Hailing from St. Louis, Missouri, he studied philosophy at Southwestern at Memphis (now Rhodes College) and honed his stagecraft under actress-turned-coach Irene Dailey before entering the New York Shakespeare Festival and Lincoln Center productions. Emerging on a 1963 national tour of Camelot, he gained early notice as John Dickinson in the 1969 musical 1776 and later originated Albin in La Cage…
