He gave life to characters like Darth Vader in “Star Wars” and Mufasa in “The Lion King,” and went on to collect Tonys, Golden Globes, Emmys and an honorary Oscar.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:20PMHe was the only Black actor on “Combat!” and “The Phil Silvers Show,” then made well regarded documentaries on luminaries like Duke Ellington and Katherine Dunham.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:42PMAn Oscar-nominated role opposite Marilyn Monroe in “Bus Stop” led to a long career in film and TV and onstage, in productions that grappled with race, drugs, homosexuality and more.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PMAppearing in scores of stage productions, she dazzled audiences for nearly six decades, most memorably starring as Anita in “West Side Story” and Velma Kelly in “Chicago.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:42PMThe English-born actress captivated children in the 1968 film, which became a holiday favorite. It was one of around 140 productions she appeared in during a six-decade career.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:48AMIn a remarkable career of many decades, she refused to take parts that demeaned Black people and won a Tony, Emmys and an honorary Oscar.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:36PMAs head of the Shubert Organization, he was one of New York City’s most influential real estate and cultural entrepreneurs.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:32PMA London theater critic, he turned a little-known French musical into a global blockbuster, earning $20 million in royalties.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:48AMA London theater critic, he turned a little-known French musical into a global blockbuster, earning $20 million in royalties.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06AMOrson Bean, the free-spirited television, stage and film comedian who stepped out of his storybook life to found a progressive school, move to Australia, give away his possessions and wander…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 12:47PMHis rich melodies h powerful lyrics, also heard in “Mame” and “La Cage aux Folles,” dazzled critics and kept audiences returning for more.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:03PMJerry Herman, the Broadway composer-lyricist who gave America the rousing, old-fashioned musicals “Hello, Dolly!” and “Mame” in the 1960s and Broadway’s first musical featuring gay…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 12:15PMProlific, erudite and caustic in his wit, he surveyed the entire cultural landscape — films, plays, books, art — and saw little that he liked.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:42PMFor a half-century Mr. Moffat, a transplanted Briton, was a lauded figure on stages and screens, whether performing Shakespeare or Tom Clancy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54PMHis star rose in the 1950s and ’60s, when Broadway was ripe for experimentation. But he died in 2015 far from the limelight, and little notice was taken.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:48PMThe winner of a Tony for his evocation of decadent prewar Berlin, he is also remembered for another acclaimed Broadway musical, “She Loves Me.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PMMr. Dotrice, who began acting in a P.O.W. camp, had a long career in movies, on TV and onstage, winning his Tony in “A Moon for the Misbegotten.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMMs. Cook, a Tony Award-winning leading lady in Broadway musicals of the 1950s and ’60s, grappled with alcoholism and obesity before reinventing herself.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:33PMMs. Jackson, half of one of America’s best-known acting couples, was nominated for a Tony for her performance in Paddy Chayefsky’s “Middle of the Night.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04PMMr. Gilroy won a Pulitzer Prize, a Tony and a Drama Critics’ Circle Award for that play, his 1964 Broadway debut, but it was his only major theatrical success.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:33PMMs. Healy and Peter Lind Hayes were a husband-and-wife comedy team on TV in the 1950s and ’60s and portrayed their New Rochelle, N.Y., suburban life on radio.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:03PMFrom the stage and the red carpet, Ms. Rivers reveled in cutting down the rich and famous with cutting remarks and a caustic wit.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:10PMHe donated $20 million for the Shakespeare Theater Company’s Sidney Harman Hall in Washington, and was a trustee of the Aspen Institute, the California Institute of Technology, Freedom Hou…
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