Eugene Brezany

Eugene Brezany was born in 1945 in St. Louis, Missouri. He graduated from Northwestern University; and was an Alvina Krause student. The U.S. Army drafted him to serve for a couple years during the Vietnam War and he is known for work with the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut; coming to New York in their Broadway bound production of Moses Gunn's Othello. After a second Broadway role, in David Merrick's There's One in Every Marriage, he relocated to Hollywood and was soon cast in recurring or co-starring TV roles on Newhart (1982), The Greatest American Hero (1981), The Devlin Connection (1982), and on film with Steve Martin in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982). Also, Eugene performed leading roles in some twenty or so Shakespearean productions mounted at Steven Slane's Musical Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts and at Thad Taylor's Globe Playhouse in West Hollywood, California. .