JOHN RANDOLPH BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
John Randolph was born on June 1st, 1915 in New York City, New York with the birth name Emanuel Hirsch Cohen, born to Dorothy and Louis Cohen. His father passed away when he was a young boy and he was raised by his mother and step father. During his teenage years he began to develop an interest in acting and received his early training from Stella Adler.
After high school, Randolph served in the United States Army during World War II and after he completed his military service, Randolph chose to focus on pursuing a full time career as an actor. He began with doing some stage work and became one of the original members of the Actors' Studio.
Some of his early career roles included roles on the television series, "The Clock", "Kraft Theatre", "Treasury Men in Action", "The Web" and "Danger". Along with television work he also appeared on the films, "The Naked City" (1948) starring Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart, Ted de Corsia and Don Taylor and "Fourteen Hours" (1951) starring Richard Basehart, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Agnes Moorehead, Robert Keith, Debra Paget, Howard Da Silva, Jeff Corey, James Millican, Martin Gabel, Frank Faylen and the screen debut of Grace Kelly and Jeffrey Hunter.
Between 1951 and 1960, he and his current wife, actress Sarah Cunningham were both 'blacklisted' due to his outspoken views considered by many to be supportive of communism. Although, he could not find work in film or television, he managed to support his family with continuing to work as a stage actor.
In 1961 he was able to return back to working in Hollywood and began appearing on more television shows such as, "Play of the Week" (1960), "The Defenders" (1964-1965), "For the People" (1965), "The Patty Duke Show" (1965) and "Bonanza" (1968-1972).
Although, he never became a household name, he managed to have a career lasting four decades in the industry. Some of his more well known film roles he added later in his career included, "There Was a Crooked Man..." (1970) starring Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Warren Oates, Hume Cronyn, Burgess Meredith, Alan Hale Jr., Victor French, Bert Freed, Michael Blodgett, Arthur O'Connell, Lee Grant, C.K. Yang, Ann Doran, Martin Gabel and Gene Evans, as Chief Sidney Green in "Serpico" (1973) starring Al Pacino, "All the President's Men" (1976) starring Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman Jason Robards, Jane Alexander, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Ned Beatty, Meredith Baxter, F. Murray Abraham and Hal Holbrook, "Prizzi's Honor" (1985) starring alongside Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Robert Loggia, Lawrence Tierney, William Hickey and Anjelica Huston, "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" (1989) starring Chevy Chase, Randy Quaid, Beverly D'Angelo, Juliette Lewis, Diane Ladd, E.G. Marshall, Doris Roberts, Johnny Galecki, William Hickey, Nicholas Guest, Miriam Flynn, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Mae Questel and "You've Got Mail" (1998) starring Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Dave Chappelle, Jean Stapleton, Steve Zahn, Heather Burns, Greg Kinnear, Parker Posey and Dabney Coleman.
In addition to television and film, occasionally he would return to stage acting adding such productions to his credits, "The Sound of Music", "Paint Your Wagon", "The Visit" and on Broadway in, "Prelude to a Kiss" and "Broadway Bound". For this role, he won the 1987 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play.
Other television credits included, "Matlock", "Seinfeld", "Danger", "The Web", "Mannix", "Kojak", "Medical Center", "Insight", 'Dallas", "M*A*S*H", "Family Ties", "Gun Sky" and "Voyagers" among many others.
His marriage to Sarah Cunningham lasted up until she passed away in 1986. She was survived by their two children and Randolph did not re-marry. On February 24th, 2004, he passed away in Hollywood, California at the age of eighty eight.
Filmography
2003 Numb
2000 Sunset Strip
1999 The Dogwalker
1999 The Real Guernika
1998 You've Got Mail
1998 A Price Above Rubies
1997 Walking to Waldheim
1997 The Hotel Manor Inn
1997 Here Dies Another Day
1996 Touched by an Angel
1996 Going Home
1995 The Great Defender
1994 Sweet Justice
1994 ER
1993 Screen One
1993 The American Clock
1993 Seinfeld
1992 Lady Boss
1991 Married with Children
1991 Iron Maze
1990 Grand
1990 Sibling Rivalry
1989 Christmas Vacation
1989 Roseanne
1989 A Peaceable Kingdom
1988-1989 Annie McGuire
1988 The Wizard of Loneliness
1988 Matlock
1988 Superman 50th Anniversary
1988 Homesick
1987 The Equalizer
1987 CBS Schoolbreak Special
1986 As Summers Die
1986 Charmed Lives
1986 Who's the Boss?
1980-1986 Trapper John, M.D.
