Clint Kimbrough
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Louis Clinton Kimbrough (March 8, 1933 – April 9, 1996) was an American actor.
. After his birth, his family moved to Allen Oklahoma where Clint, nicknamed “Scooter Bill”, attended and graduated from Allen High School (AHS) with the class of 1951.
By the age of 15, it was clear that Louis Kimbrough had theatrical ability. As the President of Allen’s Teen Town, in 1948 he helped stage the “Gay Nineties Ball”(1). As a junior at AHS, Kimbrough wrote, produced and directed the 1950 senior play, a full-length production entitled “Broadway”. After graduation from AHS, Clint enrolled for a year at Oklahoma University
(2).
He then completed a two-year stint in the U.S. Signal Corps, stationed in Korea, before the 20-year-old “Lewis Clinton Kimbrough” made his professional stage debut in Brandon Thomas’ play “Charley’s Aunt” in 1953 (2).
in New York and shortly thereafter, with the help of fellow Oklahoman Lonny Chapman
, secured a spot in Lee Strasberg’s Actor’s Studio, an incubator for many of the most promising talents of the era. Clint quickly gained a reputation for his ability to understand the character he was asked to play (3). The Actor’s Studio work resulted in his first film work in “The Strange One” which used completely a cast and crew of Actor’s Studio personnel. An appearance in “A Face in the Crowd” followed and produced a working relationship with director Elia Kazan
that would span 10 years.
productions at a time when there were only three major networks. Literally millions of viewers tuned in to weekly shows such as “Westinghouse Studio One”, “G.E. Theater” and “U.S. Steel Hour”. A feature role in Hal B. Wallis’ 1958 “Hot Spell” preceded performances in a highly acclaimed 11-month run on Broadway of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” as well as an NBC TV production
of the same, both directed by Jose Quintero
. The 1960s produced some of Clint’s most distinguished work in the theater and on Broadway performing the works of Shakespeare, Arthur Miller
, Neil Simon
, Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams
. Clint moved from New York to Hollywood in the late 1960s and soon developed an association with Roger Corman
, “King of the B Movies” with roles in several notable 1970s film productions such as “Von Richtohfen and Brown”, “Bloody Mama”, “Crazy Mama” and the “Nurse” movies. Kimbrough died in Ada, Oklahoma, of pneumonia.
has been held with the goal to provide the public with better understanding and appreciation for the amazing career of Allen’s most recognized entertainer.
The McDonald Twins, Joy and June are acting Co-Directors of the CKFF.
. Starring Cloris Leachman
, Stuart Whitman
, Ann Sothern
, Jim Backus
and Donny Most
. Story by Frances Doel (former wife of Clint) Directed by Jonathan Demme
. Produced by Roger Corman (King of the B Movies
). (4)
The Young Nurses (1973) – (as Director) – Several effective and innovative directorial techniques. For example, much higher Joe Bob Briggs
Breast Count than Night Call Nurses. Innovative use of the dream sequence
. Includes several scenes with great double entendre
jokes. Also includes the original theatrical movie trailer. Screen appearances include Sally Kirkland
, cult genius Sam Fuller
and an uncredited Robert Ulrich. Produced by Roger Corman. (4)
Magic Carpet (November 6, 1972) – Starring Susan Saint James
, Jim Backus, Wally Cox
and Nanette Fabray
with Clint Kimbrough as John Doolittle. An American language student in Rome (St. James) hires on as a tour guide
and becomes involved with a handsome “stowaway” who turns out to be a fugitive from the law. Clint portrays a newly-wed groom, constantly exhausted, on a honeymoon tour with his new bride. Filmed on location and first broadcast by NBC as the pilot for a weekly TV series. The project failed to post a sale and St. James went on to costar in McMillan & Wife. (4)
The Crucible (1972) – A New Mexico State University
production opening September 30, 1972. The Arthur Miller play, first produced in New York in 1955, explores the notorious witch hunts
of Salem, Mass. Starring Clint, as NMSU guest artist, in the role of Jon Proctor and featuring Cornelia Easterling and Marcia Thomas. (5)
Night Call Nurses (1972) – Clint delivers a fantastic performance as the evil Dr. Bramlett and is featured in several memorable scenes as a devious Psychiatrist involved in a psychological experiment with one of the Night Call Nurses. Includes appearances by Patty Byrne, Alana Stewart, Felton Perry
, James Milhollin and Dixie Peabody. Directed by Jonathan Kaplan. Produced by Roger Corman. (4)
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
(1971) – Opened October 13, 1971 at the New Mexico State University Theater starring Clint in the role of Henry David Thoreau
. The play, by Jerome Lawrence
and Robert E. Lee, was scheduled to be made into a 1972 movie produced by Hal B. Wallis
with Paul Nathan, as associate producer
. Clint was in line for the role of Thoreau’s younger brother, but the production was apparently never completed. (6)
The Last Movie
(1971) – Written, directed and produced by a drugged Dennis Hopper
. His follow-up to Easy Rider
won the Venice Film Festival
Award for Best Movie – and is also listed on most “Worst Movies of All Time” lists. Clint is credited as the “Minister” and appears in one scene of the movie, without speaking, about 1 ½ hours into the production comforting an injured Dennis Hopper as Hopper exclaims “I’m dying”. Also with Peter Fonda
, Kris Kristofferson
, Michelle Phillips
, John Phillip Law
, James Mitchum, Dean Stockwell
and Henry Jaglom
as “Minister’s Son”. (4)
Von Richthofen and Brown (1971) – An entertaining WWI recreation “starring” 2 guys (John Phillip Law and Don Stroud
), “co-starring” 3 and “featuring” about 10 including Clint as the German Major Von Hoeppner. Not a great deal of screen time for Clint, as much of the film is aerial dog-fights and actions shots, but Von Hoeppner participates in many of the scenes when Von Richthofen is not flying. Directed and Produced by Roger Corman. (4)
Bloody Mama (1970) – One of the highest profile movies of Clint’s career. A low Joe Bob Briggs Breast Count – one scene – however, liberal use of fake blood, explicit language (no F bombs), guns, violence, drugs and sexual innuendo
. Fantastic low-budget movie with a big name cast including Shelly Winters
, Robert DeNiro
, Bruce Dern
, Don Stroud, Robert Walden
and Diane Varsi
. As Arthur Barker, the least psychotic of the Barker boys, he has many memorable scenes. Worth seeing just for a very young Robert DeNiro. Directed by Roger Corman. (4)
The Arrangement (1969) – This movie, a big budget Hollywood melodrama, has a few Clint scenes with Clint in the role of Ben, the assistant to Kirk Douglas’ boss, but only has one speaking scene. Stars Kirk Douglas
, Faye Dunnaway, Deborah Kerr
and Richard Boone
. Clint also appears in the original theatrical trailer. Written, Directed and Produced by Elia Kazan. (4)
The Boston Strangler (1968) – A film based on the crime spree that terrorized Boston in the 1960s. Starring Tony Curtis
, Henry Fonda
and George Kennedy
. Clint is not credited on the film’s ending credits
, but is credited on some web sites as Stanley Hodak. The role consists of Clint pictured in a black and white family portrait with his elderly mother, Emma Hodak (Almira Sessions), the first victim of the Boston Strangler. Clint does not appear again in the movie. Directed by Richard Fleischer
. (7)
The Danny Thomas Hour: The Enemy (November 20, 1967) – With Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Brown, Bruce Glover
and Clint Kimbrough as Lt. Peters. A one-hour episode of the short lived Danny Thomas Hour on NBC (not the same show as Make Room for Daddy
). A German spy is suspected of infiltrating a U.S. squadron during the Battle of the Bulge
. Sammy Davis, Jr. as Sergeant Chris Christiansen unmasks the soldier who knows more about music than baseball. (4)
The Iron Horse: Bridge at Forty-Mile (January 23, 1967) – A weekly series on ABC that ran for two seasons. Starring Dale Robertson
, as Ben Calhoun, with Gary Collins and regular cast members Roger Torrey and Ellen Burstyn
. Clint appears in the role of Rafe Wheeler in episode 20 of season 1 in which Ben’s lumber payment and three men are missing. Also with Katherine Justice
and Richard X. Slattery
. (4)
Marat/Sade (1966) – This is a 1967 movie version of the Peter Weiss
play (the full title is “The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat
as performed by the inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade”), described as “one of the most daring and unusual emotional experiences ever to be put on the stage” - meaning a very weird play. In the original play opened October 24, 1966 at Theatre Co. of Boston, Clint played Marat. The movie version has Ian Richardson
as Marat.(8)
Henry IV, Part One
(1966) – The Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s rendition of Shakespeare’s 1597 or 1598 play opened February 27, 1966. Noted by Time Magazine
as the richest of Shakespeare’s chronicle plays, Henry IV featured James Gallery in the title role
with Clint as his roistering son, Prince Hal. Pamela Payton-Wright
and James Storm
also performed as members of the repertory company. (9)
Mother Courage
(1966) – Bertolt Brecht’s 1930s masterpiece translated to English by Eric Bentley
and produced by the Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Opened January 16, 1966. As a member of the Milwaukee Rep’s professional resident company, Clint performed as one of Mother’s sons, Elif. Also with Stefan Gierasch, Mary Dole, Pamela Payton-Wright and James Storm. (10)
Diary of a Scoundrel (1965) – Opened November 18, 1965. A production of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Alexander Ostrovsky’s 1910 satire on a young man who successfully utilizes the nouveau-riches’ stupidity for personal gain starred Stefan Gierasch, Virginia Payne
and Clint as the hero, Gloumov. Directed by Stephen Porter. (11)
Saint Joan (1965) – The Milwaukee Repertory Theater opened a new season with George Bernard Shaw’s play of idea’s on October 29, 1965. Directed by Phillip Minor with Mary Doyle
in the title role. Also included Stefan Gierasch, Bennett Sargent, Donald Gantry with Clint in the role of Dunois. (12)
Tartuffe (1965) – A production which ran January 14, 1965 through May 22, 1965 at the Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center in New York City
under the direction of Elia Kazan and Robert Whitehead
. According to the October 3, 1971 Las Cruces Post, Clint performed, in an unnamed role, in Tartuffe during his tenure as a member of the Lincoln Center Repertory Company. (6)
Incident at Vichy
(1965) – Clint was Nazi Professor Hoffman in this 1965 Arthur Miller Broadway play. Set in September, 1942 at a detention room in Vichy, France
the play focuses on nine men who have been picked up on suspicion that they are Jews or Jewish sympathizers. A production of the Lincoln Center Repertory Co. under the direction of Elia Kazan. The 2002 DVD is a recorded stage production directed by Stacy Keach
. (13)
The Changeling (1964) – A recently recorded (2006) adaptation of a play in which Clint performed as Pedro. John Phillip Law and Barbara Loden
(wife of Elia Kazan) starred in the lead roles. Faye Dunaway
was also in this 1964 play. Originally written in 1653, the play is a story of desire, love, deceit and murder. A production of the Lincoln Center Repertory Co. under the direction of Elia Kazan. (13)
After the Fall (1964) – Written by Arthur Miller and directed by Elia Kazan. A Lincoln Center Repertory Co. production. Starring Faye Dunaway, Jason Robards
, Jr., Hal Holbrook
. Clint Kimbrough with an unnamed minor supporting role. (14)
But For Whom Charlie (1964) – A comedy by S.N. Behrman for the Lincoln Center Repertory Co. under the direction of Elia Kazan. Clinton Kimbrough in a leading role as Willard Prosper with Faye Dunnaway as his sister, Faith Prosper. Also with Jason Robards, Jr. (13)
Come Blow Your Horn
(1963) – Written by Neil Simon and made into a movie starring Frank Sinatra
, this comedy opened August 20, 1963 performed by the Peninsula Players. Clint performed in the role of the elder brother with Dal Norris, Leo Locker and Maggy Magerstadt also among the cast. (15)
The Zoo Story
(1963) – Opened off-Broadway
in 1959 with Clint performing in a 1963 production by the Peninsula Players of Fish Creek, Wisconsin
. A one-act play
written by Edward Albee
. Clint portrays a young hoodlum. Also featuring Ralph Waite
. (16)
