This year’s Tonys will be held on June 16, so the American Theatre Wing will likely be announcing its Lifetime Achievement Award recipient in the near future. Who do you think should take home this prestigious trophy, which honors an individual’s body of work? It has gone to veteran stage performers, directors, choreographers, playwrights, songwriters, producers and designers. In some years we get multiple recipients.
Last year these honors went to actor Joel Grey and composer John Kander. The following living male Broadway vets have also received this award in the past and thus won’t be chosen again: Paul Gemignani, Alan Ayckbourn, Athol Fugard, Marshall W. Mason, Tommy Tune, James Earl Jones, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Harold Wheeler.
Here are 10 possibilities featured in our poll below, all accomplished men over the age of 65. Vote to let us know who you’d like to see honored. And take a...
Last year these honors went to actor Joel Grey and composer John Kander. The following living male Broadway vets have also received this award in the past and thus won’t be chosen again: Paul Gemignani, Alan Ayckbourn, Athol Fugard, Marshall W. Mason, Tommy Tune, James Earl Jones, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Harold Wheeler.
Here are 10 possibilities featured in our poll below, all accomplished men over the age of 65. Vote to let us know who you’d like to see honored. And take a...
- 3/26/2024
- by Jeffrey Kare
- Gold Derby
During his nearly 50-year career, English actor David Threlfall has received a single Primetime Emmy nomination for his supporting performance on the 1982 limited series “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.” He appeared in all four parts of this filmed stage adaptation of Charles Dickens’s 1839 book as Smike, a simple young man who the titular hero takes on as a traveling companion. The program was nominated for a total of seven Emmys in 1983 and ultimately won the top prize of Best Limited Series.
Threlfall was 10 weeks away from turning 30 when he picked up his Best TV Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actor bid. This made him the fourth youngest man to ever contend for the award, and he now ranks 10th on the list almost four decades later. Four of the nine younger actors were added to the group after 2015, and three earned their nominations before turning 18. The one who...
Threlfall was 10 weeks away from turning 30 when he picked up his Best TV Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actor bid. This made him the fourth youngest man to ever contend for the award, and he now ranks 10th on the list almost four decades later. Four of the nine younger actors were added to the group after 2015, and three earned their nominations before turning 18. The one who...
- 9/9/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
During his nearly 50-year career, English actor David Threlfall has received a single Primetime Emmy nomination for his supporting performance on the 1982 limited series “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.” He appeared in all four parts of this filmed stage adaptation of Charles Dickens’s 1839 book as Smike, a simple young man who the titular hero takes on as a traveling companion. The program was nominated for a total of seven Emmys in 1983 and ultimately won the top prize of Best Limited Series.
Threlfall was 10 weeks away from turning 30 when he picked up his Best TV Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actor bid. This made him the fourth youngest man to ever contend for the award, and he now ranks 10th on the list almost four decades later. Four of the nine younger actors were added to the group after 2015, and three earned their nominations before turning 18. The one who...
Threlfall was 10 weeks away from turning 30 when he picked up his Best TV Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actor bid. This made him the fourth youngest man to ever contend for the award, and he now ranks 10th on the list almost four decades later. Four of the nine younger actors were added to the group after 2015, and three earned their nominations before turning 18. The one who...
- 9/9/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Graceful stage actor who stood out in Doctor Who on TV and the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
In a long and distinguished career, the actor Aubrey Woods, who has died aged 85, covered the waterfront, from West End revues and musicals to TV series and films, most notably, perhaps, singing The Candy Man in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), starring Gene Wilder, and playing the Controller in the Day of the Daleks storyline in Doctor Who (1972).
Tall and well-favoured in grace and authority on the stage, he played Fagin in the musical Oliver! for three years, succeeding Ron Moody in the original 1960 production. He was equally in demand on BBC radio, writing and appearing in many plays, including his own adaptations of the Mapp and Lucia novels by Ef Benson (he was a vice-president of the Ef Benson society).
In the early part of his career he...
In a long and distinguished career, the actor Aubrey Woods, who has died aged 85, covered the waterfront, from West End revues and musicals to TV series and films, most notably, perhaps, singing The Candy Man in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), starring Gene Wilder, and playing the Controller in the Day of the Daleks storyline in Doctor Who (1972).
Tall and well-favoured in grace and authority on the stage, he played Fagin in the musical Oliver! for three years, succeeding Ron Moody in the original 1960 production. He was equally in demand on BBC radio, writing and appearing in many plays, including his own adaptations of the Mapp and Lucia novels by Ef Benson (he was a vice-president of the Ef Benson society).
In the early part of his career he...
- 5/14/2013
- by Michael Coveney
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★★☆ Those who like their films heavily laden with nostalgia are in for a treat with StudioCanal's DVD release of two Dickensian gems. English director Thomas Bentley's The Old Curiosity Shop (1934) featuring Elaine Benson and Hay Petrie, and Ealing Studios' The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947) directed by Brazilian Alberto Cavalcanti and starring Derek Bond, Sally Ann Howes and Cedric Hardwicke, are not only classic interpretations of these well known stories but are also amongst the best examples of early British cinema.
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- 5/15/2012
- by CineVue
- CineVue
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