Robert Morse
Robert Morse ( born May 18, 1931 in Newton, Massachusetts) is an American theater and film actor.
Life and work
Already in high school took part in Morse as actor and director in school plays. As a professional actor, he debuted in 1949 with the role of Gabey in the musical On the Town. He then went to New York City. First, he slapped his job as a salesman and electrician in Manhattan by. He served four years in the U.S. Navy and participated in the Korean War. He then studied as part of the GI Bill of Rights play in a course the organization American Theatre Wing.
When used as a stand-in on the show Name That Tune an agent noticed him. About him Morse got his first film role, a small appearance in the Kriegsmelodram Even heroes have cried, in which he did not appear in the credits. The agent also held a meeting with theater director Tyrone Guthrie, who then occupied the role of Barnaby Tucker in the Broadway comedy The Matchmaker with him gave him. Morse played this role from 1955 to 1957 at New York's Booth Theatre and then also in the eponymous film directed by Joseph Anthony. From this time he continually stood on the stage and in front of the camera, he was able to record as a stage actor more successes.
For his second Broadway appearance as Ted Snow in the musical Say, Darling Morse won a Theatre World Award and was first nominated for a Tony Award. The latter again he succeeded the following year with the musical Take Me Along, in which he was listed as co-star, while Jackie Gleason and Eileen Herlie (1918-2008) played the lead roles. In 1961, Morse took over the central role of J. Pierrepont Finch in the Pulitzer Prize -winning musical comedy How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. This earned him the following year his first Tony Award for Best Actor in a musical one. Also, for the following main role in the musical Sugar, is an adaptation of Some Like It Hot, was Morse awards such as the Drama Desk Award and another Tony nomination win. He had his last Broadway role eventually in 1990 as a solo performer in Jay Presson Allen's play Tru, where he played Truman Capote. For this he was awarded for the second time with a Tony Award.
At Morse's major film roles included the Stander of Ed in the comedy guide to Escapades (1967 ), where he plays on the side of Walter Matthau. The following year, he and Doris Day took over the lead roles in Where were you when the lights went? . From the 1970s, Morse was mainly seen as a guest star in TV series. In 1992, the Broadway play Tru was filmed as part of the PBS series American Playhouse for television. Morse also took over the (only ) role of Capote and won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in the category in a Miniseries or Special. At the age of 76 years, as Morse already looked at his acting career ended, his recurring role of Bertram Cooper in the television series Mad Men was offered. This decision came from the show's creator Matthew Weiner, who considered in the course of his research over the 1960s among other things, the Guidelines for infidelities and Morse had so "discovered". Since 2007, this order belongs to the solid cast members of the series and was nominated three times for an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor In A Drama Series.
Morse was married from 1960 to 1981 with the dancer and stage actress Carole D' Andrea. From this union three daughters were born, including the actress Robin Morse ( b. 1963 ). 1989 Morse married Elizabeth Roberts, with whom he had two more children.