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By Anita Gates
Tony Roberts, the affable actor who most productive known as the hero’s most productive friend in Woody Allen’s films as “Annie Hall”, and who promine himself in the New York scene with two Tony awards and what a critic called his “Prudent indifferent,” “he died Friday at his home in Manhattan. He 85 years.
His daughter and only survivor, Nicole Burley, said the cause of lung cancer headaches.
Mr. Roberts played simple characters to live and self -insurance that were a better counterpoint to the lack of confidence of Mr. Allen.
Alvy Singer, the hero of “Annie Hall” (1977), who won the Oscar for the film, Bégayé, denounced and escaped in the most sensible of eastern Manhattan throughout Rob (M. Roberts), his greatest, his greatest, Better, better, far from much more friends and to the spouse tennis of Ol-Essu Self. If in fact, Rob prefers to be in Los Angeles, where time is more beautiful, adding a laugh to his situation comedy.
Mr. Roberts has played similar guys in other Allen films. In “A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy” (1982), he is a Jovial Baccalaureate at the beginning of the 20th century. “Marriage, for me, is the death of hope,” said his character. In “Stardust Memories” (1980), he is an impetuous actor who brought a central playboy style to a film festival.
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