Earle Hyman

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Earle Hyman was a distinguished African American actor who had a 46-year-long career on Broadway, where he was nominated for a Tony Award. Hyman also was nominated for an Emmy Award as Outstanding Guest Performer in a Comedy Series for his appearance on The Cosby Show (1984) playing Bill Cosby's father Russell Huxtable.

Born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina on October 11, 1926, Hyman and his family moved to Brooklyn, where he grew up. His parents took him to a production of Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" starring Alla Nazimova in Brighton Beach as a present for his 13th birthday, which made him want to be an actor. Impressed with Ibsen, he learned Norwegian, a language he became fluent in, enabling him to act in Norway, where he keeps a second home.

In 1944, Hyman made his debut on Broadway in Philip Yordan's Anna Lucasta (1949), a hit that ran for 957 performances. He next appeared on Broadway in 1952, in Moss Hart's "The Climate of Eden", which was a flop, then played the Prince of Morocco the following year in a production of The Merchant of Venice (1973) starring Luther Adler as Shylock. In 1955, he had a role in No Time for Sergeants (1958), a hit that made Andy Griffith a star. Over the next 37 years, he would appear on Broadway another 11 times, ending with his turn in the title role of Ibsen's The Master Builder (1960) in 1992. The circle that had begun back in 1939 had been completed.

In addition to his work on Broadway, he was a charter member of the American Shakespeare Theatre that was created in 1955, playing Othello in 1957. (He had appeared as The Moor two years earlier on a Camera Three (1955) production). He was in the London production of A Raisin in the Sun (1961) in 1959. For his theatrical work in Norway, the Norwegian sovereign awarded him St. Olav's medal in recognition of "outstanding services rendered in connection with the spreading of information about Norway abroad".

Hyman made his movie debut as an uncredited extra in the Oscar-winning The Lost Weekend (1945) in 1945, but it was TV that proved more welcoming to his talent. He appeared on numerous TV programs from 1954 to 2001, most famously on "The Cosby Show".

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Trivia (12)

• Best known to the world as Bill Cosby's Dad, Russell Huxtable, in the TV show The Cosby Show (1984).
• Has a cabin in Skånevik, Norway, where he spends a lot of his spare-time.
• Speaks fluent Norwegian.
• Has spent a lot of his spare time in Norway where he has also acted since the 1950s. In the 1990s he also starred in a Norwegian sit-com.
• Is a big fan of Henrik Ibsen and in the 1990s he starred in his own staging of Ibsen's "The Master Builder" off-Broadway.
• Is the third cousin of singer Phyllis Hyman.
• Originally cast in the role of "Bruce" in the film, Brother to Brother (2004). Roger Robinson played the role in the finished film.
• Was nominated for Broadway's 1980 Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role - Play) for Edward Albee's "The Lady from Dubuque."
• He began his fifty-plus year career as a 17-year-old extra in Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend (1945).
• Hyman was cast as the father of Bill Cosby on The Cosby Show (1984), even though Hyman is only 11 years Cosby's senior.
• He studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.
• He taught acting classes at HB Studio.

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Earle Hyman (born October 11, 1926) is an American stage, television, and film actor. Hyman is known for his recurring role on ThunderCats as the voice of Panthro and later on The Cosby Show as Cliff's father, Russell Huxtable.

Biography

Career

George Earle Hyman was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, of Native American ancestry. Hyman's parents, Zachariah Hyman (Tuscarora) and Maria Lilly Plummer (Haliwa-Saponi/Nottoway), moved their family to Brooklyn, New York, where Hyman primarily grew up. Earle Hyman became interested in acting after seeing a production of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts. “The first play I ever saw was a present from my parents on my 13th birthday — Nazimova in ‘Ghosts’ at Brighton Beach on the subway circuit — and I just freaked out.”[1][2]

He made his Broadway stage debut as a teenager in 1943 in Run, Little Chillun, and later joined the American Negro Theater. The following year, Hyman began a two-year run playing the role of Rudolf on Broadway in Anna Lucasta, starring Hilda Simms in the title role.[3] He was a member of the American Shakespeare Theatre beginning with its first season in 1955, and played the role of Othello in the 1957 season.[4]

In 1959 he appeared in the West End in the first London production of A Raisin In the Sun alongside Kim Hamilton. The show ran at the Adelphi Theatre and was directed again by Lloyd Richards.

A life member of The Actors Studio,[5] Hyman has appeared throughout his career in productions in both the United States and Norway (he is fluent in Norwegian) where he also owns a home on Norway's west coast and an apartment in Oslo. In 1965, won a Theatre World Award and in 1988, he was awarded the St Olav's medal for his work in Norwegian theater.

In addition to his stage work, Hyman has appeared in various television and film roles including adaptions of Macbeth (1968), Julius Caesar (1979), and Coriolanus (1979), and voiced Panthro on the animated television series ThunderCats (1985-1990). He played two roles (at different times) on televsion's The Edge of Night. One of his most well known roles, that of Russell Huxtable in The Cosby Show, earned him an Emmy Award nomination in 1986 where he played the father of lead character Cliff Huxtable, played by actor Bill Cosby, despite only being 11 years senior to Cosby. He is the second cousin of singer Phyllis Hyman.

He's not the same as George Earl Plummer ; it is an apparent coincidence that is extremely unlikely.

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Birth: Oct 11 1926 - Rocky Mount, Nash County, North Carolina, United States of America

Death: Nov 17 2017 - Englewood, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States of America

Parents: Zachariah Henry Hyman, Marie Lily Hyman (born Plummer)

Siblings: Ishmael Hubbard Hyman, Marion Hogan Hyman, Lucy Laney Bradshaw (born Hyman), Zachariah Henry Hyman, Beatrice Degrant (born Hyman), <Private> Ferguson (born Hyman)

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Birth: Oct 11 1926 - Rocky Mount, Nash, North Carolina, United States

Death: Nov 17 2017

Parents: Zachariah Henry Hyman, Mariah Lillie Hyman (born McCarkle Plummer)

Husband: Rolf Sirnes

Siblings: Ishmael Herblord Hyman, Marian Hogan Hyman, Lucy Laney Bradshaw (born Hyman)