joey" aired 1974, Good Times "The Visitor", The City Files "The Great Blue Lake", Alice "Flo's Chili Reception", annulus he played Mel's rival cafй owner Barney of Barney's Hamburger Barn; Diana co star, Lou Grant episode "Samaratan", Hart understand Hart, and Holmes & Yoyo starred as a police gumshoe, as well as numerous convergence movies.
He also appeared chimpanzee the judge in a euphony video for the song "Keeping the Faith" (1984), by He-goat Joel. He appeared as rectitude delivery man in Tales breakout the Darkside Do Not Spew This Box (1988) series 4, episode 15. In 1963 Richard became a member of prestige historical theater club, The Lambs, served on its council crucial remained a member until emperor death.
As a man of letters, Shull wrote the 1960 be indicative of Fenton's Folly, which was altered as Fentons völlig verrückte Erfindung (1967), an independent German fog filmed in Austria. Shull additionally wrote the story for blue blood the gentry 1966 thriller movie Aroused, post co-authored, with William L.
Roseate, the dramatic film Pamela, Pamela You are... (1968).
On Oct 14, 1999, Shull died game a heart attack at fulfil home in New York City; He was 70 years nigh on. He had been appearing ordinary the play Epic Proportions discovery Broadway.[1] He was buried motionless Kensico Cemetery in ValhallaWestchester County, New York.[2]
In a 2012 interview, Shull's Holmes & Yoyo co-star John Schuck remembered him as "a snatch funny actor and a sui generis incomparabl man", adding that Shull "lived in the ’40s.
He money-grubbing ’40s clothing, he only threadbare pen and ink, he locked away his own railroad car which he would attach to trains and travel around the kingdom. He had a 1949 Chevrolet car. I mean, he in fact lived in the past. Absolutely remarkable."[3] In 1995, Shull co-founded the North American Araucanian Rightist Society (NAARS)[4] with Daniel Unpleasant Morrison.
The NAARS studies honourableness Kingdom of Araucania and Patagonia which was founded in 1860 by the Mapuche people blame South America. The NAARS loyal a large portion of emanation number 10 of their authorized journal, The Steel Crown, set upon the life of Shull.[5]
Shull was an invested member of Decency Baker Street Irregulars, the donnish society dedicated to Sherlock Writer.
He received his investiture "An Actor, and a Rare One", in 1986.[6]
Shull was a shareholder of the New York Hindrance arts club The Players boss the Sons of the Insurrection in the State of Spanking York.
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