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(56,582 posts) Mon Oct 28, 2013, 09:15 AM Oct 2013

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I can think of four deaf actresses in Hollywood but no deaf actors

Any ideas why that is? Are there deaf actors I don't know of? (Now Lou Ferrigno is coming to mind; is he deaf?)

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I can think of four deaf actresses in Hollywood but no deaf actors (Original Post) Recursion Oct 2013 OP

List below, only name I recognize is Lou Ferrigno.......... mrmpa Oct 2013 #1

I don't know anyone, I thought it was more common in theater jakeXT Oct 2013 #2

Richard Biggs played Dr. Stephen Franklin on Babylon 5 antiquie Oct 2013 #3

mrmpa

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1. List below, only name I recognize is Lou Ferrigno..........

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Mon Oct 28, 2013, 10:10 AM

Oct 2013

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_male_deaf_actors

jakeXT

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2. I don't know anyone, I thought it was more common in theater

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Mon Oct 28, 2013, 10:33 AM

Oct 2013

antiquie

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3. Richard Biggs played Dr. Stephen Franklin on Babylon 5

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Mon Oct 28, 2013, 10:48 AM

Oct 2013

He was also on Days of our Lives.
Only man on the lis aside from Lou that I recognized.

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