- Title: USA-ACTOR/REES Tony Award winner and "Cheers" actor Roger Rees dies aged 71
- Date: 11th July 2015
- Summary: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (FILE - MARCH 24, 2015) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) ROGER REES, ACTOR, SAYING: "You feel you're a part of history. Terrence McNally has written this wonderful book based on the Durrenmatt play. But it's funny, it's sad, and sweet and affectionate and a terribly human experience to be in. So I think it's not brash or glib, but it's
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- Story Text: Roger Rees, the Tony Award-winning British stage actor who had roles in U.S. television hits including "Cheers" and "The West Wing", died on Friday (July 10) aged 71, his representative said on Saturday.
Rees' representative Rick Miramontez did not provide further details.
Rees' performance in title role in the Royal Shakespeare Company's "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby" won him an Olivier Award and a Tony in the early 1980s.
Born in Aberystwyth, Wales in 1944, Rees spent more than 20 years with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He also took on major television and film roles, including the 1993 spoof "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" and "The Scorpion King" in 2002.
In the U.S. television series "Cheers", he played the affluent Brit Robin Colcord and in "The West Wing" he was British ambassador Lord John Marbury. - Copyright Holder: FILE REUTERS (CAN SELL)
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