Richard Morrill

In 1932, in his mid-30s, Everett M. Schreck was hired from Yale University to be the University of South Dakota's first full time theatre instructor. While a professor at Ohio State, Schreck authored the once widely used text Principles and Styles of Acting (1970), with contributions by junior colleagues William R. McGraw (also an Ohio professor) and Faber B. DeChaine (of the University of Oregon). He also worked as an actor in New York under the name Richard Morrill, and became friends with director Elia Kazan, who cast him in the 1969 film The Arrangement (1969). Morrill/ Schreck then moved to LA and became a character actor there. He later retired and moved to Las Cruces, NM, to be near his daughter: he was living there at the time of his death, circa 1990.