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Larry Keith, a veteran television and stage actor who was in the original cast of the soap opera "All My Children" and who was also the first American to play Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady" on Broadway, died on July 17 in Manhattan. He was 79 and a Manhattan resident.
The cause was cancer, his daughter, Lisa Korn, said.
Originally trained as a singer, Mr. Keith appeared in more than a half-dozen Broadway shows, including the musicals "Caroline, or Change" (2004) and "Titanic" (1997), in which he played the department store magnate Isidor Straus.
He was a founder, in 1992, of the Actors Company Theater, an Off Broadway repertory company that produces seldom-performed plays.
On television Mr. Keith was best known as the dapper restaurateur Nick Davis on "All My Children," first broadcast on ABC in 1970. A regular cast member until 1978, he reprised the role in guest appearances long afterward.
His other television credits include guest spots on "Law & Order" and "Damages."
Lawrence Jay Korn was born in Brooklyn on March 4, 1931. He changed his surname as a young actor. He earned a bachelor's in music from Brooklyn College and did graduate work at Indiana University before being drafted. In the Army, he performed in musical revues staged to entertain American troops in Korea.
Besides his daughter, Mr. Keith is survived by his wife, the former Mina Wagman; a brother, Alvin Korn; and a grandchild.
In 1961 Mr. Keith attracted notice for becoming the first American to portray Professor Higgins in the original Broadway production of "My Fair Lady." As the understudy to the English actor Michael Allinson, one of several men who succeeded Rex Harrison in the role, Mr. Keith played Higgins more than 50 times.
Before his first appearance, The New York Herald Tribune asked him whether a Brooklynite could conjure Higgins's plummy British tones.
"I doubt if I could get away with this in England," Mr. Keith replied pragmatically, "but I think I can in New York."
Published in New York Times on July 21, 2010
Larry Keith, a veteran television and stage actor who was in the original cast of the soap opera "All My Children" and who was also the first American to play Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady" on Broadway, died on July 17 in Manhattan. He was 79 and a Manhattan resident.
The cause was cancer, his daughter, Lisa Korn, said.
Originally trained as a singer, Mr. Keith appeared in more than a half-dozen Broadway shows, including the musicals "Caroline, or Change" (2004) and "Titanic" (1997), in which he played the department store magnate Isidor Straus.
He was a founder, in 1992, of the Actors Company Theater, an Off Broadway repertory company that produces seldom-performed plays.
On television Mr. Keith was best known as the dapper restaurateur Nick Davis on "All My Children," first broadcast on ABC in 1970. A regular cast member until 1978, he reprised the role in guest appearances long afterward.
His other television credits include guest spots on "Law & Order" and "Damages."
Lawrence Jay Korn was born in Brooklyn on March 4, 1931. He changed his surname as a young actor. He earned a bachelor's in music from Brooklyn College and did graduate work at Indiana University before being drafted. In the Army, he performed in musical revues staged to entertain American troops in Korea.
Besides his daughter, Mr. Keith is survived by his wife, the former Mina Wagman; a brother, Alvin Korn; and a grandchild.
In 1961 Mr. Keith attracted notice for becoming the first American to portray Professor Higgins in the original Broadway production of "My Fair Lady." As the understudy to the English actor Michael Allinson, one of several men who succeeded Rex Harrison in the role, Mr. Keith played Higgins more than 50 times.
Before his first appearance, The New York Herald Tribune asked him whether a Brooklynite could conjure Higgins's plummy British tones.
"I doubt if I could get away with this in England," Mr. Keith replied pragmatically, "but I think I can in New York."
Published in New York Times on July 21, 2010
Below was provided by another contributor:
Larry Keith, a veteran television and stage actor who was in the original cast of the soap opera "All My Children" and who was also the first American to play Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady" on Broadway, died on July 17 in Manhattan. He was 79 and a Manhattan resident.
The cause was cancer, his daughter, Lisa Korn, said.
Originally trained as a singer, Mr. Keith appeared in more than a half-dozen Broadway shows, including the musicals "Caroline, or Change" (2004) and "Titanic" (1997), in which he played the department store magnate Isidor Straus.
He was a founder, in 1992, of the Actors Company Theater, an Off Broadway repertory company that produces seldom-performed plays.
On television Mr. Keith was best known as the dapper restaurateur Nick Davis on "All My Children," first broadcast on ABC in 1970. A regular cast member until 1978, he reprised the role in guest appearances long afterward.
His other television credits include guest spots on "Law & Order" and "Damages."
Lawrence Jay Korn was born in Brooklyn on March 4, 1931. He changed his surname as a young actor. He earned a bachelor's in music from Brooklyn College and did graduate work at Indiana University before being drafted. In the Army, he performed in musical revues staged to entertain American troops in Korea.
Besides his daughter, Mr. Keith is survived by his wife, the former Mina Wagman; a brother, Alvin Korn; and a grandchild.
In 1961 Mr. Keith attracted notice for becoming the first American to portray Professor Higgins in the original Broadway production of "My Fair Lady." As the understudy to the English actor Michael Allinson, one of several men who succeeded Rex Harrison in the role, Mr. Keith played Higgins more than 50 times.
Before his first appearance, The New York Herald Tribune asked him whether a Brooklynite could conjure Higgins's plummy British tones.
"I doubt if I could get away with this in England," Mr. Keith replied pragmatically, "but I think I can in New York."
Published in New York Times on July 21, 2010
Larry Keith, a veteran television and stage actor who was in the original cast of the soap opera "All My Children" and who was also the first American to play Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady" on Broadway, died on July 17 in Manhattan. He was 79 and a Manhattan resident.
The cause was cancer, his daughter, Lisa Korn, said.
Originally trained as a singer, Mr. Keith appeared in more than a half-dozen Broadway shows, including the musicals "Caroline, or Change" (2004) and "Titanic" (1997), in which he played the department store magnate Isidor Straus.
He was a founder, in 1992, of the Actors Company Theater, an Off Broadway repertory company that produces seldom-performed plays.
On television Mr. Keith was best known as the dapper restaurateur Nick Davis on "All My Children," first broadcast on ABC in 1970. A regular cast member until 1978, he reprised the role in guest appearances long afterward.
His other television credits include guest spots on "Law & Order" and "Damages."
Lawrence Jay Korn was born in Brooklyn on March 4, 1931. He changed his surname as a young actor. He earned a bachelor's in music from Brooklyn College and did graduate work at Indiana University before being drafted. In the Army, he performed in musical revues staged to entertain American troops in Korea.
Besides his daughter, Mr. Keith is survived by his wife, the former Mina Wagman; a brother, Alvin Korn; and a grandchild.
In 1961 Mr. Keith attracted notice for becoming the first American to portray Professor Higgins in the original Broadway production of "My Fair Lady." As the understudy to the English actor Michael Allinson, one of several men who succeeded Rex Harrison in the role, Mr. Keith played Higgins more than 50 times.
Before his first appearance, The New York Herald Tribune asked him whether a Brooklynite could conjure Higgins's plummy British tones.
"I doubt if I could get away with this in England," Mr. Keith replied pragmatically, "but I think I can in New York."
Published in New York Times on July 21, 2010
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