Tony Roberts, the Hollywood and stage actor best known as the hero’s best friend in Woody Allen movies like “Annie Hall,” and who distinguished himself on the New York stage with two Tony Award nominations, died on Feb. 7 at his home in Manhattan. He was 85.
Other acting credits are “Hannah and Her Sisters,” “Play It Again, Sam,” “Don’t Drink the Water,” “How Now, Dow Jones,” “Serpico,” “The Sisters Rosensweig,” “Barefoot in the Park,” “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three,” and other appearances on screen and stage. His final screen role was as Max Kellerman, a wistful Catskills resort owner, in a 2017 television movie version of “Dirty Dancing.”
In an NBC interview recounted in his 2015 memoir, Do you know me?, a critic, impressed by — or concerned about — the number of television, movie and theater projects Mr. Roberts had going on, asked him if he ever took a vacation.
“No,” Mr. Roberts said. “I crack under leisure.”
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