Bob Clendenin Coming to the Magazine—and to State College
May 5, 2010 at 8:47 am Tina Hay 1 comment
Some months back, Joyce Hoffman, the alumni coordinator in the College of Arts and Architecture, called my attention to the fact that character actor Bob Clendenin is a Penn Stater.
You’ve probably seen Clendenin ’90g dozens of times in movies, TV shows, or commercials, in roles that are often quirky and sometimes creepy. He’s been in everything from Scrubs to The Closer to Desperate Housewives to The Practice. And, it turns out, he earned his MFA in acting from Penn State.
So, we assigned a feature-length profile on Bob to a writer out in California—Brad Herzog—and you’ll see the story in either our July-August or September-October issue. Brad just turned the story in last night and it’s a good one. Here’s just one memorable moment in the piece:
The upside to his quirky roles? Timelessness. “Young, good-looking guys need to have sort of hit it by the time they’re 28, or there’s another crop of young good-looking guys,” Clendenin explains. “But the weird postal worker lives on.”
Clendenin was just back on campus last month to receive an alumni award from the College of Arts and Architecture. And Brad’s profile says he’ll be back in State College again in June, to perform in Pennsylvania Centre Stage’s production of Wait Until Dark. According to Brad’s story, Clendenin will be playing the “criminal-terrorizing-a-blind-woman role made famous by Robert Duvall on Broadway and Alan Arkin on film.” (From a check of IMDB.com, it looks like Harry Roat is the character’s name.)
Wait Until Dark runs June 2-12 at the Citizens Bank Theatre in downtown State College, and while I’m generally too chicken to attend any production that is the slightest bit scary, I might have to make an exception for this one.
Tina Hay, editor
Entry filed under: College of Arts and Architecture, Famous Penn Staters, Penn State alumni, The Penn Stater magazine. Tags: Alan Arkin, Bob Clendenin, Brad Herzog, Citizens Bank Theatre, Pennsylvania Centre Stage, Robert Duvall, Wait Until Dark.
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