Walter Fairservis

Walter Ashlin Fairservis Jr. (1921 – 1994) was an American archaeologist who excavated in Afghanistan, Hierakonpolis, and in the Indus Valley of Pakistan. He worked in the American Museum of Natural History for over thirty years and was director of the Burke Museum of Natural History in Seattle. He was a professor of archeology and Asian studies at Vassar College until his retirement just before his death in 1994.

The son of actress Edith Yeager, Fairservis played roles in Shakespeare plays, wrote scripts for television, and founded his own nonprofit theatre, the East-West Fusion Theatre, in New York City in 1983. Provided by Wikipedia