Broadway actor George Grizzard dies at 79 of lung cancer in New York
NEW YORK - George Grizzard, a Tony Award-winning actor who won acclaim
for performing in Edward Albee's plays and also appeared in movies and
television shows over a 50-year career, has died. He was 79.
Grizzard died Tuesday at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical
Center of complications from lung cancer, said his agent, Clifford
Stevens.
Grizzard appeared in the original Broadway production of Albee's
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and won a Tony Award more than 30
years later in 1996 for his performance in a revival of another Albee
play, "A Delicate Balance."
He made his Broadway debut as Paul Newman's brother and fellow convict
in "The Desperate Hours" in 1955.
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," a searing portrait of marital
strife, caused a sensation when it opened in 1962.
Grizzard played Nick, the young victim of the warring couple George
and Martha, but left the play after a few months to play Hamlet at the
Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. He also played the title role in
Shakespeare's "Henry V" there.
His film roles included a bullying U.S. senator in "Advise and
Consent" in 1962 and an oilman in "Comes a Horseman" in 1978. He and
Elaine Stritch played a wealthy couple in Woody Allen's "Small Time
Crooks" in 2000.
On television, Grizzard made regular appearances on "Law & Order" and
other series.
He won an Emmy Award starring with Henry Fonda in "The Oldest Living
Graduate" in 1980.
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