James Sloyan

James Joseph Sloyan ( born February 24, 1940 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA) is an American film and theater actor.

Life

As a toddler Sloyan moved with his parents to Italy. He spent his childhood in Rome and Milan and on the island of Capri. Later the family lived in Switzerland and Ireland. 1957 - Sloyan was 17 years old - the family moved back to the United States and settled in New York City. Here Sloyan soon began to lead a small theater, before he got a scholarship to the prestigious American Academy of Dramatic Arts. After two years Sloyan began with Joseph Papp at the New York Shakespeare Festival ( NYSF ) cooperate.

1962 Sloyan was drafted into the United States Army and had to fight in the Vietnam War. Four years later he was released and returned to the NYSF. He stood in no less than 28 theater productions on stage and doing all choreographed fight scenes. One of his most famous work One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Sloyans film debut was in 1970 in Jack Smights Western The traveler Hangman.

About his personal life, we know that he is married to actress Deirdre Lenihan with her ​​two children, Daniel and Samantha, has.

Filmography

TV series

Movies

Promotional appearances

In the years 1989-1999 James Sloyan was heard in the United States as the voice of the commercials of car brand Lexus.