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Delores Hall
I never wanted to be an actor and to this day I don't. I can't get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.
Dick Van Dyke
Delores Hall is an American stage and television actress who made her Broadway debut as a replacement in the ensemble of Hair.
Starting in 1968 and through at least the summer of 1969 she was an original member of the Los Angeles production of Hair. Wearing signature pigtails she opened the show, singing "Age of Aquarius".
She played "Bread" in the 1972 musical Dude and performed in the original musical revues Inner City, The Night That Made America Famous and Your Arms Too Short to Box with God, for which she won a Tony Award. Her debut LP was released in 1973 by RCA Records titled "Hall-Mark" produced by Billy Jackson. She went on to star as "Jewel" in the original New York production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
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Deloras Mitchell is a character in the classic TV show, Diagnosis: Murder. She was played by Delores Hall. She is a practicing nurse at Community General Hospital. However, she also doubles as Dr. Mark Sloan's lively secretary. She only looks after patients specifically assigned to Dr. Sloan. She also finds time to visit other patients and entertain them with her piano-playing and singing.
On television she was a regular on the first two seasons of Diagnosis: Murder.
Won Broadway's 1977 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Musical) for "Your Arm's Too Short to Box with God."
She was nominated for a 1983 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Revue for "Street Dreams" in Chicago, Illinois.
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