Early Career
Eure grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He studied acting in the theatre arts department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and at summer workshops at Southern Illinois University and Northwestern University. His first break came when he was working part-time at a Las Vegas hotel selling paintings. There he met Robert Goulet, who hired Eure as a production assistant for the Goulet-Carol Lawrence summer tour.
The tour terminated in New York City. After a few short months of auditions and odd jobs (including computerized astrology predictions), Eure became a cast member at the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut. He joined such notables as Jane Alexander and Sada Thompson in The Tempest, Mourning Becomes Electra, Merry Wives of Windsor, and Twelfth Night, as well as many original works produced by the company. At the Bucks County Playhouse in Pennsylvania, he performed in West Side Story and then joined a musical comedy revue and traveled throughout the East Coast resort areas. Wesley and Richard Chamberlain were romantically involved in the early 1970s.
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