{"id":2872,"date":"2017-11-18T20:56:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T01:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=2872"},"modified":"2017-11-19T20:56:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T01:56:24","slug":"cosby-show-grandpa-actor-earle-hyman-dies-at-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/18\/cosby-show-grandpa-actor-earle-hyman-dies-at-91\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Cosby Show&#8217; Grandpa, Actor Earle Hyman Dies At 91"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2873\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/earle-hyman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"572\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A veteran of stages around the world, he received an Emmy nomination for his work on the long-running NBC sitcom and was a voice on &#8216;<em>Thundercats<\/em>.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Earle Hyman, the admired stage, television and film actor best known for playing Bill Cosby&#8217;s sage father, Russell Huxtable, on <em>The Cosby Show<\/em>, has died. He was 91.<\/p><div id=\"morty-4268283484\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hyman died Friday at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, New Jersey, his nephew Rick Ferguson told The Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n<p>Hyman was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, as George Earle Plummer according to the North Carolina Birth Index. He is believed to have been of African-American and Native American ancestry. His parents, Zachariah Hyman (Tuscarora) and Maria Lilly Plummer (Haliwa-Saponi\/Nottoway), moved their family to Brooklyn, New York in the late 1920s, where Hyman primarily grew up. Earle Hyman became interested in acting after seeing a production of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen&#8217;s Ghosts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe first play I ever saw was a present from my parents on my 13th birthday \u2014 Nazimova in \u2018Ghosts\u2019 at Brighton Beach on the subway circuit \u2014 and I just freaked out.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/earle-hyman-playbill.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2874 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/earle-hyman-playbill-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/earle-hyman-playbill-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/earle-hyman-playbill-260x357.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/earle-hyman-playbill-160x220.jpg 160w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/earle-hyman-playbill.jpg 462w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a>He made his Broadway stage debut as a teenager in 1943 in <em>Run, Little Chillun<\/em>, and later joined the American Negro Theater. The following year, Hyman began a two-year run playing the role of Rudolf on Broadway in <em>Anna Lucasta<\/em>, starring Hilda Simms in the title role. He was a member of the American Shakespeare Theatre beginning with its first season in 1955, and played the role of Othello in the 1957 season.<\/p>\n<p>In December 1958 he came to London to play the leading role in <em>Moon on a Rainbow Shawl<\/em>, by Errol John, at the Royal Court.<\/p><div id=\"morty-3993329573\" class=\"morty-content_2\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>In 1959 he again appeared in the West End, this time in the first London production of <em>A Raisin In the Sun<\/em> alongside Kim Hamilton. The show ran at the Adelphi Theatre and was directed again by Lloyd Richards. A life member of The Actors Studio, Hyman appeared throughout his career in productions in both the United States and Norway, where he also owned property.<\/p>\n<p>In 1965 Hyman won a Theatre World Award and in 1988, he was awarded the St Olav&#8217;s medal for his work in Norwegian theater.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his stage work, Hyman appeared in various television and film roles including adaptions of <em>Macbeth<\/em> (1968), <em>Julius Caesar<\/em> (1979), and <em>Coriolanus<\/em> (1979), and voiced Panthro on the animated television series <em>ThunderCats<\/em> (1985\u20131990).<\/p>\n<p>He played two roles (at different times) on television&#8217;s <em>The Edge of Night<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>One of his most well known roles, that of Russell Huxtable in <em>The Cosby Show<\/em>, earned him an Emmy Award nomination in 1986. He played the father of lead character Cliff Huxtable, played by actor Bill Cosby, despite only being 11 years older than him.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2875\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/cosby-hyman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/cosby-hyman.jpg 586w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/cosby-hyman-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/cosby-hyman-560x391.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/cosby-hyman-260x181.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/cosby-hyman-160x112.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Personal life<\/h2>\n<p>Hyman was a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, and was the first cousin once removed of singer Phyllis Hyman.<\/p>\n<h2>Death<\/h2>\n<p>Hyman died on November 17, 2017, at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, New Jersey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A veteran of stages around the world, he received an Emmy nomination for his work on the long-running NBC sitcom and was a voice on &#8216;Thundercats.&#8217; Earle Hyman, the admired stage, television and film actor best known for playing Bill Cosby&#8217;s sage father, Russell Huxtable, on The Cosby Show, has died. 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