Alfred Drake
Highest Rated: 88% Trading Places (1983)
Lowest Rated: 88% Trading Places (1983)
Birthday: Oct 7, 1914
Birthplace: Bronx, New York, USA
Actor and baritone who played leading roles in landmark Broadway shows including "Oklahoma!" and "Kiss Me Kate." Drake's good-humored performance as Hajj, a street poet made Emir of Bagdad for a day, in the hit musical "Kismet" won him a well-deserved Tony in 1954. A commanding presence, Drake also performed well in straight drama, including several Shakesperean roles. He made regular TV appearances in the 1950s, sometimes in broadcast versions of his stage successes; the most notable of his few film roles was Claudius opposite Richard Burton's "Hamlet" (1964).
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88% | 84% | Trading Places | President of Exchange (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Visit From a Dead Man | Unknown (Character) | - | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Your Money or Your Wife | Self | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kiss Me, Kate | Frederick Graham "Petruchio" (Character) | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Strange Victory | Narrator | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tars and Spars | Howard Young (Character) | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Diary of a Sergeant | Unknown (Character) | - | 1945 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Alcoa Hour | King (Character) | 1956 |