Robert Morse

Robert Alan Morse was an American actor. Known for his gap-toothed boyishness, he started his career acting in Broadway musicals and plays and then expanded into film and television. For his roles on Broadway, Morse won two Tony Awards; the first for Best Actor in a Musical for playing J. Pierrepont Finch in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, a role he reprised in the 1967 film adaptation; the second for Best Actor in a Play for portraying Truman Capote in the one-man play Tru, a role he reprised in the 1992 television production, earning him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. Morse was also Tony-nominated for Say, Darling, Take Me Along, and Sugar. Morse acted in his final stage role in the Broadway revival of the newspaper comedy The Front Page from 2016 to 2017. Morse acted in the films The Matchmaker, The Cardinal, The Loved One, and A Guide for the Married Man. Known for his television roles, he played Robert Dickson in the ABC comedy series That's Life, for which he was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Series, and voiced lead roles in three Rankin/Bass animated productions. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)