Alice Cannon

الميلاد 26 يونيو 1919 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Alice McCamley Cannon was an Actress and Author. She was a 20th-century American stage actress. She was the wife of John D. Cannon, the television actor, who was best-known for his role as 'Detective Peter Clifford' in the 1970s series "McCloud." She used her married surname professionally. She appeared in numerous Broadway and Off-Broadway productions including "Change your Luck" and "Scarlet Sister Mary" both in 1930, "The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N" in 1968, "Company" in 1970, "Johnny Johnson" in 1971, and "James Joyce is Dead" in 2000. She wrote the play "Great Day in the Morning," which was based on her childhood in St. Louis. The play was staged at the Henry Miller Theater, ran between March 28 and April 7, 1962, was nominated for two Tony Awards, one for Colleen Dewhurst for Best Actress in a Play and one for José Quintero for Best Direction of a Play. She received the Helen Hayes Award in 2001 for Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production. As a widow, she suffered a stroke in 2014 and died three years later from complications.