Actor. He was born in Cleveland (Ohio) and died in Englewood (New Jersey). His first stage appearance in New York was in “Once Upon a Mattress,” the 1959 Broadway take-off on “The Princess and the Pea,” which also featured Carol Burnett’s debut.He acted with Lynn Redgrave in a 1977 production of Shaw’s “St. Joan,” appeared in Nabokov’s “Invitation to a Beheading” and was nominated for a 1970 Tony Award for his performance in the “The Chinese” by Murray Schisgal. For its entire run, from 1980 to 1989, he played Bert Barry in “42nd Street.” His many later theatrical appearances included New York Shakespeare Festival productions in Central Park and at the Public Theater, including “King Richard III,” “The Comedy of Errors,” “Troilus and Cressida,” “Love’s Labour’s Lost” and “Twelfth Night.” In films, he played in The Young Doctors (1961), Serpico (1973) and Who? (1973), and in several tv series.Cause of death: Emphysema. (bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)