Tony Award-winning actor Roger Rees dies at 71 in New York

Rees also had recurring TV roles on the British sitcom Singles, Boston Common and M.A.N.T.I.S., and he recently popped up on Grey’s Anatomy, The Good Wife, The Middle and Elementary.

In late May, the Tony Award victor abruptly exited the Broadway production of the Kander & Ebb musical The Visit, in which he was starring opposite Chita Rivera.

Rees with Kirstie Alley on “Cheers” [Cred: NBC].

Roger Rees, who played aloof British tycoon Robin Colcord in Cheers, has died at the age of 71. He was also memorable on “The West Wing“.

Mr. Rees and his husband, the writer Rick Elice, collaborated on Peter and the Starcatcher, a play based on a novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, adapted by Elice, and co-directed by Rees and Alex Timbers.

The actor won Tony and Olivier awards in 1982 for his lead role in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Life And Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

Actor and director Samuel West tweeted: “Woke to the sad news of Roger Rees’s death”.

Of his theatrical beginnings, Rees said in a 2014 U-T interview: “I was an art student when I was a boy, and as an art student you don’t have to talk to anyone – you just have to paint really wonderful paintings”. (Both Rees and Timbers were nominated.).

The last flight for US Airways will take place this fall, and one more name in airline history will disappear. And I learned (acting) from watching other actors.

An association with playwright Tom Stoppard began when he acted as Henry in the original London production of The Real Thing in 1982. He directed Lynn Nottage’s Mud, River, Stone at Playwrights Horizons in 1997, and an Off-Broadway revival of Arms and the Man in 2000.

Roger Rees, the Tony Award-winning actor and director who had significant ties to San Diego theater, died Friday evening in New York.

A third suspect has been arrested in connection with the beating death of a day laborer in suburban New York’s Westchester County.

Movie appearances included roles in Mel Brooks’ “Robin Hood: Men in Tights“, in which he played the Sheriff of Rottingham, and in Steve Martin’s “The Pink Panther” and Salma Hayek’s “Frida“.