Michael Greer (born James Robert Malley; April 20, 1938 Although some sources list Greer's birth date as April 20, 1942, no support for a 1943 birth date has yet been found in publicly available birth records.
Gay Scene: Intellectual Homophile Monthly, December 1974, archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20120402175710/http://www.queermusicheritage.com/jun2003b.html, accessed May 3, 2015. — September 14, 2002"Michael Greer" (obituary)
''Los Angeles Times'', September 29, 2002, archived at LATimes.com; accessed April 30, 2015.) was an American actor, comedian and cabaret performer. He is best known for his appearances in the films ''

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'' and ''

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'', and for being one of the first openly gay actors to appear in major Hollywood films.

Early life

Greer was born James Robert Malley in

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to parents Charles and Elizabeth (née Koetter) Malley."Former Area Man Appearing on TV Show", Galesburg (Illinois) Register-Mail, June 20, 1974, p. 16.Batdorff, Emerson. "Michael Greer as 'Queenie': Role Great, but Image Disastrous." Cleveland Plain Dealer, December 18, 1970, Friday magazine section, p. 5. Although his birth date has been given as April 20, 1943,Barrios, Richard. ''Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall.''
Routledge, 2003, p. 354. .
Beauxartssociety.org, accessed April 30, 2015. his birth year was probably 1938, based on 1940 U.S. census records listing a 2-year-old "Jimmie Malley" and obituaries stating Greer's age as 64 when he died in 2002."Actor Michael Greer Dies at 64."
Advocate.com, Oct. 1, 2002, accessed April 30, 2015. He grew up in Galesburg, residing first with his parents and later with his aunt and uncle, and had two sisters and two half-brothers. Greer later said that his parents had divorced and each had married three times, and described his childhood as unhappy.Kramer, Caro
"Weird Events Are Routine For Mike Greer"
''Chicago Tribune'', December 7, 1969, Section 5 p. 2, archived at archives.chicagotribune.com, accessed April 30, 2015.Browne, Nick. "Fortune's Queenie: If They Said I Did It... ."
Village Voice, March 5, 1970, pp. 47, 50. He began performing at a young age, singing during intermissions at the local movie theater.Arnold, Gary. "A Well-Known Unknown", ''Washington Post and Times-Herald'', June 22, 1971, p. B8. Greer left Galesburg in the mid-1950s. Despite being underage at 16, he enlisted in the

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and served three years in Japan and Korea.Sconce, Jeffrey, ed. ''Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style and Politics.''
Duke Univ. Press, 2007, p. 87; . While in the service he formed a pop vocal group that performed in the style of

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. After finishing his service, he moved to Boston and then to

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in the early 1960s, where he worked as a furniture salesman while competing in "talent night" contests against other aspiring entertainers, including Tiny Tim and

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. Greer later worked as a floor captain at Arthur, the NYC discothèque opened by

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, where he met celebrities such as

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, and

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. He disliked his birth name, and in the mid-1960s he legally changed his name to "Michael Greer", choosing "Michael" because he liked the name and "Greer" after the actress

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Career

Comedy and cabaret

In the fall of 1965, Greer relocated to

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, where he formed a comedy troupe called "Jack and the Giants" with Roy Gaynor and then-unknown Jim Bailey.Banis, Victor J. ''Spine Intact, Some Creases.''
Wildside Press LLC, 2004, pp. 80-82. . .Kearns, Michael. "The Legendary Michael Greer"
Gaytoday.com, October 21, 2002; accessed May 1, 2015. While playing the Redwood Room club in L.A., the act was discovered and popularized by

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, leading to a 16-month engagement, after which the group broke up. Greer, who was by that time

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,Del Valle, David. "Whatever Happened to Bette David? Don't Mess With Mona."
WestHollywoodWives.com, uploaded Aug. 27, 2012, accessed April 30, 2015. continued to perform solo at

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clubs such as The Fantasy and

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.Montezuma, Magdalena. "Don't Be Deceived" (film review). Vector, January 1969, p. 65. Greer's act included music, comedy and female impersonations of actresses such as

