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- A veteran character actor of stage and screen, James H. Garner, Jr. arrived on Broadway in 1969 only to find another James Garner already working. He changed his name to Jay Garner and in 1971 replaced Howard Da Silva in the Broadway production of "1776." He played in regional theaters around the country until the late 1990s. Garner worked in television and film in Los Angeles throughout the 1970s, leaving to return to Broadway in 1982. Garner, who was born in Sewanee, Tennessee, grew up in Chattanooga, graduating from the University of Tennessee. He later worked in radio and theater in Atlanta, and performed in a one-man show satirizing Georgia governor Lester Maddox, which led to his Broadway debut.
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Joe Petrilla was born on 16 December 1981 in Sewanee, Tennessee, USA. He is a director and actor, known for reConception (2014), The Line (2011) and Double Walker (2021).- American novelist Henry Sydnor Harrison was born in 1880 in Sewanee, Tennessee. His father, a doctor, was also professor of Greek and Latin at the University of the South. In 1885 the family moved to Brooklyn, NY, where Dr. Harrison had established his own private school, The Brooklyn Latin School. Henry graduated from New York's Columbia University in 1900, where he was the editor of the school newspaper and took part in productions of the Columbia Dramatic Society.
In 1902 Dr. Harrison died and the family moved to Richmond, VA. Henry took a job as a newspaper reporter, but hated it. He left that position soon afterwards and moved to Charleston, WV, where he basically holed up for six months and wrote a novel, "Queed", which was published in 1911. It sold quite well, as did its follow-up novel, "V.V.'s Eyes"; together the two sold over 400,000 copies. Soon Harrison found that editors and publishers were demanding that he publish his short stories--all of which had been roundly rejected when he first submitted them--and he did. Although his work was not met with particular critical enthusiasm--H.L. Mencken called Harrison "a merchant of mush"--they were popular with the reading public.
In 1930 Harrison went into a hospital in Atlantic City, NJ, to have an operation, and died four days later. He never married. - Tucker McCrady was born on 24 September 1965 in Sewanee, Tennessee, USA. He is an actor, known for Alice in Wonderland (1983), Puss in Boots (1983) and Seventeen Years to Earth (1998).
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Christina Welles was born on 4 September 1914 in Sewanee, Tennessee, USA. She was an actress. She died on 22 September 1997 in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.