Gerrianne Raphael

{{short description|American actress}}

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{{Notability|Bio|date=September 2019}}

{{BLP sources|date=August 2011}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Gerrianne Raphael

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| birth_place = New York City, US

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| occupation = Actress, voice actress

| years_active = 1938–2009

| spouse = John Weaver, Gregory Allen Hirsch, Noah Keen

| children = Three (first marriage)

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Gerrianne Raphael is an American stage, screen, and voice-over actress. Though much of her career has been spent in the theatre, she is perhaps best known for her major role as the voice of Pumyra in ThunderCats.{{Citation needed |date=February 2024}}

Personal life

Gerrianne Raphael was born in New York City to Sidney, a concert pianist and Evelyn Raphael, a former actress.{{Citation needed |date=February 2024}} She was married three times, most recently to actor Noah Keen, from 2004 until his death in 2019. Her first husband was stage manager/actor, director John Weaver, (1955 - 1978).{{Cite news|title=Gagarin Scoop Printed Here|last=Winchell|first=Walter|date=October 19, 1961|work=Orlando Evening Star, Orlando,FL}} Gregory Allen Hirsch (1979 - 1986) was her second husband, a theatrical lighting designer. She has three daughters from her first marriage. She graduated from the Professional Children's School in New York City, in 1949.{{Cite news|title=Young Pros|date=May 28, 1949|work=New York Daily News}}

Career

Raphael's first professional performances were on radio when she was four years old{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EwtRbXNca0oC&dq=%22Let's+Pretend,+radio's%22+%22Gerrianne+Raphael%22&pg=PA391 |last=Dunning| first=John| author-link=John Dunning (detective fiction author) | title=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio| date=1998| publisher=Oxford University Press| location=New York, NY| isbn=978-0-19-507678-3| pages=391–393 | edition=Revised| access-date=2019-10-21}} on Let's Pretend, a children’s program of fairy tales. Her first Broadway show was at seven years of age in a play called Solitaire by John Van Druten. She understudied Patricia Hitchcock, the daughter of Alfred Hitchcock. Since then, her dozens of stage performances have included the landmark production of Threepenny Opera with Lotte Lenya and Beatrice Arthur{{Cite web|url=http://iobdb.com/Production/1175|title=The Threepenny Opera - Lortel Archives|website=Lortel Archives - Off-Broadway Internet Database|access-date=September 11, 2019}} and the original Broadway production of Man of La Mancha.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/man-of-la-mancha-4727|title=Man of La Mancha - Broadway Musical Original|website=IBDB Internet Broadway Database|access-date=September 11, 2019}} Having started in radio as a child, the progression to commercial voice-overs, "audiobooks"{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/4497604.Gerrianne_Raphael|title=Books by Gerrianne Raphael|website=GoodReads|access-date=September 12, 2019}} and cartoons came naturally. At one point Raphael had voice-overs for Revlon, Gloria Vanderbilt, Geritol and Helena Rubinstein all running at the same time. She had also provided the voice for the littlest dwarf on the Ajax commercials in the 1950s.{{Cite web|url=https://worksbywomen.wordpress.com/?s=gerrianne+raphael|title=Works by Women: Interview with Gerrianne Raphael|date=March 27, 2012|website=Works by Women}}{{Cite web|last=compukatz|title=Commercial Ajax Use Ajax the Foaming Cleanser 1950s|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXyl9GCs1pA|website=Ajax Commercial|date=2 May 2015 }}

Filmography

class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"

! colspan=4 style="background:lightsteelblue;" | Film

Year

! Film

! Role

! Notes

1938

| Little Miss Thoroughbred

| Kathleen O'Reilly

| Uncredited

1984

| My Little Pony: Rescue at Midnight Castle

| Sealight (Voice)

|

1985

| Thundercats - Ho! The Movie

| Pumyra (voice)

|

2005

| The Engagement Ring

| Nana Voice Over

| TNT Movie

2007

| Raising the Bar

| Jesse

| Short

colspan=4 style="background:lightsteelblue;" | Radio and Television
Year

! Title

! Role

! Notes

1940

|Let's Pretend

|One of the Pretenders

|Radio: CBS Children's Program

1949

| The Aldrich Family

| Role Unknown

| Episode Unknown

1950

| The First Hundred Years

| Role Unknown

| Role Unknown

1950

|Gang Busters

|

|Radio: CBS Gangster Melodrama

1951

|Portia Faces Life

|

|Radio: CBS Soap Opera

1951

|Armstrong Theater

|Role Unknown

|NBC-TV: "Sleight of Hand" (September 11, 1951){{Cite journal|last=Ross|first=Wallace A.|title=Talent Show Sheet|url=https://archive.org/details/rossreportstele16ross/page/n124/mode/1up?q=Gerrianne+Raphael|journal=Ross Reports on Television Programming|year=1951 |volume=v.16 (1951:Oct-Nov)|page=9|via=Internet Archive.Org}}

