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Ken Page
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Page began in the chorus before making his Broadway debut in The Wiz playing The Cowardly Lion. He made a large number of stage appearances but also p…
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Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Page began in the chorus before making his Broadway debut in The Wiz playing The Cowardly Lion. He made a large number of stage appearances but also performed as a cabaret singer with an act entitled Page by Page. Page also appeared on screen making his television debut in 1984 and film debut in 1988's Torch Song Trilogy. He appeared as the voice of Oogie Boogie in The Nightmare Before Christmas and related video games, in Dreamgirls as Max Webster and in such television programmes as Sable and Adventures in Wonderland. Page appeared in a number of roles on stage, originating the part of Ken in Ain't Misbehavin' and appearing as Old Deuteronomy in Cats on both Broadway and in the filmed production. He also originated the part of Father in Children of Eden, played The Cowardly Lion in several productions of The Wizard of Oz and appeared in Disney musicals Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid. Page also sang in his animated voice roles, performing the duet "Let's Make Music Together" in All Dogs Go to Heaven and "The Oogie Boogie Song" in The Nightmare Before Christmas.
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2021
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Movie Self
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2007
Shortcut to Happiness
Movie Clerk
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2006
Dreamgirls
Movie Max Washington
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2004
Broadway's Lost Treasures II
Movie Performer (segment "Ain't Misbehavin'")
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2003
Broadway's Lost Treasures
Movie Old Deuteronomy (segment "Cats")
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2003
All Grown Up!
TV show
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1998
Charmed
TV show Adair
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1998
Cats
Movie Old Deuteronomy
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1995
Anyone Can Whistle: Live at Carnegie Hall
Movie Police Chief Magruder
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1994
Touched by an Angel
TV show Ox
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1994
South Central
TV show Dr. Raymond McHenry
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1994
Duckman
TV show (voice)
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1994
I'll Do Anything
Movie Hair Person
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1993
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Movie Oogie Boogie (voice)
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1992
Adventures in Wonderland
TV show Walrus
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1990
The Kid Who Loved Christmas
Movie Dwight McReady
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1990
Capital News
TV show Captain Russell
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1989
All Dogs Go to Heaven
Movie King Gator (voice)
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1989
Polly
Movie Mayor Warren
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1989
Family Matters
TV show Darnell Watkins
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1988
Torch Song Trilogy
Movie Murray
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1987
Sable
TV show Joe Tyson
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1982
Ain't Misbehavin'
Movie Performer
