Hiram Sherman

Hiram Sherman was born on Feb 11, 1908 in USA. Hiram Sherman's big-screen debut came with ...One Third of a Nation... directed by Dudley Murphy in 1939, strarring Donald Hinchley. Hiram Sherman is known for The Solid Gold Cadillac directed by Richard Quine, Judy Holliday stars as Laura Partridge and Paul Douglas as Edward L. McKeever. The upcoming new movie Hiram Sherman plays is Certain Honorable Men which will be released on Sep 12, 1968.

Hiram Sherman was primarily a Broadway actor who also appeared in a few films and some television with a co-starring role on The Tammy Grimes Show. Although ten episodes were filmed only four were aired before cancellation. Born in Boston, Mass. where his father Clifford L. Sherman(1875-1920) was on the staff of the Boston Globe as a noted cartoonist, Hiram and family came back to Lincoln, Illinois where he went to high school and entered showbuisness at the Goodman Theater in Chicago in 1927. He was a member of Orson Welles Mercury theater project but left Welles before the famous "War of the Worlds" broadcast. His first winter in Manhattan was in 1930 and he became a New York stage personality from that time. A veteran of the navy(1941-1945) he won two Toni awards;first in 1953 and in 1967.He retired to Illinois where he died in 1989 in a Springfield nursing home.