John McMartin
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John McMartin (August 21, 1929 – July 6, 2016) was an American actor of stage, musical theatre, film and television. McMartin was born in Warsaw, Indiana in 1929 and raised in Minnesota. He attended college in Illinois and New York. He made his off-Broadway debut in Little Mary Sunshine in 1959, opposite Eileen Brennan and Elmarie Wendel. He won a Theatre World Award for his role as Corporal Billy Jester, and married one of the show's producers, Cynthia Baer, in 1960; they divorced in 1971. <a
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Warsaw
- Place of death
- Manhattan
- Occupation
- stage actor
- Educated at
- Columbia College Chicago
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Award
- Theatre World Award
- Field of work
- singing
- Image
- John McMartin.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1929-01-01
- nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical
- Commons category
- John McMartin
- date of death
- 2016-01-01
- cause of death
- cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1958-00-00
- writing language
- English language
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