John Randolph Biography (1915-)

Original name, Emanuel Hirsch Cohen; name changed to Mortimer Lippman, c. 1927; name legally changed to John Randolph, 1940; born June 1, 1915, in the Bronx, New York, NY; son of Louis (a hat manufacturer) and Dorothy (an insuranceagent; maiden name, Shore [some sources cite Shorr]; later surname, Lippman)Cohen; stepson of Joseph Lippman; married Sarah Lucie Cunningham (an actress), January 3, 1942 (deceased); children: Harrison Henry, Martha Eoline.

Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupation: Actor, writer
Birth Details: June 1, 1915; New York, New York, United States

Famous Works

CREDITS
Stage Appearances
Jacob Engstrand, Ghosts, East Houston Street Theatre, New York City, 1935
The old man, You Can't Change Human Nature, Theatre Collective, Provincetown Playhouse, New York City, 1936
Private, Private Hicks, Theatre Collective, Provincetown Playhouse, 1936
Tuff, Revolt of the Beavers, Federal Theatre Project, Adelphi Theatre, New York City, 1937
The weaver, The Emperor's New Clothes, Federal Theatre Project, Adelphi Theatre, 1937
Jacob, No More Peace, Maxine Elliott's Theatre, New York City, 1938
Roman herald, Coriolanus, Maxine Elliott's Theatre, 1938
St. Bernard H. Blackwood, The Great Barrington, Federal Theatre Project, Empire Theatre, New York City, 1938
Second beau, Created Equal, Federal Theatre Project, Empire Theatre, 1938
Times reporter, Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines, MaxineElliott's Theatre, 1938
Mac, Medicine Show, New Yorker Theatre, New York City, 1940
Radio announcer, Hold on to Your Hats, Shubert Theatre, New York City, 1940
Rudolf Dvoracek, Any Day Now, Erwin Piscator Dramatic Workshop, New School for Social Research, New York City, 1941
Title role, Wozzeck, Erwin Piscator Dramatic Workshop, New Schoolfor Social Research, 1941
The Bishop Misbehaves, Sayville Playhouse, Sayville, NY, 1946
My Sister Eileen, Sayville Playhouse, 1946
Endicott, The Front Page, Civic Theatre, Chicago, IL, 1947
Lieutenant Jake Goldberg, Command Decision, Fulton Theatre, New York City, 1947
Dan, The Sun and I, New Stages Theatre, New York City, 1949
Fred, The Respectful Prostitute, Harris Theatre, Chicago, IL, thenEast Hartford Theatre, East Hartford, CT, 1949
McCarthy, The Time of Your Life, Westport Country Playhouse, Westport, CT, 1949
The milkman, Come Back, Little Sheba, Westport Country Playhouse,1949, then Theatre Guild, Booth Theatre, New York City, 1950
Joe Williamson, The Golden State, Fulton Theatre, 1950
Aslak, a voice, and Herr Trompetstaale, Peer Gynt, American National Theatre and Academy Theatre, New York City, 1951
Mike Mooney, Paint Your Wagon, Shubert Theatre, 1951
The delivery man, The Grey-Eyed People, Martin Beck Theatre, New York City, 1952
Lofty, Seagulls over Sorrento, John Golden Theatre, New York City,1952
Gordon Miller, Room Service, Playhouse Theatre, New York City, 1953
Mike Mooney, Paint Your Wagon, State Fair Music Hall, Dallas, TX,1953
Officer Mallon, Madam, Will You Walk?, Phoenix Theatre, New York City, 1953
Sailor, Maya, Theatre de Lys, New York City, 1953
Sir Lawrence Wargrave, Ten Little Indians, Cecilwood Theatre, Fishkill, NY, 1953
Gus Kennedy, Glad Tidings, Shubert Theatre, Washington, DC, 1954
Harry, All Summer Long, Coronet Theatre, New York City, 1954
Joe Rugg, The Farmer's Hotel, Cecilwood Theatre, 1954
Junius Brutus, Coriolanus, Phoenix Theatre, 1954
Reverend Davidson, Rain, Cecilwood Theatre, 1954
Sergeant Fielding, Too True to Be Good, Playhouse-in-the-Park, Philadelphia, PA, 1954
Captain Jonas, House of Flowers, Alvin Theatre, New York City, 1955