1952

|Our Gal Sunday

|Audrey

|Radio: CBS Soap Opera{{Cite news|title=Radio Highlights|date=June 25, 1952|work=The Tampa Times (Tampa, FL)}}

1952

|Medal of Honor{{Cite news|last=|first=|date=May 25, 1952|title=Esther and Silvio Minciotti Costar on "Grand Central"|pages=58|work=The Times (Shreveport, LA)|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/220149841/?terms=%22Gerrianne%20Raphael%22&match=1|access-date=January 22, 2021}}

|Role Unknown

|Radio: Grand Central Station (also appearing Esther Miniotti and Tony Randall)

1953

| Captain Video and His Video Rangers

| Ranger Craig 3

| One Episode: Spartak Returns

1953

|A Date with Judy

|Guest Appearance

|ABC-TV Series starring Mary Linn Beller, with Paul Ford{{Cite journal|title=Talent Show Sheet March 23-29, 1953|url=https://archive.org/details/rossreportstele30ross/page/n16/mode/1up?q=Gerrianne+Raphael|journal=Ross Reports on Television Production Programming Talent| year=1953 |volume=V, #12|page=9|via=Internet Archive.Org}} (March 25, 1953)

1960

|From These Roots

|Louisa Correlli

|NBC-TV DayTime Drama 1960-1961{{Cite news|date=December 10, 1960|title=Daytime Series Features Broadway Stage Talent|work=The Bradenton Herald (Bradenton, FL)}}

1964

|As the World Turns

|Helene Suker

|CBS-TV DayTime Drama 1964-1965{{Cite news|date=September 26, 1964|title=The TV Answer Man|work=The Daily Reporter|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/17543017/}}{{Cite news|date=October 3, 1964|title=TV Mailbag|work=Chicago Tribune|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/376522802/?terms=%22Gerrianne%20Raphael%22%20%22Helene%20Suker%22&match=1}}

1986

| ThunderCats

| Pumyra, Chilla and Jagara (voice)

| Episodes: 32 episodes (season 2-season 4)

1987

| The Comic Strip

|Voice{{cite web |url=http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Gerrianne-Raphael/ |title=Behind The Voice Actors: Gerrianne Raphael |work=Behind the Voice Actors |access-date=August 30, 2011}},

| Episodes: Two episodes, Karate Kat (voice of Katie "Big Mama" McClaw); Street Frogs.

2000

| A Little Curious

| Pad

|HBO Family. The show, produced by Curious Pictures and HBO,

2001

| Courage the Cowardly Dog

| Various Roles

| Episodes: 26 episodes (season 3-season 4){{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220880/fullcredits/ |title= Courage the Cowardly Dog Full Cast & Crew - IMDb |work=IMDb |access-date=October 29, 2024}}

2006

| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

| Mrs. Weiman

| One Episode: Informed

2008

| 30 Rock

| The Nun

| One Episode: Reunion

2009

| Random! Cartoons

| Garlic Boy's Mom (voice)

| One Episode: Garlic Boy

Theatre

class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"

! colspan="4" |Broadway

Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

1942

|Solitaire

|Virginia Stewart

|Standby (Pat Hitchcock)

1942

|Guest in the House

|Lee Proctor

|Standby (Joan Spencer)

1944

|Violet

|Violet

|Standy (Patricia Hitchcock)

1948

|Goodbye, My Fancy

|Clarisse

|

1955

|Seventh Heaven

|Camille

|Understudy Diane (Gloria DeHaven) ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING available Decca Broadway Original Cast Album

1957

|Li'l Abner

|"Moonbeam" McSwine

|Replacement (Carmen Alvarez){{Cite news|title="Fun and Magic" closing tonight; Burton is Signed|date=January 4, 1958|work=New York Daily News}}

