Background
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Hart is the son and grandson of Henry Clay Hart and Richard Borden Comstock, leading Rhode Island lawyers.
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Richard Hart
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Brown University; American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Career
He went to Moses Brown School and Brown University, where he was an all-American soccer player. Hart first worked as a journalist and at the Gorham Silver Company before becoming seriously interested in acting through a summer theater in Tiverton, Rhode Island. Early in his career, "Hart earned as he learned by appearing in radio soap operas." After he gained early experience with the Providence Players, Hart"s big break came when, as resident juvenile in a summer theater at the Brattle Playhouse in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he played John the witch boy, the lead role in a new play trying out there, Dark of the Moon.
A Broadway run of 318 performances then led to a national tour and a contract for Hart with Metro Goldwyn Mayer.
After some work in film, Hart left Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to go back to the stage. Back on Broadway he appeared in a flop, Leaf and Bough (1949), then took over for Sam Wanamaker in Goodbye, My Fancy (1948-1949) and had a hit as the original Uncle Desmonde in The Happy Time (1950-1951) opposite Claude Dauphin and Eva Gabor.
He also appeared in Pillar to Post (1943-1944). Hart died "at French Hospital of a coronary occlusion" January 2, 1951.
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