Richard Morrill(1897-1990)
- Actor
In 1932, in his mid-30s, Everett M. Schreck was hired from Yale
University to be the University of South Dakota's first full time
theatre instructor. While a professor at Ohio State, Schreck authored
the once widely used text Principles and Styles of Acting (1970), with
contributions by junior colleagues William R. McGraw (also an Ohio
professor) and Faber B. DeChaine (of the University of Oregon). He also
worked as an actor in New York under the name Richard Morrill, and
became friends with director Elia Kazan, who
cast him in the 1969 film
The Arrangement (1969). Morrill/
Schreck then moved to LA and became a character actor there. He later
retired and moved to Las Cruces, NM, to be near his daughter: he was
living there at the time of his death, circa 1990.