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Les Carlson

LES CARLSON, New York City, returns for his third Festival season, having appeared here in 1960 as Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew, and in 1961 productions of Hamlet, Henry IV, Part I, Alls Well That Ends Well, and The Alchemist, He is a graduate of the University of South Dakota, where he received his M.A. degree in Dramatic Art. He has been a student of the Herbert Berghof Acting Studio in New York.

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LES CARLSON, New York City, is with the Festival for his fifth season. He has appeared as Hamlet at OregonState University, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet at the Edgecliff Academy of Fine Arts in Cincinnati, Edgar in King Lear, and Gratiano in The Merchant of Venice here at the Oregon Festival. He received his B.F.A. and M.A. in Dramatic Art from the State University of South Dakota.

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Credited as cast

  1. King Henry VI, Part 2 (1965, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA) .... Simpcox
  2. King Henry VI, Part 2 (1965, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA) .... Smith
  3. Macbeth (1965, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA) .... Seyton
  4. Much Ado About Nothing (1965, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA) .... Claudio
  5. The Winter's Tale (1965, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA) .... Dion
  6. The Winter's Tale (1965, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA) .... Shepherd
  7. King Lear (1964, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA) .... Edgar
  8. As You Like It (1962, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA) .... Orlando
  9. Coriolanus (1962, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA) .... Titus Lartius
  10. The Comedy of Errors (1962, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA) .... Officers

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