Comedian and Political Impressionist David Frye died Monday January 24, 2011 at his home is Las Vegas at the age of 77 as a result of a heart attack.
He was born David Shapiro in June of 1934. After serving in the Army, Frye started out in Greenwich Village in the early sixties where he got noticed while performing an impression of Robert Kennedy. Born in Brooklyn, Frye got his comedic start by imitating the people in his neighbourhood. Unlike some modern comics who hire writers to create their material but Frye wrote his own jokes. Frye’s sister Ruth Welch said that her brother had a knack for picking up people’s voices, mannerisms, and intonations. Frye appeared on programs such as the “Ed Sullivan Show” and the “Tonight Show”, “Merv Griffin”, “The Smothers Brothers” with Johnny Carson” where he regaled audiences with his renditions of former President Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, Bill Clinton, George Wallace, William F. Buckley, Robert Kennedy, Nelson Rockefeller, Ed Sullivan and even newsman Walter Cronkite, actors Kirk Douglas, James Cagney, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, and Jerry Lewis and sportscaster Howard Cosell. Frye is survived by his sister Ruth Welch. -- http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8040342-impressionist-david-frye-dies Via InstaFetch -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sixties-L" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sixties-l?hl=en.