The American Dream (1963) – A one-act play written by Edward Albee with Maggy Maggerstadt, Jeannette Leahy, Ralph Waite, Estelle Ritchie and Clint Kimbrough as a young man. Part of a double bill with The Zoo Story performed by the Peninsula Players. (16)
Shot in the Dark (1963) – Opened July 16, 1963 at the Peninsula Players Fish Creek Theater. A mystery farce adapted by Harry Kurnitz that had an 11-month run on Broadway the previous season. Clint played the young magistrate with Leo Lucker as master of the house. Pat Randall played the naive parlor maid and Jeannette Leahy performed as Clint’s wife. Directed by Paul Melton. (17)
Time Remembered (1963) – A romantic comedy that opened July 9, 1963 at the Peninsula Players Garden Theatre in Fish Creek, Wisconsin. Written by Jean Anouith with successful productions both in London and New York. Featured Anna Niemela, Estelle Ritchie and Clint Kimbrough as Prince Albert. (18)
Look, We’ve Come Through (1961) – Premiering October 25, 1961 at the Hudson Theatre, this Broadway play by Hugh Wheeler
was described as “a really first rate American play” by Newsday. A comedy/drama portraying plain and vulnerable teen, Belle, who develops a hesitant friendship with another outcast – shy and sensitive Bobby. With a small cast of 4 men and 2 women, it received a Tony Award
nomination for Best Featured Actress. Opening night featured Clint, along with Zohra Lampert
, Ralph Williams and Burt Reynolds
. Directed by Jose Quintero. (13)
U.S. Steel Hour: Summer Rhapsody (May 3, 1961) – Season 8, Episode 18 of this popular CBS anthology series
featured Clint in the romantic lead opposite newcomer Abigail Kellogg. Also starring Glenda Farrell
in a recurring role
with Tom Tully
as a guest star. Written by John Holt. U.S. Steel Hour
ran from 1953 to 1963. (1953-1955 on ABC, 1955-1963 on CBS). (19)
Laurette (1960) – Directed by Jose Quintero opening at the Shubert Theatre
in New Haven, Connecticut
on September 30, 1960. This production included Clint Kimbrough as Jack, son of Laurette, Joan Hackett
, Judy Holliday
and Patrick O’Neal. Written by Stanley Young from a biography of Laurette Taylor
by Marguerite Courtney. Laurette Taylor was an American actress
of the 1920s who suffered from severe alcoholism
. (20)
Camino Real (1960) – This Tennessee Williams play had its Broadway premiere on March 19, 1953 at New York’s Martin Beck Theatre
. The production, which ran for 60 performances, was directed by Elia Kazan. Opening night cast included Eli Wallach
, Martin Balsam
and Hurd Hatfield
. A September 4, 1960 Daily Oklahoman
article reported that Clint had performed in Camino Real off-Broadway in the role of Kilroy. This St. Marks Playhouse revival opened May 16, 1960 and was directed by Jose Quintero. This DVD is an October 7, 1966 television production starring Tom Aldredge
and Martin Sheen
as Kilroy. (20)
R.C.M.P. (Royal Canadian Mounted Police
): Target for the Law (May 4, 1960) – Clint appears as Mattice in episode 25 of season 1, in which a man whose wife plans to divorce him is threatened by the man she intends to marry. The romantic triangle
becomes a deadly affair when the husband is found shot. Corporal Jacques Gagnier (Gilles Pelletier) gathers evidence to help the court decide whether or not a man is guilty of murder. Also features Mildred Trares as Lois and John Drainie
as Garneau. (21)
General Electric Theater: The Last Dance (November 22, 1959) – Starring Clint Kimbrough, Carol Lynley
, Mary Astor
and Malcolm Atterbury in a story about two young people, Gene and Phyllis, in love against the wishes of their parents. The pair of high school lovers elope and quickly discover they can’t manage alone. They end up relying heavily on the boy’s parents. G.E. Theater was a half-hour CBS television
anthology series broadcast every Sunday evening beginning February 1, 1953 and ending May 27, 1962. Ronald Reagan
became the show’s only host on September 26, 1954 which consistently ranked in the Top Ten of the Nielsen ratings
. (22)
Our Town
(November 13, 1959) – With Art Carney
as the Stage manager and Clint Kimbrough as George Gibbs. Directed by Jose Quintero. This NBC production presents Thornton Wilder’s modern classic with much of the cast, which included Clint, that performed in an 11-month off-Broadway run at Circle-In-The-Square. The plot centers around the love story of two young people, neighbors since childhood, who grew up, married and parted when the young wife died in childbirth. (22)
Alfred Hitchcock
Presents: Appointment at Eleven (October 11, 1959) – As part of Alfred Hitchcock Presents
fifth season, Clint, in the starring role as Davie Logan, storms into a bar as an angry young man and shocks the patrons by announcing that someone is going to die at 11:00pm. Also startling is his assertion that he himself has been “dead” for five years, but is on the verge of being “reborn”. The outcome of the story is predicated on the fact that Davie’s no-good father deserted him and his mother…five years ago. Features Clu Gulager
of Holdenville and a short appearance by a young Michael J. Pollard
. (4)
U. S. Steel Hour: Trap for a Stranger (February 25, 1959) – With George C. Scott
, Dick Van Dyke
and Clinton Kimbrough as Elroy Hubbard in this prestigious live dramatic anthology series on CBS. In this episode, the capture of a television comedian speeding in his sports car
hardly seems a suitable exploit for an ambitious small-town marshal, but TV marshals who catch something besides cattle rustlers are a refreshing rarity. The Marshal arrests the television star and attempts to pin a hit-and-run
rap on him. The Marshal’s wife realizes that it’s a ploy for re-election and publicity. (4)
Desire Under the Elms
(1959) – A Eugene O’Neill play first published in 1924, revived on stage in 1952 with a 1958 film version. The play had various later stage revivals including a 1959 stock theatre production starring Salome Jens
as Abbie Putnam. The Actors Studio archive refers to a rehearsal recording of Clint and Salome titled “Desire Under the Elms” dated January 6, 1959. I don’t know Clint’s role (probably Eben or Simeon Cabot) or where the production was staged, but Clint likely performed in this 1959 play with Jens. Jens went on to also star in a 1963 version directed by Jose Quintero, whom Clint also worked with later.(23)
Hot Spell (1958) – Anthony Quinn
and Shirley Booth
play a married couple, Jack and Alma Duval, in this Hollywood melodrama set in steamy New Orleans. The children, Buddy (Earl Holliman), Virginia (Shirley MacLaine) and Billy (Clint Kimbrough) are subjected to the spousal turmoil of an unfaithful husband and a neglected wife struggling to reassemble her battered marriage. Directed by Daniel Mann
. Produced by Hall Wallis. (4)
Kraft Television Theatre: The Sound of Trouble (November 20, 1957) – In episode 8 of season 11 Clint played opposite of Jill Corey
in which a traveling family of country music
singers stop in a small town. A daughter promptly falls in love with a local farmboy, upsetting her father greatly. He will not have his family act torn apart by love so he decides murder is the solution. Also with Mildred Dunnock
and Lonny Chapman. Included a Columbia hit single
, “I Told a Lie to My Darlin”, by Jill Corey with Ray Ellis
and his orchestra. One hour weekly on NBC. (24)
Studio One: The Night America Trembled (September 9, 1957) – The prestigious CBS dramatic anthology, Studio One, launched its tenth season on the air with this elaborate dramatization of the nationwide panic that ensued after Orson Welles’ famous War of the Worlds
radio broadcast
of October 30, 1938. Clinton Kimbrough is featured as Bob, a college student on a date. Includes appearances by Ed Asner
, Warren Oates
, Warren Beatty
, James Coburn
and Vincent Gardenia
. Hosted and narrated by Edward R. Murrow
. Includes classic Westinghouse commercials featuring Betty Furness
and John Cameron Swayze
, as well as a 10-minute short highlighting future stars that had roles in the series. (4)
Studio One: The Weston Strain (May 27, 1957) – Most likely Clint Kimbrough’s first television appearance. Guest starring in the role of Paul along with Dick York
and Conrad Nagle, among others. This was Clint’s first appearance on the highly regarded CBS anthology series sponsored by Westinghouse. He would later appear in the Studio One episode The Night America Trembled. (4)
Arms and the Man
(1957) – In the summer of 1957, Clint toured in a stock production of this George Bernard Shaw
play starring Carroll Baker
and directed by her husband, Jack Garfein. (3)
Saddle Tramps (1957) – A summer 1957 stock production written by fellow Oklahoman Lonny Chapman. (3)
A Face in the Crowd (1957) – Clint Kimbrough with an uncredited role as an extra among 33 other uncredited actors such as Betty Furness, Burl Ives
, Brownie McGhee
, Charles Nelson Reilly
, John Cameron Swayze, Rip Torn
, Mike Wallace and Walter Winchell
. Clint has about 5 seconds of screen time in a crowd, but it is one of the first film appearance of his career (May 1957 release date). Also includes the original movie trailer. Starring Andy Griffith
, Patricia Neal
, Anthony Franciosa
, Walter Matthau
and Lee Remick
. Directed by Elia Kazan. (3)
The Strange One
(1957) – According to Clint’s biography in the Mister Roberts program, Clint had a small part in this Jack Garfein directed film based on Calder Willingham’s play “End As A Man.” It was released by Columbia in April, 1957, filmed entirely with cast and technicians from the Actors Studio. Perhaps the first film appearance of Clint’s career, filmed sometime prior to November, 1956, but I have not been able to locate Clint in the movie. Revolving around the brutalization and corruption of young men at a Southern military academy
, it launched several brilliant careers, including Ben Gazzara
, Pat Hingle
and George Peppard
. Filmed on location in Gulfport, Florida
. (25)
South Pacific
(1957) – Clint Kimbrough was included as an uncredited member of the cast (one of the sailors) and performed in such numbers as “Bloody Mary is the Girl I Love” and “There’s Nothing Like a Dame.” This production, staged during the spring 1957 season at the New York City Center
by the NYCC Light Opera Company under the directed by Jean Dalrymple, also featured Harvey Lembeck
, Martin Wolfson and Juanita Hall
. Hall went on to star as Bloody Mary in the 1958 Academy Award winning film version of James M. Michener’s Pulitzer Prize
winning novel. (26)
Mister Roberts (1956) – Clint Kimbrough appeared as Payne in the December 10, 1956 New York City Center production directed by John Forsythe
starring Charlton Heston
. The NYCC production was Burt Reynolds’ first professional stage appearance. The DVD is a popular 1955 movie version starring Henry Fonda, James Cagney
, William Powell
, Jack Lemmon
and Besty Palmer. Written by Thomas Heggen, the play originally debuted in 1948 at the Alvin Theatre
, starring Henry Fonda, for 1,157 performances. (25)
Dulcy (1956) – Clinton Kimbrough performed in the role of Tom Sterrett in this George S. Kaufman
comedy as a senior at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Staged at the Coronet Theatre in New York City, March 29, 1956, the play had originally opened in New York on August 13, 1921. The play was made into a film at least 3 times – a silent version in 1923, a version in 1930 under the title “Not So Dumb” and a 1940 MGM version starring Ann Sothern. (27)
Picnic (1955) - While studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Clint appeared as Bomber, the paper boy, in the opening night production at the Barbizon-Plaza Theatre in New York City on October 28, 1955. The original Broadway production of this play starred Paul Newman
and Eileen Heckart
, winning both the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. William Holden
, Rosalind Russell
and Kim Novak
went on to star in the Academy Award-winning film version. (28)
Charley's Aunt
(1953) –A 20-year-old “Lewis Clinton Kimbrough”, as Brassett, performed in this perennial comedy while making his stage debut as a member of the Gateway Stock Company of New York at Gatlinburg, Tennessee
in 1953. This Brandon Thomas
play was first performed at London’s Theatre Royal in 1892. The DVD’s are a 1941 film version (82 min) starring Jack Benny
in the principal role (with a 10-minute short promo about the film) and a live 1957 adaptation from Playhouse 90
with Art Carney (90 min with vintage commercials). (2)
Broadway (March 10, 1950) – As a Junior at Allen High School, 17-year-old Louis Clinton “Scooter Bill” Kimbrough wrote, directed and produced this full-length play featuring performances by Kimbrough, the McDonald Twins and other Allen High School students, included Ronald Jones singing “Valencia” and Glenna Jones singing “Alice Blue Gown”. Staged at the AHS Gymnasium. Admission – 25 cents.
