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David Anthony "Tony" Roberts (born October 22 1939) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
. He is frequently confused with actor Ron Perlman
Ron Perlman

Ronald Francis "Ron" Perlman is an American television, film and voice acting actor....
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rts was born in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 of Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish heritage, the son of Norma, an animator, and CBS
CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
 radio announcer Kenneth Roberts. He has a sister, Nancy, and is the cousin of late actor Everett Sloane
Everett Sloane

Everett Sloane was an Cinema of the United States stage, film and television actor, songwriter, and theatre director....
. Roberts attended Northwestern University
Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a non-sectarian private university research university located in Evanston, Illinois and downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States....
 and 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 1962, with a role in the play Something About a Soldier.

rts is known for his collaborations with Woody Allen
Woody Allen

Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
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David Anthony "Tony" Roberts (born October 22 1939) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
. He is frequently confused with actor Ron Perlman
Ron Perlman

Ronald Francis "Ron" Perlman is an American television, film and voice acting actor....
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Biography


Early life

Roberts was born in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 of Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish heritage, the son of Norma, an animator, and CBS
CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
 radio announcer Kenneth Roberts. He has a sister, Nancy, and is the cousin of late actor Everett Sloane
Everett Sloane

Everett Sloane was an Cinema of the United States stage, film and television actor, songwriter, and theatre director....
. Roberts attended Northwestern University
Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a non-sectarian private university research university located in Evanston, Illinois and downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States....
 and 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 1962, with a role in the play Something About a Soldier.

Career

Roberts is known for his collaborations with Woody Allen
Woody Allen

Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
. In Annie Hall
Annie Hall

Annie Hall is an Cinema of the United States romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen from a script co-written with Marshall Brickman. One of Allen's most popular films, it won numerous awards at the time of its release, including four Academy Awards, and in 2002 Roger Ebert referred to it as "just about everyone's favorite Woody All...
 (1977), he portrayed Alvy Singer's best friend Rob. Other Allen films and/or plays in which he has appeared include both the Broadway and film versions of Play It Again, Sam
Play It Again, Sam

This article is about the 1972 Woody Allen film. For other uses of the phrase, see Play it again, Sam.Play It Again, Sam is a Play and 1972 in film film written by and starring Woody Allen, originally entitled Aspirins for Three....
 (not actually directed by Allen), Radio Days
Radio Days

Radio Days is an Academy Award-nominated 1987 in film film directed by Woody Allen. The film looks back on American family life during the Golden Age of Old-time radio....
, Stardust Memories
Stardust Memories

Stardust Memories is a 1980 in film written and directed by Woody Allen, who considers this to be one of his best films in addition to The Purple Rose of Cairo and Match Point....
, Hannah and Her Sisters
Hannah and Her Sisters

Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 in film comedy film drama film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family, told mostly during a year that begins and ends with a family Thanksgiving#Thanksgiving dinner....
, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy is a 1982 in film film written and directed by Woody Allen.The plot is loosely based on Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night....
 and Woody Allen's segment for The Concert for New York City
The Concert for New York City

The Concert for New York City was a benefit concert, featuring many famous musicians, that took place on October 20, 2001 at Madison Square Garden in New York City in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks....
. Roberts also appeared in the Sidney Lumet
Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet is an Academy Award winning United States film director, with over 50 films to his name, including the critically acclaimed 12 Angry Men , Serpico , Dog Day Afternoon , Network and The Verdict , all of which, except for Serpico , earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director....
 films Serpico
Serpico

Serpico is a 1973 in film Cinema of the United States crime film directed by Sidney Lumet. It is based on the true story of New York City police officer Frank Serpico....
 and Just Tell Me What You Want
Just Tell Me What You Want

Just Tell Me What You Want is a 1980 United States comedy film directed by Sidney Lumet. The screenplay by Jay Presson Allen, adapted from her novel, won her the David di Donatello for Best Screenplay of a Foreign Film....
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Roberts' 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....
 credits include Barefoot in the Park
Barefoot in the Park

