Thomas Edward Hulce (; born December 6, 1953) is an American actor and theatre producer. He is best known for his portrayal of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the Academy Award-winning film Amadeus (1984), as well as the roles of Larry "Pinto" Kroger in Animal House (1978), Larry Buckman in Parenthood (1989), and Quasimodo in Disney's animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996). Hulce's awards include an Emmy Award for The Heidi Chronicles, a 2007 Tony Award for Best Musical as a lead producer for Spring Awakening, an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for Amadeus, and four Golden Globe nominations.
In the early 1980s, Hulce was chosen over intense competition (including David Bowie, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Mark Hamill, and Kenneth Branagh) to play the role of Mozart in director Miloš Forman's film version of Peter Shaffer's play. In 1985, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Amadeus, losing to his co-star, F. Murray Abraham. In his acceptance speech, Abraham paid tribute to his co-star, saying, "There's only one thing missing for me tonight, and that is to have Tom Hulce standing by my side."
In 1989, he received his second Best Actor Golden Globe Award nomination for a critically acclaimed performance as an intellectually-challenged garbage-collector in the 1988 movie Dominick and Eugene. He played supporting roles in Parenthood (1989), Fearless (1993) and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994). In 1988, he played the title part in the British–Dutch movie Shadow Man, directed by the Polish director Piotr Andrejew.
In 1990, he was nominated for his first Emmy Award for his performance as the 1960s civil rights activist Michael Schwerner in the 1990 TV-movie Murder in Mississippi. He starred as Joseph Stalin's projectionist in Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky's 1991 film The Inner Circle. In 1996, he won an Emmy Award for his role as a pediatrician in a television-movie version of the Wendy Wasserstein play The Heidi Chronicles, starring Jamie Lee Curtis. Also that year, he was cast in Disney's animated film adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, providing the speaking and singing voice actor of the protagonist Quasimodo. Although Hulce largely retired from acting in the mid-1990s, he had in the movies Stranger Than Fiction (2006) and Jumper (2008).
Hulce remained active in theater throughout his entire acting career. In addition to Equus, he appeared in Broadway productions of A Memory of Two Mondays and A Few Good Men, for which he was a Tony Award nominee in 1990. In the mid-1980s, he appeared in two different productions of playwright Larry Kramer's early AIDS-era drama The Normal Heart. The Heart of the Matter Gay Times, July 1986 In 1992, he starred in a Shakespeare Theatre Company production of Hamlet. "Hamlet," Hulce & the Issue of Character The Washington Post, November 23, 1992 His regional theatre credits include Eastern Standard at the Seattle Repertory Theatre and Nothing Sacred at the Mark Taper Forum, both in 1988. "Regional Theater Finds a Winner: 'Nothing Sacred' Is the Play of the Year Although It Never Received the Broadway Stamp of Approval". Los Angeles Times, October 16, 1988.
Hulce largely retired from acting beginning in the mid-1990s to focus on stage directing and producing. In 2023, Hulce made a brief return to acting by reprising the role of Quasimodo in the live-action/animated short Once Upon a Studio. Once Upon a Studio: Here's All the Actors Who Turned Up for Disney's 100th Anniversary Celebration, Comicbook.com, October 16, 2023. Behind the Voice Actors: Tom Hulce Behind the Voice Actors. Retrieved November 7, 2023
Hulce was a lead producer of the Broadway hit Spring Awakening, which won eight Tony Awards in 2007, including one for Best Musical. He is also a lead producer of the stage adaptation of the Green Day album American Idiot. The musical had its world premiere in Berkeley, California, at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2009 and opened on Broadway in April 2010. In 2017 he began work as a producer on the musical Ain't Too Proud, which received 11 Tony Award nominations in 2019. He also produced the 2004 movie A Home at the End of the World, based upon Michael Cunningham's novel.
That information – having a wife and child – is false. In the world of the internet, there are many falsehoods. Anyone can write stuff on Wikipedia and it doesn't have to be true. I'm comfortable among the lists of although I stopped acting about 10 years ago.
1977 ! scope="row" | September 30, 1955 | Hanley | |
1978 ! scope="row" | Animal House | Lawrence "Pinto" Kroger | |
1980 ! scope="row" | Those Lips, Those Eyes | Artie Shoemaker | |
1984 ! scope="row" | Amadeus | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | |
1986 ! scope="row" | Echo Park | Jonathan | |
1987 ! scope="row" | Slam Dance | C.C. Drood | |
1988 ! scope="row" | Dominick and Eugene | Dominick "Nicky" Luciano | Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama |
1988 ! scope="row" | Shadow Man | David Rubenstin / The Shadow Man | |
1989 ! scope="row" | Parenthood | Lawrence "Larry" Buckman | |
1989 ! scope="row" | Black Rainbow | Gary Wallace | |
1991 ! scope="row" | The Inner Circle | Ivan Sanshin | |
1993 ! scope="row" | Fearless | Steven Brillstein | |
1994 ! scope="row" | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Henry Clerval | |
1995 ! scope="row" | Wings of Courage | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
1996 ! scope="row" | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Quasimodo | Voice Nominated — Annie Award for Best Achievement in Voice Acting |
2002 ! scope="row" | The Hunchback of Notre Dame II | Quasimodo | Voice Direct-to-DVD |
2004 ! scope="row" | A Home at the End of the World | Producer | |
2006 ! scope="row" | Stranger Than Fiction | Dr. Cayly | |
2008 ! scope="row" | Jumper | Mr. Bowker | |
2009 ! scope="row" | Kyle Riabko: The Lead | Self | Documentary |
2018 ! scope="row" | The Seagull | Producer | |
2022 ! scope="row" | Spring Awakening: Those You've Known | Self | Producer Documentary |
2023 ! scope="row" | Once Upon a Studio | Quasimodo | Voice Short film |
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