Tom Hulce
Tom Hulce | |
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.jpg) Tom Hulce, December 2006 | |
| Born | Thomas Edward Hulce |
| Occupation(s) | Actor and Producer |
| Years active | 1975–present |
Tom Hulce (born Thomas Edward Hulce on December 6, 1953) is an American actor and theater producer. As an actor, he is perhaps best known for his Oscar-nominated portrayal of Mozart in the movie "Amadeus" and his role as Pinto in "Animal House". Additional acting awards included a total of four Golden Globe nominations, an Emmy Award and a Tony Award nomination. Hulce retired from acting in the mid-1990s in order to focus upon stage directing and producing.[1] In 2007, he received a Tony Award as a producer of the Broadway musical "Spring Awakening."
Early life
Hulce was born in Whitewater, Wisconsin. The youngest of four children, he was raised in Plymouth, Michigan. His mother, Joanna (née Winkleman), sang briefly with Phil Spitalny's All-Girl Orchestra, and his father, Raymond Albert Hulce, worked for the Ford Motor Company.[2] [3][4] Although he originally wanted to be a singer as a child, he switched to acting when his voice changed. He left home at the age of 15 and attended the North Carolina School of the Arts.
Acting Career
Hulce made his acting debut in 1975, playing opposite Anthony Perkins in Equus on Broadway. Throughout the rest of the 1970s and the early 1980s, he worked primarily as a theater actor, taking occasional parts in movies. His first film role was in the James Dean-influenced film 9/30/55 in 1977. His next movie role was as freshmen student Lawrence "Pinto" Kroger in the highly popular National Lampoon's Animal House (1978).
In 1984, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Mozart in Amadeus, losing to his co-star, F. Murray Abraham. Other films include Echo Park (1986), Slam Dance (1987), Shadow Man (1988), Dominick and Eugene (1988), Parenthood (1989), The Inner Circle (1991), Fearless (1993), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) (as the voice of the protagonist Quasimodo), which, along with the sequel, which would be his last main movie role. He also played 1960s civil rights activist Michael Schwerner in the 1990 TV-movie Murder in Mississippi.
On Broadway, Hulce starred in A Memory of Two Mondays and A Few Good Men, for which he was Tony Award nominee in 1990. He appeared in the groundbreaking early AIDS-era drama The Normal Heart in London's West End and Hamlet at the Shakespeare Theater. His regional theatre credits include Eastern Standard at the Seattle Repertory Theatre.
He had bit parts in the recent movies Jumper (2008) and Stranger Than Fiction (2006).
Career as Producer
Hulce is a producer of the Tony Award-winning Broadway hit Spring Awakening. He shepherded two other major projects to fruition: the six-hour, two-evening stage adaptation of John Irving's The Cider House Rules, and Talking Heads, a festival of Alan Bennett's plays which won six Obie Awards, a Drama Desk Award, a special Outer Critics Circle Award, and a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play. Hulce also headed 10 Million Miles, a musical project by Keith Bunin and Grammy Award-nominated singer-songwriter Patty Griffin, that premiered in Spring 2007 at the Atlantic Theater Company. In January of 2010, Hulce and producer Ira Pittelman announced that they will produce a stage adaptation of the Green Day album American Idiot. The musical had its world premiere in Berkeley, California, at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2009. It is set to open on Broadway in April of 2010.
He also produced the 1994 movie A Home at the End of the World (film), based upon Michael Cunningham's novel.
Awards and Nominations
As an actor, Hulce has been nominated for four Golden Globes, two Helen Hayes Awards and has won an Emmy Award for his performance in The Heidi Chronicles, as well as his aforementioned Tony award for producing the musical Spring Awakening. He also won a CableACE Award for his performance in "The Heidi Chronicles."
References
- ^ http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117954888.html?categoryId=1228&cs=1
- ^ The New Netherland Ancestors of Thomas Edward Hulce
- ^ William Holden, Patrick Swayze, and Tom Hulce: their cousinship with Jean Margaret (Kennedy) Mitchelson through the Betts family
- ^ "Playing Ordinary Man Difficult for Hulce", Charlotte Observer, 11 December 1988.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Forget-Me-Not-Lane | ||
| 1976 | Song of Myself | ||
| 1978 | National Lampoon's Animal House | ||
| 1980 | Those Lips, Those Eyes | ||
| 1984 | Amadeus | Nominated-Academy Award for Best Actor; Nominated-Golden Globe Award:Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama | |
| 1986 | The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket | ||
| 1986 | Echo Park | ||
| 1987 | Slam Dance | ||
| 1988 | Dominick and Eugene | Nominated-Golden Globe Award:Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama | |
| 1988 | Shadow Man | ||
| 1989 | Parenthood | ||
| 1990 | Murder in Mississippi | Nominated-Golden Globe Award:Best Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television; Nominated-Emmy Award:Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie | |
| 1991 | The Inner Circle | ||
| 1993 | Fearless | ||
| 1994 | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | ||
| 1995 | The Heidi Chronicles | Won-Emmy Award:Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie; Nominated-Golden Globe Award:Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television | |
| 1996 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | ||
| 2006 | Stranger Than Fiction |
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- Butz, Doris. "Amadeus Reinvents Himself", Playbill, 5 December 2006