What groundbreaking composer is the actor who plays Schwerner in Murder in Mississippi, best known for portraying?
Tom Hulce Thomas Edward "Tom" Hulce ( ; born December 6, 1953) is an American actor and theater producer. As an actor, he is best known for his role as Larry "Pinto" Kroger in "Animal House" (1978), his Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in "Amadeus" (1984), and his role as Quasimodo in Disney's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1996). Additional acting awards included four Golden Globe nominations, an Emmy Award, and a Tony Award. Hulce retired from acting in the mid-1990s to focus on stage directing and producing. In 2007, he won a Tony Award as a lead producer of the Broadway musical "Spring Awakening".
Mississippi Burning Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American crime thriller film directed by Alan Parker, and written by Chris Gerolmo. It is loosely based on the FBI's investigation into the 1964 Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner murder case in Mississippi. The film stars Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe as two FBI agents assigned to investigate the disappearance of three civil rights workers in fictional Jessup County, Mississippi. The investigation is met with hostility and backlash by the town's residents, local police and the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).