John Boylan

Nacimiento : 1912-01-31, Canton, Ohio, USA

Muerte : 1994-11-16

Historia

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John J. Boylan (January 31, 1912 – November 16, 1994) was an American film, television, and theatrical actor. One of three children born in Canton, Ohio to an Irish-American immigrant family, he began acting in 1932 when he helped found the Players' Guild for a local community theater.His working life was spent in the Ohio and Pennsylvania steel industries, but he continued acting whenever the opportunity arose, often travelling to Greenwich Village in New York City the 1930s and 1940s when regular employment was scarce. It was during these periods spent in New York that he performed on Broadway, becoming acquainted with fellow actors Burgess Meredith and John Ireland while there. After over 40 years working in the steel industry, he retired in 1975, with his last job being the works manager at the Milton Manufacturing Company in Pennsylvania. Three years later he moved to Washington state, where he quickly established himself in the local repertory circuit, acting with the Seattle Repertory Theatre, the Bathhouse Theater, The Empty Space, and the Tacoma Actors Guild. With more time to devote to his craft Boylan's acting career enjoyed an Indian summer, as he began carving out a successful niche in film and television with his silver-haired, moustached appearance. He played opposite John Travolta in The Experts (1989),opposite Jeff Bridges in American Heart (1992), and most notably in Twin Peaks, where he was cast as the mayor of the titular town in David Lynch's award-winning television series. He had been working in a repertory production of Much Ado About Nothing when he was spotted for the role, but was unwilling to quit just for the show. Instead, the 79-year old Boylan would fly to Los Angeles every Sunday night after the final stage performance of the evening, spend all day Monday filming his part, before returning to Seattle in time for the Tuesday matinee, as if he had never been away. His final film role was in 1993's Sleepless in Seattle, as an elevator operator at the Empire State Building, a role that took his life full circle; it was at the Empire State Building sixty years before that he had met his wife Jeanne. A lifelong smoker, he died of lung cancer and pneumonia in Bellevue, Washington, leaving behind his wife, son John, daughter Kathy, and two grandchildren. Ironically, his "signature" performance, for which he had won a Best of Festival award at New City Theater's annual directors' festival in 1986, was in Anton Chekhov's one-man comedy On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco. His son later admitted that even while performing in this play, he had been "smoking on the sly". Description above from the Wikipedia article John Boylan (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Películas

Escape Clause
Pathologist
A man finds out that his wife has paid $10,000 to have him killed. Then both the would-be killer and the wife turn up dead ...
Algo para recordar
Elevator Man
Tras la muerte de su esposa, el arquitecto Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks) se encuentra muy abatido. Jonah, su hijo de ocho años, cree que su padre necesita una mujer que le devuelva la alegría de vivir; así que el dia de Navidad decide llamar a un programa de radio para contar su historia. Miles de mujeres le escuchan: una de ellas es Annie Reed (Meg Ryan), que está a punto de contraer matrimonio. Pero Annie comienza a obsesionarse con la idea de que debe conocer a Sam antes de casarse con su novio. (FILMAFFINITY)
Corazón roto
Janitor
Jack Keely (Jeff Bridges), un hombre que acaba de salir de la cárcel en libertad condicional, vuelve a ver a su hijo Nick (Edward Furlong) después de muchos años de no saber nada el uno del otro. Jack es un hombre rudo y distante al que parece importarle muy poco la vida de su hijo, de modo que hace todo lo posible por deshacerse de él. Por el contrario, Nick, un adolescente conflictivo, no está dispuesto a renunciar a su padre.
Esperando la luz
Old Man at Diner
Zena, una artista de vodevil retirada, lleva una existencia tranquila enseñando nuevas travesuras a sus sobrinos, Emily y Eddie. Un buen día, el vecino sorprende a los chicos cogiendo manzanas de su jardín. Los muchachos y su tía planean dar un gran susto al vecino, y Emily se disfraza de fantasma. Pero el hombre la confunde con un ángel, y comenta por todo el pueblo que ha visto un milagro. (FILMAFFINITY)
Asesinato en Twin Peaks
Dwayne Milford
Los habitantes de un pequeño paraje al norte de Washington se ven trastocados con la súbita aparición del cadáver de Laura Palmer, una de las bellezas del instituto y supuesta chica modelo, que hace salir a la luz la podredumbre y corrupción que corroen a muchos de los pilares y miembros de esta comunidad. Pero lo que parecería ser un asesinato aislado se va descubriendo poco a poco como algo mucho más profundo y malsano, que llevará a tener como vecino temporal en el pueblo al agente especial del FBI Dale Cooper.
Los expertos
Old Timer
Travis y Wendell son secuestrados cuando se dirigían a la apertura de una discoteca en la zona rural de Nebraska. En ese momento, un espía de la KGB, Cameron Smith, los lleva a la URSS...
St. Helens
Reporter #2
Centers on the events leading up to the cataclysmic 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington, with the story beginning on the day volcanic activity started on March 20, 1980, and ending on the day of the eruption, May 18, 1980.