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- Birth nameEdgar Vincent Julius Raffaelle Simone Pos
- Edgar Vincent was born on March 13, 1918 in Hamburg, Germany. Edgar is known for Great Performances (1971) and Desperate Housewives Special: The More You Know, the Juicier It Gets (2006). Edgar died on June 26, 2008 in New York City, New York, USA.
- He became a press agent for several legendary opera singers, including Placido Domingo, Beverly Sills, Cecilia Bartoli, Lily Pons, Anna Moffo, Rise Stevens, Mirella Freni, Jussi Bjoerling, and Shirley Verrett.
- Finding it difficult to land acting jobs, he moved to New York and joined a public-relations agency. His first client was opera singer Ezio Pinza, who was about to play Emile de Becque in the original stage production of "South Pacific". Vincent helped him practice his spoken lines of dialogue.
- He landed small roles in a few Hollywood films. Even as a young man, he gave the impression of an older, cultured European with a thick accent.
- He studied piano seriously, planning a concert career. He eventually felt that he didn't have enough talent, and took up acting. He studied acting in Germany with director Max Reinhardt.
- His mother was an opera singer; his father, a dentist. He spent most of his childhood in the Netherlands.
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