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Tony Roberts, a versatile, tony award-nominated theater performer, both dramas and musicals appeared at home and in several films of Woody Allen-often as the best friend of Allen. He was 85 years old.
Roberts’ death Was announced New York Times to their daughter, Nicole Berli, through Associated Press Notified on Friday.
Roberts had a genetic stage personality for musical comedy, and started the role in a diverse broadway musical such as “Hao now, Dow Jones” (1967), “Sugar” (1972). -And “Victor/Victoria” (1995), in which he participated with Julie Andrews when she returned to Broadway in the stage version of her famous film. He was also in Campa, Roller Disco “Zanado” in 2007 and “The Royal Family” in 2009.
“I’ve never been particularly fortunate in the card games. I never hit the jackpot. But I’ve been very fortunate in my life,” Roberts wrote in his memory, “Do you know me?” “Unlike many of my friends, who didn’t know what they wanted to be when they grew up, I knew I wanted to be an actor before I went to high school.”
Roberts also appeared on Broadway in Woody Allen comedy in 1966, and repeating his role in the film version, and in Allen’s “Play Prit, Sam” (1969), for which he was the film Made was also made.
Alan’s other films in which Roberts appeared was “Annie Hall” (1977), “Stardist Memories” (1980), “Sex Comedy of a Midsar Knight” (1982), “Hannah and her sisters” (1986) and “Radio Day” (“” was included. 1987).
“The presence of Roberts’ confident screen – not to mention its long frame, wide shoulders and brown curlyness – was the best foil for Allen’s various neurological characters, which makes them more ridiculous and enjoyed. , “” The Jewish Daily Forward wrote in 2016.
In Eric Lex’s book “Woody Allen: A biography”, Roberts recalled a complex scene in “Sexy of a Midsar Knight” that Allen repeatedly shot – even after editing the film – this To achieve the desired effect.
Roberts said, “When you (Allen’s work) go back to see two, three, four times, you start to see the amazing amount of art in it, that nothing is accidental.”
His other films included “Sarpico” (1973) and “Pelham One Three Three” (1974).
When he was billed as Anthony Roberts, he was nominated twice for the Tony Award for “how, now, Dow Jones” and “Run it again,”.
One of Roberts’ biggest broadcasting successes was Charles Bosh’s hit comic “The story of the wife of the Allergist” (2000), in which she played the title of the character’s husband.
Roberts, who started his Broadway in 1962, “something about a soldier”, had some of his long -lasting successful movies that had an alternative that “barefoot in the park”, “promise , “He” “He” is playing our song, “” “Jerome Robbins, Broadway,” “Sisters’ Rosenvig” and the 1998 round bout theater company restoration “Caby”.
“I was so fortunate that it joined it in the last years of the golden age of Broadway. There was more going on in that period, which seemed to have high quality and great faith about it. In 2015, Broadway World.
In London, he worked with Betty Bakley in the West and Production of “Promises, Promises”, playing the role of Jack Lemon in this stage version of the “apartment”.
Roberts’ television credit in the short life series “The Four Season” (1984) and “The Lucy Ernaz Show” (1985) as well as “murder, he wrote” and “law and” law and “law and” law and ” Law and “Law & Order.”
Roberts was born on October 22, 1939 in New York, the son of Radio and Television’s Annavor Ken Roberts.
He told the AP in 1985, “I was raised in the middle of many of the actor’s conversation.” My cousin was Everett Sloven, who was a very good actor. My father’s friend was mostly actors. I am sure that in some way I need to prove myself in their eyes.
He studied at the High School of Music and Art in New York and graduated from North Western University in Illinois.
His marriage to Jennifer Luns ended on divorce. After that, his daughter, actor Nicole Berli, has remained.
Roberts first met Alan’s back stage when he was replacing Robert Redford and acting in “Naked Foot in the Park”. Roberts gave a failed audition four times for Alan’s first Broadway’s first Broadway game, “Water Not Water”. Performing Roberts in the “barefoot in the park”, Allen was convinced that Roberts was capable of casting. According to his memoir, Alan told him, “You were very good. How did you come to the audience?
