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Actor Eric Berry of Prentis Road

9/1/2021

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On This Day 9th January 1913 Eric Berry was born

Eric George William Berry (9 January 1913 – 2 September 1993) was a British stage and film actor
He lived at 36 Prentis Road Streatham with his wife Anna in the 1950's

Eric Berry was born in London on 9 January 1913 to parents Frederick William Berry and Anna Louisa Danielson. He attended the City of London School and trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Berry was briefly married to actress Constance Carpenter. He died of cancer on 2 September 1993 in Laguna Beach, California
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Eric Berry made his first stage appearance in April 1931 in a production of Spilt Milk at what was then known as the Everyman Theatre, Hampstead. He made his West End theatre debut the following year in a production of The Cathedral at what is now the Noël Coward Theatre, then referred to as the New Theatre. Berry first appeared on Broadway in September 1954 as Percival Browne in a production of The Boy Friend at the Royale Theatre, a production which set a record for the longest-running Broadway production of a British musical. In 1972, Pippin opened at the Imperial Theatre starring Eric Berry as Charles, a part he would perform for the show's six-year Broadway run. Berry performed in a number of other productions on Broadway, including The Two Gentlemen of Verona in 1958, The Great God Brown in 1959, and Gideon in 1961
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Evening Mail 12 January 1916
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