Unconfirmed Stage Performances and the Actors Studio Recordings, 1957-1959 The Actors Studio Recordings, housed at the Wisconsin Historical Society
, contain recorded rehearsals of plays, the dates the readings were held, and the actors and actresses that participated in them. Except for Desire Under the Elms, insufficient collaborating evidence has been discovered to reasonably determine that Clint Kimbrough performed in a stage production of the play referred to in the recordings archives.
Early life
Louis Kimbrough was born to Fred and Lucinda (Yoakum) Kimbrough in Oklahoma CityOklahoma city
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. After his birth, his family moved to Allen Oklahoma where Clint, nicknamed “Scooter Bill”, attended and graduated from Allen High School (AHS) with the class of 1951.
By the age of 15, it was clear that Louis Kimbrough had theatrical ability. As the President of Allen’s Teen Town, in 1948 he helped stage the “Gay Nineties Ball”(1). As a junior at AHS, Kimbrough wrote, produced and directed the 1950 senior play, a full-length production entitled “Broadway”. After graduation from AHS, Clint enrolled for a year at Oklahoma University
University of Oklahoma
The University of Oklahoma is a coeducational public research university located in Norman, Oklahoma. Founded in 1890, it existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two became the state of Oklahoma. the university had 29,931 students enrolled, most located at its...
(2).
He then completed a two-year stint in the U.S. Signal Corps, stationed in Korea, before the 20-year-old “Lewis Clinton Kimbrough” made his professional stage debut in Brandon Thomas’ play “Charley’s Aunt” in 1953 (2).
American Academy of Dramatic Arts – The Actors Studio
He subsequently enrolled in the American Academy of Dramatic ArtsAmerican Academy of Dramatic Arts
The American Academy of Dramatic Arts is a fully accredited two-year conservatory with facilities located in Manhattan, New York City – at 120 Madison Avenue, in a landmark building designed by noted architect Stanford White as the original Colony Club – and in Hollywood, California...
in New York and shortly thereafter, with the help of fellow Oklahoman Lonny Chapman
Lonny Chapman
Lonny Chapman was an American television actor best known for his numerous guest star appearances on detective dramas, including Quincy, M.E., The A-Team, Murder, She Wrote, Matlock, and NYPD Blue...
, secured a spot in Lee Strasberg’s Actor’s Studio, an incubator for many of the most promising talents of the era. Clint quickly gained a reputation for his ability to understand the character he was asked to play (3). The Actor’s Studio work resulted in his first film work in “The Strange One” which used completely a cast and crew of Actor’s Studio personnel. An appearance in “A Face in the Crowd” followed and produced a working relationship with director Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan was an American director and actor, described by the New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history". Born in Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, to Greek parents originally from Kayseri in Anatolia, the family emigrated...
that would span 10 years.
Television and film
The late 1950s also brought numerous appearances on live televisionLive television
Live television refers to a television production broadcast in real-time, as events happen, in the present. From the early days of television until about 1958, live television was used heavily, except for filmed shows such as I Love Lucy and Gunsmoke. Video tape did not exist until 1957...
productions at a time when there were only three major networks. Literally millions of viewers tuned in to weekly shows such as “Westinghouse Studio One”, “G.E. Theater” and “U.S. Steel Hour”. A feature role in Hal B. Wallis’ 1958 “Hot Spell” preceded performances in a highly acclaimed 11-month run on Broadway of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” as well as an NBC TV production
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
of the same, both directed by Jose Quintero
José Quintero
José Benjamin Quintero was a Panamanian theatre director, producer and pedagogue best known for his interpretations of the works of Eugene O'Neill.-Early years:...
. The 1960s produced some of Clint’s most distinguished work in the theater and on Broadway performing the works of Shakespeare, Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include plays such as All My Sons , Death of a Salesman , The Crucible , and A View from the Bridge .Miller was often in the public eye,...
, Neil Simon
Neil Simon
Neil Simon is an American playwright and screenwriter. He has written numerous Broadway plays, including Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, and The Odd Couple. He won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Lost In Yonkers. He has written the screenplays for several of his plays that...
, Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams
Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs...
. Clint moved from New York to Hollywood in the late 1960s and soon developed an association with Roger Corman
Roger Corman
Roger William Corman is an American film producer, director and actor. He has mostly worked on low-budget B movies. Some of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and in 2009 he won an Honorary Academy Award for...
, “King of the B Movies” with roles in several notable 1970s film productions such as “Von Richtohfen and Brown”, “Bloody Mama”, “Crazy Mama” and the “Nurse” movies. Kimbrough died in Ada, Oklahoma, of pneumonia.
The CKFF (Clint Kimbrough Film Festival)
Since 2007, in Allen Oklahoma during the annual “Alumni Weekend” held the 3rd weekend of each June, a film festivalFilm festival
A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...
has been held with the goal to provide the public with better understanding and appreciation for the amazing career of Allen’s most recognized entertainer.
The McDonald Twins, Joy and June are acting Co-Directors of the CKFF.
Filmography
Crazy Mama (1975) – The first scene stars Clint, as Daniel the father, but one drawback – Clint is dead and out of the movie before the opening credits. The remainder of the movie is a celebration of 1950s Americana. General mayhem follows three generations of women as their crime spree races from California to their old family homestead in Arkansas. Also includes the original theatrical trailerTrailer (film)
A trailer or preview is an advertisement or a commercial for a feature film that will be exhibited in the future at a cinema. The term "trailer" comes from their having originally been shown at the end of a feature film screening. That practice did not last long, because patrons tended to leave the...
. Starring Cloris Leachman
Cloris Leachman
Cloris Leachman is an American actress of stage, film and television. She has won eight Primetime Emmy Awards—more than any other performer—and one Daytime Emmy Award...
, Stuart Whitman
Stuart Whitman
Stuart Maxwell Whitman is an American actor.Stuart Whitman is arguably best-known for playing Marshal Jim Crown in the western television series Cimarron Strip in 1967...
, Ann Sothern
Ann Sothern
Ann Sothern was an American film and television actress whose career spanned six decades.-Early life and career:...
, Jim Backus
Jim Backus
James Gilmore "Jim" Backus was a radio, television, film, and voice actor. Among his most famous roles are the voice of Mr...
and Donny Most
Don Most
Don Most is an American actor best known for his role as Ralph Malph on the television series Happy Days.-Acting credits:...
. Story by Frances Doel (former wife of Clint) Directed by Jonathan Demme
Jonathan Demme
Robert Jonathan Demme is an American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter. Best known for directing The Silence of the Lambs, which won him the Academy Award for Best Director, he has also directed the acclaimed movies Philadelphia, Rachel Getting Married, the Talking Heads concert movie Stop...
. Produced by Roger Corman (King of the B Movies
B-movie
A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....
). (4)
The Young Nurses (1973) – (as Director) – Several effective and innovative directorial techniques. For example, much higher Joe Bob Briggs
Joe Bob Briggs
John Irving Bloom , who uses the pseudonym Joe Bob Briggs, is a syndicated American film critic, writer and comic performer.-Early years:...
Breast Count than Night Call Nurses. Innovative use of the dream sequence
Dream sequence
A dream sequence is a technique used in storytelling, particularly in television and film, to set apart a brief interlude from the main story. The interlude may consist of a flashback, a flashforward, a fantasy, a vision, a dream, or some other element. Commonly, dream sequences appear in many...
. Includes several scenes with great double entendre
Double entendre
A double entendre or adianoeta is a figure of speech in which a spoken phrase is devised to be understood in either of two ways. Often the first meaning is straightforward, while the second meaning is less so: often risqué or ironic....
jokes. Also includes the original theatrical movie trailer. Screen appearances include Sally Kirkland
Sally Kirkland
Sally Kirkland is an American film and television actress.-Early life:Kirkland was named after her mother, fashion editor Sally Kirkland, who was a fashion editor at Vogue and LIFE magazines, and was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her father, Frederic McMichael Kirkland, worked in the scrap...
, cult genius Sam Fuller
Samuel Fuller
Samuel Michael Fuller was an American screenwriter, novelist, and film director known for low-budget genre movies with controversial themes.-Personal life:...
and an uncredited Robert Ulrich. Produced by Roger Corman. (4)
Magic Carpet (November 6, 1972) – Starring Susan Saint James
Susan Saint James
Susan Saint James is an American actress and activist, most widely known for her work in television during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.-Early life:...
