Charles Nolte

Charles Nolte (November 3, 1923 – January 14, 2010) was an American actor of stage, film and television, theatre director, playwright, and educator.

Early life, education and career Nolte was born in Duluth, Minnesota, and moved to Wayzata, Minnesota, with his family in the early 1930s. He graduated from Wayzata High School in 1941 and performed in an acting company that later became Old Log Theater.

He studied at the University of Minnesota for two years, then served in the United States Navy from 1943 until 1945. Upon his return, he enrolled at Yale University and majored in English with a minor in history. He appeared in films, including War Paint (1953), The Steel Cage (1954), Ten Seconds to Hell (1959), and Under Ten Flags (1960).

He returned to the University of Minnesota and earned his doctorate in 1966. He taught at the University of Minnesota from the mid-1960s through the late 1990s.

He wrote the play Do Not Pass Go, which was produced off-Broadway, and wrote the librettos for two operas by Dominick Argento, The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe and The Dream of Valentino. From 1970 to 1994, Kilburn was artistic director of Oakland University's Meadow Brook Theatre in Rochester, Michigan, the largest non-profit professional theater in Michigan and a venue for classic plays, comedies and musicals. It is known for its annual production of Dickens's A Christmas Carol, which was adapted by Nolte.

In 2009, Nolte donated his personal papers, including his journals, manuscripts, personal photographs, lecture notes, playbills, and films (DVDs and videos), to the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies at the University of Minnesota.

Nolte died in January 2010 at the age of 86.

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