By Roger Rees, who has died aged 71 after suffering from cancer, was an outstanding associate of the Royal Shakespeare Company, who made his name in the title role of In Cheers, he was Kirstie Alley’s love interest, as the millionaire industrialist Robin Colcord; in The West Wing, he was the British ambassador to Washington Lord John Marbury. Roger Rees (5 May 1944 – 11 July 2015) was a Welsh-American actor. Rees had been acting until very recently, and left his most recent production – in the Broadway musical Rees’s acting career began in the ’60s, and he began working with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967. The electrifying Nicholas Nickleby came in between.Like Ben Kingsley, he languished in small parts at the RSC when he first joined in 1967, but both he and Kingsley became stars, and associate artists, in the Trevor Nunn and Terry Hands era. He was known for his stage work. Roger Rees was a Welsh screen and stage actor, voice actor, and director. Roger Rees, the actor best known for his roles in Cheers and The West Wing, has died aged 71. Rees, who died of a sudden illness at his home in New York, was a familiar face Rees married his partner of 33 years, playwright Rick Elice, in 2011. All these ingredients went into his acting, and I am sure, into his directing, and gave him an aura of rare, generous spirited humanity. Roger Rees in If Looks Could Kill. He toured with the Cambridge Theatre Company as Fabian in Twelfth Night and Young Marlowe in She Stoops to Conquer before making a Broadway debut with the RSC as Charles Courtly in Dion Boucicault’s London Assurance in December 1974.After Nickleby, Rees had another West End triumph as the pop fan playwright Henry in Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing (1982), co-starring Felicity Kendal, at the Strand. If Looks Could Kill (1991) [Augustus Steranko]: Crushed to death by his helicopter when it falls on him, after Richard Grieco and Gabrielle Anwar shoot a large hole in the bottom of the helicopter, causing both Roger and his gold to fall out of the hole. Photograph: Donald Cooper/Rex ShutterstockRoger Rees, right, with Ian McKellen in Waiting for Godot in 2010.Roger Rees and Salma Hayek in the film Frida, 2002.
Roger Rees was born in Wales. He applied his unique talent for shaping a line both to a cod happy-ending Romeo and Juliet, and to the death of Smike, the orphan boy Nicholas has befriended. People is on Community! Like a number of British actors of the same generation (John Hurt and Alan Rickman, to name two), Roger Rees originally trained for the visual arts.He was born on May 5 1944 in Aberystwyth, Wales, and acted in church and Boy Scouts stage productions while growing up in South London, but studied painting and lithography at the Slade School of Art.
ROGER REES passed away at the age of 71.
He was always superb at being just ‘one of the gang’ in the company, while equally deft at leading by example, leading by commitment. He worked as an artistic director at the Williamstown Theatre Festival from 2004 to 2007. Get push notifications with news, features and more. He was 71.
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