Word: bershad
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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Light Heavy. Born Sheldon Leonard Bershad on Manhattan's East Side, Leonard went through Syracuse University on a scholarship, then began a Wall Street job on Black Friday, 1929. The job failed with the market, and after a while, Leonard decided to try acting. Broadway, inundated with epicene chorus boys, welcomed the swarthy, unsubtle Leonard, cast him as a light "heavy" in seven long-running shows, including Three Men on a Horse, until the Depression caught up with the theater...