Boris Aplon Biography

Character actor Boris Aplon spent most of his career on Broadway where he played everything from Chief Sitting Bull in Annie Get Your Gun to the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz. He occasionally dabbled in screen performances, beginning with Citizen Saint (1947) and also appeared on a few television soaps as well as in the 1950s series The Honeymooners. Aplon started out performing with Chicago's Globe Theatre Shakespeare Company. From there, he launched a career in radio drama and then started performing on Broadway. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi