![]() Royale Theatre (moved to The Booth Theatre from to close): - (486 performances). Scenic Design / Costume Design by Tanya Moiseiwitsch. Based on "Einen Jux Will Sich Machen" by Johann Nestroy, which was based on "A Day Well Spent" by John Oxenford. Stage: Appeared (as "Barnaby Tucker, Apprentice in Vandergelder's Store") in "The Matchmaker" on Broadway. Robert Morse died on April 20, 2022, in Los Angeles. Married twice, his five children include actresses Andrea Doven, Hilary Morse and Robin Morse. He also impressed as Dominick Dunne on the series American Crime Story (2016) and provided the TV voice of Santa Claus in the animated short series Teen Titans Go! (2013). He made a huge dramatic impression as an advertising agency founder Bertram Cooper on the popular series Mad Men (2007) and earned five Emmy nominations. Into the millennium, he focused on TV work. Robert continued to be seen in odd roles from time to time, such as "Grandpa" in the revamped TV movie, Here Come the Munsters (1995). At the age of 85, Morse returned to the lights of Broadway in the 2016 revival of "The Front Page" starring Nathan Lane. With this role, Bobby became one of the choice few to ever win Tony awards for both a musical and dramatic part. Tru (1992), based on the life of the equally-eccentric Truman Capote - a perfect fit, if ever there was one, between actor and role. Following an unfulfilling stint on the daytime soap, All My Children (1970), he came back in grand style in the one-man tour de farce, After earning acclaim and another Tony-nomination as the cross-dressing musician on the lam in "Sugar", a Broadway musical version of Some Like It Hot (1959), Morse appeared less and less - his eccentricities proving both difficult to cast and to deal with. Overall, Bobby's work has never been less than interesting with no gray areas in his performances - ranging from bizarre to irritating, from frenzied to fascinating. Peaker, which combined sketches, monologues and musical interludes, but the show lasted only one season. His offbeat musical talents were used for the intriguing experimental James Thurber-like TV series, That's Life (1968), with E.J. Morse's best movie roles also came in the 60s, as a Britisher arranging his uncle's funeral in the cult favorite, The Loved One (1965), and as Walter Matthau's philandering buddy/advisor in A Guide for the Married Man (1967). ![]() He took that role to film, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967), six years later. Pierpont Finch" in "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying", in which he finally won the Tony, in 1961, while singing his signature song, "I Believe in You", to himself in the mirror. Instead, he brightened up the lights of Broadway as "Barnaby Tucker" in "The Matchmaker" (and in the film version of The Matchmaker (1958)), as well as in "Say, Darling" (Tony nomination in 1958), "Take Me Along" (Tony nomination in 1959) and his best-known role as the ever-ambitious "J. Robert made his debut with the musical "On the Town", in 1949, and trained with Lee Strasberg, before making his inauspicious film debut in The Proud and Profane (1956), but movie offers were few. Moving to New York, he joined elder brother Richard who was already studying acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse. He developed an interest in performing in high school. ![]() His father was of German Jewish descent and his mother was of Russian Jewish ancestry. He was born Robert Allen Morse on May 18, 1931, in Newton, Massachusetts, the son of May (Silver) and Charles Morse, who worked at a record store. ![]() With that impish, gap-toothed grin, nervous bundle of energy, Robert Morse could never be contained long enough to become a film star. ![]()
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