Lester Rawlins

Lester Rawlins

Lester Rawlins (September 24, 1924 - March 22, 1988) was an award-winning American stage, screen, and television actor.

Born in Sharon, Pennsylvania, Rawlins appeared in off-Broadway productions of "Hamlet", "Macbeth", "Romeo and Juliet", "Richard III", "Winterset", "In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel", and "Nightride", for which he won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance. His Broadway credits included "A Man for All Seasons" and "Da", for which he won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play and was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play.

On television, Rawlins had recurring roles on "The Defenders", "Kojak", and "Ryan's Hope". His feature films included "Diary of a Mad Housewife" and "They Might Be Giants".

Rawlins died of cardiac arrest in New York City.

References

* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEEDA133AF93AA15750C0A96E948260 "New York Times" obituary, March 29, 1988]

External links

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* [http://www.lortel.org/lla_archive/index.cfm?search_by=people&keyword=name&first=Lester&last=Rawlins&middle= Lester Rawlins at the Lortel Archives Internet Off-Broadway Database]


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