Entertainment Death News: Tony Roberts, stage and cinema actor who has often played in Woody Allen films, dies at 85

New York – Tony Roberts, a versatile and nominated theater artist at Tony Awards at home in plays and musicals and who appeared in several Woody Allen films – often as Allen’s best friend – died. He was 85 years old.

Roberts’ death was announced to the New York Times by her daughter, Nicole Burley.

Roberts had a great stage personality perfect for musical and he created roles in Broadway musicals as diverse as “How Now, Dow Jones” (1967); “Sugar” (1972), an adaptation of the film “Some Like It Hot” and “Victor / Victoria” (1995), in which he played with Julie Andrews when she returned to Broadway in the stage of her popular popular movie. He was also in Campy, Roller-Disco “Xanadu” in 2007 and “The Royal Family” in 2009.

“I have never been particularly lucky during card games. I have never struck a jackpot. But I was extremely lucky in life,” he wrote in his memories, “do you know me?” “Unlike many of my friends, who did not know what they wanted to become when they grew up, I knew I wanted to be an actor before arriving in high school.”

Roberts also appeared on Broadway in the comedy of Woody Allen of 1966 “Don’t Drink the Water”, repeating his role in the cinematographic version, and in “Play It Again, Sam” d’Allen (1969), for which he also made the film.

Other Allen films in which Roberts appeared were “Annie Hall” (1977), “Stardust Memories” (1980), “A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy” (1982), “Hannah and Her Sisters” (1986) and “Radio Radio Days “((Radio Days” (1987).

“The confident presence of Roberts on the screen – not to mention its high setting, its wide shoulders and its brunette curly mane – was the perfect foil for the various neuren’s neuren characters, which makes them funnier and pleasant To watch, “wrote the Jewish daily striker in 2016.

In the book by Eric Lax “Woody Allen: A Biography”, Roberts recalled a complicated scene in “A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy” which turned again and again – even after the film modification – to obtain its planned effect.

“When you return to see (Allen’s work) two, three, four times, you are starting to see the amount of incredible art, that nothing is accidental,” said Roberts.

Among his other films were “Serpico” (1973) and “Pelham One Two Three” (1974).

He was nominated twice for a Tony Award – for “How Now, Dow Jones” and “Play It Again, Sam”, when he was presented as Anthony Roberts.

One of Roberts’s biggest successes on Broadway was the successful comedy of Charles Busch “The Tale of the Allergolog’s Wife” (2000), in which he played the husband of the main character.

Roberts, who made his debut on Broadway in 1962 in the short term “something on a soldier”, also replaced some of his oldest successes, including “Barefoot in the Park”, “Promise” ‘Relay Our Song , “” Jerome Robbins’ Broadway “,” The Sisters Rosensweig “and the 1998 Revival theater theater of” Cabaret “.

“I had the chance to participate in the last years of the golden age of Broadway. At that time, there were many more things that seemed to have a great quality and a great conviction,” he declared on Broadway World in 2015.

In London, he played with Betty Buckley in the West End production of “promised, promised”, playing the role of Jack Lemmon in this version of Stade de “The Apartment”.

Roberts’ television credits include the short -term series “The Four Seasons” (1984) and “The Lucie Arnaz Show” (1985) as well as guest spots on such known shows such as “Murder, She Write” and “Law & Order.”

Roberts was born in New York on October 22, 1939, the radio and television son announced Ken Roberts.

“I was raised in the midst of many speeches by actors,” he said at the AP in 1985. “My cousin was Everett Sloane, who was a very good actor. My father’s friends were Especially actors.

He frequented the music and art high school in New York and graduated from the Northwestern University in Illinois.

His marriage to Jennifer Lyon ended with the divorce. He is survived by his daughter, actor Nicole Burley.

He met Allen behind the scenes for the first time when he played in “Barefoot in the Park”, after replacing Robert Redford. Roberts had heard without success four times for the first Broadway play in Allen, “do not drink water”. Seeing Roberts play in “Barefoot in the Park” convinced Allen that Roberts was worth throwing. According to his memoirs, Allen said to him: “You were great. How is it that you are such a ugly verifier?”