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Sherman, Hiram

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | | © The Oxford Companion to American Theatre 2004, originally published by Oxford University Press 2004. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Sherman, Hiram (1908–89), character actor. The Boston native was educated at the University of Illinois and studied acting at the Goodman Theatre School. After working professionally in stock in Chicago, the chubby actor went to New York, making his Broadway bow in 1936 in the Federal Theatre Project's farce Horse Eats Hat. When the Project was discontinued, Sherman remained with director Orson Welles and performed in some Mercury Theatre productions such as the modern‐dress Julius Caesar (1937) and the Elizabethan farce The Shoemaker's Holiday (1938). He was in the company of the legendary first production of The Cradle Will Rock (1937) and played Shakespearean clowns in productions at the 1939 World's Fair. Sherman was frequently seen on television but returned to Broadway regularly. His last role was one of his best: the Wall Street tycoon Wingate in the musical How Now Dow Jones (1967).

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