![]() ![]() Memorial services are scheduled at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park. He also narrated commercials for USAir, Toyota, Sanwa Bank, Minolta and American Airlines.Īidman is survived by his wife, Betty, and a stepson, Chuck. More recently he was seen as the defense attorney in the 1982 stage production of “Zoot Suit.” Aidman toured with the show for a year, playing the Huntington Hartford Theater in Los Angeles in 1965. The production originally was performed by the Theater Group at UCLA and then moved to Broadway.Īrthur Miller cast Aidman as Quentin, the lead in the national touring company production of “After the Fall,” Miller’s account of his failed marriage to Marilyn Monroe. Spoon River Anthology is a series of 244 poetic monologues, in nineteen linked narratives spoken by the dead of Spoon River cemetery. For years it was the most widely read book of poetry in the United States. When he came to Hollywood, he helped found Theater West, where one of his projects was to develop the free-verse poems of Edgar Lee Masters into a play, writing the music and lyrics himself.Īidman received an Emmy nomination for acting in the 1969 television adaptation of Masters’ “Spoon River Anthology,” based on the poet’s observations of a small Illinois town near the turn of the century. All that changed with the publication of Spoon River Anthology in 1915. His career began in 1957 on the New York stage when he played the lead in “Career.” He continued to perform on the stage throughout his life. ![]()
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