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7 unusual facts about Death of a Salesman


Beijing People's Art Theatre

The company broke more new ground in 1983 when it invited playwright Arthur Miller to direct a production of what was seen at the time as a uniquely American drama "Death of a Salesman," an experience Miller recounted in the form of a day-to-day diary in his book Salesman in Beijing (1985).

Harold I. Hansen

During his first season he managed to perform both The Glass Managerie and Death of a Salesman.

June Walker

She played Linda to Thomas Mitchell's Willy Loman in the 1949 touring company of Death of a Salesman.

Katharine Alexander

She starred alongside Paul Muni as his wife Linda Loman in London's Phoenix Theatre production of Death of a Salesman, which opened on July 28, 1949, directed by Elia Kazan.

Lothar Lindtner

He is considered one of the greatest actors Bergen has produced in recent times, with roles such as Bosch, in "January Herwitz", Wing Rice in Nordahl Grieg's "Our Honor and Our Glory", a variety of roles in Shakespeare plays, Njegus in "The Merry Widow", Leopold in "Summer in the Tyrol", and Loman in Death of a Salesman.

Maurice Argent

He played the title role in the Workshop's widely hailed 1953 production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.

Vince O'Brien

He also appeared on stage in local productions of Advise and Consent, Death of a Salesman and The Fantasticks.


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Aharon Meskin

During his career on the Hebrew stage, Meskin played many leading roles, including Othello; the Golem; Shylock (in The Merchant of Venice); Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman; the black pastor Stephen Kumalo in Cry, The Beloved Country; Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny and many others.

Albert Schultz

Schultz directed Soulpepper's productions of Death of a Salesman, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Oh What a Lovely War, The Caretaker, Waiting for Godot, No Man's Land, A Chorus of Disapproval, The Time of Your Life and Angels in America, Parts I and II.

Birthe Neumann

At the Royal Danish Theatre she has appeared in a number of productions, among them Marx and Coca Cola, Molière's The Learned Ladies, Henrik Hertz's Sparekassen (The Savings Bank), Jess Ørnsbo's Majonæse (Mayonnaise), Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, and David Hare's A Breath of Life.

Inda Ledesma

She led productions of, among many other works, Mr Puntila and his Man Matti (Berthold Brecht), Man and Superman (George Bernard Shaw), and Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller), as well as Israfel by Abelardo Castillo, and her modernized version of Euripides' Medea.

Jean Duceppe

Some of his greatest successes were his portrayals of Willy Loman in La Mort d'un commis-voyageur (Death of a Salesman) and Premier Maurice Duplessis in Charbonneau et le chef (Charbonneau and the Chief).

Jeanne Bates

She played Bela Lugosi's first victim in The Return of the Vampire (1943), Diana Palmer in The Phantom (1943), and she had a minor role in Death of a Salesman (1951).

Jeanne Paulson

Recently, she appeared in Death of a Salesman at Geva Theatre; other regional credits include work at Arizona Theatre Company (A Moon for the Misbegotten, Copenhagen), La Jolla Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, and at the South Coast Repertory where she received a L.A. Drama Critic’s Circle Award for Rose in Holy Days.

Jo Mielziner

Recently, his scenic designs for the original production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman were re-created for the 2012 Broadway revival starring Academy Award winner Philip Seymour Hoffman, Andrew Garfield and Linda Emond.

Poul Reichhardt

Besides his many popular roles Reichhardt also, mostly on stage, emerged into a respected character actor (Biff and later Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, Archie in Osborne's The Entertainer, several Shakespeare roles).

Shane Rimmer

They appeared together as United States Navy sailors in The Bedford Incident (1965) and as NASA technicians in the opening of You Only Live Twice (1967), as well as touring together on stage, including a production of Death of a Salesman in the 1990s.

Stephen Barry

In that role he created many very successful presentations including a season of Death of a Salesman with Warren Mitchell, and sellout performances of Pam Gems's musical Piaf with Judy Davis.

The Creation of the World and Other Business

Original director Harold Clurman and most of the cast, including Barbara Harris and Hal Holbrook, were replaced, and the playwright rewrote most of what was material possibly better suited for Neil Simon than the man responsible for dramatic classics like Death of a Salesman.

Tim Schoch

As a professional actor and singer, Schoch is a trained dramatic and Shakespearean actor appearing on stage in Death of a Salesman (with Eugenia Rawls), Waiting for Godot, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, and others.


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Franco Interlenghi

He has worked with great directors such as Federico Fellini in I Vitelloni, Michelangelo Antonioni in I Vinti and Luchino Visconti in his stage adaptation of Death of a Salesman.