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Northern James Calloway (September 10, 1948 – January 9, 1990) was an American actor and singer, best known for playing David on Sesame Street from 1971 to 1989. He was institutionalized in a psychiatric hospital and died less than eight months after his last appearance on the show.
Northern Calloway (January 22, 1948 - January 9, 1990) played David on Sesame Street from 1971 through 1989. He also voiced Muppet characters such as Baby Breeze, Same Sound Brown, and the Hipster in the Visual Thinking sketch, as well as an off-screen taxi driver in Episode 0631. Calloway began his career in 1966 with the Lincoln Center Repertory Company just two days after graduating from ...
Northern Calloway. Actor: Sesame Street. Northern Calloway was born on 22 January 1948 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Sesame Street (1969), Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie (1988) and Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (1978).
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Jan 13, 1990 · Northern J. Calloway, who played David, the proprietor of Mr. Hooper's store, on public television's ''Sesame Street,'' died Tuesday. He was 41 years old and lived in Ossining, N.Y.
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Jun 7, 2021 · Early 1990, Calloway was in a psychiatric hospital in New York state where he attacked a doctor. The police were called and there was an ugly confrontation. Suddenly, Calloway had a seizure and fell to the floor. By the time he arrived at a hospital, he was dead. The cause was excited delirium syndrome.
Dec 13, 2011 · Northern also had a puppet, Same Sound Brown, a similar character to the former puppet Roosevelt Franklin . In 1980, while staying with a friend in Nashville, Tennessee, Northern Calloway had a mental breakdown, attacking his friend, then running into the neighborhood with only a t-shirt on, breaking a car window and vandalizing a house. When ...