Don Pedro, Much Ado about Nothing, Brattle Shakespeare Festival, Cambridge, MA, 1955
Ed Devery, Born Yesterday, Playhouse-in-the-Park, 1955
Ed Mason, The Wooden Dish, Booth Theatre, 1955
McCarthy, The Time of Your Life, City Center Theatre, New York City, 1955
Nathan Detroit, Guys and Dolls, City Center Theatre, 1955
Doc Earl, Fever for Life, Hyde Park Playhouse, Hyde Park, NY, 1957
Howard, Miss Isobel, Royale Theatre, New York City, 1957
Chief of Police Shultz, The Visit, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New YorkCity, 1958
Franz, The Sound of Music, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 1959
Mr. Abrams, "Portrait of a Madonna" in Triple Play, Playhouse Theatre, 1959
Dennis Corcoran, A Case of Libel, Longacre Theatre, New York City,1963
Recruiting officer, Mother Courage and Her Children, Martin Beck Theatre, 1963
First gravedigger, Hamlet, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, New York City, 1964
Conversation at Midnight, Billy Rose Theatre, New York City, 1964
Narrator, An Evening's Frost, Theatre de Lys, 1965
Mickey, After the Fall, Playhouse-in-the-Park, 1966
Treadwell, My Sweet Charlie, Longacre Theatre, 1966
Art Steinmiller, The Peddler, and Russ Nowack, The Dodo Bird (double-bill), Martinique Theatre, New York City, 1967
Hofrat Behrens, The Magic Mountain, Brandeis University, Waltham,MA, 1967
Judge Jerome Stern, Little Murders, Wilbur Theatre, Boston, MA, 1967
Hofrat Behrens, The Magic Mountain, Camden Group Theatre, London,1968
John Lansdale, In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, CA, 1968
Fleming, Line, Mark Taper Forum, 1969
Louis, Dance Next Door, Mark Taper Forum, 1969
President of the United States, God Bless, Mark Taper Forum, 1969
Editor Webb, Our Town, American National Theatre and Academy Theatre, 1969, then Huntington Hartford Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, 1970
Andrew Creed, Motive, Playhouse-in-the-Park, and in Corning, NY, and Kennebunkport, ME, all 1971
Fleming, Line, Theatre de Lys, 1971
Charley, Death of a Salesman, Arlington Park Theatre, Arlington Heights, IL, 1972
Harry Brock, Born Yesterday, Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia,PA, 1972
Dr. Bonfant, The Waltz of the Toreadors, Philadelphia Drama Guild,Walnut Street Theatre, then Royal Poinciana Playhouse, Palm Beach, FL, both1973
Mario, Baba Goya, American Place Theatre, New York City, 1973
Mario, Nourish the Beast, Cherry Lane Theatre, New York City, 1973
Charley, Death of a Salesman, Walnut Street Theatre, 1974
At the End of Long Island, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper ForumLaboratory Productions, 1978
Cliff, Back in the Race: A Family Album, Circle Repertory Theatre,New York City, 1980
Moe Baum and farmer, The American Clock, Harold Clurman Theatre, then as Moe Baum, Biltmore Theatre, both New York City, 1980
Moe Baum and farmer, The American Clock, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum, 1983
Eulogy, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York City, 1983
Juror, Twelve Angry Men, Henry Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, 1985
Ben, Broadway Bound, Broadhurst Theatre, New York City, 1986-87
Old man, Prelude to a Kiss, Helen Hayes Theatre, New York City, 1990-91
Morris, The Day They Shot John Lennon, Your Own Sky Theatre Company, 1997
Major Tours
Jan Erlone, Native Son, U.S. cities, 1941-42
Lieutenant Jake Goldberg, Command Decision, U.S. cities, 1948-49
Reverend Jeremiah Brown, Inherit the Wind, U.S. cities, 1956-57
Title role, Macbeth, Connecticut Theatre in Education tour of highschools, 1957
Also toured in Our Town, U.S. cities.
