Hearn, George

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

Hearn, George (b. 1934), actor and singer. The full‐voiced baritone was born in St. Louis and educated at Southwestern University before making his New York debut in 1963 in Shakespeare productions in Central Park. He was first noticed on Broadway ten years later as the rugby player Trevor in The Changing Room (1973). Although he was praised for his refugee Kurt Muller in Watch on the Rhine (1980), the Jewish father Otto Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank (1997), and other dramatic roles, Hearn's most treasured performances have been in musicals, in particular the crazed barber Sweeney Todd (1980), the insecure homosexual Albin in La Cage Aux Folles (1983), the former movie director Max Von Mayerling in Sunset Boulevard (1994), and the jaded Husband in Putting It Together (1999).

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