Alfred Lunt
American actor and director, half of the legendary stage duo 'the Lunts'
He began his professional stage career in 1912 at the Castle Square Theatre in Boston and later formed an inseparable theatrical partnership with his wife Lynn Fontanne.[1][2] Alfred David Lunt Jr. came into the world on August 12, 1892, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as the child of a well-off lumberman named Alfred David Lunt.[3][4] At age 84, Lunt passed away from cancer on August 3, 1977, at a Chicago hospital.[5]
Quick Facts
- Birth name
- Alfred David Lunt Jr.
- Born
- 12 August 1892
- Birthplace
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
- Died
- 3 August 1977
- Place of death
- Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
- Resting place
- Forest Home Cemetery
- Occupation
- Actor, director
- Years active
- 1912–1966
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
After his father's death, Lunt's family moved to Waukesha and ran a boarding house, and he developed a fascination with theatre from an early age.[4] He began acting in high school and at Carroll College, then transferred to Emerson College in 1912 but rarely attended classes because he found work as an actor and assistant stage manager.[3][1] Lunt made his first professional stage appearance on October 7, 1912, as the Sheriff in The Aviator.[1] Even after he stopped performing, Lunt kept working as a director, staging works such as those for the Metropolitan Opera.[6]
What the cited sources add
The Internet Broadway Database records that the production of O Mistress Mine was on hiatus from June 30, 1946 to August 25, 1946, and again from January 12, 1947 to February 23, 1947, the second hiatus prompted by Alfred Lunt's emergency kidney operation.[7] A Playbill article from 2004 states that Ten Chimneys was the Lunts' home from the mid-1920s until their deaths.[8] The same article notes that Lunt died in 1977 and Fontanne in 1982, and that the land and buildings were left to Alfred's brother-in-law George Bugbee.[8] On May 26, 2003, the Lunts' 81st anniversary, Ten Chimneys opened as a public museum and cultural center.[8]
References
- Wikipedia, "Alfred Lunt" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Brown, Jared. "Lunt, Alfred (12 August 1892 – 03 August 1977), and Lynn Fontanne (06 December 1887 – 30 July 1983), actors and producers" American National Biog; Herbert, pp. 1109–1111 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Alfred Lunt" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Peters, pp. 100–101; Herbert, pp. 789–791 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Alfred Lunt" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Herbert, pp. 1109–1111 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Alfred Lunt" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Brown, Jared. "Lunt, Alfred (12 August 1892 – 03 August 1977), and Lynn Fontanne (06 December 1887 – 30 July 1983), actors and producers" American National Biog (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Alfred Lunt" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Peters, p. 315 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Alfred Lunt" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Peters, p. 297 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "O Mistress Mine", and "I Know My Love", Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved 26 August 2021. facts only, no text reused. ibdb.com
- Simonson, Robert. "Ten Chimneys, Famed Home of Lunts, Declared a National Historic Landmark", Playbill, May 11, 2004. Retrieved 27 August 2021. facts only, no text reused. playbill.com
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