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Roger Rees. Roger Rees (5 May 1944 – 10 July 2015) was a Welsh actor and director, widely known for his stage work. He won an Olivier Award and a Tony Award for his performance as the lead in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. He also received Obie Awards for his role in The End of the Day and as co-director of Peter and the ...
Jul 11, 2015 · July 11, 2015. Roger Rees, the handsome Welsh-born actor and director who rose to fame as the title character in “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby,” for which he won a Tony Award ...
Jul 11, 2015 · Roger Rees, the Tony Award-winning Welsh-born actor and director who appeared on TV's "The West Wing" and was a mainstay on Broadway died Friday night. He was 71. Jim Cooper/AP hide caption
Roger Rees. Actor: Frida. Like a number of British actors of the same generation (John Hurt and Alan Rickman, to name two), Roger Rees originally trained for the visual arts. He was born on May 5 1944 in Aberystwyth, Wales, and acted in church and Boy Scouts stage productions while growing up in South London, but studied painting and lithography at the Slade School of Art. He had to quit...
- May 5, 1944
- July 10, 2015
Jul 13, 2015 · A slick, elegant actor, with a febrile, boyish dynamic, Roger Rees, who has died of stomach cancer, came to the stage by chance and went on to craft a classy career, at the centre of which were 22 ...
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Jul 10, 2015 · July 10, 2015 10:36pm. AP Images. Roger Rees, the Welsh-born icon of the stage who gained fame for playing the title role in the original marathon Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Life ...
Jul 11, 2015 · Sat 11 Jul 2015 14.41 EDT. Last modified on Thu 26 Mar 2020 08.41 EDT. Tributes have been paid to the stage and screen actor Roger Rees, whose death at the age of 71 was announced by his agent in ...