David Schramm (actor)
| David Schramm | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 14, 1946 Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
David Schramm (born August 14, 1946) is an American actor. He is best known for playing the critically acclaimed role of Roy Biggins, the portly, curmudgeonly rival airline owner in the TV series Wings.
Schramm was born on August 14, 1946, in Louisville, Kentucky. His father was a bookie.
Schramm revealed in a 2008 interview that at the age of 17, "(my parents) always came to see me in school, where I won trophies for speaking, and then in those big outdoor dramas we have in Kentucky, and then as an apprentice actor at the playhouse that eventually became the Actors Theater of Louisville." Schramm also earned $25 a week for cleaning toilets and for being in a play.
"I had been acting non-stop since I was a teenager," Schramm said in a 2012 interview. "But really I got started in acting because others helped me push into it. When I was a kid, it was other actors getting me to do it. Then I had a series of teachers who told me I was going to do it. John Houseman got me under his wing, and I went along with it happily."
Schramm took acting classes at Western Kentucky University, where he got a full scholarship to the Juilliard School from Dr. Mildred Howard. Schramm attended Juilliard from 1968 to 1972 and took classes that were taught by Michael Kahn. Schramm graduated from Juilliard afterwards. He is also a founding member of The Acting Company.
Houseman offered Schramm to play King Lear in an Off-Broadway production of William Shakespeare's play of the same name. In 1979, Schramm appeared on Broadway opposite Judith Ivey in Alan Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce. He played the role of Malcolm.
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