Kevin Kline Ado About Nothing" (1988), "Henry V" (1984), and two productions of "Hamlet", in 1986 and 1990 (which he also directed). A videotape of the 1990 production has aired on PBS. He also appeared in a Lincoln Center production that combined the two parts of "Henry IV" on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in 2003 as Falstaff. Kline was nominated for the 2004 Tony Award, Actor in a Play. Dubbed "the American Olivier" by "New York Times" theater critic Frank Rich for his stage acting, Kline finally ventured into film in 1982 in "Sophie's Choice". He won the coveted role
Fred R. Kline of U. S. Poet Laureate Josephine Jacobsen, Kline recorded selections in 1975 of his poetry at the Library of Congress (http://lccn.loc.gov/95770418) from "I, Dodo"(1968), "Crazy Love"(1970), and "Birthsongs"(1972),three of his four books of poems. During the 1960s, as a young writer, Kline corresponded with Conrad Aiken, Norman Mailer, Peter Matthiessen, and Norman O. Brown. From 2000, Kline and his wife Jann lived at 7th Heaven Ranch near Santa Fe, a 20-acre forested nature preserve at an altitude of 7,000 feet, where they established the Kline Art Research Library, open to students and scholars. Jann (Arbogust Sasser) Kline, art historian and