Biography

In addition to his work in film and television, Jack Eddleman appeared in eight Broadway shows and was a popular director at New York City Opera, specializing in Gilbert and Sullivan. He also appeared on the soap opera "All My Children." He directed and performed in a command performance for Princess Grace of Monaco. He did many plays with IASTA (International Association for Study of Theatre Arts), and is one of the featured actors in the book "Actors Talk About Acting." He was chosen by Leonard Bernstein to direct the "Bernstein Mass" and selected by Jacques Brel himself for the Carnegie Hall production of "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris."

Jack attended Tulsa University and Kansas City University. Jack was a true renaissance man: singer, dancer, actor, director, choreographer, and was an incredible make-up artist. At the time of his death, he was working on a make-up book for Mehron--unfortunately, unfinished.

He was married to choreographer Stephanie Hall Eddleman, who died in 2006.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Nancy Beier (his sister)