In Memorium -ROBERT PROSKY by DCTS's Tim Treanor

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Posted: 12/10/08 at 10:37am

by Tim Treanor

Robert Prosky, a veteran character actor who created some of the most indelible characters ever seen on the Washington stage, died Monday afternoon, Dec 8th, as a result of complications from emergency heart surgery. He was five days short of his seventy-eighth birthday.

Prosky was a successful and sought-after screen and television actor, and was probably most broadly known for his standing role as Sgt. Stan Jablonski in TV’s Hill Street Blues. But it was as a stage actor that Prosky had his most profound impact. He originated the role of Shelly Levene in David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross in 1984, and received a Tony nomination. His second nomination came four years later, for his work as the genial Soviet negotiator Andrei Botvinnik in A Walk in the Woods...

In Memorium; Robert Prosky by Tim Treanor

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Posted: 12/10/08 at 12:58pm

Here is an "In Appreciation" piece by Washington Critic Peter Marks:
It Was Here Prosky Had True Presence.