He was the producer of a 1964 summer season of the American National Theater and Academy, held at Beverly Hills High School. For a time he was an artist-in-residence at Stanford University. Throughout the 1960s, he was affiliated with a number of non-profit theatre companies in Southern California, including the La Jolla Playhouse, the UCLA Theatre Group. He subsequently starred in stagings of All Summer Long and The Infernal Machine, and both starred and directed a staging of Bus Stop at the Fred Miller Theatre in Milwaukee. In 1954, he won a Tony Award, New York Drama Critics Award, and Donaldson Award for his performance, and he later starred in the film version in 1956. In 1953-54, he received critical acclaim as a troubled prep school student in Robert Anderson's play Tea and Sympathy. He made his Broadway debut in 1953 in Mary Coyle Chase's Bernardine, a high-school comedy for which he won a Theatre World Award. For some time he pursued graduate studies in the Russian (now Harriman) Institute of Columbia University. He grew up in the New York City area, and went to Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire after graduating from Harvard, he worked at the nearby Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts and in summer stock. Both were stage and film actors, and his grandfather was Frederick Kerr, a British trans-Atlantic character actor in the period 1880–1930 Kerr developed an early interest in following in their footsteps. Kerr was born November 15, 1931, in New York City to British-born Geoffrey Kerr and American-born June Walker.
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He reprised his role in the film version of Tea and Sympathy, which won him the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer, and portrayed Joseph Cable in the Rodgers and Hammerstein movie musical South Pacific.
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He began his professional career on Broadway, earning critical acclaim for his performances in Mary Coyle Chase's Bernardine and Robert Anderson's Tea and Sympathy, before transitioning into a screen career. John Grinham Kerr (November 15, 1931 – February 2, 2013) was an American actor and attorney. Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Playġ953 Bernardine Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor
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