Lost Tony winners

Watching the Tony Awards, and pondering on the self-congratulatory tone of any awards ceremony, I wondered about the impact of winning one, and looked back through the records to find winners who seem to be more or less forgotten or vanished now.

Culling was difficult - many names that I think are famous I found, when questioning some younger or less-theatrically oriented people, to be not so.

Some of the more recent names may have gone into television, a form with which I'm less familiar.

But what happened to these people?

Paul Hartman (Actor-musical, Angel in the Wings, 194
Paul Kelly (Actor-dramatic, Command Decision, 194
Grace Hartman (Actress-musical, Angel in the Wings, 194
Martita Hunt (Actress-dramatic, The Madwoman of Chaillot, 1949)
(I thought Martita was famous, but no one I spoke to had heard of her)
Sidney Blackmer (Actor-dramatic, Come Back, Little Sheba, 1950)
(Ditto Martita)
Myron McCormick (Actor Supporting-Musical, South Pacific, 1950)
(We all know the role, but no one remembered this name)
John Cromwell (Actor Supporting-Dramatic, Point of No Return, 1952)
Marian Winters (Actress Supporting-Dramatic, I Am a Camera, 1052)
John Williams (Actor Supporting-Dramatic, Dial M for Murder, 1953)
Sheila Bond (Actress Supporting-Musical, Wish You Were Here, 1953)
Francis L. Sullivan (Actor Supporting-Dramatic, Witness for the Prosecution, 1955)
Patricia Jessel (Actress Supporting-Dramatic, Witness for the Prosecution, 1955)
Russ Brown (Actor Supporting-Musical, Damn Yankees, 1956)
Henry Jones (Actor Supporting-Dramatic, Sunrise At Campobello, 195
Martin Gable (Actor Supporting-Dramatic, Big Fish, Little Fish, 1961)
(Ditto Martita and Blackmer)
Elizabeth Seal (Actress-Musical, Irma La Douce, 1961)
Anna Quayle (Actress Supporting-Musical, Stop the World - I Want to Get Off, 1962)
Barbara Loden (Actress Supporting-Dramatic, After the Fall, 1963)
Tessie O'Shea (Actress Supporting-Musical, The Girl Who Came to Supper, 1962)
Victor Spinetti (Actor Supporting-Musical, Oh, What a Lovely War, 1963)
Frankie Michaels (Actor Supporting-Musical, Mame, 1966)
(I know, just a kid)
Paul Rogers (Actor-dramatic, The Homecoming, 1967)
Peg Murray (Actress Supporting-Musical, Cabaret, 1967)
James Patterson (Actor Supporting-Dramatic, The Birthday Party, 196
Zena Walker (Actress Supporting-Dramatic, Joe Egg, 196
Lillian Hayman (Actress Supporting-Musical, Hallelujah, Baby!, 196
Paul Sand (Actor Supporting-Dramatic, Story Theatre, 1971)
(He was famous, right? But where now?)
Rae Allen (Actress Supporting-Dramatic, And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, 1971)
Linda Hopkins (Actress Supporting-Musical, Inner City, 1972)
Leora Dana (Actress Supporting-Dramatic, The Last of Mrs. Lincoln, 1973)
Ed Flanders (Actor Supporting-Dramatic, A Moon for the Misbegotten, 1974)
Virginia Capers (Actress-Musical, Raisin, 1974)
Janie Sell (Actress Supporting-Musical, Over Here!, 1974)
John Kani and Winston Ntshona (Actor-dramatic, Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Island, 1975)
Sammy Williams (Actor Supporting-Musical, A Chorus Line, 1976)
Lenny Baker (Actor-Musical, I Love My Wife, 1977)
Delores Hall (Actress Supporting-Musical, Your Arm's Too Short to Box With God, 1977)
Trazana Beverley (Actress-Dramatic, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf, 1977)
Lester Rawlins (Actor Featured-Play, Da, 197
Ann Wedgeworth (Actress Featured-Play, Chapter Two, 197
Michael Gough (Actor Featured-Play, Bedroom Farce, 1979)
Joan Hickson (Actress Featured-Play, Bedroom Farce, 1979)
David Rounds (Actor Featured-Play, Morning's at Seven, 1980)
Brian Backer (Actor Featured-Play, The Floating Light Bulb, 1981)
Jane Lapotaire (Actress-Play, Piaf, 1981)
Ben Harney (Actor-Musical, Dreamgirls, 1982)
Lila Kedrova (Actor Featured-Musical, Zorba, 1984)
Ron Richardson (Actor Featured-Musical, Big River, 1985)
Barry Miller (Actor Featured-Play, Biloxi Blues, 1985)
Leilani Jones (Actress Featured-Musical, Grind, 1985)
Michael Maguire (Actor Featured-Musical, Les Miserables, 1987)
John Randolph (Actor Featured-Play, Broadway Bound, 1987)
Frances Ruffelle (Actress Featured-Musical, Les Miserables, 1987)
Maryann Plunkett (Actress-Musical, Me and My Girl, 1987)
Bill McCutcheon (Actor Featured-Musical, Anything Goes, 198
L. Scott Caldwell (Actress Featured-Play, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, 198
Pauline Collins (Actress-Play, Shirley Valentine, 1989)
Daisy Eagan (Actress Featured-Musical, The Secret Garden, 1991)
Scott Waara (Actor Featured-Musical, The Most Happy Fella, 1992)
Brid Brennan (Actress Featured-Play, Dancing at Lughnasa, 1992)
Gretha Boston (Actress Featured-Musical, Show Boat, 1995)
Wilson Jermaine Heredia (Actor Featured-Musical, Rent, 1996)
Owen Teale (Actor Featured-Play, A Doll's House, 1997)
Tom Murphy (Actor Featured-Play, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, 199
Anna Manahan (Actress Featured-Play, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, 199
Marie Mullen (Actress-Play, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, 199

Apologies for the ridiculous emoticons. Now I know that a zero followed by a closed parenthesis makes that dumb thing...

