Lester Rawlins

 

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Lester Rawlins was an 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. Rawlins also won Obie Awards for his performance in the 1964 off-Broadway production of the play The Old Glory by the poet Robert Lowell and for his performances in off-Broadway productions of Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow and Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. 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

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Lester Rawlins

Born 1924-09-24 (101 years ago) in Sharon.

Awards
Award Ceremony Year Awarded for
Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play (Da) 32nd Tony Awards 1978 Da
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance (Nightride) 17th Drama Desk Awards 1972 Nightride
Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actor (Hedda Gabler) 6th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards 1961 Hedda Gabler
Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actor (The Quare Fellow) 4th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards 1959 The Quare Fellow
Nominated for awards
Award Ceremony Year Nominated for
Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play (Da) 32nd Tony Awards 1978 Da
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play (Da) 23rd Drama Desk Awards 1978 Da
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance (Nightride) 17th Drama Desk Awards 1972 Nightride

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Lester Rawlins was an 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. Rawlins also won Obie Awards for his performance in the 1964 off-Broadway production of the play The Old Glory by the poet Robert Lowell and for his performances in off-Broadway productions of Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow and Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler.

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 was a regular on the CBS soap opera, The Edge of Night for several years, where he played the role of wealthy Orin Hillyer.

Rawlins died of cardiac arrest in New York City in 1988.

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