1959

|Saratoga

|Daisy Porcelain

|Understudy Cleo Dulaine (Carol Lawrence) ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING available Masterworks Broadway

1961

|Milk and Honey

|Zipporah

|Replacement (Ellen Madison)

1965

|Man of La Mancha

|Fermina

|Understudy Aldonza/Dulcinea (Joan Diener) ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING available Decca Broadway Original Cast Album and STUDIO CAST

RECORDING available Golden Records LP#265{{Cite book|title=The Complete Book of 2000s Broadway Musicals|last=Sietz|first=Dan|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2017|isbn=9781442278004|url=https://books.google.com|pages=114}}

1967

|Hallelujah, Baby!

|Mrs. Charlies, Mistress, Ethel, Dorothy

|Replacement (Marilyn Cooper)

1972

|Man of La Mancha

|Aldonza/Dulcinea

|Lincoln Center Revival

1978

|King of Hearts

|Isolde, La Chanteuse d'Opera

|Understudy Madeleine (Millicent Martin) ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING available Original Cast Records – THT CD 9225

colspan="4" |Off-Broadway
Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

1954

|The Threepenny Opera

|Dolly, a whore

|Theatre de Lys ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING available Decca Broadway Original Cast Album

1954

|The Threepenny Opera

|Polly Peachum

|Replacement (Jo Sullivan) Theatre de Lys

1960

|The Threepenny Opera

|Jenny

|Replacement (Lotte Lenya) Theatre de Lys{{Cite journal|last=The Threepenny Opera|date=March 19, 1960|title=Goings on About Town - Off Broadway|url=http://archives.newyorker.com/?iid=16744&startpage=page0000006#folio=004|journal=New Yorker|pages=4}}

1958

|The Boyfriend

|Maisie

|The Downtown Theatre \ The Cherry Lane

1960

|Ernest in Love

|Cecily Cardew

|Grammercy Arts \ The Cherry Lane ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING available Masterworks Broadway{{Cite web|url=http://www.alhirschfeldfoundation.org/type/gerrianne-raphael|title=Gerrianne Raphael - www.alhirschfeldfoundation.org|last=Seventh Heaven|website=Hirschfeld|access-date=September 14, 2019}}

1961

|Fourth Avenue North

|Principal

|Madison Avenue Playhouse{{Cite book|title=Off Broadway Musicals, 1910-2007: Casts, Credits, Songs, Critical Reception|last=Dietz|first=Dan|publisher=McFarland & Co.|year=2010|isbn=978-0-7864-3399-5|pages=121}} with Linda Lavin

1972

|Say When

|Therese

|Plaza 9{{Cite book|title=Broadway Musicals, 1943-2004|last=Stewart|first=John|publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc.|year=2006|isbn=0-7864-2244-0|pages=Entry 2348}}

1974

|The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

|Jean Brodie

|Manhattan Theatre Club

1976

|Stauf

|Goddess Kali

|Cubiculo Theatre{{Cite book|title=John Willis' Theatre World, Volume 32|last=Willis|first=John A.|publisher=Crown Publishers|year=1977|pages=114}}

1978

|Noah

|Mrs. Noah

|Pratt Institute{{Cite journal|last=Davis|first=Peter G.|date=February 26, 1978|title=Quog Music Theater Does "Noah," by Salzman and Michael Sahl|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/02/26/archives/quog-music-theater-does-noah-by-salzman-and-michael-sahl.html|journal=New York Times|pages=48}}

1981

|The Butler Did It

|Angela Butler

|Players Theatre

1984

|The Ninth Step

|Joanna Wheeler

|Riverwest Theatre

1989

|Sid Caesar & Co.

|Part of "& Co."

|Downstairs at the Village Gate

1993

|Ernest in Love

|Lady Bracknell

|All Soul's Players, NYC{{Cite journal|last=Willis|first=John|date=1993|title=Theatre World 1993-1994 Season|url=https://archive.org/details/theatreworld19930050unse/page/110/mode/1up?q=Gerrianne+Raphael|journal=Theatre World Annual|volume=5|page=110|via=Internet Archive.Org}}

1996

|Dorian Gray

|Mrs. Vane

|Judith Anderson Theatre

1998

|Little Women

|Aunt March

|York Theater Co. at Saint Peter's Church{{Cite book|title=Theatre World 1998-1999|last=Willis|first=John|publisher=Applause Theatre & Cinema Books|year=2002|isbn=1-55783-432-6|pages=129}}

