William Prince (actor)

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William Prince
Prince in Young Doctor Malone, 1962
Born
William Leroy Prince

(1913-01-26)January 26, 1913
Nichols, New York, U.S.
DiedOctober 8, 1996(1996-10-08) (aged 83)
Tarrytown, New York, U.S.
OccupationActor
Years active1936–1994
Spouses
Dorothy Hause
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(m. 1934; div. 1964)​
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(m. 1964⁠–⁠1996)​
Children4

William Leroy Prince[1] (January 26, 1913 – October 8, 1996) was an American actor who appeared in numerous soap operas and made dozens of guest appearances on primetime series as well as playing villains in movies like The Gauntlet, The Cat from Outer Space and Spontaneous Combustion.

Early life

Prince was born in Nichols, New York.[2]

When Prince was a senior at

Barter Theater in Abingdon, Virginia, including a trip to New York for a 1937 production. He also performed in Shakespeare's plays in a company headed by Maurice Evans.[2]

Career

Early in Prince's career, he supplemented his limited income from acting in summer stock productions in Pennsylvania by photographing children professionally. Off-season from summer stock he was an announcer at WQXR radio in New York City.[3]

Prince portrayed Richard in

Dead Reckoning.[2]

Prince worked primarily in television in the 1950s, having moved back to New York. In 1947, he became one of the founding members of

Philco Television Playhouse, and Armstrong Circle Theatre, and in 1955, Prince co-starred with Gary Merrill in the second season of Justice, an NBC drama about lawyers of the Legal Aid Society of New York
.

Prince had roles on several soap operas, including one of the lead roles on

Joseph P. Kennedy in the 1977 teleplay Johnny, We Hardly knew Ye. Other films Prince appeared in include Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot (1976), The Gauntlet (1977) with Clint Eastwood, Spies Like Us (1985) with Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd and The Paper
(1994).

Returning to Broadway, Prince had leading roles in

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe in 1963. He understudied "Charlie" in the Broadway production of Seascape (1975), co-starred in the Hartford Stage Company's 1976 revival of All Over, appeared opposite Angela Lansbury in Counting the Ways and Listening in 1977, and played the title role in the short-lived The Man Who Had Three Arms
in 1983.

During the 1970s, 1980s and into the early 1990s, Prince made guest appearances on dozens of primetime television series and miniseries including

Adam Schiff
involved in a banking scandal.

Personal life

William Prince died October 8, 1996, at Phelps Memorial Hospital in Tarrytown, New York. He was 83, and lived in Dobbs Ferry, New York, at the time of his death.[2]

Selected filmography

See also

  • List of actors who have played the President of the United States of America

References

  1. ISBN 0-7864-2476-1
    .
  2. ^ a b c d e "William Prince, 83, Who Acted on Broadway and in Hollywood". The New York Times. October 10, 1996. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
  3. ^
    Newspapers.com
    .
  4. ISBN 978-0-0254-2650-4
    .

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