View of Northern Calloway

Here is another post about someone whose story I have taken an interest in here recently. The story of Northern Calloway is an intriguing and very interesting one. Born in January 1948 in New York City, he attended the High School of Fine and Performing Arts (now LaGuardia High) , graduating in 1966. He got a job in the theatre shortly after graduating from High School, performing in the play The Me Nobody Knows in the early '70s. He debuted on Sesame Street in 1971, playing the character David until 1989. He was also a Singer and composer, writing and performing songs in kids shows called "My Name is David", in which he performed Sesame Street songs and songs he wrote and composed, and at times, read from books he helped to write(side note, Alan Menken-later of Disney fame-was his accompanist for these shows when Menken was up and coming). During his time on Sesame Street, signs of Bipolar disorder (known then as Manic Depression) began to surface, with it getting so bad that He went on a rampage after he did a show in Nashville, Tennessee in September 1980, beating a lady he was staying with so severely, she was in the hospital for quite a while, and he wreaked havoc in the Green Hills section of Nashville wearing nothing but a T-shirt. He went to Court in 1981-1982 and was found innocent after pleading insanity. He tried to write a screenplay for a movie called "The Skyrider" in the mid 1980s, but filed a Lawsuit against Marvel Comics for copyright and stealing ideas.  He was let go from Sesame Street in 1989, and died on January 9, 1990 from Excited Delirium (there was a rumor that stomach cancer was the culprit, but that is false), leaving behind a fiancee, his mother, his brother and sister. I remember him as David in his later years, but never knew he was that talented. What are your memories of Northern Calloway?