Bob Carroll (singer/actor)
{{short description|American singer and actor (1918-1994)}}
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Port Washington, New York
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Robert Carroll (June 8, 1918 – November 12, 1994) was an American big band singer and stage, film, and television actor.
Early years
Bob Carroll was born Mark Kaufman in New York, NY.{{Cite web|title=24 Jan 1971, Page 58 - News-Press at Newspapers.com|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/212743293/?terms=%22bob%20carroll%22%20tevye&match=1|access-date=2020-12-05|website=Newspapers.com|language=en}} The son of a piano salesman, Carroll attended high school in Brooklyn.{{cite news |title=Bob Carroll Has Lead in Fiorello |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23830833/bob_carroll/ |work=The Ottawa Journal |date=February 11, 1961 |location=Canada, Ottawa, Ontario |page=40|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = September 17, 2018}} {{Open access}}
Singer
Carroll's singing career was interrupted by three years' service in the U.S. Army during World War II. When he returned to civilian life, he joined Jimmy Dorsey's orchestra.{{cite magazine |title=Warbler Emphasis Seen in J. Dorsey's Pacting of Carroll |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l0UEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Bob+Carroll%22+singer&pg=PT23 |accessdate=18 September 2018 |magazine=Billboard |date=April 20, 1946 |page=24}}
Carroll also sang with other orchestras, including Charlie Barnet and Glenn Miller in the 1940s and Gordon Jenkins (for whom he recorded the hit "Charmaine" in 1951) in the 1950s. He is heard on the soundtrack of The Prowler (1951) singing "Baby".{{cite web|title=Internet Movie Database|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043938/soundtrack?ref_=tt_trv_snd|website=imdb.com|accessdate=February 19, 2018}} In 1957, his version of "Butterfly" on Bally Records{{cite web|title=45cat.com|url=http://www.45cat.com/record/71028|website=45cat.com|accessdate=February 19, 2018}} made the charts, peaking at No. 61 on the Billboard Hot 100.
In the mid-1960s, Carroll was host and singer on All Time Hits, a musical program on WGN-TV in Chicago.{{cite news |last1=Purcelli |first1=Marion |title=Bob Carroll Is Natural TV Star |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23829905/bob_carroll/ |work=Chicago Tribune |date=December 12, 1965 |location=Illinois, Chicago |page=70|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = September 17, 2018}} {{Open access}}
Actor
In the 1960s, he turned to acting and his stage career peaked in those years.
On television, he appeared both in soap operas and prime time series. He performed on Songs for Sale (1950-1952){{r|etvs|page1=992}} and was a regular vocalist{{cite book|last1=Terrace|first1=Vincent|title=Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010|date=2011|publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers|location=Jefferson, N.C.|isbn=978-0-7864-6477-7|pages=546–547|edition=2nd}} on NBC's Judge for Yourself, starring Fred Allen, which aired in the 1953-1954 season.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DyS3t8z6_ckC&q=Judge+for+Yourself+%281953+TV+series%29&pg=PA622|title=Judge for Yourself in Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, A Complete Directory to Prime Time Cable and Network TV Shows , 1946 - Present, p. 622|publisher=New York: Random House Publishing, 2003|accessdate=June 11, 2011|isbn=9780307483157|date=2010-05-19}}
In the theater, he performed in various touring productions of Fiddler on the Roof, including in 1966 (playing Lazar) and 1968 (playing Tevye) as well as the 1989 pre-Broadway tour (playing Morcha). He played the title role in the first national tour of Fiorello!{{Cite web|title=Bob Carroll – Broadway Cast & Staff {{!}} IBDB|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/bob-carroll-517282|access-date=2021-04-07|website=www.ibdb.com}} He also played 1984 touring production of La Cage aux Folles (playing Dindon).Stewart, John. Broadway Musicals, 1943-2004. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006. Print. Other touring productions in which he appeared included Guys and Dolls, The Pajama Game, and Say, Darling.
Death
Carroll died at the age of 76 in Port Washington, New York, where he resided.
References
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Personal info also received from his children Melanie Dib, Laura Leigh Carroll, Jody Carroll and Keith Carroll as well as his grandchildren Luke and Alex El Dib.
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Category:American male stage actors
Category:American male film actors
Category:American male television actors
Category:20th-century American male actors
Category:People from Port Washington, New York
Category:20th-century American singers
Category:20th-century American male singers
Category:American male jazz musicians