Stage Work
Director
Plant in the Sun, Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA, and Transit Theatre of Boston, Peabody Playhouse, Boston, MA, both 1938
Transit, Transit Theatre of Boston, Peabody Playhouse, 1938
Producer
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Martinique Theatre, New York City, 1962
Film Appearances
Police dispatcher, The Naked City, Universal, 1948
Fire chief, Fourteen Hours, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1951
Vice president in charge of labor, Partners in Production, Twentieth Century Fund, 1952
Disk jockey, Night Song, 1965
Arthur Hamilton, Seconds, Paramount, 1966
Narrator, Like a Beautiful Child, Local 1199, 1967
Sweet Love, Bitter (also known as Black Love, White Love and It Won't Rub Off, Baby!), 1967
Morton Azenauer, Pretty Poison, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1968
Robby, 1968
Coach Jim Southerd, Number One (also known as The Pro), United Artists, 1969
Father Harvey, Gaily, Gaily (also known as Chicago, Chicago), United Artists, 1969
Mr. Edwards, Smith!, Buena Vista, 1969
The Arrangement, Warner Bros., 1969
Cyrus McNutt, There Was a Crooked Man, Warner Bros., 1970
Chairman of the president's Committee of Inquiry, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1971
Mr. Chamberlain, Little Murders, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1971
Mr. Victor, The Victors, New York University, 1971
Commission chair, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1972
Chief Sidney Green, Serpico, Paramount, 1973
Himself, The Rehearsal (documentary), Jules Dassin, 1974
Mayor Lewis, Earthquake, Universal, 1974
Three Days of the Condor, Paramount, 1975
Captain Ross, King Kong, Paramount, 1976
Samuel Adams, Independence (short film), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1976
Voice of John Mitchell, All the President's Men, Warner Bros., 1976
Former team owner, Heaven Can Wait, Paramount, 1978
The Eyes of Laura Mars, Columbia, 1978
Kindly judge, Frances, Universal, 1982

Mr. Grierson, Rose for Emily, 1982
Franklin Van Dyke, Lovely But Deadly, Juniper Releasing, 1983
Trading Places, Paramount, 1983
Angelo "Pop" Partanna, Prizzi's Honor, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1985
Playing for Keeps, Universal, 1986
Bill Henderson, Means and Ends, Progressive Film, 1987
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Paramount, 1987
Doc, The Wizard of Loneliness, Skouras, 1988
Grandpa, Homesick (short film), 1988
The House on Carroll Street, Orion, 1988
Clark Wilhelm Griswold, Sr., National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation(also known as Christmas Vacation and National Lampoon's Winter Holiday), Warner Bros., 1989
Mr. Turner, Sibling Rivalry, Columbia, 1990
Mayor Peluso, Iron Maze, Castle Hill, 1991
Gus Griswall, The Hotel Manor Inn, Blue Flame Productions, 1993, Manor Films, 1997
Brace, Here Dies Another Day, Queen Maeve Productions, 1997
Rabbi Moshe, A Price above Rubies (also known as A Price belowRubies), Miramax, 1997
Schuyler Fox, You've Got Mail, Warner Bros., 1998
Ike, The Dogwalker, Rita Films, 1999
Yerba City, YerbaBuena Productions, 1999
Mr. Niederhaus, Sunset Strip, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2000
Television Appearances
Series
Chief Guard Jordan, Captain Video, DuMont, beginning in 1949
Another World, NBC, 1964-66
As the World Turns, CBS, 1965-66
John Hamilton, Lucas Tanner, NBC, 1975
Dr. Don Hoagland, Lucan, ABC, 1977-78
Mr. Brockelman, Richie Brockelman, Private Eye, NBC, 1978
Randall Benson, Angie, ABC, 1979-80
Red McGuire, Annie McGuire, CBS, 1988
Jacob Brofman, Peaceable Kingdom, CBS, 1989
Harris Weldon, Grand, NBC, 1990
Miniseries
Simon Cameron, Sandburg's Lincoln, NBC, 1974-76
Bennett Lowman, Washington: Behind Closed Doors, ABC, 1977
John Mitchell, Blind Ambition (also known as The John Dean Story), CBS, 1979
