'Odd Couple' Actor Tony Randall Dies at 84

TONY RANDALL. Born Leonard Rosenbergin Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A., 26 February 1920. Educated at Northwestern University, Chicago; Columbia University, New York; the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, New York City, 1938-40; and the Officer Candidate School at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. Married 1) Florence Gibbs (died, 1992); 2) Heather Harlan, 1995; one child. Served as private and first lieutenant in U.S. Army Signal Corps, 1942-46. Announcer and actor in radio soap operas; New York debut as stage actor, A Circle of Chalk, 1941; various theater and radio work, 1947-52; television actor, from 1952; continues to star in film, on stage, and on television. Member: Actors' Equity Association; Screen Actors Guild; American Federation of Television and Radio Artists; Association of the Metropolitan Opera Company; founder and artistic director of the National Actors' Theatre in New York City. Recipient: Emmy Award, 1975. Address: c/o National Actors' Theatre, 1560 Broadway, Suite 409, New York, New York 10036, U.S.A.

TELEVISION SERIES

1949-52 One Man's Family
1952-55 Mr. Peepers
1970-75 The Odd Couple
1976-78 The Tony Randall Show
1981-83 Love, Sidney

MADE-FOR-TELEVISION MOVIES

1978 Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
1981 Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend
1984 Off Sides
1985 Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
1986 Sunday Drive
1988 Save the Dog
1989 The Man in the Brown Suit
1993 The Odd Couple: Together Again

TELEVISION SPECIALS (selection)

1956 Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl (host)
1960 Four For Tonight (co-star)
1960 So Help Me Aphrodite (Ernest)
1962 Arsenic and Old Lace (Mortimer Brewster
1967 The Wide Open Door (Inspector Berry/Geoffrey Judge)
1969 The Littlest Angel (Democritus)
1977 They Said it With Music: Yankee Doodle to Ragtime (co-host)
1981 Tony Randall's All-Star Circus (host)
1985 Curtain's Up (host)
1987 Walt Disney World Celebrity Circus (host)

FILMS

Oh Men, Oh Women, 1957, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter, 1957, The Mating Game, 1959, Pillow Talk, 1959, Let's Make Love, 1960, Lover Come Back, 1962, Send Me No Flowers, 1964, The Brass Bottle, 1964, Fluffy, 1965, Bang, Bang, You're Dead, 1966, Hello Down There, 1969, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex..., 1972; Huckleberry Finn, 1974, Scavenger Hunt, 1979, Foolin' Around, 1980, The King of Comedy, 1983, My Little Pony, 1986, That's Adequate, 1989, Gremlins 2: The New Batch (voice), 1990, Fatal Instinct, 1993.

STAGE (selection)

Circle of Chalk, 1941, Candida, 1941, The Corn Is Green, 1942, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, 1947, Anthony and Cleopatra, 1948, Caesar and Cleopatra, 1950, Oh Men, Oh Women, 1954, Inherit the Wind, 1955-56, Oh Captain, 1958, UTBU, 1966, Two Into One, 1988, M. Butterfly, 1989, A Little Hotel on the Side, 1992, Three Men on a Horse, 1993, The Government Inspector, 1994, The Odd Couple, 1994.

RADIO

I Love a Mystery; Portia Faces Life; When a Girl Marries; Life's True Story

PUBLICATION

Which Reminds Me, with Michael Mindlin. New York: Delacorte Press, 1989.

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