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Harry Waters Jr.

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Harry Waters Jr. in 2015, wearing the Marvin Berry costume and holding a doll of the character.

Harry Waters Jr. (born April 1953) is an American stage and film actor. He created the role of Belize in the first production of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes in 1991. He is best known for his portrayal of Marvin Berry in Back to the Future (1985), which earned him a gold record for his rendition of "Earth Angel".

Career

Born in Denver, Waters is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Wisconsin. He worked as an actor in New York City on and off Broadway for more than a decade as well as at theatres around the country. Venues include the Mark Taper Forum, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, TheatreWorks, and the San Jose Repertory Theatre.

He was a member of the Frank Silvera Writers Workshop in Harlem, which has developed the work of new, African American playwrights, directors, designers, and actors since 1973.

In 1985, he was cast as Marvin Berry in Back to the Future (uttering the lines “Chuck, Chuck! It’s Marvin! Your cousin, Marvin Berry! You know that new sound you were looking for? Well listen to THIS!”), a role reprised in Back to the Future Part II in 1989.[1]

He was a cast member of the 1992 Disney show Adventures in Wonderland voicing Tweedle Dee, based on the Lewis Carrol novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.[1]

He is working in collaboration with novelist/playwright Jewelle Gomez on a play about James Baldwin, titled "Waiting for Giovanni" and scheduled for the 2011-12 (San Francisco) New Conservatory Theater season. The project's development is being sponsored by Intersection for the Arts.

Waters has taught acting, script development and has directed numerous productions around the country. He is currently a tenured professor in the Theatre Department at Macalester College.

Filmography

Production Type Year Role
Adventures in Wonderland TV series 1992-1994 Tweedledee
Death Warrant Movie 1990 Jersey
Back to the Future Part II Movie 1989 Marvin Berry
Faith Movie 1989 Lester
What a Country! TV sitcom 1986-1987 Robert Muboto
Back to the Future Movie 1985 Marvin Berry
Hotline TV movie 1982 Rick Hernandez

References

  1. ^ a b "Where Are They Now? The Cast Of Back To The Future". Screen Rant. 2016-05-21. Retrieved 2016-11-24.
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