Sherwood Price

Frank Sherwood Gell (April 4, 1928 – January 13, 2020) was an American film and television actor. He was known for playing General J. E. B. Stuart in the American historical television series The Gray Ghost. Early life He was born Frank Sherwood Gell in Detroit, Michigan, to Louis Gell and Freida Gell, Jewish immigrants from Imperial Russia who had come to the US as young children. He had one sibling, an older sister. His parents had different first languages (Russian and Yiddish); he grew up speaking only English. His father owned a butcher shop. His parents divorced while Price was still a child. His mother remarried, and Price was raised by her and his step-father Herman Glassman, a clothing salesman. Price attended Central High School in Detroit, taking the commercial curriculum rather than college prep. While still in high school he registered for the draft on April 4, 1946, his eighteenth birthday. The registrar recorded him as being 5 feet 11 inches and weighing 132 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. He worked as a dishwasher, theater usher, and gas station attendant to earn money for drama school. Early stage career Price enrolled at the Schuster-Martin School of Drama in the Walnut Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati during August 1947. He spent one year studying then joined the school's Little Playhouse Company after graduation. He performed in five plays during 1948-1949, using "Sherwood Gell" for billing.