Michael Tolan
Michael Tolan ( born Seymour Tuchow; born November 27, 1925 in Detroit, Michigan, † January 31, 2011 in Hudson, New York) was an American film and theater actor.
Life
Michael Tolan grew up in Detroit, where he studied at Wayne State University Performing Arts. After graduating in 1947, he moved to New York City, where he was promoted from the famous acting coach Stella Adler. Thanks to her, Tolan won a scholarship at Stanford University, where he studied acting. In 1951, he was in The Tiger on the side of Humphrey Bogart for the first time in front of the movie camera.
His career has also Tolan 1955 to Broadway, where he played his first stage role in the play Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter. This was followed subsequently four more theatrical engagements, including the comedy Romanoff and Juliet, in Tolan from October 1957 embodied one of the main roles.
Michael Tolan career in film and television was apart from a few exceptions mostly limited to supporting roles. In 1953 he stood as including in Julius Caesar as a Roman officer in front of the camera. In The Greatest Story Ever Told from the year 1965 he was engaged in the role of the awakened Jesus from the dead Lazarus. Other guest appearances in television series such as Mission: Impossible take followed. He was among the actors who got into old age film roles. In 1990, he stood at the side of Harrison Ford in Presumed Innocent front of the camera and 2007 - in his last role - in Perfect Stranger with Halle Berry.
In parallel, Tolan also made it to the theater endeavors. In 1964 he founded so in New York with the actors Wynn Handman and Sidney Lanier, the American Place Theatre, which is found today in the 9th Avenue.
Michael Tolan was married twice. From his first marriage to actress Rosemary Forsyth, with who was married from 1965 to 1975, he has a daughter. With his second wife, Carol Hume, he had two more daughters. Both marriages ended in divorce. Most recently, he lived with his partner Donna Peck in Ancram, a suburb of Hudson ( New York).
Michael Tolan died end of January 2011, at the age of 85 years, from heart and kidney failure.