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The Farnsworth Invention is a stage play by Aaron Sorkin adapted from an unproduced screenplay about Philo Farnsworth's first fully functional and completely all-electronic television system and David Sarnoff, the RCA president who stole the design.
Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer. [2] [3] He made the critical contributions to electronic television that made possible all the video in the world today. [4]
Sorkin discussing The Farnsworth Invention at the Music Box Theatre, November 2007 In 2005, Sorkin returned to theatre; he revised his play A Few Good Men for a production at London's West End . The play opened at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in the fall of the same year and was directed by David Esbjornson , with Rob Lowe of The West Wing in ...
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In 2008, Simpson starred as Philo Farnsworth in a production of Aaron Sorkin's The Farnsworth Invention on Broadway. His portrayal of Farnsworth was described as "superb" by the Chicago Tribune, [8] and earned him a Theatre World Award. [9]
He also portrayed Sir Richard Bingham in The Pirate Queen and performed in the play The Farnsworth Invention. In 1986 he was in the Off Broadway play The Widow Claire by Horton Foote. He played a few different roles in the musical Coraline. He originated the roles of Albert and Ben in the world premiere of The Secret Garden.
The funniest movie ever made about teenage girls with crushes on Richard Nixon, ... (played by an Oscar-nominated Richard Farnsworth) who rode a lawnmower 300 miles across the Midwest of America ...
James Ortlieb (born June 19, 1956) [1] is an American film, television and theatre actor known for his roles in Roswell and Felicity. [2] Ortlieb has also appeared in Broadway productions of Guys and Dolls and Of Mice and Men, Billy Elliot the Musical, and The Farnsworth Invention.