Cliff Osmond
Biography
Cliff Osmond was an American actor, writer and acting instructor who was born in Jersey City in 1937 and raised in Union City. He earned an English degree from Dartmouth College and studied business administration at UCLA. Four of his films were directed by Billy Wilder: Irma la Douce (1963), Kiss Me, Stupid (1964), The Fortune Cookie (1966) and The Front Page (1974). He appeared in more than one hundred films and television shows, with guest roles on Gunsmoke, The Rifleman and The Twilight Zone, and he played Pap in a 1981 television adaptation of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. His writing for Streets of San Francisco earned a Writer's Guild Award nomination, and he wrote and directed The Penitent. He also won acting awards for stage work, taught acting in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and was a visiting professor at Georgetown University in 2004. He died in 2012.
75years old at death
- Born Jersey City
- Died Pacific Palisades
- Star sign: PiscesThe sign runs February 19 to March 20
- Also credited as Clifford Osman Ebrahim
Movie Career
- Films
- 9
- Career span
- 17 years1963 to 1980
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Behind the award
For playing Berthold Brecht's Baal at UCLA, Osmond took home a Best Actor award. A Chicago stage appearance in George Bernard Shaw's You Never Can Tell brought him the Joseph Jefferson acting award.
Behind the camera
Osmond's book Acting Is Living: Exploring the Ten Essential Elements in any Successful Performance came out in 2010 and dealt with acting and his career.
Cliff Osmond movies on Netflix
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The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
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Billy Wilder directed four of these films. Two actors appear in three of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Ted Gehring's page
Cliff Norton's page
All films by Billy Wilder
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.