'Cheers' star Roger Rees dies at 71
He was not on the list.
Roger Rees, a Welsh-born actor known for roles on Broadway
and television staples such as Cheers and the West Wing, died Friday night.
Rees died at his home in New York City after a brief
illness, according to his representative, Rick Miramontez, the AP reported. He
was 71.
The actor won a Tony and an Olivier Award for his role as
Nicholas Nickleby in the 1982 Royal Shakespeare Company's production of The
Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
Rees played several well-known roles on U.S. TV shows, including
British ambassador Lord John Marbury on The West Wing and the pretentious
millionaire Robin Colcord on Cheers in the 1980s.
On Broadway, Rees played Gomez in The Addams Family and most
recently appeared as Anton Schell in The Visit.
His work also included roles in Mel Brooks' Robin Hood: Men
in Tights, The Pink Panther and Sherlock Holmes in a 1988 version of the film.
Rees and his partner, playwright Rick Elice, lived in New
York together. The couple began their relationship in the early '80s.
On Twitter, "Roger Rees" and "Lord
Marbury" were trending Saturday morning as fans and fellow actors
responded to the news of his death.
Actor Sir Patrick Stewart tweeted: "Brilliant actor,
dear friend and colleague, witty, kind, private man, Roger Rees died this
morning. A space is left that cannot be filled."
Actor and director Samuel West tweeted: "Woke to the
sad news of Roger Rees's death."
Film
Star 80 (1983) as
Aram Nicholas
God's Outlaw: The
Story of William Tyndale (1986) as William Tyndale
If Looks Could
Kill – Teen Agent (1991) as Augustus Steranko
Stop! Or My Mom
Will Shoot (1992) as J. Parnell
Robin Hood: Men in
Tights (1993) as Sheriff of Rottingham
The Substance of
Fire (1996) as Max
Sudden Manhattan
(1996) as Murphy
Trouble on the
Corner (1997) as Mr. McMurtry
Next Stop
Wonderland (1998) as Ray Thornback
A Midsummer
Night's Dream (1999) as Peter Quince
The Bumblebee
Flies Anyway (1999) as Dr Croft
BlackMale (2000)
as Bill Fontaine
3 A.M. (2001) as
Priest
Return to Never
Land (2002) as Edward (voice)
The Scorpion King
(2002) as King Pheron
Frida (2002) as
Guillermo Kahlo
The Emperor's Club
(2002) as Mr. Castle
The Tulse Luper
Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea (2004)
The Tulse Luper
Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish (2004) as Tulse Luper
Going Under (2004)
as Peter
Crazy Like a Fox
(2004) as Nat Banks
Game 6 (2005) as
Jack Haskins
A Life in
Suitcases (2005) as Tulse Luper
The New World
(2005) as Virginia Company Representative (uncredited)
The Pink Panther
(2006) as Raymond Larocque
East Broadway
(2006) as Andrew Barrington Sr.
The Treatment
(2006) as Leighton Proctor
Garfield: A Tail
of Two Kitties (2006) as solicitor Mr. Hobbs
The Prestige (2006) as Owens
The Invasion
(2007) as Yorish
The Narrows (2008)
as Professor Reyerson
Happy Tears (2010)
as antiques dealer
Almost Perfect
(2011) as Kai Lee
Portraits in
Dramatic Time (2011) as Himself
Affluenza (2014)
as Mr. Carson
Survivor (2015) as
Dr. Emil Balan
Television
Tales of the
Unexpected (1984) as James Howgill
A Christmas Carol
(1984, TV Movie) as Fred Holywell / Narrator
Singles
(1988-1989) as Malcolm
Cheers (1989-1993)
as Robin Colcord
The Young Riders
(1990) as Tyler Dewitt
Gargoyles as Prince Malcolm
M.A.N.T.I.S.
(1994-1995) as Dr. John Stonebrake
My So-Called Life
(1994) as Vic Racine
Titanic (1996) as
J. Bruce Ismay
Boston Common
(1997) as President Harrison Cross
Liberty! The American Revolution (1997) as
Thomas Paine
Extreme
Ghostbusters (1997) as The Piper
Double Platinum
(1999, TV Movie) as Marc Reckler
The Crossing
(2000, TV Movie) as Hugh Mercer
Oz (2001) as Jack
Eldridge
Law & Order
(2003) as Wyatt Scofield
The West Wing
(2000-2005) as Lord John Marbury
Grey's Anatomy
(2007, season three) as Dr. Colin Marlow
Law & Order:
Criminal Intent (2009) as Duke DeGuerin
Warehouse 13
(2009-2013) as James MacPherson
The Good Wife (2010)
as Dr. Todd Grossman
Elementary
(2012-2014) as Alistair Moore
The Middle (2013)
as Mr. Glover
Forever (2014) as
Priest
American
Experience (2015) as Governor Bradford
The Mayflower
Pilgrims: Behind the Myth. (BBC2, 2016) as Governor Bradford[22]
Theatre
The Comedy of
Errors (as Antipholus of Syracuse), Stratford-on-Avon and London, 1976
Three Sisters (as
Tusenbach) Stratford-upon-Avon London and tour, 1979[23]
"The
Suicide" by Nikolai Erdman (as Semyon Semyonovich). Royal Shakespeare
Company. 1979.
Cymbeline (as
Posthumus), Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-on-Avon 1979[24]
Cymbeline (as
Posthumus), Royal National Theatre, 1980
The Life and
Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (as Nicholas Nickleby), Royal Shakespeare
Company
Aldwych
Theatre, London, June 1980 – June 1981[25]
Plymouth
Theatre, Broadway, September 1981 – March 1982
The Real Thing (as
Henry), London, 1982
Hapgood by Tom Stoppard as Kerner, London
March 1988[26]
Hamlet as Hamlet,
Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford upon Avon, 1984
The End of the Day
(as Graydon Massey), Playwrights Horizons, off-Broadway, 1992
Indiscretions (as
George), Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway, 1995
A Man of No
Importance (as Alfie Byrne), Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, off-Broadway, 2002
Waiting for Godot
(as Vladimir, replacing Patrick Stewart), Haymarket Theatre, London, 2010
Waiting for Godot
(as Vladimir), His Majesty's Theatre, Perth, 2010
Waiting for Godot
(as Vladimir), Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide, 2010
Waiting for Godot
(as Vladimir), Comedy Theatre, Melbourne, 2010[27]
The Addams Family
(as Gomez [Replaced Nathan Lane]), Broadway, 2011
Peter and the
Starcatcher (co-director with Alex Timbers), Broadway, 2012 (and then it moved
to an Off-Broadway theatre in 2013)
What You Will
(Actor, Writer, Director) Apollo Theater, London 2012
Herringbone
(Director) 2012[28]
The Primrose Path
(Director), Guthrie Theater, 2013
The Winslow Boy
(as Arthur Winslow), American Airlines Theatre, Broadway, 2013[29]
Dog and Pony
(Director) Old Globe Theater 2014
The Visit (musical
version; as Anton Schell), Broadway, 2015
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