, Jim Backus, Wally Cox
Wally Cox
Wallace Maynard Cox was an American comedian and actor, particularly associated with the early years of television in the United States. He appeared in the U.S. TV series Mr. Peepers , plus several other popular shows, and as a character actor in over 20 films...
and Nanette Fabray
Nanette Fabray
Nanette Fabray is an American actress, comedienne, singer, dancer, and activist. She began her career performing in vaudeville as a child and then became a musical theatre actress during the 1940s and 1950s, winning a Tony Award in 1949 for her performance in Love Life...
with Clint Kimbrough as John Doolittle. An American language student in Rome (St. James) hires on as a tour guide
Tour guide
A tour guide provides assistance, information and cultural, historical and contemporary heritage interpretation to people on organized tours, individual clients, educational establishments, at religious and historical sites, museums, and at venues of other significant interest...
and becomes involved with a handsome “stowaway” who turns out to be a fugitive from the law. Clint portrays a newly-wed groom, constantly exhausted, on a honeymoon tour with his new bride. Filmed on location and first broadcast by NBC as the pilot for a weekly TV series. The project failed to post a sale and St. James went on to costar in McMillan & Wife. (4)
The Crucible (1972) – A New Mexico State University
New Mexico State University
New Mexico State University at Las Cruces , is a major land-grant university in Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States...
production opening September 30, 1972. The Arthur Miller play, first produced in New York in 1955, explores the notorious witch hunts
Witch-hunt
A witch-hunt is a search for witches or evidence of witchcraft, often involving moral panic, mass hysteria and lynching, but in historical instances also legally sanctioned and involving official witchcraft trials...
of Salem, Mass. Starring Clint, as NMSU guest artist, in the role of Jon Proctor and featuring Cornelia Easterling and Marcia Thomas. (5)
Night Call Nurses (1972) – Clint delivers a fantastic performance as the evil Dr. Bramlett and is featured in several memorable scenes as a devious Psychiatrist involved in a psychological experiment with one of the Night Call Nurses. Includes appearances by Patty Byrne, Alana Stewart, Felton Perry
Felton Perry
Felton Perry is an American actor. He is known for his role as Inspector Early Smith in the 1973 movie Magnum Force, the second film in the Dirty Harry series. Felton's other well-known role is in the 1987 science fiction movie RoboCop as Donald Johnson, the executive at the corporation Omni...
, James Milhollin and Dixie Peabody. Directed by Jonathan Kaplan. Produced by Roger Corman. (4)
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail is a two-act play by Robert Edwin Lee and Jerome Lawrence written in 1970. The play is based on the early life of the titular character, Henry David Thoreau, leading up to his night spent in a jail in Concord, Massachusetts...
(1971) – Opened October 13, 1971 at the New Mexico State University Theater starring Clint in the role of Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist...
. The play, by Jerome Lawrence
Jerome Lawrence
Jerome Lawrence was an American playwright and author.-Life and career:Lawrence was born Jerome Lawrence Schwartz in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Sarah , a poet, and Samuel Schwartz, a printer. He worked for several small newspapers as a reporter/editor before moving into radio as a writer for CBS....
and Robert E. Lee, was scheduled to be made into a 1972 movie produced by Hal B. Wallis
Hal B. Wallis
Hal B. Wallis was an American film producer.-Career:Harold Brent Wallis was born in Chicago in 1898. His family moved in 1922 to Los Angeles, California, where he found work as part of the publicity department at Warner Bros...
with Paul Nathan, as associate producer
Film producer
A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...
. Clint was in line for the role of Thoreau’s younger brother, but the production was apparently never completed. (6)
The Last Movie
The Last Movie
The Last Movie is a 1971 drama film from Universal Pictures. It was written and directed by Dennis Hopper, who also played a horse wrangler named after the state of Kansas. It also starred Peter Fonda, Henry Jaglom and Michelle Phillips...
(1971) – Written, directed and produced by a drugged Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper
Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant...
. His follow-up to Easy Rider
Easy Rider
Easy Rider is a 1969 American road movie written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda and directed by Hopper. It tells the story of two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South with the aim of achieving freedom...
won the Venice Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
The Venice International Film Festival is the oldest international film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the "Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the...
Award for Best Movie – and is also listed on most “Worst Movies of All Time” lists. Clint is credited as the “Minister” and appears in one scene of the movie, without speaking, about 1 ½ hours into the production comforting an injured Dennis Hopper as Hopper exclaims “I’m dying”. Also with Peter Fonda
Peter Fonda
Peter Henry Fonda is an American actor. He is the son of Henry Fonda, brother of Jane Fonda, and father of Bridget and Justin Fonda...
, Kris Kristofferson
Kris Kristofferson
Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson is an American musician, actor, and writer. He is known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"...
, Michelle Phillips
Michelle Phillips
Michelle Phillips is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She gained fame as a member of the 1960s group The Mamas & the Papas, and is the last surviving original member of the group.-Early life:...
, John Phillip Law
John Phillip Law
John Phillip Law was an American film actor with over one hundred movie roles to his credit. He was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actress Phyllis Sallee and the brother of actor Thomas Augustus Law .He was best known for his roles as the blind angel Pygar in the science fiction cult...
, James Mitchum, Dean Stockwell
Dean Stockwell
Dean Stockwell is an American actor of film and television, with a career spanning over 65 years. As a child actor under contract to MGM he first came to the public's attention in films such as Anchors Aweigh and The Green Years; as a young adult he played a lead role in the 1957 Broadway and...
and Henry Jaglom
Henry Jaglom
- Life and career :Born January 26, 1941 in London, England to Simon and Marie Jaglom, Henry Jaglom trained with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio in New York, where he acted, wrote and directed off-Broadway theater and cabaret before settling in Hollywood in the late 1960s...
as “Minister’s Son”. (4)
Von Richthofen and Brown (1971) – An entertaining WWI recreation “starring” 2 guys (John Phillip Law and Don Stroud
Don Stroud
Donald Lee Stroud is an American actor and surfer who appeared in many films in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and has starred in over 100 films and 175 television shows to date.-Early life:...
), “co-starring” 3 and “featuring” about 10 including Clint as the German Major Von Hoeppner. Not a great deal of screen time for Clint, as much of the film is aerial dog-fights and actions shots, but Von Hoeppner participates in many of the scenes when Von Richthofen is not flying. Directed and Produced by Roger Corman. (4)
Bloody Mama (1970) – One of the highest profile movies of Clint’s career. A low Joe Bob Briggs Breast Count – one scene – however, liberal use of fake blood, explicit language (no F bombs), guns, violence, drugs and sexual innuendo
Innuendo
An innuendo is a baseless invention of thoughts or ideas. It can also be a remark or question, typically disparaging , that works obliquely by allusion...
. Fantastic low-budget movie with a big name cast including Shelly Winters
Shelley Winters
Shelley Winters was an American actress who appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television; her career spanned over 50 years until her death in 2006...
, Robert DeNiro
Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro, Jr. is an American actor, director and producer. His first major film roles were in Bang the Drum Slowly and Mean Streets, both in 1973...
, Bruce Dern
Bruce Dern
Bruce MacLeish Dern is an American film actor. He also appeared as a guest star in numerous television shows. He frequently takes roles as a character actor, often playing unstable and villainous characters...
, Don Stroud, Robert Walden
Robert Walden
Robert Walden is an American television and motion picture actor. He is best known for his role as Joe Rossi on Lou Grant for which he was nominated for an Emmy three times and his role as Joe Waters on Brothers...
and Diane Varsi
Diane Varsi
Diane Marie Antonia Varsi was an American film actress best known for her performances in Peyton Place – her film debut, and for which she was nominated for an Academy Award – and the cult film Wild in the Streets...
. As Arthur Barker, the least psychotic of the Barker boys, he has many memorable scenes. Worth seeing just for a very young Robert DeNiro. Directed by Roger Corman. (4)
The Arrangement (1969) – This movie, a big budget Hollywood melodrama, has a few Clint scenes with Clint in the role of Ben, the assistant to Kirk Douglas’ boss, but only has one speaking scene. Stars Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas is an American stage and film actor, film producer and author. His popular films include Out of the Past , Champion , Ace in the Hole , The Bad and the Beautiful , Lust for Life , Paths of Glory , Gunfight at the O.K...
, Faye Dunnaway, Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr, CBE was a Scottish film and television actress from Glasgow. She won the Sarah Siddons Award for her Chicago performance as Laura Reynolds in Tea and Sympathy, a role which she originated on Broadway, a Golden Globe Award for the motion picture The King and I, and was a three-time...
and Richard Boone
Richard Boone
Richard Allen Boone was an American actor who starred in over 50 films and was notable for his roles in Westerns and for starring in the TV series Have Gun – Will Travel.-Early life:...
. Clint also appears in the original theatrical trailer. Written, Directed and Produced by Elia Kazan. (4)
The Boston Strangler (1968) – A film based on the crime spree that terrorized Boston in the 1960s. Starring Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis was an American film actor whose career spanned six decades, but had his greatest popularity during the 1950s and early 1960s. He acted in over 100 films in roles covering a wide range of genres, from light comedy to serious drama...
, Henry Fonda
Henry Fonda
Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American film and stage actor.Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor. He also appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, with Joan Tompkins...
and George Kennedy
George Kennedy
George Harris Kennedy, Jr. is an American actor who has appeared in over 200 film and television productions. He is perhaps most familiar as the convict Dragline in Cool Hand Luke , airline troubleshooter Joe Patroni in the Airport series of disaster movies from the 1970s and...
. Clint is not credited on the film’s ending credits
Closing credits
Closing credits or end credits are added at the end of a motion picture, television program, or video game to list the cast and crew involved in the production. They usually appear as a list of names in small type, which either flip very quickly from page to page, or move smoothly across the...
, but is credited on some web sites as Stanley Hodak. The role consists of Clint pictured in a black and white family portrait with his elderly mother, Emma Hodak (Almira Sessions), the first victim of the Boston Strangler. Clint does not appear again in the movie. Directed by Richard Fleischer
Richard Fleischer
-Early life:Fleischer was born in Brooklyn, the son of Essie and animator/producer Max Fleischer. He started in motion pictures as director of animated shorts produced by his father including entries in the Betty Boop, Popeye and Superman series.His live-action film career began in 1942 at the RKO...
. (7)
The Danny Thomas Hour: The Enemy (November 20, 1967) – With Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Brown, Bruce Glover
Bruce Glover
Bruce Herbert Glover is an American character actor, perhaps best known for his portrayal of homosexual assassin Mr. Wint in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever. He is also the father of actor Crispin Glover.-Life and career:...
and Clint Kimbrough as Lt. Peters. A one-hour episode of the short lived Danny Thomas Hour on NBC (not the same show as Make Room for Daddy
The Danny Thomas Show
The Danny Thomas Show is an American sitcom which ran from 1953-1957 on ABC and from 1957-1964 on CBS...
). A German spy is suspected of infiltrating a U.S. squadron during the Battle of the Bulge
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive , launched toward the end of World War II through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region of Wallonia in Belgium, hence its French name , and France and...
