Charles Kimbrough
Charles Kimbrough (* May 23, 1936 in St. Paul, Minnesota ) is an American actor and voice actor.
Life
Kimbrough studied drama at Indiana University in Bloomington and graduated in 1958. The following year, he performed at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in a production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town on. After several theater roles he celebrated in 1969 in John Guare's Cop Out made his debut on Broadway. Between 1970 and 1972 he played in the musical Company by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth and was nominated for his performance in 1971 for a Tony Award. From 1974 to 1976 he was seen with the music of Leonard Bernstein 's Candide in the musical based on the text of Voltaire.
From the mid- 1970s Kimbrough also adopted film and television roles. He joined 1975 and 1976 in three episodes of the television series Kojak - Kojak on and had a small supporting role in the Woody Allen comedy The straw man. In 1979, he starred opposite Burt Reynolds and Candice Bergen in comedy on a new, in the following year saw It's My Turn - I call it love alongside Michael Douglas and Charles Grodin. It was followed by several TV movies in the early 1980s. In 1984, he starred in Stephen Sondheim's Broadway production of Sunday in the Park with George, repeating his role in the resulting film adaptation of the same name two years later.
In 1988 he received the role of anchorman Jim Dial on the sitcom Murphy Brown, by which he gained great notoriety in the United States. From the highly successful series ten seasons has been produced with a total of 247 episodes until 1998. From the early 1990s he worked as a voice actor in several Disney productions, including the animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame and its sequel. Since November 2010 he is in a Broadway production of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice the Prince of Arragon of, Al Pacino plays Shylock in the.
Kimbrough is married to his second marriage to actress Beth Howland. From his first marriage sprang from his son John, guitarist and singer of the indie rock band Walt Mink.