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David Cryer
ActorBorn March 8, 1936 (89 years)
Donald David Cryer is a veteran American stage, television and film actor and singer and one of the founders of San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater which began in Pittsburgh and New York’s Mirror Repertory Theatre. In recent years, he is best known for the role of Firmin in The Phantom of the Opera, which he has played for nearly 19 years on the road and on Broadway. He has also played more performances of the Bernstein Mass, as The Celebrant and more performances as Juan Peron in Evita than any other actor. Cryer and his first wife, the songwriter Gretchen Cryer, are the parents of the actor Jon Cryer and his sister Robin Cryer Hyland. With his second wife, the dancer and actress Britt Swanson, he is the father of four children: Rachel, Daniel, Carolyn, and Bill. He has eight grandchildren.
David Cryer Filmography
| 1990 | Law & Order (TV Series) · as Judge Rowan |
| 1989 | New York Stories · as Suit |
| 1988 | Gotham · as Waiter |
| 1986 | One Police Plaza · as Msgr. Mcdevlin |
| 1986 | |
| 1985 | Spenser: For Hire (TV Series) · as Barney |
| 1983 | Kennedy (TV Series) · as Secret Service Man |
| 1983 | |
| 1980 | American Gigolo · as Lt. Curtis |
| 1979 | Escape from Alcatraz · as Wagner |
| 1978 | Dallas (TV Series) · as Wilbur Calder |
| 1977 | Our Town · as Simon Stimson |
| 1975 | Wonder Woman (TV Series) · as Hank Miller |
| 1973 | The Magician (TV Series) · as Taylor |
| 1973 | Barnaby Jones (TV Series) · as Security Guard |
| 1970 | All My Children (TV Series) · as Luther Tate (1984) |
| 1968 | One Life to Live (TV Series) · as Patrick Murphy |
| 1966 | Dark Shadows (TV Series) · as False Jeremiah |
| 1965 | Days of our Lives (TV Series) · as Dr. Walters |
| 1964 | Another World (TV Series) · as Mr. Love |
| 1956 | As The World Turns (TV Series) · as Philip Lombard |