Severn Darden was born in New Orleans, educated at Mexico City College, and given his first professional acting opportunity at Virginia's Barter Theater. A charter member of the Compass Theater, the improvisational group that would later evolve into Second City, Darden distinguished himself as an "intellectual" monologist, effortlessly weaving allusions to Freud and Kant into his hilariously nonsensical ramblings. From 1963's Goldstein onward, Darden worked in films as a character actor and sometimes writer/director. He chalked up quite a few eccentric characterizations in films like Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966) and They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969). He was at the top of his form in The President's Analyst (1967) as Kropotkin, a gay Soviet counterintelligence agent who turns out (much to his own surprise) to be one of the film's heroes. The peripatetic Severn Darden settled down long enough to appear as a TV-series regular on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1977; as Popesco), Beyond Westworld (1980; as Foley), and Take Five (1987; as psychiatrist Noah Wolf).
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| 1990 | ||||
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The Telephone
Actor |
1987 | |||
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Back to School
Actor |
1986 | |||
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Real Genius
Actor |
1985 | |||
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Cheers: Homicidal Ham
TV Guest Appearance |
1983 | |||
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Quarterback Princess
Actor |
1983 | |||
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Young Giants
Actor |
1983 | |||
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Saturday the 14th
Actor |
1981 | |||
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A Cry for Love
Actor |
1980 | |||
| 1980 | ||||
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Hopscotch
Actor |
1980 | |||
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In God We Trust
Actor |
1980 | |||
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Why Would I Lie?
Actor |
1980 | |||
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Orphan Train
Actor |
1979 | |||
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Wanda Nevada
Actor |
1979 | |||
| 1977 | ||||
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Never Con a Killer
Actor |
1977 | |||
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Captains and the Kings
Actor |
1976 | |||
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Jackson County Jail
Actor |
1976 | |||
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Mother, Jugs & Speed
Actor |
1976 | |||
| 1976 | ||||
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Victory at Entebbe
Actor |
1976 | |||
| 1975 | ||||
| 1975 | ||||
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Skyway to Death
Actor |
1974 | |||
| 1973 | ||||
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The Day of the Dolphin
Actor |
1973 | |||
| 1973 | ||||
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The Man Who Died Twice
Actor |
1973 | |||
| 1972 | ||||
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Dirty Little Billy
Actor |
1972 | |||
| 1972 | ||||
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Play It As It Lays
Actor |
1972 | |||
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Playmates
Actor |
1972 | |||
| 1972 | ||||
| 1971 | ||||
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Cisco Pike
Actor |
1971 | |||
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The Hired Hand
Actor |
1971 | |||
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The Last Movie
Actor, Composer (Music Score) |
1971 | |||
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Vanishing Point
Actor |
1971 | |||
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Werewolves on Wheels
Actor |
1971 | |||
| 1970 | ||||
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The Movie Murderer
Actor |
1970 | |||
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Justine
Actor |
1969 | |||
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The Mad Room
Actor |
1969 | |||
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The Model Shop
Actor |
1969 | |||
| 1969 | ||||
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P.J.
Actor |
1968 | |||
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The Virgin President
Actor, Producer, Screenwriter |
1968 | |||
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Fearless Frank
Actor |
1967 | |||
| 1967 | ||||
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Luv
Actor |
1967 | |||
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The President's Analyst
Actor |
1967 | |||
| 1966 | ||||
| 1966 | ||||
| 1965 | ||||
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Goldstein
Actor |
1964 | |||
| 1961 |


