Daniel Reed (actor)
Daniel A. Reed was an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter.
Biography
Reed was born July 12, 1892, in Denver, Colorado. He took to theatre in 1912. He developed his own one-man show based on Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology. In Chicago he married Isadora Bennett in 1918. Together they founded Town Theatre in Columbia, South Carolina.In 1930, he was a MacDowell colonist. He spent a few years in Hollywood as a dialect coach, eventually settling in New York in 1936 as an actor.
He was awarded the Outer Critics Circle Award in 1950 for his role as the Postman in Come Back, Little Sheba.
He died February 9, 1978, in Montrose, New York.
Plays
Black April, an adaptation of the novel by Julia PeterkinScarlet Sister Mary, an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Julia Peterkin- ''Goodbye in the Morning''
Filmography
Film credits
- Maybe It's Love
- Madame DuBarry
- The Dragon Murder Case
- Fog Over Frisco
- Young Man of Manhattan
- Jimmy the Gent
- Queen High
- ''The Sap from Syracuse''