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4 days ago · His big break was landing the starring role in José Quintero's 1956 off Broadway theatre revival production and the later 1960 television film of O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, portraying the philosophical salesman Hickey; he won an Obie Award for his stage performance.
4 days ago · Watch James Earl Jones Make Hollywood History With Just Four Words: ‘I Am Your Father’. The climactic moment between Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker is perhaps the greatest moment in Star Wars ...
3 days ago · His versatility led him to Hickey in The Iceman Cometh, Lennie in Of Mice and Men, Lopakhin in The Cherry Orchard and Troy Maxson in Fences. I caught that towering performance as the tragic...
3 days ago · He made significant contributions to Broadway, with performances in classics like Othello, The Iceman Cometh, and Fences, for which he won his second Tony in 1987.
4 days ago · More recent Broadway appearances include “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” “Driving Miss Daisy,” “The Iceman Cometh,” and “You Can’t Take It With You.” As a rising stage and television actor, he appeared in “As the World Turns” in 1965, one of the first Black actors to have such role on daytime TV.
1 day ago · He appeared onstage as Paul Robeson, Lennie in "Of Mice and Men," and Hickman in "The Iceman Cometh." But it was a voiceover job for a science-fiction film that would launch his career into...
3 days ago · And there was cutting edge, modern work in Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and an all-black production of Tennessee Williams' Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.