2001

|Imagining Shadows

|

|Ohio Theater{{Cite magazine|last=Rosenberg|first=David A.|date=February 21, 2001|title=Imagining Shadows|url=https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/reviews-109-34137/|magazine=Backstage Magazine|via=}}

colspan="4" |Tours and Regional
Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

1940

|American Jubilee

|Children's Chorus

|1940 New York World's Fair, Queens NY

1946

|Charley's Aunt

|

|Hunterdon Hills Playhouse, NJ{{Cite news|title=Comedy at Jutland|date=August 25, 1946|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer}}

1950

|Cry of the Peacock

|

|Locust Street Theatre, Philadelphia, PA{{Cite news|title=Happy Little Family Party|date=March 26, 1950|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer}} by Jean Anouilh

1953

|Glad Tidings

|Claire Abbott

|Bucks County Playhouse, New Hope, PA

1953

|The Country Girl

|Nancy Stoddard

|Bucks County Playhouse, New Hope, PA{{Cite news|title=Busy Girl|date=June 17, 1953|work=New York Daily News}} with Jack Klugman

1953

|Celia

|

|Bucks County Playhouse, New Hope, PA{{Cite news|title=Amusements|date=June 27, 1953|work=The Evening Sun (Hanover, PA)}} by George Batson, pre-Broadway.

1953

|The Little Foxes

|Alexandra

|Bucks County Playhouse, New Hope, PA{{Cite news|title='Little Foxes' at Bucks Playhouse|last=Singer|first=Samuel L.|date=August 18, 1953|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer}}

1954

|Arabian Nights

|Chorus

|Jones Beach Marine Theatre{{Cite book|title=Off Broadway Musicals, 1910-2007: Casts, Credits, Songs, Critical Reception|last=Dan|first=Seitz|publisher=MacFarland & Company, Inc.|year=2010|isbn=978-0-7864-3399-5|url=https://books.google.com|pages=23}} ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING available

Sepia 11116

1955

|Picnic

|Madge

|Casino Theatre, Newport, RI{{Cite news|title='Picnic,' Casino's Latest Offering, Leaves Audience Wondering Why|last=Emerson|first=Clara F.|date=August 2, 1955|work=Newport Daily News}}

1956

|Finian's Rainbow

|Sharon

|Brandywine Music Box, Painter's Mill, PA{{Cite news|title=Sid Caesar Associate to Direct 'Finian's Rainbow" at Music Box|date=June 20, 1956|work=Delaware County Daily Times (Chester, PA)}}

1956

|Brigadoon

|Meg

|Brandywine Music Box, Painter's Mill, PA{{Cite news|title=Brigadoon Final Play|date=August 31, 1956|work=Delaware County Daily Times}}

1957

|The Boy Friend

|Maisie

|Tour through Grist Mill Theatre, Andover MA (July 1957), Neptune Music Circus, Neptune NJ (August, 1957), Southern Tier Playhouse, Binghamton NY (Sept., 1957)

1958

|The Boy Friend

|Maisie

|Highland Park Music Theatre, Highland Park, IL{{Cite news|date=August 14, 1958|title="Boy Friend" Ends Season at Theatre|page=34|work=Arlington Heights Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)}}

1958

|Brigadoon

|Meg

|Highland Park Music Theatre, Highland Park, IL

1959

|The Boy Friend

|Maisie

|MusicCarnival Productions, Cleveland, OH

1960

|West Side Story

|Maria

|Paper Mill Playhouse (and subsequent tour), Millburn NJ{{Cite news|title=West Side Story Tells of Star-Crossed Lovers|date=August 14, 1960|work=The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)}}

1961

|Gypsy

|Louise

|National Company: Lambertville, PA and then the Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, with Mitzi Green (later Benay Venuta) as "Mama Rose" and Bernadette Peters in the ensemble.{{Cite news|title=Mitzi Green stars in Desert 'Gypsy'|last=Scott|first=John L.|date=June 27, 1961|work=The Los Angeles Times}}

1968

|Catch My Soul

|Amelia

|Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, CA{{Cite book|title=Broadway Musicals, 1943-2004|last=Stewart|first=Jon|publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc.|year=2006|isbn=0786422440|location=books.google.com|pages=Entry 1081}}

