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Tom Hulce
December 6th, 1953
Thomas Edward "Tom" Hulce (born December 6, 1953) is an American actor and theater producer. As an
actor, he is perhaps best known for his Oscar-nominated portrayal of Mozart in
the movie Amadeus and his role as "Pinto" in National Lampoon's
Animal House. Additional acting awards included a total of four Golden
Globe nominations, an Emmy Award, and a Tony Award nomination. Hulce retired
from acting in the mid-1990s in order to focus upon stage directing and
producing. In 2007, he won a Tony Award as a lead producer of the Broadway
musical Spring Awakening.
Early life
Hulce was born in Detroit, Michigan (some sources
incorrectly say Whitewater, Wisconsin). The youngest of four children, he was
raised in Plymouth, Michigan. His mother, Joanna (née Winkleman), sang briefly
with Phil Spitalny's All-Girl Orchestra, and his father, Raymond Albert
Hulce, worked for the Ford Motor Company. Although he originally wanted to be a
singer as a child, he switched to acting after his voice changed during his
teenage years. He left home at the age of 15 and attended Interlochen Arts
Academy and the North Carolina School of the Arts.
Acting career
Hulce made his acting debut in 1975, playing opposite Anthony
Perkins in Equus on Broadway. Throughout the rest of
the 1970s and the early 1980s, he worked primarily as a theater actor, taking
occasional parts in movies. His first film role was in the James Dean-influenced
film September 30, 1955 in 1977. His next movie role was as freshman
student Lawrence "Pinto" Kroger in the classic comedy National
Lampoon's Animal House (1978). In 1982, he played a gunshot victim in the
television show St. Elsewhere.
In the early 1980s, Hulce was chosen over intense
competition (which included David Bowie and Mikhail Baryshnikov) to play the
role of Mozart in director Milos Forman's film version of Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus.
In 1985, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his
performance, losing to his co-star, F. Murray Abraham. In 1989, he received his
second Best Actor Golden Globe Award nomination for a critically acclaimed
performance as an intellectually challenged garbage collector in the 1988 movie
Dominick and Eugene. He played supporting roles in Parenthood
(1989), Fearless (1993) and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994).
In 1990, he was nominated for his first Emmy Award for
his performance as the 1960s civil rights activist Michael Schwerner in the
1990 TV-movie Murder in Mississippi. He starred as Joseph Stalin's projectionist
in Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky's 1991 film The Inner Circle. In
1996, he won an Emmy Award for his role as a gay pediatrician in a
television-movie version of the Wendy Wasserstein play The Heidi Chronicles,
starring Jamie Lee Curtis. Also in 1996, he provided both the speaking and
singing voice of the protagonist Quasimodo for the Disney animated feature The
Hunchback of Notre Dame. Although Hulce largely retired from acting in the
mid-1990s, he had bit parts in the recent movies Jumper (2008) and Stranger
Than Fiction (2006).
Hulce remained active in theater throughout his entire
acting career. In addition to Equus,
he also appeared in Broadway productions of A Memory of Two Mondays and A
Few Good Men, for which he was a Tony Award nominee in 1990. In the
mid-1980s, he appeared in two different productions of playwright Larry
Kramer's early AIDS-era drama The Normal Heart. In 1992, he starred in a
Shakespeare Theatre Company production of Hamlet. His regional theatre
credits include Eastern Standard at the Seattle Repertory Theatre.
Career as producer
Hulce shepherded two major projects to fruition: the
six-hour, two-evening stage adaptation of John Irving's The Cider House
Rules, and Talking Heads, a festival of Alan Bennett's plays which
won six Obie Awards, a Drama Desk Award, a special Outer Critics Circle Award,
and a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play. He also headed 10
Million Miles, a musical project by Keith Bunin and Grammy Award-nominated singer-songwriter
Patty Griffin, that premiered in Spring 2007 at the Atlantic Theater Company.
Hulce was a lead producer of the Broadway hit Spring Awakening,
which won eight Tony Awards in 2007, including one for Best Musical. He is also
a lead producer of a stage adaptation of the Green Day album American Idiot.
The musical had its world premiere in Berkeley, California, at the Berkeley
Repertory Theatre in 2009 and opened on Broadway in April 2010. He also
produced the 2004 movie A Home at the End of the World, based upon Michael
Cunningham's novel.
Awards and nominations
Theater awards:
2010 Tony Award Best Musical American Idiot [nominee] Produced by Tom Hulce
2010 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Musical American Idiot [nominee] Produced by Tom Hulce
2007 Tony Award Best Musical Spring Awakening [winner] Produced by Tom Hulce
2007 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Musical Spring Awakening [winner] Produced by Tom Hulce
2003 Drama Desk Award Outstanding New Play Tom Hulce [nominee] (for Talking Heads )
2000 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Director of a Play Thomas Hulce [nominee] ( for "The Cider House Rules, Part One" )
1993 Helen Hayes Award Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play [nominee] (for Hamlet, The Shakespeare Theatre)
1990 Tony Award Best Actor in Play [nominee] (for A Few Good Men)
1990 Helen Hayes Award Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Play [nominee] (for A Few Good Men)
Film/Television awards:
See Filmography below
Filmography
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List of acting performances in film and
television
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Title
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Year
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Role
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Notes
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Forget-Me-Not-Lane
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1975
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Television film
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Song of Myself
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1976
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Television film
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September 30, 1955
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1977
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National Lampoon's Animal House
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1978
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Lawrence
"Pinto" Kroger
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Those Lips, Those Eyes
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1980
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Amadeus
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1984
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Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart
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Nominated
— Academy Award for Best Actor
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Nominated
— Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
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David
di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor
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The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket
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1986
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Echo Park
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1986
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Jonathan
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Slam Dance
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1987
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C.C. Drood
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Dominick and Eugene
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1988
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Dominick
"Nicky" Luciano
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Nominated — Golden
Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
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Shadow Man
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1988
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Shadowman/David
Rubenstin
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Parenthood
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1989
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Larry Buckman
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Murder in Mississippi
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1990
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Mickey Schwerner
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Nominated
— Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
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Nominated
— Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie
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The
Inner Circle
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1991
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Ivan Sanshin
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Fearless
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1993
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Brillstein
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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1994
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Henry Clerval
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Wings of Courage
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1994
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Antoine de Saint
Exupéry
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The Heidi Chronicles
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1995
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Peter Patrone
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Emmy
Award Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
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CableACE
Award for Best Supporting Actor - Miniseries or Movie
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Nominated
— Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television
Film
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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1996
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Quasimodo
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame II
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2002
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Quasimodo
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Direct-to-video
release
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A Home at the End of the World
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2004
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as producer
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Stranger Than Fiction
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2006
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Dr. Cayly
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cameo
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Jumper
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2008
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Mr. Bowker
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cameo
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