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George Cooper Grizzard, Jr. (April 1, 1928 – October 2, 2007) was an American Emmy Award
Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
- and Tony Award
Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City....
-winning actor of film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 and stage
Theatre

Theatre is the branch of the performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one or more actor, isolated in time and/or Theater , present themselves to Audience." By this broad definition, theatre has existed since the dawn of man, as a result of human tendency for story telling....
.

in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina

Roanoke Rapids is a city in Halifax County, North Carolina, North Carolina, United States. The population was 16,957 at the 2000 census. It is the principal city of the Roanoke Rapids Roanoke Rapids micropolitan area....
, Grizzard appeared in more than 40 films and dozens of television programs.

Grizzard appeared in Advise and Consent
Advise and Consent

Advise and Consent is a 1959 political fiction written by Allen Drury which explores the reactions of those in and around the United States Senate to the controversial nomination of Robert Leffingwell, a former Communist Party member, to be United States Secretary of State....
 in 1962, and guest-starred several times on the NBC television drama Law & Order
Law & Order

Law & Order is an United States police procedural and legal drama Television program created by Dick Wolf. It has been broadcast on NBC since its debut on September 13, 1990....
 as defense attorney Arthur Gold. He portrayed John Adams
John Adams

John Adams was an Politics of the United States and the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States , after being the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States for two terms....
 in the Emmy Award
Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
-winning WNET
WNET

WNET, channel 13, is a non-commercial television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey. With its signal covering the three-state New York metropolitan area, WNET is a flagship station of the Public Broadcasting Service and a primary provider of PBS programming....
-produced PBS mini-series The Adams Chronicles
The Adams Chronicles

The Adams Chronicles was a multi-Emmy award-winning, thirteen-episode special by PBS that aired in the mid-1970s to commemorate the Bicentennial....
.

Grizzard made his Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 debut in The Desperate Hours
The Desperate Hours (play)

The Desperate Hours is a 1955 play by Joseph Hayes, based on his 1954 thriller The Desperate Hours of the same title. The story, about three escaped convicts, was the basis for the films The Desperate Hours in 1955 and Desperate Hours in 1990....
 in 1955.






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George Cooper Grizzard, Jr. (April 1, 1928 – October 2, 2007) was an American Emmy Award
Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
- and Tony Award
Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City....
-winning actor of film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 and stage
Theatre

Theatre is the branch of the performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one or more actor, isolated in time and/or Theater , present themselves to Audience." By this broad definition, theatre has existed since the dawn of man, as a result of human tendency for story telling....
.

Career

Born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina

Roanoke Rapids is a city in Halifax County, North Carolina, North Carolina, United States. The population was 16,957 at the 2000 census. It is the principal city of the Roanoke Rapids Roanoke Rapids micropolitan area....
, Grizzard appeared in more than 40 films and dozens of television programs.

Grizzard appeared in Advise and Consent
Advise and Consent

Advise and Consent is a 1959 political fiction written by Allen Drury which explores the reactions of those in and around the United States Senate to the controversial nomination of Robert Leffingwell, a former Communist Party member, to be United States Secretary of State....
 in 1962, and guest-starred several times on the NBC television drama Law & Order
Law & Order

Law & Order is an United States police procedural and legal drama Television program created by Dick Wolf. It has been broadcast on NBC since its debut on September 13, 1990....
 as defense attorney Arthur Gold. He portrayed John Adams
John Adams

John Adams was an Politics of the United States and the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States , after being the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States for two terms....
 in the Emmy Award
Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
-winning WNET
WNET

WNET, channel 13, is a non-commercial television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey. With its signal covering the three-state New York metropolitan area, WNET is a flagship station of the Public Broadcasting Service and a primary provider of PBS programming....
-produced PBS mini-series The Adams Chronicles
The Adams Chronicles

The Adams Chronicles was a multi-Emmy award-winning, thirteen-episode special by PBS that aired in the mid-1970s to commemorate the Bicentennial....
.

Grizzard made his Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 debut in The Desperate Hours
The Desperate Hours (play)

The Desperate Hours is a 1955 play by Joseph Hayes, based on his 1954 thriller The Desperate Hours of the same title. The story, about three escaped convicts, was the basis for the films The Desperate Hours in 1955 and Desperate Hours in 1990....
 in 1955. He was a frequent interpreter of the plays of Edward Albee
Edward Albee

Edward Franklin Albee III is an American playwright best known for works, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Zoo Story, The Sandbox and The American Dream ....
, having appeared in the original 1962 production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a play by Edward Albee that opened on Broadway theatre at the Billy Rose Theater on October 13, 1962. The original cast featured Uta Hagen as Martha, Arthur Hill as George, Melinda Dillon as Honey and George Grizzard as Nick....
 as Nick, as well as the 1996 revival of A Delicate Balance
A Delicate Balance

A Delicate Balance is a play by Edward Albee first produced on Broadway theatre at the Martin Beck Theatre on 12 September 1966. The production ran four months....
 and the 2005 revival of Seascape
Seascape (play)

Seascape is a Play by United States playwright Edward Albee. Directed by Albee himself, the production opened on Broadway on January 26, 1975, at the Shubert Theatre , starring Deborah Kerr, Barry Nelson, Maureen Anderman and Frank Langella....
.

In 1980 he won an Emmy for his work in The Oldest Living Graduate. He won the 1996 Tony Award
Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City....
 for Best Actor in a Play
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play

The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play presented since 1947, is awarded to actors in productions of new or revival plays....
 for A Delicate Balance
A Delicate Balance

A Delicate Balance is a play by Edward Albee first produced on Broadway theatre at the Martin Beck Theatre on 12 September 1966. The production ran four months....
. Additional Broadway credits include The Creation of the World and Other Business
The Creation of the World and Other Business

The Creation of the World and Other Business is a play by Arthur Miller.A parable inspired by the book of Genesis in the Bible, it explores the classic theme of good versus evil by way of a comedy retelling of the story of the creation of man ....
, The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie is a play by Tennessee Williams that was originally written as a screenplay for MGM, to whom Williams was contracted . The play premiered in Chicago in 1944, and in 1945 won the prestigious New York Drama Critics Circle Award....
, The Country Girl
The Country Girl

The Country Girl may refer to:* The Country Girl , a 1915 silent film, based on an 18th-century play by David Garrick* The Country Girl , a 1954 film based on a play by Clifford Odets, starring Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly...
, The Royal Family, and California Suite
California Suite

California Suite is a 1976 Play by Neil Simon about five couples, all set in one hotel suite in California. It is a bittersweet comedy. The first couple hail from New York City and are engaged in a custody battle....
.

In 2001, Grizzard played Judge Dan Haywood in the stage production of Judgement at Nuremberg opposite Maximilian Schell
Maximilian Schell

Maximilian Schell is an Academy Award-winning Austrian actor. He is also a writer, director and producer of several films....
 under the production of actor Tony Randall
Tony Randall

Tony Randall was an American comic and actor....
. Grizzard appeared as Big Daddy in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a Play by Tennessee Williams. The play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955 in literature....
 at the Kennedy Center in 2004.

Death

Grizzard died in Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
 of complications from lung cancer
Lung cancer

Lung cancer is a disease of uncontrolled cell growth in tissue of the lung. This growth may lead to metastasis, which is the invasion of adjacent tissue and infiltration beyond the lungs....
. He is survived by his partner, William Tynan, who was also a stage and TV actor, until he became a Time Arts Reporter.

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