Actor Tony Roberts, usual in Woody Allen’s films, in which he used to play the quiet and safe friend of himself from the New York director, as in Annie Hallof 1977, died on Friday at age 85, at his home in Manhattan, he reported this Saturday The New York Times. David Anthony Roberts, born in Manhattan, New York, on October 22, 1939, was a career interpreter in the New York scenarios, with two nominations for the Tony Awards (American theater awards). Son of a radio announcer and an animator, he debuted on Broadway in 1962. It was his daughter, Nicole Burley, who announced that death occurred as a result of the complications of a lung cancer.
Roberts gave life to Woody Allen’s films to centered and rational characters, the counterpoint to the insecurities and emotional instabilities that Allen represented. However, I also work with directors such as Sidney Lumet in Snake and in numerous television series. In addition to Annie Hallin which he made Rob, an actor friend of the character who embodied Allen and who preferred the weather, interpreted similar characters in other titles of the director, such as Hannah and their sisters (1986), in which he was a sperm donor who gave an infertile man (Woody Allen) and his wife (Mia Farrow) two twin children with blonde hair, he points out The New York Times.
He also acted in The sexual comedy of a summer night (1982), in which he was a single and jovial doctor who proclaimed: “marriage is the death of hope”, and in Memories of a movie star (1980) was an actor who took a model on the magazine’s cover Playboy a festival by whom.
Roberts admitted, however, that for his career it could be inconvenient to be too linked to Allen’s cinema by the character prototype he represented. “Everyone in the business (of the cinema) thought of me in that way,” he said in an interview with Los Angeles Timesin 1997. For Roberts, it was difficult to “break with the type of personality” that he meant in the cinematographic world of Woody Allen.