Mr. Johnson, Backstairs at the White House, NBC, 1979
Abe Panther, Jackie Collins's Lady Boss (also known as Lady Boss), NBC, 1992
Movies
Smith, The Borgia Stick, NBC, 1967
Charles Cameron, A Death of Innocence, CBS, 1971
Detective John Riddle, A Step out of Line, CBS, 1971
Frederick D. Cooper, The Cable Car Murder (also known as Crosscurrent), CBS, 1971
Malakas, The Family Rico, CBS, 1972
The colonel, Columbo: Swan Song (also known as Columbo), NBC, 1974
Lou, Tell Me Where It Hurts, CBS, 1974
George Collingwood, The Runaways, CBS, 1975
John Howe, Adventures of the Queen, CBS, 1975
Rupert Wahler, F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood, ABC, 1976
Dr. John Hodges, The Gathering, ABC, 1977
Ed Warner, Secrets, ABC, 1977
General Larkin, Tail Gunner Joe, NBC, 1977
Judge Lewis Goodman, Kill Me If You Can (also known as The Caryl Chessman Story), NBC, 1977
Alexander Graham Bell, The Winds of Kitty Hawk, ABC, 1978
Marian's father, Nowhere to Run (also known as Winner Take All), NBC, 1978
Attorney general, Killing at Hell's Gate, CBS, 1981
Joseph Pulitzer, The Adventures of Nellie Bly (also known as The Amazing Nellie Bly), NBC, 1981
Reverend Palkstater, Kentucky Woman, CBS, 1983
Judge, The Execution, NBC, 1985
Andy Williams, Vital Signs, CBS, 1986
Augustus Tompkins, As Summers Die, HBO, 1986
Chief Everett Hollander, The Right of the People, ABC, 1986
Older Lee Baumler, "The American Clock" (also known as "Arthur Miller's `The American Clock'"), TNT Screenworks, TNT, 1993
Waldo, "A Foreign Field" (also known as "We Shall Meet Again"), Masterpiece Theatre, PBS, 1994
Specials
My Three Brothers, syndicated, 1945
Hands of Murder, syndicated, 1949
Reverend Brown, "Inherit the Wind," Hallmark Hall of Fame, NBC, 1965
Whit, Of Mice and Men, ABC, 1968
Trail of Tears, PBS, 1969
Lieutenant general S. J. McKee, "Pueblo," ABC Theatre, ABC, 1973
Mario, Nourish the Beast, PBS, 1974
Secretary of State George Ball, The Missiles of October, ABC, 1974
James Mayo, "Beyond the Horizon," Theatre in America, PBS, 1976
Judge Waites Waring, With All Deliberate Speed, CBS, 1976
General David Norman, My Dissident Mom, CBS, 1987
Justice Charles Evans Hughes and chief justice Earl Warren, The Blessings of Liberty, ABC, 1987
Superman's Fiftieth Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel, CBS, 1988
Episodic
Treasury Men in Action, NBC, between 1947 and 1949
The Web, CBS, between 1947 and 1949
"The Three Strangers," Actors' Studio, ABC, 1949
"Bulletin 120," Philco Television Playhouse, NBC, 1950
"The Floyd Collins Story," Philco Television Playhouse, NBC, 1950
Kraft Television Theatre, NBC, 1950
"Rescue," Philco Television Playhouse, NBC, 1951
"Mrs. McThing," Omnibus, CBS, 1958
East Side/West Side, CBS, 1963
"All the Silent Voices," The Defenders, CBS, 1964
"Go Between," The Defenders, CBS, 1964
The Defenders, CBS, 1964
The Ed Sullivan Show (also known as Toast of the Town), CBS, 1964
The Reporter, CBS, 1964
"Yiddish Stories of Two Worlds" (also known as "The Jew in the Old Worldand the New"), Camera Three, CBS, 1965
For the People, CBS, 1965
The Patty Duke Show, ABC, 1965
Slattery's People, CBS, 1965
Alex Morley, "The Photographer," Mission: Impossible, CBS, 1967
Police sergeant Ernie Goldhaver, "The Spores," The Invaders, ABC,1967
"Unknown Chekhov," Camera Three, CBS, 1967
N.Y.P.D., ABC, 1967
"Different Pines, Same Wind," Bonanza, NBC, 1968
Judd for the Defense, ABC, 1968
Jason Walker, "The Solid Gold Web," Mannix, CBS, 1969
Marty Sloane, "Just Lucky, I Guess," Hawaii Five-0, CBS, 1969
Governor, The Senator, NBC, 1970
Bracken's World, NBC, 1970
The Interns, CBS, 1970
The Lawyers, NBC, 1970
The Name of the Game, NBC, 1970
Step out of Line, CBS, 1970
Pritkin, "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar," Night Gallery, NBC, 1971
