Tom Aldredge

American Theater Guide: Tom Aldredge

Aldredge, Tom (b. 1928), actor. Although he is hardly known outside of Manhattan, Aldredge was one of the New York theatre's busiest and most admired performers from the 1960s into the 1990s, especially for his many performances with the Public Theatre and in Central Park productions. He was born in Dayton, Ohio, educated at the University of Dayton, and studied acting at the Goodman Theatre School in Chicago. He performed for the New York Shakespeare Festival for the first time in 1960, returning most summers and playing in contemporary dramas at the Public other times. Among Aldredge's many fine performances were the foppish Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night (1968), the ineffectual father Ozzie in Sticks and Bones (1971), the Fool to James Earl Jones's King Lear in 1973, the cranky senior citizen Norman Thayer in On Golden Pond (1978), the sickly husband Horace Giddens in the 1981 revival of The Little Foxes, the Narrator and Mysterious Man in Into the Woods (1987), writer Washington Irving in Two Shakespearean Actors (1992), the Italian military physician Dr. Tambourri in Passion (1994), and the self‐righteous Rev. Jeremiah Brown in the 1996 revival of Inherit the Wind. His wife is costume designer Theoni V. Aldredge.

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Actor: Tom Aldredge

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Born: Feb 28, 1928 in Dayton, Ohio
Occupation: Actor
Active: '60s, '80s-2000s
Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: The Rain People, Andersonville, The Troublemaker
First Major Screen Credit: The Troublemaker (1964)

Biography

Ohio-born utility player Tom Aldredge has been in films since the 1963 British comedy Mouse on the Moon. He garnered some of his best-ever reviews for his work in the 1969 "sleeper" The Rain People. In this early Francis Ford Coppola effort, Aldredge played Mr. Alfred, a combination justice of the peace and reptile farmer. Tom Aldredge has also appeared as Victor Kincaid on the never-ending CBS TV soaper The Guiding Light. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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DATE OF BIRTH	1928-2-28
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	Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966 Drama Film)
	Into the Woods (American Theater)
	On Golden Pond (American Theater)

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Tom Aldredge

Born	February 28, 1928 (1928-02-28) (age 81) Dayton, Ohio

Tom Aldredge

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