Monty Woolley
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Monty Woolley (August 17, 1888 - May 6, 1963) was an American actor. Born Edgar Montillion Wooley in New York City, Woolley was a professor and lecturer at Yale University (one of his students was Thornton Wilder) who began acting on Broadway in 1936.
He was typecast as the wasp-tongued, supercilious sophisticate. His most famous role is that of the cranky radio wag forced to stay immobile because of a broken leg in 1942's The Man Who Came to Dinner, which he had performed onstage before taking it to Hollywood, a caricature of radio and press celebrity of the 1930s and 1940s Alexander Woolcott.
He was a teacher and intimate friend of Cole Porter while at Yale and in later years. They enjoyed many amusing disreputable adventures together in New York and on foreign travels. He played himself in Warner Bros. pseudo-biopic about Cole Porter's life, "Night and Day" (1946), a highly fictionalized account of Porter's very unorthodox professional and personal life.
Academy Awards and Nominations
- 1945 - Nominated - Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Since You Went Away
- 1943 - Nominated - Best Actor in a Leading Role - The Pied Piper
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