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A New York native who found success as a Broadway actor, Truman Gaige also took on the occasional film and television role in addition to appearing on-stage on the West Coast and in numerous touring productions. Following his stage debut in stock at San Francisco's Alcazar Theater, the young actor soon landed his first Broadway role with Appearances in 1928. Changing his name from Stanley Ruhland shortly thereafter, the Broadway roles kept rolling in and Gaige went on the road for productions of Kismet, Saratoga, and Three Waltzes. With his Broadway career drawing to a close with such late-'60s productions as Hadrian VII and 1776, Gaige turned increasingly to television roles with appearances in The Mating Season (1980) and The Electric Grandmother (1981). A sole feature credit for 1984's Grace Quigley brought the cinematic stage of his career to an end, and in mid-April 2002, Gaige died at the Englewood, NJ, Actor's Fund Home following an extended illness. He was 95.