Harry Waters, Jr.
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Harry Waters, Jr. is an American stage and film actor. He created the role of Belize in the first production of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes in 1991. He is best known for his portrayal of Marvin Berry in Back to the Future (1985), which earned him a gold record for his rendition of "Earth Angel."
Career
Born in Denver, Waters is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Wisconsin. He worked as an actor in New York City on and off Broadway for more than a decade as well as at theatres around the country. Venues include the Mark Taper Forum, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, TheatreWorks, and the San Jose Repertory Theatre.
He was a member of the Frank Silvera Writers Workshop in Harlem, which has developed the work of new, African American playwrights, directors, designers, and actors since 1973.
He is working in collaboration with novelist/playwright Jewelle Gomez on a play about James Baldwin, titled "Waiting for Giovanni" and scheduled for the 2011-12 (San Francisco) New Conservatory Theater season. The project's development is being sponsored by Intersection for the Arts.
Waters has taught acting, script development and has directed numerous productions around the country. He is currently a tenured professor in the Theatre Department at Macalester College.