Hiram Sherman(1908-1989)
- Actor
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.
