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Feb 25, 2020 · For a moment, cinema audiences may have speculated whether Randall could be referring to Jews or perhaps gays, due to his typically effete screen persona. Finally, Randall explains that the...
May 2, 2004 · Emily Nussbaum article on 1960's TV series The Odd Couple, starring Tony Randall and Jack Klugman, focuses on whether Randall's Felix Unger character was gay; says series' final episode,...
Jun 20, 2006 · The show was based on a TV movie in which Sidney was gay; in the TV show, the character's sexual orientation was implied, but never specified. "People have to remember this was 1981? '82?...
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Tony Randall was born on February 26, 1920 in Tulsa, Oklahoma as Aryeh Leonard Rosenberg. He attended Tulsa Central High School and later Northwestern University and New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. After graduating, he starred in two plays: George Bernard Shaw's 'Candida' alongside Jane Cowl and Emlyn Williams' 'The Co...
During the 1940s, Randall appeared mostly in supporting roles in Broadway plays. He was given his first leading role in 1955 with 'Inherit the Wind'. Randall managed to nab a Tony Award nomination for his starring role in 1958's 'Oh, Captain!', although the play itself bombed. His first role in a feature film came about in 1957, playing a supportin...
Randall's first major television role was as a history teacher on Mister Peepers (1952); he joined the cast in 1955. After the series ended, he had numerous guest spots on such shows as The United States Steel Hour (1953), The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962), Love, American Style (1969), and Here's Lucy (1968). He wouldn't return to TV in a major role...
Randall passed away in his sleep on May 17, 2004 of pneumonia he had contracted following coronary bypass surgery in December 2003. He is survived by his wife, Heather Harlan, whom he wed in 1995, and their two children. Randall had previously been married to Florence Gibbs from 1938 until her death in 1992.
- February 26, 1920
- May 17, 2004
May 19, 2004 · The show was based on a TV movie in which Sidney was gay; in the TV show, the character's sexual orientation was implied but never specified. This occurred more than a decade before the...
May 19, 2004 · Randall's effortlessly gay-seeming quality was realized further in "Love, Sidney" (1981-83), about an older gay man who takes in a single mother and her child. Sidney was the first gay lead...
Oct 27, 1996 · Mr. Bruni was correct in saying that Tony Randall was the first star to play a gay character on television. I wrote the original story ''Sidney Shor,'' which became an NBC movie, adapted by...