Yes L Scott Caldwell is most recently known for her wonderful heartfelt role as Rose on LOST

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Marie Mullen lives in Ireland but was here last year in The Irish Rep's THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN.

Jane Lapotaire suffered a brain haemorrhage in 2000. She was due to make a stage comeback in 2009 but withdrew from the play due to artistic differences. She has, since her recovery, made TV appearances and wrote a book about her experiences.

Joan Hickson is a TV legend having portrayed Miss Marple in the BBC adaptaions for many years. She was awarded an OBE for services to drama and died in 1998.

Michael Gough is a brilliant British character actor whom in the 80's and 90's appeared as Alfred the butler in the Batman films. He is still alive and is in his early 90's.

Frances Ruffelle altered her career path and has made several attempts at a pop career. To no great success though!

Pauline Collins OBE still continues to work but mainly in TV.

Michael Maguire retired from acting, went to law school, and is currently a practicing lawyer.

He's still performing on cruise ships, though.

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Yes. And not wife -- girlfriend.

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I too am trying to locate some Tony winners of the past-
Lee Allen for one- I posted here regarding his whereabouts and have had no luck- so little info on google- but if someone should know how to contact him, I'll be greatly appreciative.

From your list, these performers are deceased:
Paul Hartman
Paul Kelly
Grace Hartman
Martita Hunt
Sidney Blackmer
Myron McCormick
John Cromwell
Marian Winters
John Williams
Francis L. Sullivan
Patricia Jessel
Henry Jones
Martin Gable
Barbara Loden
Tessie O'Shea
Victor Spinetti
Paul Rogers
James Patterson
Zena Walker
Lillian Hayman
Leora Dana
Ed Flanders
Virginia Capers
Lenny Baker
Lester Rawlins
Joan Hickson
Lila Kedrova
John Randolph
Bill McCutcheon
Anna Manahan

I'd love to know where Shelia Bond is today. She is probably in her 80's. Elizabeth Seal and Anna Quayle both reside in Great Britain. David Rounds died a few years after winning his Tony. Lenny Baker is deceased. Marian Winters died while a member of the cast of "Deathtrap" in the '80's. I had traveled to NYC and after seeing a performance, I asked Marian Seldes about her and Marian told me that she had just recently passed away. I had missed it in the press.

A few sources claim that David Rounds' obituary was the first in the NY Times to list a same sex partner as a survivor...

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I found this on google regarding David Rounds obit:

http://books.google.com/books?id=aOUCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA15&lpg=PA15&dq=david+rounds+died&source=bl&ots=JedjI56BMo&sig=yuvcaPx7jKPvE2XBLBJcGvY3ez4&hl=en&ei=GAYZTIbrJMSAlAfuy-yuCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CCwQ6AEwBjge#v=onepage&q=david%20rounds%20died&f=false

"Frances Ruffelle altered her career path and has made several attempts at a pop career. To no great success though! "

Frances Ruffelle married Co-Director John Caird after her Broadway run, and continued mild success in "Children of Eden" and a few other little shows. She did the Eurovision concert representing Britain as well in the '90s!

Her and Caird rumoredly had a very ugly split, and that basically ruined her theatrical career. Not to mention she was hoping to cross over to the pop world as well, but when that failed she kind of just laid low. That's also the supposed reason why Ruffelle was absent from the 1995 Dream Cast 10th Anniversary Concert, because Caird wouldn't allow it.

She's also done the role of Eponine twice since originating it on Broadway in the West End. She's also done Chicago in the West End!

That's also the supposed reason why Ruffelle was absent from the 1995 Dream Cast 10th Anniversary Concert, because Caird wouldn't allow it.

I thought it was because she had just had a baby, but maybe not. (She did end up doing Les Miz in Concert at Chelmsford about a year later, though.)

Caird and Ruffelle's daughter, Eliza, now goes by Eliza Doolittle...

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Martin Gabel was a well-respected actor, director, producer and was often a guest panelist on the original "What's My Line?" where his wife, the under-rated Arlene Francis, was a permanent panelist.

Lenny Baker, Barbara Loden and James Patterson all died way too young and all of cancer I believe.

Marian Winters was a lovely lady. I was working backstage when she had to leave Deathtrap and actually helped her load her personal stuff out one afternoon so she wouldn't run into anyone in the company. She had been in cancer treatment and had just been told that her condition was terminal although she didn't tell me that. She was a very private person.

Now all the principals are dead so I can tell this. Leora Dana had been married to Kurt Kasznar (Sound of Music, Barefoot in the Park) and both came out after their divorce. However Leora Dana's "great love of her life" was Tyrone Power (another gay man), and when she was drunk which was often toward the end of her life, she would talk on and on about Ty.

John Randolph was a career man who worked with the Lunts in the 50s. He died tragically and memorably. He and his wife were on their way into the Oscars or Emmys and he had a heart attack and died there.

It is true - David Rounds' obit in the Times was the first to list "his companion" as a survivor. He had a country place upstate near a Times editor and knew he was dying and mentioned to this editor that it would mean a lot to him and his other half if he were listed. They devised the term 'companion' and the editor was good for his word.

I would love to hear where Frankie Michaels has spent the preceeding 44 years. I seriously doubt his name was "Frankie Michels". It was probably given to him by his agent or manager.

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