. Sammy Davis, Jr. as Sergeant Chris Christiansen unmasks the soldier who knows more about music than baseball. (4)
The Iron Horse: Bridge at Forty-Mile (January 23, 1967) – A weekly series on ABC that ran for two seasons. Starring Dale Robertson
Dale Robertson
Dayle Lymoine "Dale" Robertson is an American actor best known for his starring roles on television. He played the role of Jim Hardie in the TV series, Tales of Wells Fargo, and the owner of an incomplete railroad line in ABC's The Iron Horse, often appearing as the deceptively thoughtful but...
, as Ben Calhoun, with Gary Collins and regular cast members Roger Torrey and Ellen Burstyn
Ellen Burstyn
Ellen Burstyn is a leading American actress of film, stage, and television. Burstyn's career began in theatre during the late 1950s, and over the next ten years she appeared in several films and television series before joining the Actors Studio in 1967...
. Clint appears in the role of Rafe Wheeler in episode 20 of season 1 in which Ben’s lumber payment and three men are missing. Also with Katherine Justice
Katherine Justice
Katherine Justice is an American actress with several television credits to her name.-Selected credits:*Separate Ways*The Way West *5 Card Stud*Limbo *Columbo*The Big Valley...
and Richard X. Slattery
Richard X. Slattery
Richard Xavier Slattery was a long-time character actor in film and television.Slattery was distinguished by a square-jawed look and a rough, gravelly voice that made him ideal as a "tough guy" character, usually as a cowboy or a cop or a drill sergeant type...
. (4)
Marat/Sade (1966) – This is a 1967 movie version of the Peter Weiss
Peter Weiss
Peter Ulrich Weiss was a German writer, painter, and artist of adopted Swedish nationality. He is particularly known for his plays Marat/Sade and The Investigation and his novel The Aesthetics of Resistance....
play (the full title is “The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat
Jean-Paul Marat
Jean-Paul Marat , born in the Principality of Neuchâtel, was a physician, political theorist, and scientist best known for his career in France as a radical journalist and politician during the French Revolution...
as performed by the inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade”), described as “one of the most daring and unusual emotional experiences ever to be put on the stage” - meaning a very weird play. In the original play opened October 24, 1966 at Theatre Co. of Boston, Clint played Marat. The movie version has Ian Richardson
Ian Richardson
Ian William Richardson CBE was a Scottish actor best known for his portrayal of the Machiavellian Tory politician Francis Urquhart in the BBC's House of Cards trilogy. He was also a leading Shakespearean stage actor....
as Marat.(8)
Henry IV, Part One
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written no later than 1597. It is the second play in Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing with the successive reigns of Richard II, Henry IV , and Henry V...
(1966) – The Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s rendition of Shakespeare’s 1597 or 1598 play opened February 27, 1966. Noted by Time Magazine
Time (magazine)
Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
as the richest of Shakespeare’s chronicle plays, Henry IV featured James Gallery in the title role
Title role
The title role in the performing arts is the performance part that gives the title to the piece, as in Aida, Giselle, Michael Collins or Othello. The actor, singer or dancer who performs that part is also said to have the title role....
with Clint as his roistering son, Prince Hal. Pamela Payton-Wright
Pamela Payton-Wright
-Biography:Payton-Wright was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Eleanor Ruth and Gordon Edgar Payton-Wright. She graduated from the Birmingham-Southern College in 1963. She began her television career in 1972 as Rhonda on Corky...
and James Storm
James Storm
James Allen Cox is an American professional wrestler who competes under the ring name "The Cowboy" James Storm. Since 2002, Storm has been employed by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he, along with A.J...
also performed as members of the repertory company. (9)
Mother Courage
Mother Courage
Mother Courage is a character from a Grimmelshausen novel Lebensbeschreibung der Ertzbetrügerin und Landstörtzerin Courasche dating from around 1670...
(1966) – Bertolt Brecht’s 1930s masterpiece translated to English by Eric Bentley
Eric Bentley
Eric Bentley is a critic, playwright, singer, editor and translator. He became an American citizen in 1948, and currently lives in New York City...
and produced by the Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Opened January 16, 1966. As a member of the Milwaukee Rep’s professional resident company, Clint performed as one of Mother’s sons, Elif. Also with Stefan Gierasch, Mary Dole, Pamela Payton-Wright and James Storm. (10)
Diary of a Scoundrel (1965) – Opened November 18, 1965. A production of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Alexander Ostrovsky’s 1910 satire on a young man who successfully utilizes the nouveau-riches’ stupidity for personal gain starred Stefan Gierasch, Virginia Payne
Virginia Payne
Virginia Payne was an American radio actress, best known for her 27-year role as Ma Perkins. In 1939, in addition to Ma Perkins, she took over the role of Mrs...
and Clint as the hero, Gloumov. Directed by Stephen Porter. (11)
Saint Joan (1965) – The Milwaukee Repertory Theater opened a new season with George Bernard Shaw’s play of idea’s on October 29, 1965. Directed by Phillip Minor with Mary Doyle
Mary Doyle
Mary Doyle was an American theatre actress who also appeared on TV between 1956 and 1982.She was born in Lincoln, Nebraska and was the younger sister of the late TV actor David Doyle ....
in the title role. Also included Stefan Gierasch, Bennett Sargent, Donald Gantry with Clint in the role of Dunois. (12)
Tartuffe (1965) – A production which ran January 14, 1965 through May 22, 1965 at the Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
under the direction of Elia Kazan and Robert Whitehead
Robert Whitehead
Robert Whitehead was an English engineer. He developed the first effective self-propelled naval torpedo. His company, located in the Austrian naval centre in Fiume, was the world leader in torpedo development and production up to the First World War.- Early life:He was born the son of a...
. According to the October 3, 1971 Las Cruces Post, Clint performed, in an unnamed role, in Tartuffe during his tenure as a member of the Lincoln Center Repertory Company. (6)
Incident at Vichy
Incident At Vichy
Incident at Vichy is a 1964 play by American dramatist Arthur Miller focusing upon the subjects of human nature, guilt, fear, and complicity using Vichy France for the setting. Miller, a Jew himself, wrote the one act play about a group of detainees waiting for inspection by German officers during...
(1965) – Clint was Nazi Professor Hoffman in this 1965 Arthur Miller Broadway play. Set in September, 1942 at a detention room in Vichy, France
Vichy
Vichy is a commune in the department of Allier in Auvergne in central France. It belongs to the historic province of Bourbonnais.It is known as a spa and resort town and was the de facto capital of Vichy France during the World War II Nazi German occupation from 1940 to 1944.The town's inhabitants...
the play focuses on nine men who have been picked up on suspicion that they are Jews or Jewish sympathizers. A production of the Lincoln Center Repertory Co. under the direction of Elia Kazan. The 2002 DVD is a recorded stage production directed by Stacy Keach
Stacy Keach
Stacy Keach is an American actor and narrator. He is most famous for his dramatic roles; however, he has done narration work in educational programming on PBS and the Discovery Channel, as well as some comedy and musical...
. (13)
The Changeling (1964) – A recently recorded (2006) adaptation of a play in which Clint performed as Pedro. John Phillip Law and Barbara Loden
Barbara Loden
Barbara Loden was an American film and stage actress and film director....
(wife of Elia Kazan) starred in the lead roles. Faye Dunaway
Faye Dunaway
Faye Dunaway is an American actress.Dunaway won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Network after receiving previous nominations for the critically acclaimed films Bonnie and Clyde and Chinatown...
was also in this 1964 play. Originally written in 1653, the play is a story of desire, love, deceit and murder. A production of the Lincoln Center Repertory Co. under the direction of Elia Kazan. (13)
After the Fall (1964) – Written by Arthur Miller and directed by Elia Kazan. A Lincoln Center Repertory Co. production. Starring Faye Dunaway, Jason Robards
Jason Robards
Jason Nelson Robards, Jr. was an American actor on stage, and in film and television, and a winner of the Tony Award , two Academy Awards and the Emmy Award...
, Jr., Hal Holbrook
Hal Holbrook
Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook, Jr. is an American actor. His television roles include Abraham Lincoln in the 1976 TV series Lincoln, Hays Stowe on The Bold Ones: The Senator and Capt. Lloyd Bucher on Pueblo. He is also known for his role in the 2007 film Into the Wild, for which he was nominated for...
. Clint Kimbrough with an unnamed minor supporting role. (14)
But For Whom Charlie (1964) – A comedy by S.N. Behrman for the Lincoln Center Repertory Co. under the direction of Elia Kazan. Clinton Kimbrough in a leading role as Willard Prosper with Faye Dunnaway as his sister, Faith Prosper. Also with Jason Robards, Jr. (13)
Come Blow Your Horn
Come Blow Your Horn
Come Blow Your Horn was Neil Simon's first play, which premiered in the United States in 1961 and had a London production in 1962 at the Prince of Wales Theatre.-Act Summaries:Time: The Present...
(1963) – Written by Neil Simon and made into a movie starring Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
, this comedy opened August 20, 1963 performed by the Peninsula Players. Clint performed in the role of the elder brother with Dal Norris, Leo Locker and Maggy Magerstadt also among the cast. (15)
The Zoo Story
The Zoo Story
Not to be confused with Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives the book about Lowry Park ZooThe Zoo Story is American playwright Edward Albee's first play; written in 1958 and completed in just three weeks...
(1963) – Opened off-Broadway
Off-Broadway
Off-Broadway theater is a term for a professional venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, and for a specific production of a play, musical or revue that appears in such a venue, and which adheres to related trade union and other contracts...
in 1959 with Clint performing in a 1963 production by the Peninsula Players of Fish Creek, Wisconsin
Fish Creek, Wisconsin
Fish Creek is an unincorporated community located in Door County, Wisconsin, United States, within the town of Gibraltar and is located on Highway 42 along Green Bay.-History:...
. A one-act play
One act play
A one-act play is a play that has only one act, as distinct from plays that occur over several acts. One-act plays may consist of one or more scenes. In recent years the 10-minute play known as "flash drama" has emerged as a popular sub-genre of the one-act play, especially in writing competitions...
written by Edward Albee
Edward Albee
Edward Franklin Albee III is an American playwright who is best known for The Zoo Story , The Sandbox , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , and a rewrite of the screenplay for the unsuccessful musical version of Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's . His works are considered well-crafted, often...
. Clint portrays a young hoodlum. Also featuring Ralph Waite
Ralph Waite
Ralph Waite is an American actor, whose most notable role was playing John Walton Sr. on the 1970s CBS TV series The Waltons, which he also occasionally directed...
