Paul Ukena

Birth : 1921-08-19, Lakota, Iowa, USA

Death : 1991-03-10

History

American operatic baritone and musical theatre actor who also made solo appearances with major choruses all over the world. He later taught at Juilliard School of Music in New York. He was a professor of music at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, from 1961 through 1989.

Movies

The Adventures of Marco Polo
Kublai Khan
Venetian merchant Marco Polo travels to the East and the court of Kublai Khan who makes him an emissary and sends him on diplomatic missions throughout his empire. Over many years, Polo learns new cultures and languages, but he is haunted by the face of a mysterious woman whom he had met before leaving Venice and encounters her face in every woman he sees. Eventually returning to Venice to share his exotic and esoteric knowledge, Marco Polo once again finds the woman of his dreams. The Adventures of Marco Polo was an original, live television musical which was broadcast on NBC on April 14, 1956.