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Tom Bosley

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Actor 1927–2010 On stage 19591998

Thomas Edward Bosley (October 1, 1927 – October 19, 2010) was an American actor, television personality and entertainer. Bosley is best known for portraying Howard Cunningham on the ABC sitcom Happy Days (1974–1984) for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series nomination. Bosley also did a variety of voiceover work such as playing the lead character, Harry Boyle, in the animated series Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, and the narrator of the syndicated film history documentary series That's Hollywood. He was also known for his role as Sheriff Amos Tupper in the Angela Lansbury-led CBS mystery series Murder, She Wrote (1984–1988), and as the…

On stage 10 productions, 39 years

1959 Fiorello! Broadhurst Theatre · Original · directed by George Abbott 795 perf.
1959 The Beaux Stratagem Phoenix Theatre · Revival · directed by Stuart Vaughan 16 perf.
1962 Nowhere To Go But Up Winter Garden Theatre · Original · directed by Sidney Lumet 9 perf.
1963 Natural Affection Booth Theatre · Original · directed by Tony Richardson 36 perf.
1964 A Murderer Among Us Morosco Theatre · Original · directed by Sam Wanamaker 1 perf.
1965 Catch Me If You Can Morosco Theatre · Original · directed by Vincent J. Donehue 103 perf.
1968 The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N Alvin Theatre · Original · directed by George Abbott 29 perf.
1987 Happy Birthday, Mr. Abbott! Palace Theatre · Original · directed by Fritz Holt 1 perf.
1994 Beauty and the Beast Palace Theatre · Original · directed by Robert Jess Roth 5,461 perf.
1998 Cabaret Kit Kat Klub at Studio 54 · Revival · directed by Sam Mendes & Rob Marshall 2,377 perf.

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Worked with more than once12 names

Hal Linden 3 productions
Susan Egan 2 productions
Rufus Smith 2 productions
Nathaniel Frey 2 productions
June Havoc 2 productions
James Patterson 2 productions
H F Green 2 productions
George S. Irving 2 productions
Dorothy Loudon 2 productions
Dick Latessa 2 productions
Deborah Gibson 2 productions
Amanda Watkins 2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking. 5 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

Also credited on1 work

Beauty and the Beast

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In the literature8 passages

  • Act One: “On the Side of the Angels” (Bob Holiday, Nathaniel Frey, Patricia Wilson); “Politics and Poker” (Howard Da Silva, Del Horstmann, Stanley Simmonds, Michael Quinn, Ron Husmann, David London, Julian Patrick); “Unfair” (Tom Bosley, Pat Stanley, Girls); “Marie’s Law” (Patricia Wilson, Nathaniel Frey); “The Name’s LaGuardia” (Tom Bosl…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Tony Awards and Nominations : Best Musical (Fiorello! , in a tie with The Sound of Music ); Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Tom Bosley ); Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Howard Da Silva); Best Authors of a Musical (Jerome Weidman and George Abbott , in a tie with Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse for The Sound of Music ); Best Director…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • No Where to Go But Up opened and closed in one week in November of 1962, even though it had incredible people in it: Martin Balsam, Dorothy Loudon, Tom Bosley. But I had my own problems. I didn’t work again until I was twenty-six years old. That’s how scared I was.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
  • Cast: Tom Bosley, Patricia Wilson, Ellen Hanley, Howard Da Silva, Mark Dawson, Nathaniel Frey, Pat Stanley, Eileen Rodgers, Ron Husmannebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Fiorello! Tom Bosley, Patricia Wilson, Nathaniel Frey, and Ellen Hanley singing “Till Tomorrow.” (Eileen Darby)ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Cast: Susan Egan, Terrence Mann, Burke Moses, Gary Beach, Beth Fowler, Tom Bosley, Heath Lamberts, Eleanor Glockner, Stacey Logan, Brian Press, Kenny Raskinebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt

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