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Broadway actor Tom Aldredge dies
Dayton native Tom Aldredge, who won an Emmy, a Drama Desk Award and was nominated for five Tony Awards during a career that spanned six decades, died July 22 in Tampa Fla.
He was 83. Cause of death was lymphoma.
Mr. Aldredge was preceded in death by his wife, the Oscar- and Tony-winning costume designer Theoni V. Aldredge.
A graduate of Oakwood High School, he studied theater at the Goodman School in Chicago and made his Broadway debut in 1959 in the musical “The Nervous Set.”
His Tony nominations for acting were for the play “Twentieth Century,” 2004; the musical “Passion,” 1994; the play “The Little Foxes,” 1981; the musical “Where’s Charley?” in 1975 and the play “Sticks and Bones,” 1972, for which he won the Drama Desk Award for outstanding performance.
His Emmy was for playing Shakespeare in “Henry Shakespeare Meets William Shakespeare,” 1978.
He appeared in the films “Cold Mountain” (2003) and “What About Bob?” in 1991. His television credits included “The Sopranos” and “Ryan’s Hope.” He was still working up until 2010 and lived for many years in Stamford, Conn.
He was widely respected as a character actor, which is how he was described in the headline of an obituary that appeared July 26 in the New York Times.
He performed in almost 30 Broadway productions.
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