Robert drivas biography
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Robert Drivas
American actor (1935–1986)
Robert Drivas (born Robert Choromokos; November 21, 1935 – June 29, 1986) was an American actor and theatre director.
Robert drivas biography
Life and early career
Drivas studied at the University of Chicago and the University of Miami with further training at the Greek Playhouse in Athens, Greece. He made his stage debut in Night Must Fall in Coral Gables, Florida, and then appeared in Tea and Sympathy in the role of Tom Lee at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami, and in The Lady's Not for Burning, Death of a Salesman, Thieves' Ball, and A View from the Bridge at the Highland Park Playhouse in Chicago.
According to Thomas W. Ennis writing in The New York Times, Tennessee Williams saw Drivas in Tea and Sympathy and asked him to take the lead in his play Sweet Bird of Youth,[1] which had its premiere in Coconut Grove at George Keathley's Studio M Playhouse in 1956.[2]
Broadway
He made his Broadway debut in the r