Biography for
Ronny Graham More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

26 August 1919, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Date of Death

4 July 1999, Los Angeles, California, USA (liver disease)

Birth Name

Ronald Montcrief Stringer

Mini Biography

Composer, songwriter, actor, comedian, director and author. He was a night-club comic throughout the USA, and wrote songs for Broadway revues including "New Faces" (1952, 1956, and 1962) and also for Jules Monk's night-club revues (he appeared in "Take Five") and on television, and he had a part in the Broadway production of "The Tender Trap." He also composed the Broadway stage score for "Bravo, Giovanni!." Joining ASCAP in 1952, his chief musical collaborator was Milton Schafer, and his popular songs included the parody tune "The Inquisition" (for the film History of the World: Part I (1981)), "It's A Wonderful Day to Be Seventeen," "Lucky Pierre," "Take Off the Mask," "I'm in Love with Miss Logan," "Harry the Hipster," "Steady, Steady," "Ah, Camminare!," and "I'm All I've Got".

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Spouse

Pamela Gill	(1974 - 4 July 1999) (his death)
Sigyn Lund	(1965 - 1973) (divorced) 2 children
Ellen Hanley	(4 March 1951 - 4 December 1963) (divorced) 2 children
Jean Spitzbarth	(1947 - 1950) (divorced) 1 child

Trivia

Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 190-191. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387