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and

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. Greer also developed a signature routine that he performed, with variations, for the rest of his career, in which he appeared as the

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, speaking through a large picture frame held on his lap and making art-related jokes. Due to Greer's difficulties obtaining film roles after the early 1970s, he concentrated on his cabaret act for most of his career, touring and playing clubs nationwide. He was a frequent and popular performer on the gay nightclub circuit for three decades. Greer was a featured performer on the "All-Gay Cruise", an ocean cruise for 300 gay men and lesbians documented by Cliff Jahr in a highly controversial 1975 ''

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'' travel feature, in which Jahr referred to Greer as "the gay world's

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" and likened him to "

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at a Friars' Roast." Greer's impersonation of Bette Davis was so perfect that, when she became unavailable, Greer was called upon to dub some of her lines in the TV

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'' (1978) and again in ''

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'' (1989), her last film. Two recordings of Greer's comedy routines were released: ''Tallulah in Heaven'' (1972, RipRap Records), an LP featuring his Tallulah Bankhead impersonation, and ''Don't Mess With Mona'' (2005, Gatorlegs Records), a posthumously released recording of a 1979 performance of his Mona Lisa routine. In addition to writing his own material, Greer also wrote comedy material for several well-known performers, including

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, and

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Stage

In 1968,

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saw Greer's comic nightclub act in San Francisco and cast him as "Queenie", a gay prison inmate and

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, in Mineo's 1969 Los Angeles production of the John Herbert play ''

''. Greer played "Queenie" in both the Los Angeles and subsequent New York stage productions, logging over 400 performances in the role. Greer became close friends with both Mineo and

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, who was cast in the lead role of "Smitty". Greer occasionally appeared in other stage plays over the years. In 1983 he appeared in New York City in an off-off-Broadway revival of

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's '' The Ritz'', a farce set in a gay Manhattan

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, starring

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. He played an old-guard activist professor in a 1998

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production of Mark Savage's coming-out musical, ''The Ballad of Little Mikey''. With composer Wayne Moore, Greer collaborated on the book for a 1992 musical, ''Freeway Dreams'', about commuters stuck in traffic in Los Angeles. Greer also directed the Los Angeles production which ran for four months, and appeared on the original cast album (released in 1997 on Moore's Ducy Lee label) as the voice of "the car radio announcer on station KDUL in the Valley."

Film

Greer made his feature film debut in 1969 in the hit comedy ''

'' as "Malcolm", the flamboyant gay landlord of two heterosexual young men who pretend to be gay in an attempt to dodge the draft. In an effort to reduce the homophobia of the original script and present a more realistic and positive portrayal of the gay characters, Greer rewrote much of the dialogue and worked with the director. Upon release, the film was protested by gays for propagating stereotypes of gay men as "swishy", effeminate

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.Kinser, Jeremy. "Artful Dodgers: The '60s flick The Gay Deceivers Showed Inductees Mincing to Avoid a War — And Had 'Pansies' in an Uproar", ''The Advocate'', October 12, 1999, p. 61. However, the film was progressive for its time in featuring an openly gay actor playing an openly gay character in a happy long-term gay relationship, rather than having gay characters suffer loneliness, anguish or tragedy.Lisanti, Tom
Sconce, p. 87-88.
/ref> Greer's performance drew good reviews. He received star billing and was featured in advertising for the film. The following year Greer co-starred (with

) as an underground rock musician in MGM's 1970 box office flop ''

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'', for which he also co-wrote and sang the song "Water". He appeared in two

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films, the erotic

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film ''The Curious Female'', in which he played the operator of a computer dating service in the year 2177, and ''Diamond Stud''."Pioneering Gay Actor Michael Greer Dies at 64"
zap2it.com; accessed April 30, 2015. In 1971, Greer reprised his stage role as "Queenie" in MGM's film version of ''

