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Born in Evanston, Illinois, Shull attended Iowa State University and served in the U.S. Army before starting his Broadway career as a stage manager. He got his first big break as an actor when he was cast in Minnie's Boys in 1970. Additional theatre credits include Goodtime Charley, for which he received Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations, Fools, The Front Page, and Victor/Victoria. Incorporated City in 1872. ... Fountain of Four Seasons by Christian Petersen with the Campanile in the background Iowa State University (ISU) is a public land-grant and space-grant university located in Ames, Iowa. ... The United States Army is one of the armed forces of the United States and has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... Minnies Boys is a Broadway musical comedy based on the lives of the Marx Brothers. ... Goodtime Charley is a musical with a book by Sidney Michaels, music by Larry Grossman, and lyrics by Hal Hackady. ... 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. ... Created in 1955, the Drama Desk Award was created to recognize Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway shows in addition to Broadway shows. ... A light-hearted romantic comedy set in Russia. ... The Front Page was a smash hit Broadway comedy written in 1928 by onetime Chicago, Illinois reporters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. ... Original Broadway poster Victor/Victoria is a musical with a book by Blake Edwards, music by Henry Mancini, and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Frank Wildhorn. ...

Shull's screen credits include The Anderson Tapes, Klute, Splash, Garbo Talks, HouseSitter, and Private Parts. His television appearances included Love, American Style, Ironisde, Good Times, The Rockford Files, Alice, Lou Grant, and Hart to Hart, as well as numerous television movies. During the 1976..1977 television season, as Detective Homes, he was the main character (together with John Schuck) in the farcical television series Holmes And Yo-Yo. The Anderson Tapes (1971). ... Klute is a 1971 film which tells the story of a prostitute who assists a detective in solving a murder mystery. ... Splash is a 1984 fantasy film and romantic comedy film directed by Ron Howard and written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. ... Garbo Talks is a 1984 film directed by Sidney Lumet. ... HouseSitter is a 1992 comedy movie starring Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn and Dana Delany. ... Private Parts, a 1997 movie about Howard Stern. ... Opening theme of Love American Style Love, American Style was an hour-long television anthology which originally aired between September 1969 and January 1974. ... Ironside (originally broadcast under the name A Man Called Ironside in the United Kingdom) was a Universal television series which ran on NBC from March 28, 1967 to January 16, 1975. ... Good Times was an American sitcom that was originally broadcast from February 1, 1974 until August 1, 1979 on the CBS television network. ... The Rockford Files is an American detective (private investigator) television drama that had its first run on the NBC television network between September 13, 1974 and January 10, 1980 and is in constant syndication to the present day. ... Alice was an American television sitcom series which ran from August 31, 1976 to July 2, 1985 on CBS. The series was based on the movie Alice Doesnt Live Here Anymore (1974). ... 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. ... Stefanie Powers & Robert Wagner Lionel Stander & Freeway Hart to Hart was an American television series starring Robert Wagner as Jonathan Hart and Stefanie Powers as his wife Jennifer, who lived in a wealthy suburb of Los Angeles. ... Telefilm redirects here. ...

Shull died of a heart attack while appearing in the play Epic Proportions in New York City. A myocardial infarction occurs when an atherosclerotic plaque slowly builds up in the inner lining of a coronary artery and then suddenly ruptures, totally occluding the artery and preventing blood flow downstream. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1676 Government  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area...

External links

• Internet Broadway Database listing
• Internet Movie Database listing