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Anthony Holland (actor)
Anthony Holland (March 3, 1928 – July 9, 1988) was an ranging from The Mary Tyler Moore Show and M*A*S*H to
American actor known best for his comic performances Hill Street Blues and Cagney & Lacey.
in theater, film and television. Holland was also a painter, and taught art classes at
Mr. Holland was a member of the original Second City the University of Chicago. He also wrote three comedies
comedy troupe, which he joined after graduating from with William M. Hoffman, the author of As Is.
the University of Chicago and studying acting with Lee Holland committed suicide while ill with AIDS. [1]
Strasberg, during the 1960s. The company was known for
its irreverent brand of political humor and included Mike
Nichols, Elaine May and Alan Arkin.
References
Mr. Holland made his Broadway debut in 1963 in Lil- [1] http://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/12/obituaries/
lian Hellman’s comedy My Mother, My Father and Me. His anthony-holland-is-dead-at-60-actor-ill-with-aids-
half-dozen subsequent Broadway roles included Division is-a-suicide.html
Street and We Bombed in New Haven. He appeared in many
regional-theater productions, as well as Off Broadway
productions of Brendan Behan’s Quare Fellow, Eugène
External links
Ionesco’s Victims of Duty and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for • Anthony Holland (actor) at the Internet Movie
Godot Used Voice and Body. Database
He gave one of his best performances in The Hunger Persondata
Artist, Martha Clarke’s 1987 adaptation of several stories Name Holland, Anthony
by Franz Kafka. His soft voice, unpretentiously conversational
Alternative names
in tone yet mesmerizingly grave, could be Kafka’s, Frank Rich
wrote in The New York Times. The civilized Old World ca- Short description American actor
dences of Prague are accelerated just a bit by the gallows humor Date of birth March 3, 1928
of the paranoid Jewish ghetto comic. The actor lets his middle- Place of birth
aged body work for him, too.
Holland’s screen credits include All That Jazz, Klute Date of death July 9, 1988
and Tempest. He appeared on many television series, Place of death
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