Bob Sherman (actor)
Robert Sherman, often Bob Sherman, ( born November 16, 1940 in Redwood City, California, † August 30 2004 in England, United Kingdom ) was an American actor and playwright.
Life
Sherman, who was born according to other sources in San Francisco, came as a youth in a reformatory ( reform school ), made his way with various odd jobs, including as a boat boy on the yacht of the actor Errol Flynn, on the coast of California drove along. Later, Sherman drove some years at sea. At times he also toured as a musician in a duo with Jacques Brel around the world. In the late 1960s Sherman was then allowed to settle permanently in the UK.
Sherman attended college in San Diego, went as an actor at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. In the late 1950s / early 1960s he was member of the ensemble at the American Shakespeare Company and performed for short periods even under the stage name Bob Benedict, at the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford on. Even in later years, Sherman always returned to the stage: in 1969 he played at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London on the side of Betty Buckley, the role of Chuck Baxter in the musical Promises, Promises by Burt Bacharach. In 1977, he embodied in London the actor Larry Parks in Eric Bentley's play Are You Now Or Have You Have Ever Been? , A stage version of the hearings of the Committee on Un-American Activities. Sherman worked on the piece for the British public, while serving as a producer. The piece had in the Bush Theatre in London Premiere, then went on tour and was then played at the Mayfair Theatre later time. Sherman took place in London on also in the West End Theatre at the Royal Court Theatre and the Old Vic Theatre.
His first proven ( " credited " ) film role in 1955, under the name Robert Sherman, in the thriller rats nest. In the 1950s he played with the U.S. television with Wendell Corey in the series alarm in the harbor ( Harbor Command). From the 1970s Sherman was regularly employed as a concise Supporting Actor in British and American film productions. He played in 1973 the small cameo role of Bert in a television version of the musical Applause by John Kander with Lauren Bacall. He embodied a CIA agent in Inspector Clouseau, the "best" man at Interpol, a U.S. Senator in Superman IV. - The Quest for Peace and the CIA station chief in the international co- Spy Games - agents of the night As a talk show host, he had a role in the 2004 comic book adaptation Hellboy by Guillermo del Toro.
In the British television Sherman was known in particular for his role as Jeff Ross in the British agent and spy series The Sandbaggers (1978-1980), in which he embodied the head of the London office of the Central Intelligence Agency, the main character, Burnside in 1975 with the case of Saigon saved her life. In the U.S. miniseries Holocaust - The history of the White family in 1978, he played the role of Captain John Cassidy. In one of his last television roles he played the U.S. President Ronald Reagan in the television movie The Falklands Play, a cinematic analysis of the Falklands War.
Sherman also edited literary material for the theater and radio. He wrote a radio version of Ernest Hemingway's short novel The Old Man and the Sea, participated in the Rod Steiger. He has written plays for BBC Radio 4, including The Titanic Inquiry, which were based on the reports of the investigations by the U.S. Senate on the sinking of the Titanic. Sherman's last finished piece was Arusha Hotel.
Sherman died of cancer.