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Lugar y fecha de nacimiento. Barnard Hughes (1915 - ) Actor Born: July 16, 1915, Bedford Hills, NY Education: Manhattan College Veteran character player of the NY stage since the 1930s who has been a familiar face in TV and films since the 60s. Hughes began his acting career as a member of the Shakespeare Fellowship Company, making his stage debut in a 1934 NY production of The Taming of the Shrew. He went on to play more than 400 roles on the stage alone. Fame, though, waited until the veteran actor reached his vigorous middle age, when he offered finely nuanced portraits of somewhat flawed doctors, judges, clergymen and other men of authority. Hughes was memorable in several notable films of the late 60s/early 70s, including PERDIDOS EN LA NOCHE (1969) as an aging gay john who gets beaten by Jon Voight; as a war-loving general in WHERE'S POPPA? (1970); and as an apparently lost patient in THE HOSPITAL (1971). As his features grew more grizzled and his voice endearingly gruff, Hughes came to specialize at playing cantankerous and/or eccentric oldsters (e.g. the vampire-hunting grandfather in THE LOST BOYS, 1987; the grandfather of NBC-TV's Blossom in its first two seasons). His most celebrated role both on Broadway and in film was Da (staged in 1978 and filmed ten years later), an irascible Irish father who visits his son after his death. Hughes won the Tony for best actor for his stage performance. Hughes became a TV fixture in the 70s with guest shots, superior TV movies and specials (PUEBLO, 1973 and THE UFO INCIDENT, 1975), and recurring roles on popular sitcoms. He was the often exasperated Father John Majesky on All in the Family and the moody father of Dr. Bob Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show. Hughes also starred in several short-lived sitcoms, Doc (CBS, 1975, 1976), Mr. Merlin (CBS, 1981-82), and The Cavanaughs CBS, 1987-89). He memorably pulled out all the stops to play a low-down evil landlord who receives a hellish comeuppance in TRICK OR TREAT (1983), a syndicated special that served as the pilot for Tales From the Darkside. Hughes' feature credits in the 90s include the comedies DR. HOLLYWOOD (1991) and CAMBIO DE HABITO 2 (1993).
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