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Hughes became famous for a variety of roles; his most notable roles came after middle age, and he was often cast as a dithering authority figure or grandfatherly elder.

Personal life

Hughes was born in Bedford Hills, New York, to Owen and Madge Hughes. Hughes attended Manhattan College in New York City. Hughes was married to actress Helen Stenborg. They married on April 19, 1950 and remained married until his death. They had two children, Doug and Laura. ^[2] Bedford Hills is an unincorporated hamlet in the Town of Bedford, New York. ... Manhattan College is a Catholic college in the Lasallian tradition in New York City. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Big Apple Location Location in the state of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,214. ... Helen Stenborg is an American stage actress who has made numerous appearances on film and television. ... April 19 is the 109th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (110th in leap years). ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Career

According to his son Doug, Hughes changed the "e" in his first name to an "a" to help his acting career on the advice of a numerologist^[1].

Through high school and college, Hughes worked a series of odd jobs, including a stint as a dockworker and as a salesman at Macy's. He auditioned for the Shakespeare Fellowship Repertory company in New York City on the advice of a friend, and ended up joining the company for two years^[1].

Stage roles

Hughes played more than 400 theatre roles, including the one for which he was perhaps most famous, in Hugh Leonard's Da. He won Broadway's 1978 Tony Award as Best Actor for his portrayal of the title role; he recreated the role for film in 1988. Hugh Leonard (real name John Keyes Byrne) (born 1926) is an Irish dramatist and journalist. ... Look up da in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Among his other notable roles:

• Polonius to Stacy Keach's Hamlet
• Dogberry in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of Much Ado About Nothing
• An Off-Broadway performances in Uncle Vanya, directed by Mike Nichols
• A Doll's House
• Hogan's Goat
• The Three Sisters
• The Devil's Disciple, and
• Translations.

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Film roles

On screen, he appeared in Midnight Cowboy (1969) (which was the first (and only) X-rated film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture), and also appeared in such films as The Hospital (1971), Oh, God! (1977), First Monday in October (1981), Tron (1982), The Lost Boys (1987) and Doc Hollywood (1991). Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 film written by Waldo Salt based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy, and directed by John Schlesinger. ... The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Awards, awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which are voted on by others within the industry. ... The Hospital is a 1971 black comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring George C. Scott as Dr. Herbert Bock. ... Oh God! is a 1977 comedy film directed by Carl Reiner based on a novel by Avery Corman. ... Tron has several meanings: a movie, see Tron (film) an arcade game based on the movie, see Tron (arcade game) a German hacker whose nickname was Tron, see Tron (hacker) a real-time operating system kernel, see TRON Project. ... The Lost Boys is a 1987 American comedy/horror film about young Californians who must fight a gang of teenage vampires. ... Doc Hollywood is a 1991 comedy starring Michael J. Fox as Benjamin Stone, a hotshot young doctor, whose cross-country drive to become a Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon is interrupted when he crashes in the rural hamlet of Grady, South Carolina. ...

Television roles

Hughes appeared on TV in such series as Naked City, Secret Storm, Blossom and Homicide: Life on the Street. He had a notable appearance on All in the Family as a Catholic priest doing battle with Archie Bunker, and won an Emmy for his portrayal of a senile judge on Lou Grant. He was the central character in three short-lived sitcoms, Doc, where he played a physician, Mr. Merlin, in which he played Merlin the magician mentoring a 20th-century teenager, and The Cavanaughs, co-starring Christine Ebersole, where he played the family patriarch. He sang Danny Boy on one episode (as per [1]). Naked City was a John Zorn-led avant-garde music group that incorporated recognizable elements of jazz, surf music, metal, punk rock and literally dozens of other music genres. ... The Secret Storm title card from 1960. ... Blossom is a term given to the flowers of stone fruit trees (Genus Prunus) and of some other plants with a similar appearance that flower profusely but for a short period of time. ... Homicide: Life on the Street is an American television drama series chronicling the life of a fictional Baltimore police homicide unit. ... All in the Family is a popular and acclaimed American situation comedy that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network from January 12, 1971 until April 8, 1979, when the final original episode aired. ... Archie Bunker on the cover of TV Guide (August 8-14, 1981) Archie Bunker was a fictional character in the long-running and top-rated American television sitcoms All in the Family and Archie Bunkers Place. ... Lou Grant is a fictional character played by Ed Asner in two shows on CBS. The first was Mary Tyler Moore in which the character was the producer of the fictional WJM-TV news. ... Look up doc in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Merlin Ambrosius (Welsh: Myrddin Emrys (Merlin the Wise); also known as Myrddin Wyllt (Merlin the Wild), Merlin Caledonensis (Scottish Merlin), Merlinus, and Merlyn) is the personage best known as the mighty wizard featured in Arthurian legends, starting with Geoffrey of Monmouths Historia Regum Britanniae. ... Christine Ebersole (b. ... Danny Boy is a love song from a woman to a man; providing one of many lyrics set to the tune of the Londonderry Air. ...

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References

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External links

• Barnard Hughes at the Internet Movie Database
• Barnard Hughes via Internet Broadway Database