Saturday, April 22, 2023
Bewigged, bejeweled and bejowled, Mr. Humphries’s creation was one of the longest-lived characters ever channeled by a single performer.
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Wide acclaim for the role of Tevye helped make him, according to one newspaper, “Israel’s most famous export since the Jaffa orange.”
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One of the 20th century’s most renowned opera singers, the soprano was known for the timeless beauty of her voice and the ardent fervor of her fans.
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A singing actress known for performing work by contemporary composers, Ms. Lewis originated signal roles in the opera house and on the Broadway stage.
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Ms. Nixon was the ghost singer for actresses in many of Hollywood’s most famous musicals, from “The King and I” to “West Side Story” to “My Fair Lady.”
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Mr. Patten, who first became smitten with the theater on a visit to the city in the mid-1940s, lived there for more than 35 years.
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He was the youngest Tony winner, and “Mame” was his only Broadway credit. As an adult, he was a lounge singer, voice and piano teacher and electronics repairman.
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Monday, February 15, 2016
“Perfect Crime” logged its 11,824th performance, despite the fact that critics often did not like it and theatergoers often did not understand it.
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Mr. Finlay, an English actor, was often cast as a rogue or villain and was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in the 1965 film version of “Othello.”
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Mr. Libertini, a ubiquitous presence on stage, screen and television, was best known for his antic turn as the deranged General Garcia in the 1979 film comedy.
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Ms. Goldhirsch, the artistic director of Young Playwrights Inc., was responsible for helping along the careers of generations of American dramatists.
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Mr. Coe was also a grown-up presence in the cast of “Saturday Night Live,” appearing in the very first episode.
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Mr. Rudd, who came to his profession late and left early, won praise for his work on Broadway and in the New York Shakespeare Festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMMr. Wisdom was for six decades one of Britain’s most celebrated comics, appearing in nearly 20 films and many television shows as well as in live performances.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMJill Clayburgh, an Oscar-nominated actress known for portraying strong, independent women, died on Friday at her home in Lakeville, Conn. She was 66.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMMr. Gordon, a chiseled character actor, played tough guys, most memorably the mob boss Frank Nitti on the television series “The Untouchables.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe founder of a speech therapy center in Manhattan taught Robert De Niro to sound Southern, and Julia Roberts not to.
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Ms. Norton, a deaf actress, sacrificed her own career in a fight that demonstrably helped the careers of the generation that followed, including Marlee Matlin.
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Ms. Rosenthal’s work melded dance, theater, dramatic monologues, improvisation and visual art to illuminate her abiding concerns: feminism, environmentalism and animal rights.
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An English actor whose regal bearing and imposing voice gave life to Shakespearean kings, Mr. Howard was a mainstay of the Royal Shakespeare Company for decades.
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Mr. Brown wrote industrial musicals for American corporations, which were meant to rally employees, and used some of his earnings to support Harper Lee while she wrote “To Kill a Mockingbi…
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Mr. Baraka’s work was widely anthologized, and he was also long famous as a political firebrand, with critical opinion divided in every arena.
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Mr. Bruckner, who was a longtime editor for The New York Times Book Review, landed on Nixon’s enemies list over his syndicated columns for The Los Angeles Times.
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Mr. Mrozek’s plays were periodically banned in Poland for ridiculing the postwar Eastern bloc’s political and social climate. He had plays produced in cities worldwide, including New Yor…
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Monday, June 17, 2013
Ms. Stuart had a recurring role on the soap opera “The Edge of Night” and starred in two nonfiction books by the writer Helene Hanff.
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