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Daniel Truhitte
American actor, best known for his portrayal of Rolfe in The Sound of Music

Daniel Truhitte

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American actor, best known for his portrayal of Rolfe in The Sound of Music
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Place of birth
Sacramento, Sacramento County, California, USA
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81 years
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Biography

Daniel Lee Truhitte (born September 10, 1943 in Sacramento, California) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of Rolfe Gruber, the young Austrian telegraph delivery boy in the The Sound of Music (1965). Truhitte is a singer, actor, dancer, and performance teacher.

Career

Daniel Truhitte began dance training at the age of 6 and began taking voice lessons at the age of 10. When he was 15 years old, he received a scholarship to The Sacramento Ballet. After high school, Truhitte received a scholarship to the Pasadena Playhouse. He also attended Ambassador College in Pasadena, California. After filming The Sound of Music, he joined the Marine Corps. In 1989, Truhitte moved to Weddington, North Carolina, and then finally to Concord, North Carolina, and began teaching young performers. He appeared in an episode of Entertainment Tonight titled "A Day in the Life of Dan Truhitte" on September 10, 1993, after The Old Courthouse Theatre of Concord, North Carolina asked him to play Captain Von Trapp in their production of The Sound of Music. Truhitte portrayed Captain von Trapp once again in the Hudson, North Carolina Dinner Theatre Production of The Sound of Music in October 2013.

Personal Life

Truhitte married his co-star Charmian Carr’s understudy, German actress Gabrielle Hennig, in 1966. They dated whilst filming The Sound of Music and married 2 years later. The marriage ended in divorce. He married Mary Miller in 1987, which also ended in divorce. He later married Tarealia Hanney in 1992.

Truhitte has 3 sons, one of which is opera singer Thomas Rolf Truhitte.

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