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Myron McCormick

Real name: McCormick, Walter Myron
Birthdate: 8 February 1908, Albany, Indiana, USA (some sources say 1907)
Date of death: 30 July 1962, New York, New York, USA. (cancer)

Biography

American character actor of vast stage experience who appeared infrequently but memorably in films. A native of Albany, Indiana, he attended Princeton University, where he was an honors student and Phi Beta Kappa. In 1929, he joined the University Players in Massachusetts, joining and eventually sharing a New York City apartment with a trio of struggling performers: 'Henry Fonda' , 'Joshua Logan' , and 'James Stewart' . While Fonda and Stewart found their greatest success in Hollywood, Logan and McCormick gravitated to and were most closely tied the New York stage. McCormick also became one of the busiest actors in radio drama. He made occasional movies, such as when the Broadway cast of 'Maxwell Anderson' 's "Winterset" reunited for the film version. He won fame as Luther Billis in Logan's production of "South Pacific" (the role was played by 'Ray Walston' in the film) and as Sergeant King in "No Time for Sergeants, " a part he repeated in the movie version. Cancer claimed him in 1962 at the age of 54.
Author: Jim Beaver

Filmography

Burning Bright (1959) (TV)China Girl (1942) [Shorty] <7>
Fight for Life, The (1940) [The Interne] <1>
Hustler, The (1961) [Charlie Burns] <5>
Iceman Cometh, The (1960) (TV) [Larry Slade] <2>
Jigsaw (1949) [Charles Riggs] <4>
Jolson Sings Again (1949) [Ralph Bryant] <6>
Man Who Understood Women, The (1959) [Preacher] <4>
No Time for Sergeants (1958) [Sergeant Orville C. King] <2>
Not as a Stranger (1955) [Dr. Snider] <7>
One Third of a Nation (1939) [Sam Moon] <3>
Public Affair, A (1962) [Sam Clavell] <2>
Three for the Show (1955) [Mike Hudson] <5>
Winterset (1936) [Carr] <9>

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