David Brooks (actor) Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

David Brooks (actor) Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

David Brooks (September , â€" March , ) was an American actor,

singer, director, and producer who first drew critical acclamation

starring in several Broadway musicals during the s, including

portraying Tommy Albright in the original production of Brigadoon.In

the early s he was an important stage director in the avant-garde

theatre scene of Milan, Italy. He returned to the United States during

the mid-s and worked principally as a stage director and producer for

over a decade. He was instrumental in producing the United States

premieres of a number of works by Eugène Ionesco and Samuel Beckett,

and remained active as an actor up until the s.Brooks was born in

Portland, Oregon, to Jewish parents and earned a Bachelor of Music

degree from the University of Washington, where he trained as a

classical baritone. He won a scholarship to the Curtis Institute of

Music in Philadelphia, where he pursued graduate studies in opera.

While a student at Curtis he began appearing in plays and musicals in

Philadelphia which ultimately led to his being signed with a talent

agent. He made his Broadway theatre debut in as Jeff Calhoun opposite

Celeste Holm as Evalina in the original production of Harold Arlen's

Bloomer Girl. The show was a big hit and effectively launched a major

career for Brooks as a stage actor and later stage director and

producer. L.A. Times on October , , headlined "Stage Singer Brooks

Signed by Paramount." Scouts had seen him in "Bloomer Girl." Brooks

ended up making just one film, in , as a character named Angus McNab

in the Paramount musical short "Bonnie Lassie.â€
David Brooks (actor) Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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