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Lugar y fecha de nacimiento. Joe Seneca Actor Also: Singer, songwriter Born: Ohio With his white hair and face cracked with wrinkles that bespoke the personification of kindliness and wisdom, Seneca is perhaps best remembered for his critically praised portrayal of a blues singer in ENCRUCIJADA (1986). He spent much of the 1950s as a singer with the satirical group The Three Riffs and most of the 60s as an itinerant composer. From 1970-73, Seneca was a contributing writer for the acclaimed PBS children's show Calle Sesamo. Turning to acting in the 1970s, Seneca managed to debut in a big way, in the Broadway production of Of Mice and Men starring James Earl Jones. He later was featured in the Broadway and touring productions of The Little Foxes (1981), starring Elizabeth Taylor, and co-starred in August Wilson's award-winning Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1984). Seneca made his TV debut in WITH ALL DELIBERATE SPEED (CBS, 1976), about school desegregation, and went on to appear in WILMA (NBC, 1977), the biopic of athlete Wilma Rudolph, TERRIBLE JOE MORAN (CBS, 1984) ,with James Cagney y Art Carney, and A GATHERING OF OLD MEN (CBS, 1987), with Louis Gossett Seneca has been a guest performer on numerous shows from Historias Asombrosas y The Equalizer to the comedic The Cosby Show y The Golden Girls. Although he had a bit part as a party guest in Robert Benton KRAMER VS KRAMER (1979), Seneca's feature film career did not take off until the 1980s. Sidney Lumet cast him as Paul Newman medical expert in SERÁ JUSTICIA (1982) and he had a meaty role as teacher-singer Willie Brown in ENCRUCIJADA (1986). Seneca was a scientist destroyed by LA MANCHA VORAZ (1988) and the college president in Spike Lee GUERRA EN LA UNIVERSIDAD (1988). He went on to appear in Spike Lee MO' BETTER BLUES (1990) and MALCOM X (1992). He also earned critical applause for his turn as Spits in UNA VIDA CADA DIA (1993).
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