Severn Darden
Acting
- Nacimiento:
- 1929-11-09
- Fallecimiento:
- 1995-05-27
Biografía
Severn Teakle Darden Jr. (November 9, 1929 – May 27, 1995) was an American comedian and actor, and a founding member of The Second City Chicago-based comedy troupe as well as its predecessor, the Compass Players. He is known from his film appearances for playing the human leader Kolp in the fourth and fifth Planet of the Apes films. His live comedy improv skit under the character of "Walther von der Vogelweide" was influential with two generations of comic performers. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, he attended the University of Chicago, where he was a "campus legend" according to poet Paul Carroll. Darden’s offbeat and intellectual sense of humor was a major element in the style of The Second City at that time, and is evident throughout his work. Carroll described him as a combination of surrealistic New Orleans and tough, caustic "Chicago Style" comedy. An example of his offbeat humor is the way he squeezed the phrase "Know thyself" into the seven-character limitation of a New Mexico license plate: NOYOSEF. Darden was a core comedian in Paul Sills' Compass Players, the first improvisation theater in the US; it performed around the Chicago area during the mid-1950s. Sills went on to found The Second City in 1959 and brought in many of the comedians from Compass Players, including Darden.
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Filmografía
El teléfono
La bella y la bestia
Take Five
The Princess Who Had Never Laughed
Regreso a la escuela
Escuela de genios
Half Nelson
La princesa del estadio
Cheers
Cuentos de las estrellas
Rooster
Profesión Peligro
Sábado 14
Evita Peron
A Cry for Love
Un enredo para dos
El hábito no hace al monje
Why Would I Lie?
Pequeño círculo de amigos
Beyond Westworld
Orphan Train
Love for Rent
Once Upon a Midnight Scary
Rendezvous Hotel
Wanda Nevada
Outside Chance
Flying High
Never Con a Killer
Victoria en Entebbe
La desaparición de Aimée
El Madre, la Melones y el Ruedas
La celda de la violación
City of Angels
The Practice
Laverne & Shirley
La mujer biónica
I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?
Starsky y Hutch
Barbary Coast
Barney Miller
Baretta
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Harry O
Lincoln
The Legend of Hillbilly John
Skyway to Death
El hombre de los seis millones de dólares
El día del delfín
La conquista del planeta de los simios
The Man Who Died Twice
Dispara, Billy, dispara
Play It as It Lays
Playmates
La rebelión de los simios
Guerra entre hombres y mujeres
Cisco Pike
La última película
Getting Together
The Man and the City
Hombre sin fronteras
La profecía del tarot
Punto límite: Cero
Los dos mosqueteros
Barefoot in the Park
Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You
The Movie Murderer
Bongo Wolf’s Revenge
Danzad, danzad, malditos
El intrépido Frank
To See or Not to See
Justine
La habitación maldita
Estudio de modelos
The Virgin President
The Name of the Game
P.J.
Demasiados secretos para un hombre solo
Luv... quiere decir amor
Ladrón y amante
Point of View
Occasional Wife
The Monkees
The Double-Barrelled Detective Story
Mi bella genio
La rubia peligrosa
Goldstein
Daniel Boone
Alfred Hitchcock presenta
Hallmark Hall of Fame