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Alfred Drake

Highest Rated: 89% Trading Places (1983)

Lowest Rated: 63% The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus (1985)

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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Highest rated movies

89% 85% Trading Places Watchlist
63% 63% The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus
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Kiss Me, Kate
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Your Money or Your Wife
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Tars and Spars
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Strange Victory
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Visit From a Dead Man
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Diary of a Sergeant
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74% Hamlet
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Filmography

Movies

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63% 63% The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus The Great Ak (Voice) - 1985
89% 85% 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 74% Hamlet Claudius (Character) - 1964
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

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No Score Yet No Score Yet What's My Line? Guest 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Alcoa Hour King (Character) 1956