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Erica Yohn

Erica Yohn

American actress (1928–2019)


Erica Yohn (October 1, 1928 – January 27, 2019) was an American stage and television actress.

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Yohn had many bit parts in film and television, such as Pee-wee's Big Adventure, and television shows, such as Rhoda, ER, Murphy Brown, Double Rush, and Picket Fences. She voiced Mama Mousekewitz in An American Tail and its first two sequels.

From 1971 to 1972, she was a member of the Broadway cast of Lenny, playing various roles, including Sadie Kitchenberg alias Sally Marr, the mother of Lenny Bruce, directed by Tom O'Horgan.[2] She also appeared on Broadway in the original play That Summer - That Fall (1967), an English-language revival of Federico García Lorca's play Yerma (1966–67), the musical Cabaret (1966–69), and revivals of such classics as The Alchemist (1966) and The Country Wife (1965–66).[3]

Personal life and death

Yohn was born Adella (later known as "Adele") Erica Fishman, the younger child of Jacob and Sonia Fishman; she had an elder brother, Marcus. Yohn was married at least two times. She had three children, Lara Gita Speyer and David Speyer, by her marriage to Lars Speyer, and a son, Yohn Rosqui, by her marriage to Tom Rosqui. Erica Yohn died on January 27, 2019, aged 90, of undisclosed causes.[4]

Partial filmography

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References

  1. Obituary, legacy.com. Accessed April 17, 2023.
  2. Erica Yohn, in "Playbill Vault's Today in Theatre History: May 26", Playbill, May 26, 2018.
  3. "Erica Yohn – Broadway Cast & Staff". IBDb.com. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  4. "Erica Yohn". aveleyman.com. Retrieved August 28, 2023.



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