Stage and Screen
Tony winners for Best Actor in a Play
The Tony (Antoinette Perry) Awards are given by the American Theatre Wing for achievement in the Broadway theater.
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Alfred Lunt (born 1892, died 1977)
American actor.
- 1955 Tony Award winner for his performance in Quadrille
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Fredric March (born 1897, died 1975)
American actor. Original name: Frederick Bickel.
- Two-time Tony winner for Best Actor in a Play: 1947, for Year 1790; 1957, for Long Day''s Journey Into Night
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Samuel Joel ''Zero'' Mostel (born 1915, died 1977)
American actor.
- 1961 Tony Award winner for his performance in Rhinoceros
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Henry Fonda (born 1905, died 1982)
American actor. Father of actors Jane and Peter Fonda.
- 1948 Tony Award winner for his performance in Mister Roberts
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Ralph Bellamy (born 1904, died 1991)
American actor.
- 1958 Tony Award winner for his performance in Sunrise at Campobello
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Sidney Blackmer (born 1896, died 1973)
American actor known for his portrayals of Teddy Roosevelt.
- 1950 Tony Award winner for his performance in Come Back, Little Sheba
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Melvyn Douglas (born 1901, died 1981)
American actor.
- 1960 Tony Award winner for his performance in The Best Man
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José Ferrer (born 1912, died 1992)
American actor.
- Two-time Tony winner for Best Actor in a Play: 1947, for Cyrano de Bergerac; 1952, for The Shrike
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Paul Muni (born 1895, died 1967)
American actor. Original name: Muni Weisenfreund.
- 1956 Tony Award winner for his performance in Inherit the Wind
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Claude Rains (born 1889, died 1967)
American actor.
- 1951 Tony Award winner for his performance in Darkness at Noon
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Basil Rathbone (born 1892, died 1967)
English actor known for his screen portrayals of Sherlock Holmes.
- 1948 Tony Award winner for his performance in The Heiress
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James Earl Jones (born 1931)
American actor.
- Two-time Tony winner for Best Actor in a Play: 1969, for The Great White Hope; 1987, for Fences
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Fritz Weaver (born 1926)
American actor.
- 1970 Tony Award winner for his performance in Child''s Play
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Alec Guinness (born 1914)
British actor.
- 1964 Tony Award winner for his performance in Dylan
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Al Pacino (born 1940)
American actor, writer, director and producer.
- 1977 Tony Award winner for his performance in The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel
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Walter Matthau (born 1920)
American actor and director.
- 1965 Tony Award winner for his performance in The Odd Couple
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Christopher Plummer (born 1927)
Canadian actor.
- 1997 Tony Award winner for his performance in Barrymore
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Martin Balsam (born 1919, died 1996)
American actor.
- 1968 Tony Award winner for his performance in You Know I Can''t Hear You When the Water''s Running
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Paul Scofield (born 1922)
English actor and writer.
- 1962 Tony Award winner for his performance in A Man for All Seasons
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Jason Robards, Jr. (born 1922)
American actor.
- 1959 Tony Award winner for his performance in The Disenchanted
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Jeremy Irons (born 1948)
English actor.
- 1984 Tony Award winner for his performance in The Real Thing
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Paul Kelly (born 1899, died 1956)
American actor.
- 1948 Tony Award winner for his performance in Command Decision
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Tom Ewell (born 1909)
American actor. Original name: S. Yewell Tompkins.
- 1953 Tony Award winner for his performance in The Seven Year Itch
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David Wayne (born 1914)
American actor. Original name: Wayne McMeekan.
- 1954 Tony Award winner for his performance in The Teahouse of the August Moon
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Arthur Hill (born 1922)
Canadian actor.
- 1963 Tony Award winner for his performance in Who''s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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Hal Holbrook (born 1925)
American actor.
- 1966 Tony Award winner for his performance in Mark Twain Tonight!
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Paul Rogers
Actor.
- 1967 Tony Award winners for his performance in The Homecoming
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Brian Bedford (born 1935)
English actor.
- 1971 Tony Award winner for his performance in The School for Wives
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Cliff Gorman (born 1936)
American actor.
- 1972 Tony Award winner for his performance in Lenny
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Alan Bates (born 1934)
English actor.
- 1973 Tony Award winner for his performance in Butley
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Michael Moriarty (born 1942)
American actor.
- 1974 Tony Award winner for his performance in Find Your Way Home
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John Kani
- 1975 Tony Award winner for his performance in Sizwe Banzi is Dead
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Winston Ntshona
- 1975 Tony Award winner for his performance in The Island
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John Wood (born 1930)
English actor.
- 1976 Tony Award winner for his performance in Travesties
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Barnard Hughes (born 1915)
American actor.
- 1978 Tony Award winner for his performance in Da
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Tom Conti (born 1941)
Scottish actor.
- 1979 Tony Award winner for his performance in Whose Life Is It Anyway?
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John Rubinstein (born 1946)
American actor, composer and writer.
- 1980 Tony Award winner for his performance in Children of a Lesser God
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Ian McKellen (born 1939)
English actor and director.
- 1981 Tony Award winner for his performance in Amadeus
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Roger Rees (born 1944)
Welsh actor.
- 1982 Tony Award winner for his performance in Nicholas Nickleby
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Harvey Fierstein (born 1954)
American dramatist and actor.
- 1983 Tony Award winner for his performance in Torch Song Trilogy
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Derek Jacobi (born 1938)
English actor.
- 1985 Tony Award winner for his performance in Much Ado About Nothing
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Judd Hirsch (born 1935)
American actor.
- Two-time Tony winner for Best Actor in a Play: 1986, for I''m Not Rappaport; 1992, for Conversations with My Father
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Ron Silver (born 1946)
American actor and director.
- 1988 Tony Award winner for his performance in Speed-The-Plow
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Philip Bosco (born 1930)
American actor.
- 1989 Tony Award winner for his performance in Lend Me a Tenor
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Robert Morse (born 1931)
American actor.
- 1990 Tony Award winner for his performance in Tru
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Nigel Hawthorne (born 1929)
English actor.
- 1991 Tony Award winner for his performance in Shadowlands
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Anthony LaPaglia (born 1959)
Australian born actor
- 1998 Tony Award winner for his performance in A View From the Bridge.
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Brian Dennehy
- 1999 Tony Award winner for his performance in Death of a Salesman.
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George Grizzard
- 1996 Tony Awards winner for his performance in A Delicate Balance.
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Stephen Dillane
- 1999 Best Actor in a play for his performance in The Real Thing
Tony winners for Best Actor in a Play
The Tony (Antoinette Perry) Awards are given by the American Theatre Wing for achievement in the Broadway theater.
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Jennifer Ehle
- Best Actress in a play for his performance in The Real Thing
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