Biography
Prolific on the stage, Randolph started out in one of the Federal Theatre Project's famous "Living Newspapers" which were prevalent during the Depression. He appeared on early TV in the late 1940s and made his feature debut in "The Naked City" (1948), but his career hit a snag in 1951 when he was blacklisted amid the rampant McCarthyist paranoia of the day. It would take almost 15 years for Randolph's career to recover fully.
Although over the …
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Career Milestones
1990 | Played Harris Weldon, owner of a piano factory, on the TV sitcom, "Grand" | |
1989 | Played Roseanne Arnold's father on several episodes of the popular sitcom, "Roseanne" | |
| Played Mary Tyler Moore's father on the short-lived TV sitcom, "Annie McGuire" | ||
| Served a five-year term as chair of the Screen Actors Guild's Hollywood Conservatory Committee in the late 1980s | ||
1983 | Appeared with wife Sarah Cunningham in leading roles in "Eulogy", a play written especially for them, at New York's Ensemble Studio Theater | |
| Played Randall Benson on the TV sitcom, "Angie", starring Donna Pescow and Robert Hays | ||
1978 | Played Richie's dad on the short-lived comic adventure series, "Richie Brockelman, Private Eye" | |
| Played Dr. Dan Hoagland, educator of the "wild boy" protagonist of the ABC adventure fantasy, "Lucan" | ||
1975 | Played the principal on the TV drama series, "Lucas Tanner", starring David Hartman as a schoolteacher | |
1966 | Credited film debut at age 50 in John Frankenheimer's "Seconds" | |
1962 | Co-adapted (with Frederic Ewen and Phoebe Brand) an off-Broadway version of James Joyce's novel, "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" | |
| Career interrupted by blacklisting | ||
| Made TV debut on the series, "Captain Video" in the late 1940s | ||
1948 | Feature film debut, "The Naked City"; played bit part as a policeman | |
1942 | Served in the US Army Air Forces during WWII; achieved the rank of corporal | |
1940 | Legally changed name to John Randolph | |
1938 | Made Broadway debut in "Medicine Show", a Federal Theatre "Living Newspaper" production helmed by director Jules Dassin | |
1927 | Name was changed to Mortimer Lippman when he was 12 by his stepfather, Joseph Lippman (date approximate) | |
Awards
1987 | Tony Award for Actor (Featured Role--Play) |