Actor Robert Morse

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Tony award winner and 'Mad Men' star Robert Morse dies at 90 (NPR)

Robert Morse, who starred in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying as a young actor and, decades later, returned to the corporate world with TV's ...

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Robert Morse, 'Mad Men' actor and Broadway star, dies at 90 (NBC News)

Robert Morse won his first Tony in 1962 for the musical comedy “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” also won an Emmy in 1993 for a one-man ...

Morse did not return to Broadway until he appeared in “Tru” in 1989-90, and he did not appear on the Rialto again after that. In 1976, he appeared in the musical “So Long, 174th Street,” whose source material was a book by Carl Reiner. He also studied with Lee Strasberg. He made his stage debut in 1949 production of “Our Town” in New Hampshire. In 2010, he shared the SAG Award that “Mad Men” won for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series. He earned his first Emmy nomination for his work on the series. The enormous hit ran for more than 1,400 performances and was adapted for the big screen in a 1967 film in which Morse reprised his starring role of J. Pierpont Finch.

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Actor Robert Morse, of Mad Men and Broadway stages, dead at 90 ... (CBC.ca)

Actor Robert Morse, who won a Tony Award as a hilariously brash corporate climber in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and a second one a ...

His work was infused with joy and it was joyous to be with him. "As played with unfaltering bravura and wit by Robert Morse, he is a rumpled, dimpled angel with a streak of Lucifer." It was the other 22 hours I had a problem with." He loved people and people loved him. I was performing on Bway in a cast of 60 when Robert Morse was doing the solo show, Tru. He often came to our theater cause he wanted to be with people. I never got a chance to be in a play or picture where I played a father, or had a family, or where I could feel or show something. More recently, he played the autocratic and eccentric leader of an advertising agency in Mad Men, AMC's hit drama that debuted in 2007. "I consider myself an actor — shyly," he told the Los Angeles Times in 1964. He said he had successfully battled alcohol and drug abuse, but added, "I don't think drinking got in the way of my work. One day you hear `We love you, Bobby.' The next day you're doing voiceovers." The boyishly handsome Morse first made his name on Broadway in the 1950s, and landed some roles in Hollywood comedies in the 1960s. "I love acting.

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Award-winning actor Robert Morse dies at 90 after 'short illness': 'A ... (USA TODAY)

Two-time Tony award-winning actor Robert Morse died on April 20, his agent confirmed to USA TODAY. He was 90 years old.

I never got a chance to be in a play or picture where I played a father, or had a family, or where I could feel or show something. Still, he said of his career, “I didn’t think it was going to end or not end. He later reprised his role as J. Pierpont Finch in the 1967 film adaptation. The boyishly handsome Morse first made his name on Broadway in the 1950s, and landed some roles in Hollywood comedies in the 1960s. "Wishing that eternal boy eternal peace in his new forever home. Morse's son Charlie confirmed the news to ABC7 Wednesday but did not elaborate on his father's cause of death.

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Robert Morse died peacefully at home after a short illness, his agent confirms to PEOPLE.

The role earned him his first Tony Award for best actor in a musical in 1962. The project was filmed for PBS' American Playhouse and also earned Morse an Emmy Award for outstanding lead actor in a miniseries or special in 1993. In a tweet, writer and producer Larry Karaszewski remembered Morse. "My good pal Bobby Morse has passed away at age 90," Karaszewski wrote alongside photographs of himself and the late star.

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Tony And Emmy Award Winning Actor Robert Morse Dies At 90 (Forbes)

Robert Morse, who won Tony and Emmy awards for his portrayal of Truman Capote, has died at the age of 90.

Robert Morse, who won a Tony and Emmy award for his portrayal of Truman Capote, has died at the age of 90. Sending love to his son Charlie & daughter Allyn. Had so much fun hanging with Bobby over the years – filming People v OJ & hosting so many screenings (How To Succeed, Loved One, That’s Life).” A five-time Tony Award nominee, Morse took home his second Tony for his portrayal of Truman Capote in the 1989 production of one-man play Tru. The play was filmed for PBS’ American Playhouse and earned Morse the 1993 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Special.

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'Mad Men' star and Emmy Award-winning actor Robert Morse has died at 90 years old after a battle with a short illness, his rep tells EW.

Though his work on stage brought him immense critical and industry success, Morse is perhaps best known to contemporary audiences for his supporting performance on 58 episodes of the 1960s-set corporate drama Mad Men, in which he acted opposite stars Jon Hamm and Elisabeth Moss as they navigated personal and professional hurdles while working at the Sterling Cooper ad firm. After delivering notable performances on stage (including his first Tony-nominated role in The Matchmaker) and on TV (including on two episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents), Morse won his first Tony Award for his work in the 1961 musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. The production — which followed Morse's aspiring professional, J. Pierrepont Finch (a part later revived by Daniel Radcliffe), as he traversed a step-by-step guide on how to rise through the business sector — ran for roughly 1,400 shows and won seven Tonys, as well as the Pulitzer Prize. He would go on to star in the 1967 film version of the project, and win another Tony 22 years later for Tru. The People vs.

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Robert Morse, Tony-winning comic actor, dies at 90 (The Washington Post)

He launched his career in musical comedies but was later celebrated for played Truman Capote on Broadway and an eccentric adman on “Mad Men.”

Mr. Morse had few credits to his name, aside from an uncredited role as a wounded sailor in “The Proud and the Profane,” a recently completed war movie. His marriage to Carole D’Andrea, a “West Side Story” actress, ended in divorce. (The play also served as the basis for the musical “Hello, Dolly!”) Walking through the aisles, he sang “A Secretary Is Not a Toy,” one of the musical’s best-known songs. By then he was increasingly working in television, with credits that ranged from Grandpa in the TV movie “Here Come the Munsters” (1995) to journalist Dominick Dunne in “The People v. Written and directed by Jay Presson Allen, the play opened in 1989, ran for 297 performances and earned Mr. Morse his second Tony. He received an Emmy Award after the production was filmed for “American Playhouse.” Mr. Morse had another late-career triumph with “Mad Men,” playing the dapper co-founder of Sterling Cooper, a fictional ad agency in the 1960s. “They want to know, ‘What are your secrets?’ I say, ‘Hey, just like yours. His character was given a gentle send-off midway through the seventh season, but returned to adman Don Draper (Jon Hamm) later that episode as a hallucination, performing a song-and-dance routine to the tune of “The Best Things in Life Are Free.” Mr. Morse later said he battled depression and alcoholism while trying to branch into dramatic roles, frustrated at being typecast as a prankish star of musical comedies. “The first day I went on the set, I thought I’d walked into the road company production of ‘How to Succeed,’ ” he told Rolling Stone in 2014. The film was well received, but Mr. Morse struggled to translate his theatrical success to the screen, appearing in light comedies and bedroom farces that were largely ignored by viewers.

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