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STEALING THE SHOW, a very shy Christopher Rudolf,
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London at the opening of the Founders’ Day Festival of
the Church of England Children’s Society.
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TV CAMEOS: Edward Mulhare
Mulhare Acts Too Well; Nobody Knows Him
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Actors and directors know how seed Ed Mulharo Is; now
TV should make the public aware of the same thin®.
By MEL HEIMER
IN THE tradition of the bet
ter actors, Edward Mulhare
submerges himself into a role;
he wants you to believe that
the character and not he, is up
there onstage or in the film.
He does it beautifully—his Hen
ry Higgins in “My Fair Lady"
was an example—but, he says
wryly, it has its drawbacks.
“I was walking down the
Via Venuto in Rome," he says,
“during the making of ‘Von
Ryan’s Express,’ and I heard
this New York voice attached
to a man shouting ’Hey, lissen!’
at me. I turned and this gentle
man said —admiringly, I thought
—’Hey, wasn’t you in ’My Fair
Lady?’
“I modestly said I had been,
and he just nodded and said
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ALL IN THE FAMILY, Leo John Sheridan is surrounded by some of his 36 grand
children and great grandchildren after he was sworn in as U.S. ambassador to Ireland.
Sheridan succeeds Raymond R. Guest, who resigned after serving more than three
years in the post.
■What's ya name, anyway?’ "
The suspicion now is that af
ter this autumn and winter,
the Irish-born Mulhare won’t
hear that question quite so
often. He’s playing the bizarre
Capt. Gregg in NBC’s “The
Ghost and Mrs. Muir,” co-star
ring with Hope Lange, and the
network people have high hopes
for it as a sort of sleeper.
• • *
“BEFORE you say it,” he
says, “yes, I seem to be follow
ing in Rex Harrison’s footsteps.”
Mulhare succeeded Harrison in
“Fair Lady” and now he is play
ing a role that Rex created in
the original film with Gene
Tierney. “Although,” he adds
almost defensively, “once the
pilot film is shown and we get
into the series proper, I think
our show will be different and
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Interesting enough so that view
ers won't keep harping back to
the old movie."
He and Harrison actually
have only tallness in common;
their styles are different and
the sandy-haired Ed has more
heft to him than Rex. “We’re
just casual friends, really,” he
says, "although Rex has been
terribly nice to me along the
way, making me feel comfort
able when I was rehearsing
‘Fair Lady' and so on.”
Mulhare also has a bit more
of a classic background than
Harrison. He started acting in
Cork, did repertory with the
Dublin Theater Guild and the
Gate Theater, played in Olivier’s
production of “Othello” and did
more Shakespeare with Giel
gud's London-based company.
He’d like to double back and do
the classics again—with reser
vations.
“I just know that I’d love
being in the costume and spout
ing poetic lines again—but for
about three months,” he says.
“After that, I’d get logey and
start itching for a part in which
I could smoke a cigarette and
put my hands into my pockets.”
• • •
MULHARE is enthusiastic
about the new “Ghost” series.
“I heard about It at a party,
called my agent, told him ‘l’m
tired of playing villains and not
very well-written ones; I’m sick
of trying to make bricks out of
straw.* Months later he called
me one night at nine; I was on
a plane for California by mid
night, he met me with a script
and a bottle of booze, which I
didn’t dare touch, and that
morning I tested for the part,”
Ed says.
Six months later taping of
the show began, and now there
are nine segments finished. "The
Capt. Gregg role is fascinating,”
Mulhare says. “He’s sentimental
but a bit abrasive and eccen
tric. I hope he’s successful, but
—.” He shuddered. "A long,
long run can wear one down.
Actors ARE ungrateful, aren’t
they?”
A brown-haired, blue-eyed
bachelor, he likes to drive sports
cars fast and go sailing. He is
not exactly overwhelmed at be
ing hailed on the Via Venuto
with “What’s ya name?”