David Healy (actor)
David Healy ( born May 15, 1929 in Manhattan, New York, † 25 October 1995 ) was an American actor.
Life and career
Healy was the son of an Australian father and a mother in Texas. He grew up both in Texas and in New York and completed a theater training at the University of Texas. As the United States Air Force ( USAF), national soldier, he was stationed in the rank of Second Lieutenant in England. There he met the good friends with him before this time Larry Hagman, and worked with this at a later written by osacarprämierten for the film Gandhi John R. Briley show program with.
Healy was after he had married in 1961 his wife Peggy Walsh, in Richmond, Surrey, down and fathered two sons. After he retired from military service in 1964, he devoted himself to his first theatrical career. However, the Healy described as versatile went to the acting profession, both on stage and in the movie camera. As early as 1964 he had a speaking role in the premierten an Oscar documentary The Finest Hours. He made his debut at the Arts Theatre in Arnold by Jules Feiffer and crawling after he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967, he stood there in Julius Caesar, The Merry Wives of Windsor and Little Murders in London and Stratford on stage. It followed from 1973 engaged in the National Theatre. There he worked in the plays The Cherry Orchard, Equus and The FrontPage. In 1975 he made his way back to Dallas, where he directed by Margo Jones worked in smaller roles already with Larry Hagman before his military service in England. Here he gave a performance as Falstaff at the local Shakespeare Festival. With the same piece he also appeared in the following year and again in London.
Healy also played in musicals. After being in 1969 for the first time appeared in Anne of Green Gables, a musical, he could be seen, inter alia, in the production of " Guys and Dolls" in London. He also had roles in the TV series Dallas, Washington: Behind Closed Doors and Charlie's Angels. He also played in several James Bond films, including Diamonds Are Forever and 1992 in the film Chaplin.
In 1983, Healy the Laurence Olivier Award.