Arthur French

French, Arthur (b. 1942?), actor. The deep‐voiced, gentlemanly African‐American performer, who speaks with refined clarity and authority, has been appearing regularly on and Off Broadway for forty years. A native New Yorker who was educated at Brooklyn College, French made his Manhattan debut in 1962 and was an original cast member of the legendary black comedy Day of Absence in 1965. Over the decades he has played leading and supporting roles in new works about African Americans, such as A Soldier's Play (1982) and Joe Turner's Come & Gone (1996), and in the classics, such as his Kreon in Medea (2002) and his King Lear (2002).