Ed Flanders
Edward Paul Flanders (born 29 December 1934 in Minneapolis, † February 22, 1995 in Denny, California ) was an American actor.
Life
After training as an actor Flanders took first as a stage actor working. In the sixties and seventies, he played a long time on Broadway. Finally, Hollywood took notice of him. Flanders starred opposite Robert DeNiro in the thriller Dangerous Confession, must burn in the Stephen King adaptation Salem / Terror in Marstenhaus, in the comedy Bye Bye, Love, and in the third part of the horror film series The Exorcist.
Multiple Flanders was occupied in roles as U.S. President, as in the television series The White House, back entrance, in which he gave Calvin Coolidge, and three times he played Harry S. Truman: In addition to Gregory Peck in the war drama MacArthur - and hero of the Pacific in the television movies Truman at Potsdam and Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking.
His greatest successes he celebrated in U.S. television. Was three times the actor awards for his acting performance with the prestigious Emmy: For A Moon for the heavy laden (A Moon for the Misbegotton ) to Eugene O'Neill, Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking, as well as for his eponymous lead role in the NBC television series St. Elsewhere ( St. Elsewhere ).
1987 retired from Flanders after disagreements with the producers of the series. In the following years did not manage the previously busy mimes to build on earlier successes. As part deals failed to materialize and his marriage failed, the actor decided at his home in Northern California Willow Creek to suicide.
From 1963 to 1968 Flanders was married to actress Ellen Geer.