Daniel Truhitte - Wikipedia Daniel Truhitte This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification, as it includes attribution to IMDb. IMDb may not be a reliable source for biographical information. Please help by adding additional, reliable sources for verification. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. ( August 2014 ) Daniel Truhitte ( 1943 - 09 - 10 ) September 10, 1943 ( age 74 ) Sacramento, California Years active 1965 - present Spouse ( s ) Gabriele ( 1966 - ? ) ( divorced ) Mary ( divorced ) Tarealia Haney ( 1992 - present ) Daniel Lee Truhitte ( born September 10, 1943 in Sacramento, California ) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of Rolfe Gruber, the young Austrian telegraph delivery boy who performed `` Sixteen Going on Seventeen '', in the film The Sound of Music ( 1965 ). Truhitte is a singer, actor, dancer, and teacher of young performers. Career Daniel Truhitte began dance training at the age of 6 and began taking voice lessons at the age of 10. When he was 15 years old, he received a scholarship to The Sacramento Ballet. After high school, Truhitte received a scholarship to the Pasadena Playhouse. He also attended Ambassador College in Pasadena, California. After filming The Sound of Music, he joined the Marine Corps. In 1989, Truhitte moved to Weddington, North Carolina, and then finally to Concord, North Carolina and began teaching young performers. He appeared in an episode of Entertainment Tonight titled `` A Day in the Life of Dan Truhitte '' on September 10, 1993, after The Old Courthouse Theatre of Concord, North Carolina asked him to play Captain Von Trapp in their production of The Sound of Music. Truhitte portrayed Captain von Trapp once again in the Hudson, North Carolina Dinner Theatre Production of The Sound of Music in October 2013. References This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. ( January 2012 ) External links Daniel Truhitte on IMDb ISNI : 0000 0000 4546 1370 MusicBrainz : c13648d2 - fb61 - 48f7 - 8404 - 846ad74f34ff VIAF : 12141406 This article about a United States film actor or actress born in the 1940s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daniel_Truhitte&oldid=814315838 '' Categories : American male film actors 1943 births Living people Male actors from Sacramento, California 20th - century American male actors American film actor, 1940s birth stubs Hidden categories : Articles lacking reliable references from August 2014 All articles lacking reliable references BLP articles lacking sources from August 2014 All articles sourced by IMDb Articles sourced by IMDb from August 2014 Pages using infobox person with unknown parameters Infobox person using religion Articles with hCards Articles to be expanded from January 2012 All articles to be expanded Articles with empty sections from January 2012 All articles with empty sections Articles using small message boxes Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers All stub articles Talk About Wikipedia Italiano Nederlands Português 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 8 December 2017, at 02 : 24 ( UTC ). About Wikipedia

Question: who played rolf in the sound of music
Answer: Daniel Lee Truhitte