. (16)
The American Dream (1963) – A one-act play written by Edward Albee with Maggy Maggerstadt, Jeannette Leahy, Ralph Waite, Estelle Ritchie and Clint Kimbrough as a young man. Part of a double bill with The Zoo Story performed by the Peninsula Players. (16)
Shot in the Dark (1963) – Opened July 16, 1963 at the Peninsula Players Fish Creek Theater. A mystery farce adapted by Harry Kurnitz that had an 11-month run on Broadway the previous season. Clint played the young magistrate with Leo Lucker as master of the house. Pat Randall played the naive parlor maid and Jeannette Leahy performed as Clint’s wife. Directed by Paul Melton. (17)
Time Remembered (1963) – A romantic comedy that opened July 9, 1963 at the Peninsula Players Garden Theatre in Fish Creek, Wisconsin. Written by Jean Anouith with successful productions both in London and New York. Featured Anna Niemela, Estelle Ritchie and Clint Kimbrough as Prince Albert. (18)
Look, We’ve Come Through (1961) – Premiering October 25, 1961 at the Hudson Theatre, this Broadway play by Hugh Wheeler
Hugh Wheeler
Hugh Callingham Wheeler was an English-born playwright, screenwriter, librettist, poet, and translator. He resided in the United States from 1934 until his death and became a naturalized citizen in 1942. He had attended London University.Under the noms de plume Patrick Quentin, Q...
was described as “a really first rate American play” by Newsday. A comedy/drama portraying plain and vulnerable teen, Belle, who develops a hesitant friendship with another outcast – shy and sensitive Bobby. With a small cast of 4 men and 2 women, it received a Tony Award
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
nomination for Best Featured Actress. Opening night featured Clint, along with Zohra Lampert
Zohra Lampert
Zohra Lampert is an American actress, who has had roles on film, television and stage. She may be best remembered for her role as the title character in the 1971 cult horror film Let's Scare Jessica to Death, as well as starring alongside Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty in the 1961 romance film...
, Ralph Williams and Burt Reynolds
Burt Reynolds
Burton Leon "Burt" Reynolds, Jr. is an American actor. Some of his memorable roles include Bo 'Bandit' Darville in Smokey and the Bandit, Lewis Medlock in Deliverance, Bobby "Gator" McCluskey in White Lightning and sequel Gator, Paul Crewe and Coach Nate Scarborough in The Longest Yard and its...
. Directed by Jose Quintero. (13)
U.S. Steel Hour: Summer Rhapsody (May 3, 1961) – Season 8, Episode 18 of this popular CBS anthology series
Anthology television series
An anthology series is a radio or television series that presents a different story and a different set of characters in each episode. These usually have a different cast each week, but several series in the past, such as Four Star Playhouse, employed a permanent troupe of character actors who...
featured Clint in the romantic lead opposite newcomer Abigail Kellogg. Also starring Glenda Farrell
Glenda Farrell
-Career:Farrell came to Hollywood towards the end of the silent era. Farrell began her career with a theatrical company at the age of 7. She played Little Eva in Uncle Tom's Cabin...
in a recurring role
Recurring character
A recurring character is a fictional character, usually in a prime time TV series, who appears from time to time during the series' run. Recurring characters often play major roles in an episode, sometimes being the main focus...
with Tom Tully
Tom Tully
Tom Tully was an American actor.-Biography:Born in Durango, Colorado, Thomas Kane Tulley served in the United States Navy, was a private pilot and worked as junior reporter for the Denver Post before going into acting because he felt the pay was better. Tully started out on stage before eventually...
as a guest star. Written by John Holt. U.S. Steel Hour
The United States Steel Hour
The United States Steel Hour is an anthology series which brought hour-long dramas to television from 1953 to 1963. The television series and the radio program that preceded it were both sponsored by the United States Steel Corporation....
ran from 1953 to 1963. (1953-1955 on ABC, 1955-1963 on CBS). (19)
Laurette (1960) – Directed by Jose Quintero opening at the Shubert Theatre
Shubert Theatre (New Haven)
The Shubert Theatre is a 1600-seat theatre located at 247 College Street in New Haven, Connecticut. Originally opened in 1914, it was designed by Albert Swazey, a New York architect and built by the H.E. Murdock Construction Company...
in New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven is the second-largest city in Connecticut and the sixth-largest in New England. According to the 2010 Census, New Haven's population increased by 5.0% between 2000 and 2010, a rate higher than that of the State of Connecticut, and higher than that of the state's five largest cities, and...
on September 30, 1960. This production included Clint Kimbrough as Jack, son of Laurette, Joan Hackett
Joan Hackett
Joan Ann Hackett was an American actress who appeared on stage, in films, and on television.- Early life :She was born in New York City of Irish and Italian extraction...
, Judy Holliday
Judy Holliday
Judy Holliday was an American actress.Holliday began her career as part of a night-club act, before working in Broadway plays and musicals...
and Patrick O’Neal. Written by Stanley Young from a biography of Laurette Taylor
Laurette Taylor
Laurette Taylor was an American stage and silent film actress.-Personal life:Laurette Taylor was born in New York City of Irish extraction as Loretta Helen Cooney.-Personal life:...
by Marguerite Courtney. Laurette Taylor was an American actress
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
of the 1920s who suffered from severe alcoholism
Alcoholism
Alcoholism is a broad term for problems with alcohol, and is generally used to mean compulsive and uncontrolled consumption of alcoholic beverages, usually to the detriment of the drinker's health, personal relationships, and social standing...
. (20)
Camino Real (1960) – This Tennessee Williams play had its Broadway premiere on March 19, 1953 at New York’s Martin Beck Theatre
Al Hirschfeld Theatre
The Al Hirschfeld Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 302 West 45th Street in midtown-Manhattan.Designed by architect G. Albert Lansburgh for vaudeville promoter Martin Beck, the theatre opened as the Martin Beck Theatre with a production of Madame Pompadour on November 11, 1924. It...
. The production, which ran for 60 performances, was directed by Elia Kazan. Opening night cast included Eli Wallach
Eli Wallach
Eli Herschel Wallach is an American film, television and stage actor, who gained fame in the late 1950s. For his performance in Baby Doll he won a BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and a Golden Globe nomination. One of his most famous roles is that of Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly...
, Martin Balsam
Martin Balsam
Martin Henry Balsam was an American actor. He is known for his Oscar-winning role as "Arnold Burns" in A Thousand Clowns and his role as "Detective Milton Arbogast" in Psycho.- Early life :...
and Hurd Hatfield
Hurd Hatfield
William Rukard Hurd Hatfield was an American actor.-Biography:The son of William Henry Hatfield , an attorney who served as deputy attorney general for New York, and his wife, the former Adele Steele, Hatfield was born in New York City, and was educated at Columbia University before travelling to...
. A September 4, 1960 Daily Oklahoman
The Oklahoman
The Oklahoman is the largest daily newspaper in Oklahoma and is the only daily newspaper that covers the entire Oklahoma City area.-Ownership:...
article reported that Clint had performed in Camino Real off-Broadway in the role of Kilroy. This St. Marks Playhouse revival opened May 16, 1960 and was directed by Jose Quintero. This DVD is an October 7, 1966 television production starring Tom Aldredge
Tom Aldredge
Thomas Ernest "Tom" Aldredge was an American television, film and stage actor.-Life and career:Aldredge was born in Dayton, Ohio, the son of Lucienne Juliet and W. J. Aldredge, a colonel in the United States Army Air Corps...
and Martin Sheen
Martin Sheen
Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez , better known by his stage name Martin Sheen, is an American film actor best known for his performances in the films Badlands and Apocalypse Now , and in the television series The West Wing from 1999 to 2006.He is considered one of the best actors never to be...
as Kilroy. (20)
R.C.M.P. (Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police , literally ‘Royal Gendarmerie of Canada’; colloquially known as The Mounties, and internally as ‘The Force’) is the national police force of Canada, and one of the most recognized of its kind in the world. It is unique in the world as a national, federal,...
): Target for the Law (May 4, 1960) – Clint appears as Mattice in episode 25 of season 1, in which a man whose wife plans to divorce him is threatened by the man she intends to marry. The romantic triangle
Love triangle
A love triangle is usually a romantic relationship involving three people. While it can refer to two people independently romantically linked with a third, it usually implies that each of the three people has some kind of relationship to the other two...
becomes a deadly affair when the husband is found shot. Corporal Jacques Gagnier (Gilles Pelletier) gathers evidence to help the court decide whether or not a man is guilty of murder. Also features Mildred Trares as Lois and John Drainie
John Drainie
John Robert Roy Drainie was a Canadian actor and television presenter, who was called "the greatest radio actor in the world" by Orson Welles....
as Garneau. (21)
General Electric Theater: The Last Dance (November 22, 1959) – Starring Clint Kimbrough, Carol Lynley
Carol Lynley
Carol Lynley is an American actress and former child model.-Life and career:Lynley was born Carole Ann Jones in New York City, the daughter of Frances , a waitress, and Cyril Jones. Her father was Irish and her mother, a native of New England, was of English, Scottish, Welsh, German, and Native...
, Mary Astor
Mary Astor
Mary Astor was an American actress. Most remembered for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon with Humphrey Bogart, Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s.She eventually made a successful transition to talkies, but almost...
and Malcolm Atterbury in a story about two young people, Gene and Phyllis, in love against the wishes of their parents. The pair of high school lovers elope and quickly discover they can’t manage alone. They end up relying heavily on the boy’s parents. G.E. Theater was a half-hour CBS television
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
anthology series broadcast every Sunday evening beginning February 1, 1953 and ending May 27, 1962. Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....
became the show’s only host on September 26, 1954 which consistently ranked in the Top Ten of the Nielsen ratings
Nielsen Ratings
Nielsen ratings are the audience measurement systems developed by Nielsen Media Research, in an effort to determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States...
. (22)
Our Town
Our Town
Our Town is a three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder. It is a character story about an average town's citizens in the early twentieth century as depicted through their everyday lives...
(November 13, 1959) – With Art Carney
Art Carney
Arthur William Matthew “Art” Carney was an American actor in film, stage, television and radio. He is best known for playing Ed Norton, opposite Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden in the situation comedy The Honeymooners....
as the Stage manager and Clint Kimbrough as George Gibbs. Directed by Jose Quintero. This NBC production presents Thornton Wilder’s modern classic with much of the cast, which included Clint, that performed in an 11-month off-Broadway run at Circle-In-The-Square. The plot centers around the love story of two young people, neighbors since childhood, who grew up, married and parted when the young wife died in childbirth. (22)
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood...
Presents: Appointment at Eleven (October 11, 1959) – As part of Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock. The series featured dramas, thrillers, and mysteries. By the premiere of the show on October 2, 1955, Hitchcock had been directing films for over three decades...
fifth season, Clint, in the starring role as Davie Logan, storms into a bar as an angry young man and shocks the patrons by announcing that someone is going to die at 11:00pm. Also startling is his assertion that he himself has been “dead” for five years, but is on the verge of being “reborn”. The outcome of the story is predicated on the fact that Davie’s no-good father deserted him and his mother…five years ago. Features Clu Gulager
Clu Gulager
Clu Gulager is an American television and film actor. He is particularly noted for his co-starring role as William H. Bonney in the 1960–62 NBC TV series The Tall Man and for his role in the later NBC series The Virginian...
of Holdenville and a short appearance by a young Michael J. Pollard
Michael J. Pollard
- Early life :Born Michael John Pollack, Jr. in Passaic, New Jersey, he is the son of Sonia and Michael John Pollack. He attended the Montclair Academy and the Actors Studio.- Career :...
