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Tony Roberts, who appeared in six Woody Allen movies and who acted on Broadway greater than two dozen instances between 1961 and 2009, died Friday at 85.
The trigger was lung most cancers, his daughter Nicole Burley confirmed to The New York Occasions.
Born October 22, 1939, Roberts, a local New Yorker, debuted on Broadway in “Take Her, She’s Mine” in 1961. He changed Robert Redford within the authentic manufacturing of “Barefoot within the Park” 1963), additionally showing in “Do not Drink the Water” (1966), “Guarantees, Promies” (1968), “Play It Once more, Sam” (1969), “Sugar” (1972), “Arsenic and Previous Lace” (1986), “Jerome Robbins’ Broadway” (1989), “The Sisters Rosensweig” (1993), “Victor/Victoria” (1995), “Cabaret” (1998), and “Xanadu” (2007), amongst others, incomes two Tony nominations alongside the way in which.
Off-Broadway, he acted in a revival of “Morning’s at Seven” in 2021.
As busy as he was on the stage, the actor was profitable on TV’s “The Fringe of Evening” (1965-1966) and performed characters who had been often Woody Allen’s greatest buddies within the movies “Play It Once more, Sam” (1972), “Annie Corridor” (1977), “Stardust Recollections” (1980), “A Midsummer Evening’s Intercourse Comedy” (1982), “Hannah and Her Sisters” (1986), and “Radio Days” (1987).
Outdoors his work with Allen, he acted in “The Million Greenback Duck” (1971), “Serpico” (1973), “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” (1974), “Simply Inform Me What You Need” (1980), “Amityville 3-D” (1983), and “Swap” (1991).
Extra lately, he gave his remaining TV efficiency within the remake of “Soiled Dancing” in 2017.
Roberts printed a memoir, “Do You Know Me?”, in 2015, self-publishing it after refusing to offer main publishers any dish on Allen’s private life.
He’s survived by his daughter.