1986 Vital Signs
1986 The Right of the People
1986 Joshua and the Battle of Jericho
1985 Our Family Honor
1983-1985 The Paper Chase
1985 Prizzi's Honor
1985 The Execution
1985 Means and Ends
1984 Old Friends
1984 Emerald Point N.A.S.
1984 The Facts of Life
1983 Dynasty
1983 A Rose for Emily
1983 Shooting Stars
1983 Voyagers!
1982-1983 Quincy, M.E.
1983 Gun Shy
1983 Kentucky Woman
1982 Frances
1982 Family Ties
1982 Private Benjamin
1982 The Adventures of Pollyanna
1982 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
1981 Bret Maverick
1981 Darkroom
1981 Best of the West
1981 Killing at Hell's Gate
1981 The Adventures of Nellie Bly
1981 Park Place
1981 Dallas
1981 Nero Wolfe
1981 Lovely But Deadly
1979-1980 Angie
1980 Hagen
1979 Eischied
1979 Nero Wolfe
1979 M*A*S*H
1979 Blind Ambition
1979 Vega$
1979 Kaz
1979 Backstairs at the White House
1978 The Winds of Kitty Hawk
1978 Heaven Can Wait
1978 Richie Brockelman, Private Eye
1978 Doctors' Private Lives
1978 Nowhere to Run
1978 Lou Grant
1977 The Gathering
1977 Kill Me If You Can
1975-1977 Insight
1977 Washington: Behind Closed Doors
1977 Nowhere to Hide
1977 Lucan
1977 Loves Me, Loves Me Not
1977 Secrets
1977 Tail Gunner Joe
1977 Sirota's Court
1976 Executive Suite
1973-1976 The Bob Newhart Show
1976 Spencer's Pilots
1976 King Kong
1976 Independence
1976 F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
1976 All the President's Men
1974-1976 Medical Center
1976 Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
1975 Lucas Tanner
1975 The New Adventures of Wonder Woman
1975 Great Performances
1975 The Runaways
1975 Adventures of the Queen
1975 Everybody Rides the Carousel
1974 Lincoln
1974 The Missiles of October
1974 McMillan & Wife
1974 Earthquake
1974 Kojak
1974 Ann in Blue
1974 Nourish the Beast
1974 Tell Me Where It Hurts
1974 Columbo
1974 Police Story
1973 Serpico
1973 Pueblo
1973 Partners in Crime
1973 Topper Returns
1967-1973 Mannix
1968-1972 Bonanza
1972 The Judge and Jake Wyler
1972 All in the Family
1972 The Rookies
1972 The Family Rico
1972 Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
1972 Young Dr. Kildare
1971 A Death of Innocence
1971 Crosscurrent
1969-1971 The Bold Ones: The Lawyers
1971 O'Hara, U.S. Treasury
1971 Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1971 A Step Out of Line
1971 The Name of the Game
1971 Little Murders
1971 Rod Serling's Night Gallery
1970-1971 The Bold Ones: The Senator
1970 The Interns
1970 Bracken's World
1970 There Was a Crooked Man...
1969 Gaily, Gail
1969 Hawaii Five-O
1969 Number One
1967-1969 N.Y.P.D.
1969 Smith!
1968 Pretty Poison
1968 Judd for the Defense
1968 Of Mice and Men
1967 Mission: Impossible
1967 The Invaders
1967 The Borgia Stick
1967 Sweet Love, Bitter
1966 Seconds
1966 The Edge of Night
1965 Inherit the Wind
1965 Slattery's People
1965 The Patty Duke Show
1965 For the People
1964-1965 The Defenders
1964 Hamlet
1963 East Side/West Side
1960 Play of the Week
1960 The Closing Door
1951 Danger
1951 The Web
1951 The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse
1951 Treasury Men in Action
1951 Kraft Theatre
1951 Fourteen Hours
1948-1949 Actor's Studio
1949 The Clock
1948 The Naked City