. (4)
U. S. Steel Hour: Trap for a Stranger (February 25, 1959) – With George C. Scott
George C. Scott
George Campbell Scott was an American stage and film actor, director and producer. He was best known for his stage work, as well as his portrayal of General George S. Patton in the film Patton, and as General Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick's Dr...
, Dick Van Dyke
Dick Van Dyke
Richard Wayne "Dick" Van Dyke is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer with a career spanning six decades. He is the older brother of Jerry Van Dyke, and father of Barry Van Dyke...
and Clinton Kimbrough as Elroy Hubbard in this prestigious live dramatic anthology series on CBS. In this episode, the capture of a television comedian speeding in his sports car
Sports car
A sports car is a small, usually two seat, two door automobile designed for high speed driving and maneuverability....
hardly seems a suitable exploit for an ambitious small-town marshal, but TV marshals who catch something besides cattle rustlers are a refreshing rarity. The Marshal arrests the television star and attempts to pin a hit-and-run
Hit and run (vehicular)
Hit-and-run is the act of causing a traffic accident , and failing to stop and identify oneself afterwards...
rap on him. The Marshal’s wife realizes that it’s a ploy for re-election and publicity. (4)
Desire Under the Elms
Desire Under the Elms
Desire Under the Elms is a play by Eugene O'Neill, published in 1924, and is now considered an American classic. Along with Mourning Becomes Electra, it represents one of O'Neill's attempts to place plot elements and themes of Greek tragedy in a rural New England setting. It is essentially a...
(1959) – A Eugene O’Neill play first published in 1924, revived on stage in 1952 with a 1958 film version. The play had various later stage revivals including a 1959 stock theatre production starring Salome Jens
Salome Jens
Salome Jens is an American stage, film and television actress. She is perhaps best-known for portraying the Female Changeling on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.-Life and career:...
as Abbie Putnam. The Actors Studio archive refers to a rehearsal recording of Clint and Salome titled “Desire Under the Elms” dated January 6, 1959. I don’t know Clint’s role (probably Eben or Simeon Cabot) or where the production was staged, but Clint likely performed in this 1959 play with Jens. Jens went on to also star in a 1963 version directed by Jose Quintero, whom Clint also worked with later.(23)
Hot Spell (1958) – Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn
Antonio Rodolfo Quinn-Oaxaca , more commonly known as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican American actor, as well as a painter and writer...
and Shirley Booth
Shirley Booth
Shirley Booth was an American actress.Primarily a theatre actress, Booth's Broadway career began in 1925. Her most significant success was as Lola Delaney, in the drama Come Back, Little Sheba, for which she received a Tony Award in 1950...
play a married couple, Jack and Alma Duval, in this Hollywood melodrama set in steamy New Orleans. The children, Buddy (Earl Holliman), Virginia (Shirley MacLaine) and Billy (Clint Kimbrough) are subjected to the spousal turmoil of an unfaithful husband and a neglected wife struggling to reassemble her battered marriage. Directed by Daniel Mann
Daniel Mann
Daniel Mann, also known as Daniel Chugerman , was an American film and television director.Daniel Mann was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was a stage actor since childhood, and attended Erasmus Hall High School, New York's Professional Children's School and the Neighborhood Playhouse...
. Produced by Hall Wallis. (4)
Kraft Television Theatre: The Sound of Trouble (November 20, 1957) – In episode 8 of season 11 Clint played opposite of Jill Corey
Jill Corey
Jill Corey is a retired American traditional pop singer.Nee Norma Jean Speranza in Avonmore, Pennsylvania, about forty miles east of Pittsburgh, a coal mining community, Corey was the youngest of five children...
in which a traveling family of country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
singers stop in a small town. A daughter promptly falls in love with a local farmboy, upsetting her father greatly. He will not have his family act torn apart by love so he decides murder is the solution. Also with Mildred Dunnock
Mildred Dunnock
Mildred Dunnock was an American theater, film and television actress.- Early life :Born in Baltimore, Maryland and graduated from Western Senior High School, Dunnock was a school teacher who did not start acting until she was in her early thirties...
and Lonny Chapman. Included a Columbia hit single
Hit single
A hit single is a recorded song or instrumental released as a single that has become very popular. Although it is sometimes used to describe any widely-played or big-selling song, the term "hit" is usually reserved for a single that has appeared in an official music chart through repeated radio...
, “I Told a Lie to My Darlin”, by Jill Corey with Ray Ellis
Ray Ellis
Ray Ellis was an American record producer, arranger and conductor. The orchestration for Billie Holiday's Lady in Satin is probably his best known work in the jazz vein.-Biography:...
and his orchestra. One hour weekly on NBC. (24)
Studio One: The Night America Trembled (September 9, 1957) – The prestigious CBS dramatic anthology, Studio One, launched its tenth season on the air with this elaborate dramatization of the nationwide panic that ensued after Orson Welles’ famous War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds is an 1898 science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells.The War of the Worlds may also refer to:- Radio broadcasts :* The War of the Worlds , the 1938 radio broadcast by Orson Welles...
radio broadcast
Radio programming
Radio programming is the Broadcast programming of a Radio format or content that is organized for Commercial broadcasting and Public broadcasting radio stations....
of October 30, 1938. Clinton Kimbrough is featured as Bob, a college student on a date. Includes appearances by Ed Asner
Ed Asner
Edward Asner , commonly known as Ed Asner, is an American film, television, stage, and voice actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild, primarily known for his Emmy Award-winning role as Lou Grant on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series, Lou Grant...
, Warren Oates
Warren Oates
Warren Mercer Oates was an American actor best known for his performances in several films directed by Sam Peckinpah including The Wild Bunch and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia...
, Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty born March 30, 1937) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and director. He has received a total of fourteen Academy Award nominations, winning one for Best Director in 1982. He has also won four Golden Globe Awards including the Cecil B. DeMille Award.-Early life and...
, James Coburn
James Coburn
James Harrison Coburn III was an American film and television actor. Coburn appeared in nearly 70 films and made over 100 television appearances during his 45-year career, and played a wide range of roles and won an Academy Award for his supporting role as Glen Whitehouse in Affliction.A capable,...
and Vincent Gardenia
Vincent Gardenia
Vincent Gardenia was an Italian American stage, film, and television actor.-Early life:...
. Hosted and narrated by Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow
Edward Roscoe Murrow, KBE was an American broadcast journalist. He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States and Canada.Fellow journalists Eric Sevareid, Ed Bliss, and Alexander Kendrick...
. Includes classic Westinghouse commercials featuring Betty Furness
Betty Furness
Elizabeth Mary Furness was an American actress, consumer advocate and current affairs commentator.-Early years:...
and John Cameron Swayze
John Cameron Swayze
John Cameron Swayze was a popular news commentator and game show panelist in the United States during the 1950s.- Early life :...
, as well as a 10-minute short highlighting future stars that had roles in the series. (4)
Studio One: The Weston Strain (May 27, 1957) – Most likely Clint Kimbrough’s first television appearance. Guest starring in the role of Paul along with Dick York
Dick York
Richard Allen "Dick" York was an American actor. He is best remembered for his role as the first Darrin Stephens on the ABC television fantasy sitcom Bewitched...
and Conrad Nagle, among others. This was Clint’s first appearance on the highly regarded CBS anthology series sponsored by Westinghouse. He would later appear in the Studio One episode The Night America Trembled. (4)
Arms and the Man
Arms and the Man
Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw, whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid in Latin:"Arma virumque cano" ....
(1957) – In the summer of 1957, Clint toured in a stock production of this George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60...
play starring Carroll Baker
Carroll Baker
Carroll Baker is a former American actress who has enjoyed popularity as both a serious dramatic actress and, particularly in the 1960s, as a movie sex symbol...
and directed by her husband, Jack Garfein. (3)
Saddle Tramps (1957) – A summer 1957 stock production written by fellow Oklahoman Lonny Chapman. (3)
A Face in the Crowd (1957) – Clint Kimbrough with an uncredited role as an extra among 33 other uncredited actors such as Betty Furness, Burl Ives
Burl Ives
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives was an American actor, writer and folk music singer. As an actor, Ives's work included comedies, dramas, and voice work in theater, television, and motion pictures. Music critic John Rockwell said, "Ives's voice .....
, Brownie McGhee
Brownie McGhee
Walter Brown McGhee was a Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaborations with the harmonica player Sonny Terry.-Life and career:...
, Charles Nelson Reilly
Charles Nelson Reilly
Charles Nelson Reilly was an American actor, comedian, director and drama teacher known for his comedic roles in theater, movies, children's television, animated cartoons, and as a panelist on the game show Match Game....
, John Cameron Swayze, Rip Torn
Rip Torn
Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn, Jr. , is an American actor of stage, screen and television.Torn received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his role in the 1983 film Cross Creek. His work includes the role of Artie, the producer, on The Larry Sanders Show, for which he was nominated...
, Mike Wallace and Walter Winchell
Walter Winchell
Walter Winchell was an American newspaper and radio gossip commentator.-Professional career:Born Walter Weinschel in New York City, he left school in the sixth grade and started performing in a vaudeville troupe known as Gus Edwards' "Newsboys Sextet."His career in journalism was begun by posting...
. Clint has about 5 seconds of screen time in a crowd, but it is one of the first film appearance of his career (May 1957 release date). Also includes the original movie trailer. Starring Andy Griffith
Andy Griffith
Andy Samuel Griffith is an American actor, director, producer, Grammy Award-winning Southern-gospel singer, and writer. He gained prominence in the starring role in director Elia Kazan's epic film A Face in the Crowd before he became better known for his television roles, playing the lead...
, Patricia Neal
Patricia Neal
Patricia Neal was an American actress of stage and screen. She was best known for her film roles as World War II widow Helen Benson in The Day the Earth Stood Still , wealthy matron Emily Eustace Failenson in Breakfast at Tiffany's , middle-aged housekeeper Alma Brown in Hud , for which she won...
, Anthony Franciosa
Anthony Franciosa
Anthony Franciosa was an American actor, usually billed as Tony Franciosa during the height of his career.-Early life:...
, Walter Matthau
Walter Matthau
Walter Matthau was an American actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon, as well as his role as Coach Buttermaker in the 1976 comedy The Bad News Bears...
and Lee Remick
Lee Remick
Lee Ann Remick was an American film and television actress. Among her best-known films are Anatomy of a Murder , Days of Wine and Roses , and The Omen .-Early life:...
. Directed by Elia Kazan. (3)
The Strange One
The Strange One
The Strange One is a 1957 black-and-white film about students faced with an ethical dilemma in a military college in the Southern United States...
(1957) – According to Clint’s biography in the Mister Roberts program, Clint had a small part in this Jack Garfein directed film based on Calder Willingham’s play “End As A Man.” It was released by Columbia in April, 1957, filmed entirely with cast and technicians from the Actors Studio. Perhaps the first film appearance of Clint’s career, filmed sometime prior to November, 1956, but I have not been able to locate Clint in the movie. Revolving around the brutalization and corruption of young men at a Southern military academy
Military academy
A military academy or service academy is an educational institution which prepares candidates for service in the officer corps of the army, the navy, air force or coast guard, which normally provides education in a service environment, the exact definition depending on the country concerned.Three...
