Brad Sullivan
| Brad Sullivan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Bradford E. Sullivan November 18, 1931 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | December 31, 2008 (aged 77) New York, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1972–2000 |
Bradford E. "Brad" Sullivan (November 18, 1931 – December 31, 2008) was an American character actor on film, stage and television.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Sullivan served in the Korean War and then attended the University of Maine. After touring with a stage company, he moved to New York City and studied at the American Theatre Wing. He made his Off-Broadway debut in Red Roses for Me in 1961, and went on to appear in the London company of the musical South Pacific.
In the 1960s and early 1970s, he appeared in two productions of the New York Shakespeare Festival — Coriolanus at Central Park's Delacorte Theatre (1965), and Václav Havel's The Memorandum — and the David Newbburge-Jacques Urbont musical Stag Movie (1971), in which stars Sullivan, as Rip Cord, and Adrienne Barbeau, as Cookie Kovac, were "quite jolly and deserve to be congratulated on the lack of embarrassment they show when, on occasion, they have to wander around stark naked. They may not be sexy but they certainly keep cheerful", wrote The New York Times theater critic Clive Barnes in an otherwise negative review.
In 1972, he made his feature film debut in the military drama Parades (1972; re-released as The Line, 1980). This was followed by an appearance in a CBS TV-movie adaptation of David Rabe Sticks and Bones, a black comedy about a Vietnam War veteran. The subject matter proved so controversial that half of the network's affiliates refused to broadcast the telefilm.
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