John Lahr
Birthday: 12 July 1941, Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Name: John Henry Lahr
John Lahr was born on July 12, 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA as John Henry Lahr. He is an actor and writer, known for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic (1990), Because of the Wonder ...Show More
[on the favorite of his own published works] Each book inevitably engineers some emotional transitio Show more
[on the favorite of his own published works] Each book inevitably engineers some emotional transition in a writer's life, but given one I'd say my first book, 'Notes on a Cowardly Lion', which I finished the week my father died when I was twenty-six. In it, I mourned him and preserved him. Hide
I'm not a fan of science fiction - life on earth is mysterious and terrifying enough. I'm often draw Show more
I'm not a fan of science fiction - life on earth is mysterious and terrifying enough. I'm often drawn by tone and by the slant of the language. The way the sentences pop. A few well-angled sentences announce to me if this is a voice whose command I can trust or whose quirkiness intrigues. Style, after all, is metabolism. Even if it's non-fiction, the writing has to have a pulse, something I can feel beneath the facts. Hide
[on who are his favorite playwrights] An impossible question. But, since the greatest show on earth Show more
[on who are his favorite playwrights] An impossible question. But, since the greatest show on earth is the show of human emotion, for complexity of character, psychological nuance and downright dramatic behaviour, it's only three: Anton Chekhov, Tennessee Williams, August Wilson. Hide
John Lahr's FILMOGRAPHY
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as Actor (7)
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