John McCurry

John McCurry (1920-1989) was an actor who spent most of his career in New York City. He appeared on Sesame Street as Fireman Walters in Episode 0296 from Season 3.
McCurry acted on stage, playing Crown in the 1953 Broadway revival of Porgy and Bess and in the ensemble of the 1960 Finian's Rainbow, as well as the original casts of the straight plays Blues for Mr. Charlie (1964, with Pat Hingle and Diana Sands) and The Wrong Way Light Bulb (1969). He was one of several New York actors cast as prisoners in the 1959 Mickey Rooney movie The Last Mile, appeared in the American footage of Gammera the Invincible, and was in Sidney Lumet's The Pawnbroker (with Jaime Sánchez). 
McCurry was heard as Duke the crow in the 1973 adult animated film Fritz the Cat (with Skip Hinnant and Rosetta LeNoire) and played assorted police ranks in Where's Poppa?, They Might Be Giants (with F. Murray Abraham and Paul Benedict), Jaws of Satan (with Fritz Weaver), Trading Places (sharing a scene with Frank Oz), and Hit and Run (with Will Lee). Other films include The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (with Billy Dee Williams and James Earl Jones), Fast Break (with Gabe Kaplan), The Landlord (with Pearl Bailey), Wolfen (with Gregory Hines), and Alphabet City. TV, in addition to NY anthology dramas, included episodes of East Side/West Side (with George C. Scott), N.Y.P.D. (with Jack Warden), The Equalizer, and Gimme a Break!
==External links==
*IMDb
*Internet Broadway Database
*Off-Broadway credits
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