Danny Freedman was a

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actor. He was best known for his performance as Mona in the film ''

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'', for which he won the

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for Best Supporting Actor at the

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in 1971. He was born in

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. Freedman had no other major film roles, although he had minor supporting appearances in the films '' One Man'' and ''

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''. He was primarily a stage actor, whose performances included Paul Foster's ''Tom Paine'',

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's ''Memories of My Brother'', Fabian Jennings' ''Charles Manson a.k.a. Jesus Christ'' and Diane Grant's ''Broom Hilda''. He was a roommate of the three artists associated with the

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arts collective in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Freedman had a small part on the American soap opera ''The Guiding Light''.

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