, it launched several brilliant careers, including Ben Gazzara
Ben Gazzara
-Early life:Gazzara was born Biagio Anthony Gazzara in New York City, the son of Italian immigrants Angelina and Antonio Gazzara, who was a laborer and carpenter. Gazzara grew up on New York's tough Lower East Side. He actually lived on E. 29th Street and participated in the drama program at...
, Pat Hingle
Pat Hingle
Martin Patterson "Pat" Hingle was an American actor.-Early life:Hingle was born Martin Patterson Hingle in Miami, Florida, the son of Marvin Louise , a schoolteacher and musician, and Clarence Martin Hingle, a building contractor. Hingle enlisted in the U.S. Navy in December 1941, dropping out of...
and George Peppard
George Peppard
George Peppard, Jr. was an American film and television actor.Peppard secured a major role when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's , portrayed a character based on Howard Hughes in The Carpetbaggers , and played the title role of the millionaire sleuth Thomas Banacek in...
. Filmed on location in Gulfport, Florida
Gulfport, Florida
Gulfport is a city in Pinellas County, Florida and a suburb of St. Petersburg. The population of Gulfport was 12,527 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the population estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau was 12,740. Gulfport is part of the Tampa-St...
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South Pacific
South Pacific (musical)
South Pacific is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The story draws from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific, weaving together characters and elements from several of its...
(1957) – Clint Kimbrough was included as an uncredited member of the cast (one of the sailors) and performed in such numbers as “Bloody Mary is the Girl I Love” and “There’s Nothing Like a Dame.” This production, staged during the spring 1957 season at the New York City Center
New York City Center
New York City Center is a 2,750-seat Moorish Revival theater located at 131 West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan, New York City. It is one block south of Carnegie Hall...
by the NYCC Light Opera Company under the directed by Jean Dalrymple, also featured Harvey Lembeck
Harvey Lembeck
Harvey Lembeck was an American comedic actor best remembered for his role as Cpl. Rocco Barbella on The Phil Silvers Show in the late 1950s, and as the stumbling, overconfident outlaw biker Eric Von Zipper in the beach party movie series during the 1960s...
, Martin Wolfson and Juanita Hall
Juanita Hall
Juanita Hall was an American musical theatre and film actress. She is remembered for her roles in the original stage and screen versions of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals South Pacific as Bloody Mary and Flower Drum Song as Auntie Liang.-Biography:Born in Keyport, New Jersey, Hall received...
. Hall went on to star as Bloody Mary in the 1958 Academy Award winning film version of James M. Michener’s Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
winning novel. (26)
Mister Roberts (1956) – Clint Kimbrough appeared as Payne in the December 10, 1956 New York City Center production directed by John Forsythe
John Forsythe
John Forsythe was an American stage, television and film actor. Forsythe starred in three television series, spanning four decades and three genres: as single playboy father Bentley Gregg in the sitcom Bachelor Father ; as the unseen millionaire Charles Townsend on the crime drama Charlie's...
starring Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston was an American actor of film, theatre and television. Heston is known for heroic roles in films such as The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, El Cid, and Planet of the Apes...
. The NYCC production was Burt Reynolds’ first professional stage appearance. The DVD is a popular 1955 movie version starring Henry Fonda, James Cagney
James Cagney
James Francis Cagney, Jr. was an American actor, first on stage, then in film, where he had his greatest impact. Although he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of performances, he is best remembered for playing "tough guys." In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him eighth...
, William Powell
William Powell
William Horatio Powell was an American actor.A major star at MGM, he was paired with Myrna Loy in 14 films, including the popular Thin Man series in which Powell and Loy played Nick and Nora Charles...
, Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon
John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III was an American actor and musician. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts , Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925June...
and Besty Palmer. Written by Thomas Heggen, the play originally debuted in 1948 at the Alvin Theatre
Neil Simon Theatre
The Neil Simon Theatre, formerly the Alvin Theatre, is a Broadway venue built in 1927 and located at 250 West 52nd Street in midtown-Manhattan....
, starring Henry Fonda, for 1,157 performances. (25)
Dulcy (1956) – Clinton Kimbrough performed in the role of Tom Sterrett in this George S. Kaufman
George S. Kaufman
George Simon Kaufman was an American playwright, theatre director and producer, humorist, and drama critic. In addition to comedies and political satire, he wrote several musicals, notably for the Marx Brothers...
comedy as a senior at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Staged at the Coronet Theatre in New York City, March 29, 1956, the play had originally opened in New York on August 13, 1921. The play was made into a film at least 3 times – a silent version in 1923, a version in 1930 under the title “Not So Dumb” and a 1940 MGM version starring Ann Sothern. (27)
Picnic (1955) - While studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Clint appeared as Bomber, the paper boy, in the opening night production at the Barbizon-Plaza Theatre in New York City on October 28, 1955. The original Broadway production of this play starred Paul Newman
Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver and auto racing enthusiast...
and Eileen Heckart
Eileen Heckart
Eileen Heckart was an American actress of stage, screen, and television.-Early life:Heckart was born Anna Eileen Heckart in Columbus, Ohio, the daughter of Esther and Leo Herbert. She was legally adopted by her grandfather, J.W. Heckart. Her family was of Irish and German descent...
, winning both the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. William Holden
William Holden
William Holden was an American actor. Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1954 and the Emmy Award for Best Actor in 1974...
, Rosalind Russell
Rosalind Russell
Rosalind Russell was an American actress of stage and screen, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as the role of Mame Dennis in the film Auntie Mame...
and Kim Novak
Kim Novak
Kim Novak is an American film and television actress. She began her career with her roles in Pushover and Phffft! but achieved greater prominence in the 1955 film Picnic...
went on to star in the Academy Award-winning film version. (28)
Charley's Aunt
Charley's Aunt
Charley's Aunt is a farce in three acts written by Brandon Thomas. It broke all historic records for plays of any kind, with an original London run of 1,466 performances....
(1953) –A 20-year-old “Lewis Clinton Kimbrough”, as Brassett, performed in this perennial comedy while making his stage debut as a member of the Gateway Stock Company of New York at Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Gatlinburg is a mountain resort city in Sevier County, Tennessee, United States. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, Gatlinburg had a population of 3,828. The city is a popular vacation resort, as it rests on the border of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park along U.S...
in 1953. This Brandon Thomas
Brandon Thomas
Walter Brandon Thomas was an English actor, playwright and song writer, best known as the author of the farce Charley's Aunt....
play was first performed at London’s Theatre Royal in 1892. The DVD’s are a 1941 film version (82 min) starring Jack Benny
Jack Benny
Jack Benny was an American comedian, vaudevillian, and actor for radio, television, and film...
in the principal role (with a 10-minute short promo about the film) and a live 1957 adaptation from Playhouse 90
Playhouse 90
Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. It originated from CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California...
with Art Carney (90 min with vintage commercials). (2)
Broadway (March 10, 1950) – As a Junior at Allen High School, 17-year-old Louis Clinton “Scooter Bill” Kimbrough wrote, directed and produced this full-length play featuring performances by Kimbrough, the McDonald Twins and other Allen High School students, included Ronald Jones singing “Valencia” and Glenna Jones singing “Alice Blue Gown”. Staged at the AHS Gymnasium. Admission – 25 cents.
Unconfirmed Stage Performances and the Actors Studio Recordings, 1957-1959 The Actors Studio Recordings, housed at the Wisconsin Historical Society
Wisconsin Historical Society
The Wisconsin Historical Society is simultaneously a private membership and a state-funded organization whose purpose is to maintain, promote and spread knowledge relating to the history of North America, with an emphasis on the state of Wisconsin and the trans-Allegheny West...
, contain recorded rehearsals of plays, the dates the readings were held, and the actors and actresses that participated in them. Except for Desire Under the Elms, insufficient collaborating evidence has been discovered to reasonably determine that Clint Kimbrough performed in a stage production of the play referred to in the recordings archives.
- No. 66A Side 2 Desire Under the Elms (Salome Jens, Clint Kimbrough), January 6, 1959.
- No. 33 Side 1 La RondeLa Ronde (play)La Ronde is a 1900 play by Arthur Schnitzler. It scrutinizes the sexual morals and class ideology of its day through a series of encounters between pairs of characters . By choosing characters across all levels of society, the play offers social commentary on how sexual contact transgresses...
(?) (Clint Kimbrough, Bryarly Lee), December 31, 1957. - No. 36 Side 2 La Ronde (Clint Kimbrough, Bryarly Lee) [0-116], June 7, 1958.
- No. 26E Side 1 “Exercise” (Clint Kimbrough) October 25, 1957
- No. 26G Side 1 Lucy CrownLucy CrownLucy Crown is a novel by Irwin Shaw first published in 1956. It is about a wife and mother—the eponymous character—who, in the summer of 1937, begins an affair with a young man whom the Crowns have hired as a companion for their fragile son Tony.Lucy Crown's deliberate act of infidelity...
(Nan Martin, Clint Kimbrough), November 8, 1957. - No. 57B Side 1 Mourning Becomes ElectraMourning Becomes ElectraMourning Becomes Electra is a play cycle written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. The play premiered on Broadway at the Guild Theatre on 26 October 1931 where it ran for 150 performances before closing in March 1932...
[Director: John Stix] (Geraldine Page, Clint Kimbrough), May 27, 1958. - No. 43 Side 1 & 2 The Sound and the FuryThe Sound and the FuryThe Sound and the Fury is a novel written by the American author William Faulkner. It employs a number of narrative styles, including the technique known as stream of consciousness, pioneered by 20th century European novelists such as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. Published in 1929, The Sound and...
(Clint Kimbrough), February 4, 1958. - No. 48 Side 1 The Sound and the Fury (Clint Kimbrough, Pat Sales), February 25, 1958.
The lost unknown episodes
- The Unknown 2nd Hal B. Wallis Production - Hollywood film producer Hal “Wallis recently placed Kimbrough under contract for a minimum of two pictures a year”. The first production was the 1958 “Hot Spell”. (Quotes from an article in the January 5, 1958 issue of The Daily Oklahoman).
- The Unknown Armstrong Circle Theater Episode – “Television mass mediaMass mediaMass media refers collectively to all media technologies which are intended to reach a large audience via mass communication. Broadcast media transmit their information electronically and comprise of television, film and radio, movies, CDs, DVDs and some other gadgets like cameras or video consoles...
was in its experimental infancy when Kimbrough…performed live instead of videotaped…” Armstrong Circle Theater was among the network produced dramas listed. (Quotes from a July 23, 1984 Tulsa WorldTulsa WorldTulsa World is the daily newspaper for the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, is the primary newspaper for the northeastern and eastern portions of Oklahoma, and is the second-most widely circulated newspaper in the state, after The Oklahoman. It was founded in 1905 and remains an independent newspaper,...
article).