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Bill Galarno Biography (1938-)

Full name, William S. Galarno; born March 1, 1938, in Saginaw, MI; son of Frederic William (a civil engineer) and Marie Cecelia (an office manager; maidenname, Potvin) Galarno. Addresses: HOME--400 W. 43rd Street, Apartment17-0, New York, NY, 10036. AGENT--Mitch Douglas, International Creative Management, 40 W. 57th Street, New York, NY 10019.

Bill Galarno told CTFT: "Theatre is my religion, my life. Pursuing it, I havetraveled to the Carribbean, Europe, and throughout the U.S. and Canada."

Nationality

American

Birth Details

March 1, 1938

Saginaw, Michigan, United States

Famous Works

• Credits
• STAGE DEBUT--Christopher Wren, The Mousetrap, Pittsburgh Playhouse, Pittsburgh, PA, 1956, for thirty performances.
• Credits; PRINCIPAL STAGE APPEARANCES
• Peter, Plain and Fancy, Mt. Gretna Playhouse, Gretna, PA, 1959.
• knight templar, Nathan the Wise, East 78th Street Theatre, New York City,1962.
• Marchbanks, Candida, and Mr. Mulleady, The Hostage, both Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock, NY, 1964.
• Ligniere, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Duperret, Marat/Sade, both Studio ArenaTheatre, Buffalo, NY, 1966-67.
• Rolf Gruber, The Sound of Music, City Center Theatre, New York City, 1967.
• Duke Senior and Duke Frederick, As You Like It, Sylvan Theatre, Washington, DC, 1968.
• herald, Candide, Avery Fisher Hall, New York City, 1968.
• singer, actor, and dancer, Absurdities, Theatre Nes, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1976.
• Charley, Where's Charley?, Dinner Theatre of the Stars, Tidewater, VA, 1979.
• Herr Zeller, The Sound of Music, Jones Beach Amphitheatre, Long Island, NY, 1980; andre, Pictures at an Exhibition, No Smoking Playhouse, New York City, 1983.
• Alan, Baby, St. Michael's Playhouse, Winooski, VT, 1985.
• Also appeared as Queen of Hearts, Alice in Wonderland, Studio Arena Theatre; Blank, Pantagleize, Judson Poets' Theatre, New York City; inspector, Larry and the Gypsy, St. Clement's Church Theatre, New York City; Actors On and Off the Stage--A Look behind the Curtain, American Jewish Theatre, New York City; as Aaron, On the March to the Sea, Hyde Park Playhouse, Hyde Park, NY; Jimmy Perry, The Gingerbread Lady, Piedmont Repertory Company; Sergeant Carlino, Wait Until Dark, Tanglewood Barn Theatre, Tanglewood, MA; Dr. Einstein, Arsenic and Old Lace, Winston-Salem, NC; Dussel, The Diary of Anne Frank, Candlewood Playhouse, New Fairfield, CT; and Beverly Carlton, The Man Who Came to Dinner, New Fairfield, CT.
• Credits; PRINCIPAL STAGE WORK; DIRECTOR
• A Christmas Carol--The Boston Broadcast of 1932, Actors Theatre of Nantucket, Nantucket, MA, 1988.
• Also Your Room of Mine, Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Odd Couple, and The Owl and the Pussycat, all Genetti Dinner Playhouse, Hazleton,PA; The Owl and the Pussycat and Squabbles, both Peddlers Village Dinner Theatre, New Hope, PA; The Odd Couple, Shepherd Hills Dinner Theatre, Allentown, PA, and Actors Theatre of Nantucket; Angel Street, New London Barn Players, New London, NH; Lunch Hour and Blithe Spirit, both Nantucket Theatre Workshop, Nantucket, MA; One Touch of Venus, Marathon Community Theatre, New York City; Purlie Victorious, Contributions, The Ofay Watcher, and Happy Ending, all African Cultural Center Theatre, Buffalo, NY; Actors On and Off the Stage--A Look behind the Curtain, American Jewish Theatre, New York City; The Cretan Woman and The Potboiler, both Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; and The Molehill, Ohio University, Athens, OH.
• Credits; MAJOR TOURS
• Rolf, The Sound of Music, U.S. cities, 1962-63.
• Jim Curry, 110 in the Shade, U.S. and Canadian cities, 1964.
• Alistair Spenlow, Move Over, Mrs. Markham, U.S. cities, 1974.
• Credits; PRINCIPAL FILM APPEARANCES
• Healthy kisser, The Horror of Party Beach, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1964.
• button-man, The Godfather, Paramount, 1972.
• Father Devereau, Last Embrace, United Artists, 1979.
• Ronald, New York Nights, Euro/London Films, 1981.
• Dave, Violated, Cinematronics, 1987.
• Also appeared as double and stand-in for Roy Scheider, All That Jazz, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979.
• TELEVISION DEBUT--Billy, The Cold Woman, NBC, 1961.
• Credits; PRINCIPAL TELEVISON APPEARANCES; EPISODIC
• Sergeant Molina, Serpico, NBC.
• Officer York, Somerset, NBC; andre, The Edge of Night, NBC.
• Writings;STAGE
• Kiss, Comrades, Kiss!, 1968.
• For the Love of Suzanne, Martinique Theatre, New York City, 1974.
• A Christmas Carol--The Boston Broadcast of 1932, Actors Theatre of Nantucket, Nantucket, MA, 1988.
• Also (co-writer) Actors On and Off Stage--A Look behind the Curtain, American Jewish Theatre; The Molehill, Ohio University; (adaptor) Squaring the Circle.