David Cryer
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| Born | Donald David Cryer March 8, 1936 Evanston, Illinois, United States |
| Occupation | Stage, screen and television actor and singer |
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With Gretchen Cryer: Robin Cryer Hyland Jon Cryer With Margaret Cryer: Rachel Britt Saul Daniel Russell Cryer Carolyn Elizabeth Cryer William David (Bill) Cryer |
Donald David Cryer (born March 8, 1936) 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 (including at the Metropolitan Opera and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts) 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.
Cryer was born Donald David Cryer in Evanston, Illinois, the son of Pauline (née Spitler) (1910-1952) and Donald Walter Cryer (1909-1988), a well-known Methodist minister in the West Ohio Conference. At the time of his birth, his father was attending Garrett Biblical Institute at Northwestern University. He grew up in Toledo, Carey, Westerville, and Findlay, Ohio, where his father served congregations; he graduated from Findlay High School in 1954. He has three siblings: Jonathan Douglas a retired professor of statistics and actuarial science at The University of Iowa, Daniel Walter Cryer author of a biography of theologian Forrest Church as well as a former Newsday critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Mary Kathleen (Kathy) a teacher. His mother Pauline died in 1952. His father married Mary Garrison in 1955, adding step-siblings William, Katherine and Rebecca Garrison.
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