AKA: Jackie Sold, Jak Szold, Jack Berry, Jack Sold
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 09/06/1917
Birthplace: Bronx, New York, USA
Death Date: 11/29/1999
biography
This New York-born son of a Polish immigrant began performing in public at the tender age of four. Before he hit his teen years, John Berry (ne Jak Szold) became a regular comic on the vaudeville circuit and at age 20 joined Orson Welles' Mercury Theater, acting in the troupe's productions of "Julius Caesar" (the now legendary modern-dress staging) and "Five Kings". He went on to serve as stage manager of the company and when Welles decamped to Hollywood, assumed the position of manager.In 1944, Berry was brought to Hollywood by the head of Paramount and soon was apprenticing with Billy Wilder