"Shadow of a Hero," Bonanza, NBC, 1971
The Lawyers, NBC, 1971
O'Hara, U.S. Treasury, CBS, 1971
Joe Peterson, "The Locket," All in the Family, CBS, 1972
"The Sound of Sadness," Bonanza, NBC, 1972
The Rookies, ABC, 1972
Cornelius "Junior" Harrison, "My Wife Belongs to Daddy," The Bob Newhart Show, CBS, 1973
Lawrence Corwin, "A Problem of Innocence," Mannix, CBS, 1973
The Secret Storm, CBS, 1973
Young Dr. Kildare, ABC, 1973
Cornelius "Junior" Harrison, "An American Family," The Bob Newhart Show, CBS, 1974
Judge Philip Templeton Mackie, Sr., "The Best Judge Money Can Buy," Kojak, CBS, 1974
"Guilt by Association," McMillan and Wife, NBC, 1974
Police Story, NBC, 1974
Wide World of Entertainment, ABC, 1974
Cornelius "Junior" Harrison, "Jerry's Retirement," The Bob Newhart Show, CBS, 1976
Sy Bookerman, Executive Suite, CBS, 1976
Sid Locke, "Sports," Lou Grant, CBS, 1978
General Haggerty, "Too Many Cooks," M*A*S*H, CBS, 1979
Ward Beaumont, The Facts of Life, NBC, 1979
"Strike!," Trapper John, M.D., CBS, c. 1980
Arthur Desmond, "Closed Circuit," Darkroom, ABC, 1981
I. T. Austin (Frenchy Montana), "Welcome to Sweetwater," Bret Maverick, NBC, 1981
"The Railroad," Best of the West, ABC, 1981
Jake Keaton, "I Never Killed for My Father," Family Ties, NBC, 1982
Ward Beaumont, "All or Nothing," The Facts of Life, NBC, 1983
"Barriers of Sound," Voyagers!, NBC, 1983
Admiral John Marquette, "Pandora's Box," Emerald Point, N.A.S., CBS, 1984
Admiral John Marquette, "The Wedding," Emerald Point, N.A.S., CBS,1984
Nick McGowan, Our Family Honor, ABC, 1985
Art Rutledge, Fortune Dane, ABC, 1986
Dr. Francis McDuffy, Trapper John, M.D., CBS, 1986
Frank Vionelli, Who's the Boss?, ABC, 1986
Jack Rattigan, "Suspicion of Innocence," The Equalizer, CBS, 1987
Sam Gerard, "The Investigation: Parts 1 & 2," Matlock, NBC, 1988
Al Harris, "Dear Mom and Dad," Roseanne, ABC, 1989
Al Harris, "We Gather Together," Roseanne, ABC, 1989
Colonel Van Pelt, "Al Bundy, Shoe Dick," Married ... with Children, Fox, 1991
Frank Costanza, "The Handicap Spot," Seinfeld, NBC, 1993
Mr. Franks, "Day One," ER (also known as Emergency Room), NBC, 1994
Horace Widdenberg, "The Journalist," Touched by an Angel, CBS, 1996
Also appeared in Dynasty, ABC.
Pilots
James Rockmore, The Judge and Jake Wyler, NBC, 1972
Judge Charles Leland, Partners in Crime, NBC, 1973
Topper Returns, NBC, 1973
Ann in Blue, ABC, 1974
General Philip Blankenship, The New, Original Wonder Woman (also known as Wonder Woman), ABC, 1975
Dr. Don Hoagland, Lucan, ABC, 1977
Narrator, Nowhere to Hide (also known as Fatal Chase), CBS,1977
Irv, Doctors' Private Lives, ABC, 1978
Lou Cohen, Nero Wolf, ABC, 1979
Eldon Radford, In Security, CBS, 1982
Mr. Muller, The Adventures of Pollyanna, CBS, 1982
Stevenson, Shooting Stars, ABC, 1983
Hank Bashaw, The Sheriff and the Astronaut, CBS, 1984
Phil Forbes, Old Friends, ABC, 1984
Other
The Closing Door, 1960
Collision Course, 1975
Radio Appearances
Episodic
Five Star Final, syndicated, 1934
Americans at Work, CBS, 1939
WRITINGS
Stage Plays
Adaptor
(With Phoebe Brand and Frederic Ewen) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (based on the work by James Joyce), Martinique Theatre, New YorkCity, 1962
(With Brand and Ewen) The Magic Mountain (based on the work by Thomas Mann), Theatre at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 1967, then HampsteadTheatre, London, 1968
Author of the unproduced play The Nihilist.
Teleplays
Episodic
(Adaptor with Phoebe Brand and Frederic Ewen) "Yiddish Stories of Two Worlds" (also known as "The Jew in the Old World and the New"), Camera Three, CBS, 1965
(Adaptor with Brand and Ewen) "The Unknown Chekhov," Camera Three,CBS, 1967

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books

Contemporary Authors, Volumes 45-48, Gale, 1974

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