1963

|Fiorello!

|Thea

|Westchester Dinner Theatre, NY with Michael O'Shea and Virginia Mayo

1970

|Dames at Sea

|Mona Kent

|Parker Playhouse, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.{{Cite news|title='Dames' Satire Dances to Parker|last=Freund|first=Bob|date=January 30, 1970|work=Fort Lauderdale News}}

1971

|Man Of La Mancha

|Aldonza/Dulcinea

|National Theatre (Washington DC), O'Keefe Center (Toronto ONT), Emerson Colonial Theatre (Boston MA) with Allan Jones{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/tour-production/man-of-la-mancha-525161#Tours|title=Man of La Mancha - Broadway Musical 1971 Tour|website=IBDB Internet Broadway Database}}

1973

|A Shot in the Dark

|Madame Beaurevers

|Lincoln Bank Summer Festival Playhouse-in-the-Park, Cincinnati OH with Elke Sommer

1974

|Fashion

|Mrs. Tiffany

|Theatre-in-the-Dome, Lambertville PA{{Cite news|title=All That Glitters is Not So Old|last=Collins|first=William|date=July 14, 1979|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer}}

1980

|Man of La Mancha

|Aldonza/Dulcinea

|Westport Country Playhouse{{Cite web|url=https://www.westportplayhouse.org/aboutus/indexofplayschrono|title=Index of Plays - Chronological Order 1980|website=Westport Country Playhouse|access-date=September 11, 2019}} with David Atkinson, Westport CT

1980

|Man of La Mancha

|Aldonza/Dulcinea

|Coachlight Dinner Theatre with David Atkinson, Nanuet NY

1982

|Candide

|The Old Lady

|The Pennsylvania Opera Theater, Philadelphia PA{{Cite news|title=A Delightful Romp Through One of the Best of All Musical Worlds|last=Scher|first=Valerie|date=July 12, 1982|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer}}

1994

|Bodo

|Lady Gutrun

|Burt Reynolds Theatre, Tequesta, FL, world premiere of a new musical by Anne Crosswell, Lee Pockriss and Hugh Wheeler{{Cite news|title='Bodo' premiere does not bode well for N.Y. staging|last=Erstein|first=Hap|date=May 10, 1994|work=The Palm Beach Post}}

1997

|Slouching Toward the Millennium

|Jesse

|The 42nd Street Workshop, by Murray Schisgal, New York, NY{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/27/theater/plight-of-the-poor-post-feminist-man.html|title=Plight of the Poor Post Feminist|last=Marks|first=Peter|date=June 6, 1997|work=The New York Times}}

2000

|Dear World

|Countess Aurelia

|Standby, Goodspeed-at-Chester/Norma Terris Theatre, East Haddam CT

2002

|Zorba

|Madame Hortense

|Berkshire Theatre Festival, Stockbridge, MA{{Cite web|url=http://www.curtainup.com/zorba.html|title=Zorba, a CurtainUp Berkshire review|date=September 26, 2019|website=Curtain Up}}

2003

|A Delicate Arrangement

|Helen Gavros

|Winning entry, Theatrefest Regional Playwriting Contest, Montclair, NJ{{Cite news|title='A Delicate Arrangement' dissects art|last=Molyneaux|first=Thomas|date=June 25, 2003|work=South Bergenite, North Jersey Media Group}}

2005

|Cocktails with Coward

|Judith Bliss

|Don't Tell Mama, New York, NY{{Cite web|last=Gans|first=Andrew|date=July 9, 2005|title=Cocktails with Coward to Play N.Y.C. July 19–27|url=https://www.playbill.com/article/cocktails-with-coward-to-play-nyc-july-19-27-com-126889|website=Playbill.com}}

2005

|The Full Monty

|Jeanette

|Gateway Playhouse, Bellport, NY{{Cite web|url=http://www.gatewayproductionarchives.com/2005/fullmonty.html|title=Gateway Playhouse - 2005 - The Fully Monty|date=September 26, 2019}}

2009

|The Unexpected Guest

|Mrs. Warwick

|Fulton Opera House, Lancaster, PA{{Cite web|url=http://www.abouttheartists.com/productions/48776-the-unexpected-guest-at-fulton-opera-house-january-29-february-15-2009|title=The Unexpected Guest at Fulton Opera House 2009|date=September 26, 2019|website=About the Artists}}

References

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