Les Podewell date of birth:
November 3, 1907
How old was Les Podewell when died?
91
Where was Les Podewell born?
Chicago, Illinois, USA
When did Les Podewell die?
November 22, 1998
Where did Les Podewell die?
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Short Biography
November 26, 1998|By Anthony Burke Boylan, Tribune Staff Writer. 164Les Podewell, 91, was a Chicago actor who starred with everyone from Tyrone Power to Bill Murray and performed work from radio episodes of "Sky King, " "The Shadow" and "Little Orphan Annie" to a David Mamet play.He died Nov. 19 in his Evanston home after complications from a stroke in August.An actor until the end, Mr. Podewell was taken to Evanston Hospital after his stroke. The neurologists who were trying to gauge his coherence asked him to name the president of the United States and to tell them how many fingers they were holding up. At the urging of his daughter Polly, he instead regaled them with the Player's Speech, a soliloquy from Shakespeare's "Hamlet, " which he last had performed in the 1930s.