He was Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the versatile character actor who became a star.
"There is just no better or more versatile character for television than New York City," said Hal Rosenbluth, the president of Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens.
Elisabeth Fraser, a versatile character actress with a 40-year career on stage, screen and, most enduringly, television, died on May 5 at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Los Angeles.
While advancing her movie career, Lynch continued working in television, honing her reputation as a versatile character actress on such programs as Two and a Half Men, Arrested Development, and The L Word.
Mr. Morse, always a versatile character actor, has never had a role as juicy as Gideon, a charismatic, sexually repressed man's man who falls in love with Roy while vehemently denying any erotic attraction.
Actor Mickey Rooney, who became the United States' biggest movie star while still a brash teenager in the 1930s and later a versatile character actor in a career that spanned 10 decades, has died aged 93.
Jack Kruschen, a versatile character actor whose six decades in movies and television included an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor for his 1960 role in "The Apartment," died on April 2.
In contrast to the raucous pie-in-the-face antics of shows such as The Texaco Star Theatre, for example, was Your Show of Shows (NBC, 1950 54), an urbane comedy-variety program produced by Broadway legend Max Liebman and starring an ensemble of versatile character actor-comics that included Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, and Howard Morris.
Versatile character actor George Gaynes died in his daughter's home in North Bend, Washington, at age 98 on Monday, leaving behind an enormous body of work that stretched across numerous sitcoms, made-for-TV movies, features films, theater and even opera productions all around the world.
