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  • 2021-05-09 (xsd:date)
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  • Was Morgan Freeman on 'The Electric Company'? (en)
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  • Actor Morgan Freeman has played a wide range of characters during his decades-long career. While the Oscar-winning actor is best known for roles in major motion pictures such as The Shawshank Redemption, Se7en, and Million Dollar Baby, Freeman has also had some smaller parts on some television shows. In the 1970s, for instance, Freeman played Easy Reader on the children's show The Electric Company. This interesting tidbit goes viral from time to time as social media users share images from one of Freeman's lesser-known roles: This is a real image of Morgan Freeman on The Electric Company, a children's television program produced by PBS that was aimed at children who had outgrown Sesame Street. Freeman made regular appearances on the show during its run between 1971 and 1976 where he played a variety of characters, such as Count Dracula, Marcello, Easy Reader, and the above-pictured Mel Mounds. This image comes from the 26th episode of the Electric Company that originally aired in November 1971. Here's a clip of Freeman's Mel Mounds as he teaches kids about the br sound as found in the name Brenda Bradley. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K00rz73s_zU&t=3s In The Amazing Life Of Morgan Freeman, author Matt Green writes that Freeman was largely working in stage plays around the time he auditioned for The Electric Company. Here's another clip from The Electric Company featuring Freeman as the character Easy Reader. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9eX2ajK3A4&t=18s In 2018, Freeman appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live and talked to the TV host about his time on The Electric Company: (en)
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