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Eagle Archives, Sept. 14, 1968: Pittsfield city officials Anthony W. Sottile and Lawrence A. Grizey Jr. appeared as extras in "Dear Martha," a film being made here.
The Cemetery Club, The Apple Doesnât Fallâ¦, and more. Lee Wallace, a veteran of the stage and screen who appeared on Broadway regularly from the late 1960s and into the â90s, died December 20 at the age of 90 following complications from an illness. The actor made his Broadway debut in 1969âs A Teaspoon Every Four Hours, which had a preview period of 97 performances before closing on its official opening night. A series of limited (but nonetheless lengthier) runs on the Main Stem followed, including Unlikely Heroes, The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild, Zalmen or The Madn...
Used People (1992). He was a regular performer with the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts starting in the mid-1960s and appeared opposite Glenn Close in a Yale Repertory production of Uncle Vanya in 1981. A Teaspoon Every Four Hours in 1969 through the Leonard Nimoy-directed The Apple Doesn't Fall in 1996. Born Leo Melis in Brooklyn on July 15, 1930, he was raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He graduated from Seward Park High School and attended NYU, then studied with acting teacher Michael Howard for seven years after a stint in the U.S. Army. Many thought that Wallac...