Robert Rounseville

b. Robert Field Rounseville, 25 March 1914, Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA, d. 6 August 1974, NEW YORK, NY, USA. After schooling as an operatic tenor, Rounseville sang in the chorus or performed small roles within a succession of Broadway productions, many of which were strikes: Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s Babes In Hands (1937), Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson’s Knickerbocker Vacation (1938), and Rodgers and Hart’s Higher And Higher (1940). In the first 50s he made an appearance as Hoffman in the English film creation of Jacques Offenbach’s The Stories Of Hoffman (1951), where he co-starred with Moira Shearer, and he sang the part of Count number Danilo on the Columbia Records studio room recording from the Merry Widow, with Dorothy Kirsten in the name part. In 1952 Rounseville is at a Broadway time of year of operettas by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Together with his effective Broadway profession, Rounseville frequently used touring companies and in addition sang operatic tasks, including appearing inside a creation in the middle-50s of Italo Montemezzi’s masterpiece, L’Amore Dei Tre Re (The Like Of Three Kings), staged in New Orleans and which also starred Kirsten. In 1956 Rounseville required the part of Mr. Enoch Snow in the film edition of Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s Carousel. Then came back to Broadway to try out the title part in Leonard Bernstein and John Latouche’s Candide (1956), and the next year is at a short revival of Brigadoon. On tv, Rounseville is at the NBC Opera Theater demonstration of Francis Poulenc’s Dialogues FROM THE Carmelites (1957) and he performed Nanki-Poo in Bell Phone Hour’s The Mikado (1960). The maker of the star-studded overall performance was Gilbert and Sullivan experienced Martyn Green as well as the solid also included Stanley Holloway, Dennis Ruler, Groucho Marx, Barbara Meister and Helen Traubel. In the 60s Rounseville performed Padre Perez in Joe Darion and Mitch Leigh’s Broadway achievement, Guy Of La Mancha (1965), coming back for the show’s 1972 revival.