From 1955 - 1960, Glenn Cannon was in New York City. He appeared on
Broadway in A Moon for the Misbegotten and The Good Woman of Setzuan,
and Off Broadway in 20 plays, among which were the famed productions of
The Three Penny Opera at the Theatre DeLys and The Iceman Cometh at
Circle in the Square. His tours included leading roles in West Side
Story, Tea and Sympathy, and I Can Get It for You Wholesale. His
television appearances in leading and supporting roles included such
network live productions as Studio One (1948), Playwrights '56 (1955), Camera Three (1954), Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951). He also
worked on two motion pictures shot in New York City during this time
period: Polizistenhasser (1958) and Der Tollwütige (1961). (Both are still seen on late-night TV in
the United States.)
From 1960 - 1965, Cannon was in Los Angeles. He appeared in supporting
and starring roles on television, which included episodes of Combat! (1962),
77-Sunset-Strip (1958), The Gallant Men (1962), Alfred Hitchcock präsentiert (1955), Johnny Staccato (1959), No Time for Sergeants (1964), and The Outer Limits (1963).
From 1965 - 1968, Cannon was a resident actor-director-teacher with the
Stanford Repertory Theatre, an Equity company of nine actors
supplemented by students in Stanford's theatre program. This was a
pilot project for three years funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.
During his time in California, he directed 15 stage productions.
In 1968, Cannon came to the University of Hawaii at Manoa as a drama
professor. Shortly thereafter, he was cast as District Attorney John
Manicote in Hawaii Fünf-Null (1968), and played this recurrent role for eight years on
the CBS series. He later played Dr. Ibold for eight years on Magnum (1980)
and made several appearances in principal roles on Nam: Dienst in Vietnam (1987) and Jake und McCabe - Durch dick und dünn (1987).
He subsequently acted in several made-for-television movies filmed in
Honolulu and played the recurring role of Dr. Landowski on the
short-lived CBS series Dr. Kulani - Arzt auf Hawaii (1989) with Richard Chamberlain. Cannon also appeared in
Katastrophenflug 243 (1990), based on the real-life air accident of Aloha Airlines Flight
243, and the feature film Das Geheimnis der Braut (1994) that included in its cast, Toshirô Mifune
and Tamlyn Tomita.
Since making Hawaii his home, in addition to teaching, Cannon has
remained active in acting and directing for the stage. Presently, he
has directed over 108 plays at Kennedy Theatre, Diamond Head Theatre,
Manoa Valley Theatre, and other venues in Hawaii. His stage appearances
in Hawaii include starring roles in Othello (as Iago), J.B. (as The
Devil), The Sunshine Boys (as Willie), Death of a Salesman (as Willy
Loman), Follies (as Buddy), and I'm Not Rappaport (as Nat) among
others. His efforts have not gone unnoticed by the local theatre
community. Cannon is the winner of a total of 11 Po'okela Awards for
Excellence in Directing and another for Best Actor since the awards
were instituted in 1983 by the Hawaii State Theatre Council.
