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

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

John Grinham Kerr (November 15, 1931 â€" February 2, 2013) was an

American actor and attorney. He began his professional career on

Broadway, earning critical acclaim for his performances in Mary Coyle

Chase's Bernardine and Robert Anderson's Tea and Sympathy, before

transitioning into a screen career. He reprised his role in the film

version of Tea and Sympathy, which won him a Golden Globe Award for

Most Promising Newcomer, and portrayed Joseph Cable in the Rodgers and

Hammerstein movie musical South Pacific. He subsequently appeared in

number of television series, including a starring role on the

primetime soap opera Peyton Place.In the 1970s, he largely moved away

from acting to become a lawyer, making a few small cameos in

Canadian-produced films like The Silent Partner and The Amateur. He

operated a legal practice in Beverly Hills until 2000, when he retired

from the profession.Kerr's parents, British-born Geoffrey Kerr and

American-born June Walker, were both stage and film actors, and his

grandfather was Frederick Kerr, a British trans-Atlantic character

actor in the period 1880â€"1930; Kerr developed an early interest in

following in their footsteps.He grew up in the New York City area, and

went to Phillips Exeter Academy in New England; after graduating from

Harvard, he worked at the nearby Brattle Theatre in Cambridge,

Massachusetts and in summer stock. For some time he pursued graduate

studies in the Russian (now Harriman) Institute of Columbia

University.
John Kerr (actor) Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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