Everett Sloane, the actor most known for playing Mr. Bernstein in Orson Welles classic Citizen Kane (1941) as a member of Welles' Mercury Players, was born in New York, New York on October 1, 1909. Sloane was bitten by the acting bug quite early, and first went on-stage when he was seven years old. After high school, he attended the University of ...
As a business proposition, radio is ... sound and occasionally satisfying. The theatre is ego-satisfying but otherwise unreliable. The movies are ... a lump of money.
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I don't get an immediate, enormous, clamoring public because I always appear differently and speak differently. My whole deal is ... creating as many characters as I possibly can, and that's my whole drive.
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I never got the idea of becoming an actor until I was two years old.
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Received a Hollywood Walk of Fame honor on February 8, 1960, located at 6254 Hollywood Boulevard.
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His last work was on an episode of TV's "Honey West" starring Anne Francis. It was aired posthumously.
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According to Ken Dennis' in-depth article on Sloane in Films of the Golden Age, #80, Spring 2015, Sloane's deep depression over his eyesight led him to disappear from his home on August 4, 1965, propelling his family to file a missing person's report. Sloane reportedly went to a drug store in the San Fernando Valley and purchased 25 barbiturate tablets. He returned home on the evening of August 6 and was found dead the following morning in his bedroom. He left two letters in unmarked envelopes.
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Relocating to Los Angeles in the early 50s after extensive Broadway work, Sloane tended to play distinguished, intelligent, hawkish-nosed types on film and TV -- military high rankers, crime bosses, business executives, physicians, justices, agents and managers.
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During his salad days, he was a Wall Street stockbroker's "runner" working at $17 a week but progressed to assistant to the managing partner at $140 a week. The stock market crash ended that working avenue.
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Made his professional debut in a Gerhart Hauptmann play at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village. With his short, red-haired, bespectacled, Harpo Marx-like presence, he initially did not receive impressive reviews.
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Eldest of three children born to Jewish parents. Father Nathaniel Isadore Sloane was born in New York City was an insurance broker and cotton merchant. His mother, Rose Gerstein, was from Boston.
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Married Lillian "Lovey" Herman (1912-1989) in 1933 and had two children, Nathaniel (Ned) and Erika.
Attended Manhattan's Public School N. 46 where he played Puck in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at age 7.
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In his film debut as Bernstein, the general manager of Kane's publishing interest in Citizen Kane (1941), Sloane was required to age several decades.
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Directed only once -- a Broadway show entitled "The Dancer" in 1946. Produced by George Abbott, it ran only 5 performances.
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Graduated from Townsend Harris Hall High School in New York. Briefly attended University of Pennsylvania but left in 1927 to join a stock company run by Jasper Deeter.
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In a radio career running nearly 20 years, he became familiar as Sammy in the popular comedy serial "The Goldbergs" and played assorted villains on the "Crime Doctor" series.
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Played Capt. Kennelly in episodes 1 - 109 and 135 of the CBS radio series 21st Precinct (1953 - 1956).
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