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John Voldstad is an American actor best known for playing one of the brothers Darryl on Newhart. He was born in Oslo, Norway, and moved to the US with his mother as a child.
John Voldstad is a Norwegian-born American actor who appeared in Newhart, Stripes, Forrest Gump and more. Learn about his life, career, trivia and upcoming projects on IMDb.
- January 1, 1
- 1.73 m
- Oslo, Norway
- Actor
- ‘Newhart’ Fans Loved Larry, Darryl, and Darryl
- The On-Screen Brothers Have Kept in Touch Over The Decades
- The ‘Newhart’ Finale Blew Viewers’ Minds
In Newhart, Bob Newhart starred as Dick Loudon, an author of how-to books, who moves from New York City to an unnamed town in rural Vermont with his wife Joanna (Mary Frann). The couple owns and operates the 200-year-old inn Stratford Inn, occasionally receiving help from the local handyman, George Utley (Tom Poston). Dick eventually becomes the ho...
Actor William Sanderson portrayed Larry, and Tony Papenfuss and John Voldstad played the Darryls. To occupy themselves because of their lack of lines, Papenfuss and Voldstad devised imaginary scripts to understand the perspective of their characters in each scene. “We just went on our own,” Voldstad told the Independent Tribunein 2014. “There was a...
In the Newhart series finale(appropriately titled “The Last Newhart”), a Japanese tycoon buys the town to transform it into a giant golf course and resort. Dick and Joanna are the only people who refuse to leave, so the construction happens around the Stratford Inn, the only part of the town left untouched. Some townsfolk return five years later, a...
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John Voldstad is a Norwegian-American actor who starred in Newhart and Stripes. Learn about his birth, family, roles, and trivia on IMDb.
- February 20, 1951
- Kara Kovalchik
- SOME ACTUAL HOTEL “PEOPLE WATCHING” INSPIRED THE SERIES. Bob Newhart got the idea for Newhart while dining in the restaurant of a Hilton hotel in Seattle.
- IF YOU’RE EVER IN VERMONT, YOU CAN SPEND THE NIGHT AT THE STRATFORD. The exterior shots of the Stratford Inn are actually the Waybury Inn in East Middlebury, Vermont.
- MARY FRANN BALKED AT PLAYING THE SMILING, INDULGENT WIFE. When Mary Frann was hired to play Joanna Loudon, Bob Newhart immediately took her aside and warned her, “You’re going to have a tough job because Suzy (Suzanne Pleshette, Newhart’s previous sitcom wife) and I, we had this wonderful rapport, and they’re going to compare you to it, and it’s going to be tough on you.”
- BOB NEWHART AND TOM POSTON WERE OLD FRIENDS. Tom Poston was a longtime personal friend of Bob Newhart’s who would occasionally pop up on The Bob Newhart Show as Bob’s old college roommate and partner-in-juvenile-pranks, “The Peeper.”
Today we're joined again by "Other Brother Daryl" John Voldstad! From his immigration to America, to education on the London Stages, Ghostbusters, Leprechaun...
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John Voldstad is a film and television actor born in Norway and raised in the US. He is known for his roles in Newhart, Stripes, Forrest Gump and other movies and shows.
