John Cullum (born 2 March 1930) is a Tony Award-winning American actor and singer.
Cullum was born in Knoxville, Tennessee where he attended the University of Tennessee. He played there on the school's Southeastern Conference championship tennis team, and was a member of Phi Gamma Delta.
He has been married to Emily Frankel since 1959. They have one son, JD Cullum, who is also an actor.
He made his Broadway debut as Sir Dinadan in Alan Jay Lerner...
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John Cullum (born 2 March 1930) is a Tony Award-winning American actor and singer.
Cullum was born in Knoxville, Tennessee where he attended the University of Tennessee. He played there on the school's Southeastern Conference championship tennis team, and was a member of Phi Gamma Delta.
He has been married to Emily Frankel since 1959. They have one son, JD Cullum, who is also an actor.
He made his Broadway debut as Sir Dinadan in Alan Jay Lerner's and Frederick Loewe's Camelot in 1960. He also understudied Richard Burton (King Arthur) and Roddy McDowell (Arthur's son Mordred), going on four times when Burton became ill and succeeding McDowell. He would go on to play Laertes opposite Burton's 1964 Broadway performance as Hamlet (and in the film version of the production) and in Burton's final Broadway appearance in Noel Coward's Private Lives in 1983.
In 1965, he was called in to replace Louis Jourdan during the Boston tryout of the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. It would...
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