Background
Born in 1920 in Brooklyn, New York to a Jewish family, he grew up in Howard Beach, Queens, attended John Adams High School, and graduated from Brooklyn College in 1941.
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Career
While at Brooklyn College, he participated in the Varsity Dramatic Society. Wingreen originally planned to become a newspaper reporter after writing about high school sports for the Brooklyn Eagle during his high school years. During World World War II, he served with the United States Army Air Force and was stationed in England and Germany.
Following his return home, with the aid of the G.I. Bill, he studied acting at New York"s New School.
Stage Wingreen helped to found the Circle in the Square Theatre in Greenwich Village. On Broadway, he played in The Girl on the Via Flaminia and Fragile Fox, both in 1954.
Wingreen married Gloria Scott Backe. Backe, known as "Scotty" died in 1996.
They had one son together.
Death Wingreen died at the age of 95 at his home in Los Angeles, California, on December 25, 2015.
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From the early 1960s Wingreen was a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He was a co-founder of the Circle in the Square Theatre company in New York"s Greenwich Village, and he appeared for the first time on Broadway in two 1954 plays: The Girl on the Via Flaminia and Fragile Fox.
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