Bradford Ernest Sullivan (November 18, 1931 â€" December 31, 2008) was
an American character actor on film, stage and television. He was best
known for playing the killer Cole in The Sting, hockey goon Mo Wanchuk
in Slap Shot, mobster George in The Untouchables (1987) and the gruff
Henry Wingo in The Prince of Tides (1991).Born in Chicago, Illinois,
the son of Winthrop Sullivan and Margaret Schroeder Sullivan, Brad
Sullivan served in the Korean War and then attended the University of
Maine. After touring with a stage company, he moved to New York City
and studied at the American Theatre Wing. He made his Off-Broadway
debut in Red Roses for Me in 1961, and went on to appear in the London
company of the musical South Pacific.In the 1960s and early 1970s, he
appeared in two productions of the New York Shakespeare Festival â€"
Coriolanus at Central Park's Delacorte Theatre (1965), and Václav
Havel's The Memorandum. In 1971, he starred as Rip Cord opposite
Adrienne Barbeau as Cookie Kovac in the David Newbburge-Jacques Urbont
musical Stag Movie. Theater critic Clive Barnes in The New York Times
called the two "quite jolly" and that they "deserve to be
congratulated on the lack of embarrassment they show when, on
occasion, they have to wander around stark naked. They may not be sexy
but they certainly keep cheerful."In 1972, he made his feature film
debut in the military drama Parades (1972; re-released as The Line,
1980). This was followed by an appearance in a CBS TV-movie adaptation
of David Rabe's Sticks and Bones, a black comedy about a Vietnam War
veteran. The subject matter proved so controversial that half of the
network's affiliates refused to broadcast the telefilm.
an American character actor on film, stage and television. He was best
known for playing the killer Cole in The Sting, hockey goon Mo Wanchuk
in Slap Shot, mobster George in The Untouchables (1987) and the gruff
Henry Wingo in The Prince of Tides (1991).Born in Chicago, Illinois,
the son of Winthrop Sullivan and Margaret Schroeder Sullivan, Brad
Sullivan served in the Korean War and then attended the University of
Maine. After touring with a stage company, he moved to New York City
and studied at the American Theatre Wing. He made his Off-Broadway
debut in Red Roses for Me in 1961, and went on to appear in the London
company of the musical South Pacific.In the 1960s and early 1970s, he
appeared in two productions of the New York Shakespeare Festival â€"
Coriolanus at Central Park's Delacorte Theatre (1965), and Václav
Havel's The Memorandum. In 1971, he starred as Rip Cord opposite
Adrienne Barbeau as Cookie Kovac in the David Newbburge-Jacques Urbont
musical Stag Movie. Theater critic Clive Barnes in The New York Times
called the two "quite jolly" and that they "deserve to be
congratulated on the lack of embarrassment they show when, on
occasion, they have to wander around stark naked. They may not be sexy
but they certainly keep cheerful."In 1972, he made his feature film
debut in the military drama Parades (1972; re-released as The Line,
1980). This was followed by an appearance in a CBS TV-movie adaptation
of David Rabe's Sticks and Bones, a black comedy about a Vietnam War
veteran. The subject matter proved so controversial that half of the
network's affiliates refused to broadcast the telefilm.
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