Charles Kimbrough

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Charles Kimbrough, Actor Best Known for 'Murphy Brown,' Dies at 86 (The New York Times)

In a career that included a Tony nomination for “Company,” he specialized in playing uptight characters, notably Candice Bergen's stuffy straight man.

[‘Candide’” ](https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/23/archives/stage-sweet-candide.html)— a 1974 production of the Leonard Bernstein musical, in which Clive Barnes of The New York Times described Mr. “And that gave me a new lease on life.” He came to realize that “stuffiness is not dullness,” Mr. Paul, Minn., the older of two children of Charles and Emily (Raudenbush) Kimbrough. I didn’t do a show when I wasn’t soaking wet at the end.” As a younger actor, “he played a wide variety of characters who were much more dynamic,” John Kimbrough said in a phone interview. Kimbrough put it in a 2002 interview with Newsday: “When I first came to New York I’d played these sweaty, physical guys who bounded all over the stage. Kimbrough finally got his first taste of mainstream fame alongside Candice Bergen on “Murphy Brown,” the popular series set in a television newsroom that ran for 10 seasons on CBS starting in 1988. “Some of my earliest memories are of watching him in He played Greg, a middle-class husband struggling with midlife crisis, a wobbly career and his marriage to Kate (Blythe Danner), which grows more complicated after he brings home a new dog, Sylvia, played in very human form by Sarah Jessica Parker. Kimbrough played the exacting psychiatrist who is obsessed with the image of his institution. Charles Kimbrough, an actor known for his patrician looks and stately bearing who was nominated for an Emmy Award for portraying a comically rigid news anchor on the hit sitcom “Murphy Brown,” died on Jan.

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Charles Kimbrough, best known for 'Murphy Brown,' dies at 86 (Globalnews.ca)

Charles Kimbrough played newsman Jim Dial in the hit sitcom 'Murphy Brown' between 1988 and 1998, and reprised the role for 3 episodes in the 2018 reboot.

Born May 23, 1936, Kimbrough spent years in the New York theater scene. Kimbrough’s wife, actor Beth Howland who played diner server Vera on the 1970s and ’80s CBS sitcom Alice, died in 2016. Kimbrough played newsman Jim Dial across the 10 seasons of CBS hit sitcom Murphy Brown between 1988 and 1998, earning an Emmy nomination in 1990 for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series.

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R.I.P. Charles Kimbrough, Murphy Brown star (The A.V. Club)

Charles Kimbrough, best known for his role as news anchor Jim Dial on the '90s sitcom Murphy Brown, died at 86.

His last stage performance was in 2012, when he starred in the Harvey revival opposite Jim Parsons. In 2018, he reprised the role for a “Starting when I was 30, I somehow gave off an impression at an audition that had them mentally put me in a three-piece suit or put an attaché case in my hand,” he continued. “When he came in to read for us as Jim Dial, he just brought it all there: I mean, that ramrod posture, the anchor voice, the slicked-back hair. That wasn’t the response I wanted. I’ve always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity.” [Rock onSock Affairs](https://go.linkby.com/CSZYJPXU)

Tony and Emmy nominated actor Charles Kimbrough passes away ... (Economic Times)

Charles Kimbrough played Jim Dial for 10 seasons of the CBS sitcom 'Murphy Brown from 1988 to 1998.

The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). As per reports, the agency also said that the actor died of natural causes in a hospital. [Charles Kimbrough](/topic/charles-kimbrough)passed away at the age of 86 on January 11 in Culver City, California. SMS Talent, Inc., the talent agency that represented Kimbrough remembered the actor as a “joy to behold”. Kimbrough played Jim Dial on ‘Murphy Brown’ between 1988 and 1998 which also landed him an Emmy Award nomination in 1990 for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series. Charles Kimbrough was born on May 23, 1936.

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Before 'Murphy Brown,' Charles Kimbrough starred at Milwaukee ... (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

"Murphy Brown" star Charles Kimbrough, who died recently, was a mainstay of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater acting company from 1966 into early '70s.

Dial earned an Emmy nomination in 1990 for his work on the show. (Howland also played Vera on the TV sitcom "Alice." Coincidentally, the original "Company" cast also included Beth Howland, who would become Kimbrough's second wife in 2002. Later that season, Milwaukee Sentinel critic Jay Joslyn had equally kind words for Kimbrough's performance in Noel Coward's comedy "Design for Living," praising it as the actor's "finest role of the season, carries off the Luntian charm and style." At the end of that season, the Kimbroughs told Milwaukee Journal reporter Douglas D. Then he joined the Milwaukee Repertory Theater acting company for the 1966-'67 season.

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Actor Charles Kimbrough, best known as Jim in Murphy Brown, dies ... (ABC News)

Charles Kimbrough — the actor who played a straight-laced news anchor opposite Candice Bergen on the hit TV series Murphy Brown — has died aged 86.

He was nominated for a Tony in 1971 for his Broadway performance in the Stephen Sondheim musical Company. Kimbrough starred as newsman Jim Dial across the 10 seasons of CBS hit sitcom Murphy Brown between 1988 and 1998, earning an Emmy nomination in 1990 for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series. - In 1990 he was nominated for an Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series

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Tony Nominee Charles Kimbrough Passes Away at 86 (Playbill.com)

Mr. Kimbrough originated the role of Harry in Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Company.

Mr. Kimbrough was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 1990. In the production, he met the woman who would later become his second wife, Beth Howland, who originated the role of neurotic bride Amy. The very next year, he originated the role of recovering alcoholic Harry in Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Company, receiving a Tony nomination for Best Featured Actor. A gentle man by nature, he quickly grew a reputation as a skilled actor of stately, often stuffy men who served as the straight foil in comedic settings. Kimbrough first lept to theatrical attention as a member of the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre alongside his first wife Mary Jane Wilson; together, the pair appeared in celebrated productions of Georges Feydeau's Cat Among the Pigeons and Jules Feiffer's The White House Murder Case.

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Charles Kimbrough, 'Murphy Brown' actor with prim persona, dies at ... (The Washington Post)

He played stuffy characters on the stage and screen, including in Broadway musicals by Stephen Sondheim and plays by A.R. Gurney.

Three years later, he completed a master’s degree in directing — at the time, he considered it “a more respectable profession than acting” — from the Yale School of Drama. He rarely acted in movies, but lent his voice to the gargoyle Victor — the character was stuffy, naturally — in the animated Disney film “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” (1996). “It’s a nice illusion now to think of all of us as terribly successful and talented people at the top of our profession,” he said, “but that’s hindsight. “Theater was her life,” Mr. Kimbrough explained to the magazine, he was so intense because it had been more than two years since he had a serious acting job, and he had never landed a major role on TV. His mother was a pianist, and his father was a salesman and brother of Emily Kimbrough, who co-wrote the best-selling memoir “Our Hearts Were Young and Gay” and later worked in Hollywood. “We didn’t want a Ted Baxter version of this guy,” she continued, referring to the buffoonish newscaster played by Ted Knight on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” “We wanted the real deal, from the Walter Cronkite, Edward R. “If there was a stiff-guy part,” he continued, “the director would brighten up when I came in. “He brought it all: that ramrod posture, the anchor voice, the slicked-back hair. Kimbrough was nominated in 1990 for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series. Charles Kimbrough, who received an Emmy nomination for playing uptight anchorman Jim Dial on the sitcom “Murphy Brown,” one of many priggish, comically stuffy characters that he humanized for the stage and screen, died Jan. Discovering that “stuffiness is not dullness,” Mr.

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