'', a film role he had previously turned down. Once again, Greer rewrote most of his lines to better fit his conception of the character. He composed the song "It's Free", which he performed in drag in the film.Dickinson, Peter
"Critically Queenie: The Lessons of ''Fortune and Men's Eyes''"
''Canadian Journal of Film Studies'', Vol.11 No. 2, Autumn 2002, pp. 19-43, at p. 32. Despite the filmmakers' controversial changes to the original stage play, including exploiting the camp and drag-queen elements portrayed by the Queenie character,Waugh, Thomas. ''The Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas.''
McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, 2006, pp. 431-32. Greer's performance received positive reviews and has been viewed as a strong statement of gay assertiveness. Greer felt that his film performance of "Queenie" was the definitive one, and was proud of it. Greer aspired to play a diverse range of movie roles, at one point optioning and writing a screenplay about

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in which he hoped to star. However, his ability to get parts was limited by homophobia and typecasting. Although most media in the late 1960s and early 1970s avoided directly stating that Greer was homosexual (and frequently implied that he was interested in women), he refused to marry a woman or otherwise pretend to be heterosexual for the sake of his acting career, despite his agent's advice to do so. His last major film role was "Thom," the "dark stranger" in the 1973 horror film ''

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'' (also known as ''Dead People''). Thereafter, his film career was limited to occasional small roles in movies such as ''

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'' (1974) (in which he played a heterosexual celebrity with a food fetish) and ''

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'' (1979) (in which he again played a drag performer).

Television

During the late 1960s and 1970s, Greer appeared on television episodes of ''

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'', '' Ironside'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. He was a regular performer on the short-lived '' Bobbie Gentry Happiness Hour'' in 1974. In the 1980s and 1990s, he provided the voice of several television cartoon characters, most notably the corrupt "Mayor Oscar Bulloney" on the

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cartoon series ''

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'' (1992–1994).

Personal life

Greer was a longtime resident of Los Angeles and an active member of the Beaux Arts Society, Inc. (USA), which named him a Distinguished Artist in 1996. A heavy smoker, Greer died of

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on September 14, 2002.

Quotations

* "I have an unnatural act." * "How can I be 'in' and 'out' at the same time? It's too exhausting!"Greer, Michael, quoted in ''A Funny Time to Be Gay: Hilarious Gay and Lesbian Comedy Routines From Trailblazers to Today's Headliners'' (ed. Ed Karnoski, Jr.).
Simon & Schuster (Fireside), 1997, p. 14; .

Filmography

Film

* ''

'' (1969) .... Malcolm * ''Diamond Stud'' (1970) .... Jim's Betting Friend * ''

'' (1970) .... Danny * ''The Curious Female'' (1970) .... Bixby * ''

'' (1971) .... Queenie * ''

'' (alternate title: ''Dead People'') (1973) .... Thom * ''

'' (1974) .... John John Lacey * ''

'' (1979) .... Emcee * ''

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'' (1984) .... Counterman * ''

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'' (1996) .... TV Store Clerk (final film role)

Television

* ''

'' - Season 3, Episode 12, "Missing: Sun and Sky" (1969) .... Second Boy * '' Ironside'' - Season 4, Episode 2, "No Game For Amateurs" (1970) .... Phil * ''

'' - Season 1, Episode 13, "A Trout in the Milk" (1973) .... Omar (uncredited) * ''

'' - Season 6, Episode 19 (1973) .... Himself (cameo appearance) * '' The Bobbie Gentry Happiness Hour'' - Various episodes (1974) .... Himself (regular performer) * ''

'' - Season 1, Episode 1, "Sweet Misery" (1975) .... Big Mama * ''

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'' - Season 2, Episode 168 (1976) .... Himself * ''

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'' - Season 2, Episode 12, "A Brush With Oblivion" (1991) .... Museum Curator (voice) * ''

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'' - Season 3, Episode 6, "When It Rains...It Snows" (1992) .... Unknown character (voice) * ''

'' - Various episodes (1992–1993) .... Mayor Oscar Bulloney (voice)

References

External links

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