Tony Roberts, Actor Easiest Identified for Woody Allen Roles, Lifeless at 85

Tony Roberts, the degree and display actor absolute best identified for his supporting roles in six Woody Allen films, has died on the age of 85.

Roberts’ daughter showed the actor’s demise to the New York Instances, including he died at his New York house Friday from headaches from lung most cancers.

The New York-born son of famed radio announcer Ken Roberts, Tony starred within the Broadway manufacturing of Barefoot within the Rain (taking on for the play’s authentic actor, Robert Redford) prior to showing in Allen’s Broadway displays Don’t Drink the Water and Play It Once more, Sam, with Roberts sharing the degree with Allen within the latter. Roberts used to be nominated for a Easiest Actor Tony Award for his position in Play It Once more, Sam, which he and Allen reprised within the 1972 movie adaptation directed via Herbert Ross.

5 years later, Allen would forged Roberts as his Hollywood screenwriter buddy in 1977’s Annie Corridor, one in all six instances he’d seem in an Allen-penned film; Roberts additionally co-starred in Allen’s Stardust Reminiscences, 1982’s A Midsummer Evening’s Intercourse Comedy, 1986’s Hannah and Her Sisters, and 1987’s Radio Days.

Roberts’ display roles additionally incorporated Serpico, The Taking of Pelham One Two 3, Amityville 3D, the 2017 remake of Grimy Dancing, and more than one appearances around the Regulation & Order franchises. On Broadway, Roberts’ credit incorporated How Now, Dow Jones, Sugar, an adaptation of the film Some Like It Scorching, Victor/Victoria along Julie Andrews, and a revival of Xanadu.

“I used to be fortunate sufficient to get in at the closing years of the Golden Age of Broadway,” Roberts instructed Broadway Global in 2015. “In that generation there used to be much more occurring that perceived to have top quality about it and nice conviction.”