Ben Piazza

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Nationality: American
Birthdate: 07/30/1934
Birthplace: Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Death Date: 09/07/1991

biography

Reliable, fair-haired stage actor, noted for his starring performances in Edward Albee's "American Dream" and "The Zoo Story" in the early 1960s. Piazza made his film debut in Sidney Furie's "A Dangerous Age" (1957) and portrayed studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck in "Guilty by Suspicion" (1991). Piazza also wrote plays and a novel, "The Exact and Very Strange Truth", which was published in 1964.

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milestones

Year
Milestone
1952 
Stage debut, "Othello", at the Theatre Intime in Princeton NJ
1958 
Broadway debut in "Winesburg, Ohio"
1957 
Film debut, "A Dangerous Age" (director, Sidney J. Furie)
1961 
Played "Young Man" in Edward Albee's "The American Dream" at the York Playhouse, later (1962) in repertory with Albee's "The Zoo Story" at the Cherry Lane Theatre, New York
1965 
Played Dr. Mike Rogers on "Ben Casey" TV series
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