Tony Randall Pics

Tony

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26 February 1920

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Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

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The Odd Couple, The Tony Randall Show

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Tony Randall (February 26, 1920 – May 17, 2004) was a U.S. actor, comic, producer and director.

Tony Randall (February 26, 1920 – May 17, 2004) was an American comic and actor. Randall was born Arthur Leonard Rosenberg in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Julia (née Finston) and Mogscha Rosenberg, who was an art and antiques dealer. Randall attended Northwestern University for a year before traveling to New York City to study at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. He studied under Sanford Meisner and choreographer Martha Graham around 1935. Under the name Anthony Randall, he worked onstage opposite stars Jane Cowl in George Bernard Shaw`s Candida and Ethel Barrymore in Emlyn Williams`s The Corn Is Green. Randall then served for four years with the United States Army Signal Corps in World War II, refusing an entertainment assignment with Special Services. Then he worked at the Olney Theatre in Montgomery County, Maryland before heading back to New York City. Randall was married to Florence Gibbs from 1942 until her death from cancer in 1992. He remarried on 17 November 1995 to Heather Harlan, an intern in one of his theatrical programs. At the time, Tony was 75, Heather 25. The couple subsequently had two children, Julia Laurette Randall (b. 1997) and Jefferson Salvini Randall (b. 1998), and they remained married until his death in 2004. In his book Which Reminds Me, he proclaimed that any publicity an actor generates should be about his work, not himself. "The public knows only one thing about me: I don`t smoke," he proclaimed. But by 1995, he revised his opinion, and made his engagement and marriage to Harlan, and subsequent fatherhood, quite public. For the most part, the media treated the marriage in a light-hearted spirit, but when children entered the picture, not everyone was convinced the couple was completely forthright. Randall was a doting and loving father, Heather would later recount, who faced death bravely, and felt great sorrow to leave his children behind. Randall died in his sleep at NYU Medical Center of complications from pneumonia he contracted following bypass surgery in December 2003. He is interred at the Westchester Hills Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.

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Arthur Leonard Rosenberg

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