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Alfred Lunt (August 12, 1892 – August 3, 1977) was an American actor. Along with his wife Lynn Fontanne, whom he married on May 26, 1922, in New York City, was half of the pre-eminent Broadway acting couple in American history, and have a Broadway theater named after them (The Lunt-Fontanne). His roles ranged from the Earl of Essex in Maxwell Anderson's Elizabeth the Queen, to a song-and-dance man touring the Balkans in Robert Sherwood's Idiot's Delight, a megalomaniacal tycoon in S. N. Behrman's Meteor and Jupiter himself in Jean Giraudoux's Amphitryon 38. His appearances in classical drama were infrequent, but he scored successes in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and Chekhov's The Seagull.

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he received two Tony Awards, an Academy Award nomination (Academy Award for Best Actor for 1931's The Guardsman
) and an Emmy Award. He appeared with Fontanne in over 24 plays - and most recently on an American postage stamp.

Ten Chimneys, Alfred and Lynn's estate in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, is now a world-class house museum and resource center for theater (see for more photos and information).

Alfred Lunt is burried next to his wife at the Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee. They had no children.

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