Barefoot in the Park is a play by Neil Simon.Its focus is on newlywed couple Corie and Paul Bratter, who are setting up house in a minuscule fifth-floor walkup apartment in a downtown-Manhattan brownstone....
, How Now, Dow Jones
How Now, Dow Jones

How Now, Dow Jones is a Broadway theatre Musical theatre comedy. From an original concept by Carolyn Leigh, the Libretto was written by Max Shulman, the lyrics by Leigh herself, and the music by Elmer Bernstein....
, Promises, Promises
Promises, Promises

Promises, Promises is a musical theatre based on the 1960 film The Apartment by Billy Wilder. The music is by Burt Bacharach, lyrics by Hal David, and book by Neil Simon....
, Sugar
Sugar (musical)

Sugar is a 1972 Broadway theater Musical theatre based on the screenplay for the film Some Like it Hot, which was written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L....
, They're Playing Our Song
They're Playing Our Song

They're Playing Our Song is a musical theatre with a book by Neil Simon, lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager, and music by Marvin Hamlisch.In a story based on the real-life relationship of Hamlisch and Sager, a wisecracking composer finds a new, offbeat lyricist, but initially the match is not one made in heaven....
, The Sisters Rosensweig
The Sisters Rosensweig

The Sisters Rosensweig is a Play by Wendy Wasserstein....
, Victor/Victoria
Victor/Victoria (musical)

Victor/Victoria is a musical theatre with a book by Blake Edwards, music by Henry Mancini, lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and additional musical material by Frank Wildhorn....
, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife
The Tale of the Allergist's Wife

The Tale of the Allergist's Wife is a play by Charles Busch.In his first play written for a mainstream audience, Busch explores the Upper West Side Social environment of aspiring intellectual and middle-aged upper class matron Marjorie Taub, who lives comfortably with her doctor husband Ira in an expensively furnished condominium near Z...
, and Cabaret
Cabaret (musical)

Cabaret is a Musical theater with a book by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander. The 1966 Broadway theatre production became a hit and spawned an acclaimed 1972 film as well as numerous subsequent productions....
. In May 2007, Roberts returned to Broadway in the roller-disco rock musical
Rock musical

A rock musical is a musical theatre work with rock music. The genre of rock musical may overlap somewhat with Album musical, concept albums and song cycles, as they sometimes tell a story through the rock music, and some album musicals and concept albums become rock musicals....
 Xanadu
Xanadu (musical)

Xanadu is a musical theatre comedy with a book by Douglas Carter Beane, music and lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar, based on the Xanadu which was, in turn, inspired by the 1947 Rita Hayworth film Down to Earth ....
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On television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 he has appeared on The Carol Burnett Show
The Carol Burnett Show

The Carol Burnett Show is a sketch comedy television show starring Carol Burnett, Tim Conway, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, and Lyle Waggoner....
, Matlock
Matlock (TV series)

Matlock is a long-running United States television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role. The show ran from September 23, 1986 to May 8, 1992 on NBC, where it replaced the long-running series The A-Team to Friday nights, then on November 5, 1992 until May 7, 1995 on American Broadcasting Company....
, and 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....
. On radio
Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
 he was a regular performer on the CBS Radio Mystery Theater
CBS Radio Mystery Theater

CBS Radio Mystery Theater was an ambitious and sustained attempt during the 1970s to revive the great drama of old-time radio. The series was created by Himan Brown, a radio legend due to his work on Inner Sanctum Mysteries and other shows dating back to the 1930s....
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External links

  • - Downstage Center interview at American Theatre Wing.org
    American Theatre Wing

    The American Theatre Wing is a New York City-based organization "dedicated to supporting excellence and education in theatre," according to its mission statement....
  • Tony Roberts - article in The New York Observer