Occupation Actor Years active 1961–2011 | Name Tom Aldredge Role Television actor | |
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Education The Theatre School at DePaul University Parents William Joseph Aldredge, Lucienne Juliet Aldredge Movies Taking Chance, What About Bob?, Message in a Bottle, Intolerable Cruelty, Batteries Not Included Similar People Theoni V Aldredge, Ross Katz, James Lapine, Luis Mandoki, Brent Maddock | ||
Tom aldredge in into the woods
Thomas Ernest Aldredge (February 28, 1928 – July 22, 2011) was an American television, film and stage actor, best known for various appearances in movies, theatre and television, with a notable role as Hugh De Angelis on The Sopranos. He also appeared in the television shows Damages as Uncle Pete and Ryan's Hope. He won a Daytime Emmy Award for playing the role of Shakespeare in Henry Winkler Meets William Shakespeare (1978). His last role was on the HBO series Boardwalk Empire, playing the father of Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi).
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- Tom aldredge in into the woods
- batteries not included Is it Sunday Hume Cronyn x Jessica Tandy x Tom Aldredge
- Life and career
- Family
- Death
- Selected television appearances
- Other works
- Theatre
- Filmography
- References
*batteries not included - "Is it Sunday?" - Hume Cronyn x Jessica Tandy x Tom Aldredge
Life and career
Aldredge was born in Dayton, Ohio, the son of Lucienne Juliet (née Marcillat) and William Joseph Aldredge, a colonel in the United States Army Air Corps. He originally planned to become a lawyer and was a Pre-Law student at the University of Dayton in the late 1940s. In 1947 he decided to pursue a career as an actor after attending a performance of the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire.
Aldredge carved out a respected career on the Broadway stage that spanned five decades. He made his Broadway debut as Danny in the 1959 musical The Nervous Set. In 1972 he won a Drama Desk Award for his portrayal of Ozzie, the father of a blinded Vietnam veteran, in David Rabe's Sticks and Bones. He played Henry VIII's fool, Will Sommers, in Richard Rodgers' pentultimate musical, Rex in 1976. He originated the role of Norman Thayer Jr. in On Golden Pond in 1978, earning the first of three Tony Award nominations. His best-known role, however, was that of the Narrator/Mysterious Man in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into The Woods, a role he later repeated in the PBS Great Performances production. He also created the role of the doctor in another Sondhiem/Lapine collaboration, Passion.
He was part of the 1997 all-star revival of Inherit the Wind produced by Tony Randall, playing Rev. Brown in an ensemble that also included George C. Scott, Charles Durning, and Anthony Heald.
In 1960 [Theodore Jonas Flicker] founded a professional Off-Broadway coffee house theater, The Premise at 154 [Bleecker Street] in Greenwich Village. He recruited Tom Aldredge along with [Joan Darling], [George Segal] and Dolores Welber as the initial improvisational cast fielding and reacting to suggestions from their audience.
He had a 50-year-long career working as a character actor on television and film. He won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1978 for his portrayal of William Shakespeare in the episode Henry Winkler Meets William Shakespeare on the program The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People. His best-known television role was that of Tony Soprano's father-in-law, Hugh De Angelis on the HBO series The Sopranos.
Family
He was married to stage and screen costume designer Theoni V. Aldredge from 1953 until her death on January 21, 2011.
Death
Aldredge died July 22, 2011 in a hospice in Tampa, Florida from lymphoma, aged 83.