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Broadway actor George Grizzard dies
Tony-winning actor George Grizzard, a star in the original Broadway production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, has died.
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Agent Clifford Stevens says Grizzard died of lung cancer on Tuesday at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Centre.
He is survived by his partner William Tynan.
Grizzard, who debuted on Broadway as actor Paul Newman's younger brother in The Desperate Hours in , won a best actor Tony in for his role in a revival of Albee's A Delicate Balance.
Newman praised Grizzard, saying: "When we were on the stage together, he was the best thing around."
Grizzard appeared in movies, including Woody Allen's Small Time Crooks, and regularly on television, including the series Law and Order as defence lawyer Arthur Gold.
He won an Emmy for best supporting actor in a limited series or special in for his role alongside Henry Fonda in The Oldest Living Graduate.
In the original production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Grizzard played the husband in the younger couple who come to dinner at George and Martha's house and becomes the butt of their jokes.
Years later, he said it was a difficult role because the audience delighted in
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The Tony-winning actor who was a Broadway staple
George Grizzard
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George Grizzard: Dapper, personable actor
George Cooper Grizzard, actor: born Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina 1 April ; died New York 2 October
The actor George Grizzard made more than 40 films and countless television appearances, but it was in the theatre that he had his greatest triumphs. He created the role of Nick, the young newlywed academic who finds himself and his wife subject to an evening of malicious teasing by an older couple, in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (), which heralded a particular association with the playwright.
The dapper, personable Grizzard was praised for his ability to switch moods swiftly and orchestrate the emotional climaxes characteristic of Albee's work. He won a Tony award as best actor for his performance in the revival of Albee's A Delicate Balance, in which he, his wife (Rosemary Harris) and his heavy-drinking sister-in-law (Elaine Stritch) find their home invaded by two married friends fleeing an unidentified terror. In Grizzard starred with Frances Sternhagen in a revival of Albee's Seascape, in which a married couple find their peaceful beach-side abode disrupted by the arrival of two inquisitive amphibians.
On screen, he had what was arguably his finest movie role in Otto Preminger's superb study of American poli