John McKelvey

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(19*-) Actor. ** Roles in Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s prizewinning play Inherit the Wind, at the Brooke Theatre in 1959 for Leonard Schach’s Cockpit Players. He also starred in A Long Day's Journey into Night at the Intimate Theatre for the Cockpit Players, together with Leon Gluckman, Joan Blake and Nigel Hawthorne in 1959. He starred in Thornton Wilder’s, The Matchmaker, which was staged by Leonard Schach’s Cockpit Players in 1959. This enduring show, also starring Marjorie Gordon as Dolly Levi, Nigel Hawthorne, Michael McGovern, Robert Haber and Heather Lloyd-Jones, became the musical Hello, Dolly! He married Marijke Haakman and moved to London.

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Tucker, 1997

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