BROADWAY STAR GRIZZARD DEAD AT 79
Tony Award-winning actor TONY GRIZZARD has died in hospital in New York of complications from lung cancer.
The stage and screen star was 79 when he passed away at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center on Monday (01Oct07).
Grizzard starred in movies like Advise & Consent and Comes A Horseman and won a Best Supporting Actor Emmy for the 1980 TV movie The Oldest Living Graduate.
But he’s best known as a Broadway star. After making his debut as Paul Newman’s brother in The Desperate Hours he won Tony nominations for roles in The Disenchanged in 1959 and Big Fish, Little Fish in 1961.
Grizzard won a Tony in 1996 for his performance in a revival of Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance.
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