‘Friends’ actor Ron Leibman passes divided during 82

Ron Leibman, an Emmy-winning actor who garnered a Tony for his work in Broadways “Angels in America” and played a father of Jennifer Anistons impression Rachel Green on “Friends”, is no more. He was 82. Leibman died on Friday.

Robert Attermann, CEO of Abrams Artists Agency, reliable a news to variety.com. No serve sum were immediately available.

Leibman, a local of New York, played Dr. Leonard Green on “Friends” as a no-nonsense father who gave grief to David Schwimmer’s impression Ross, a regretful seductiveness of Aniston’s Rachel.

He perceived an Emmy Award in 1979 for portraying a reformed crook who became a rapist profession in a array “Kaz”.

Leibman won a Tony Award in 1993 for personification a illusory chronicle of Roy Cohn in Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America: Millennium Approaches”.

Leibman pennyless into a party business in 1956 on a soap show “The Edge of Night” and done his film entrance in a 1970 comedy “Where’s Poppa?”, portraying a hermit of George Segal’s character.

He starred with Segal in 1972’s “The Hot Rock”, portrayed a restrained of fight in George Roy Hill’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” and a radical NYPD officer in Gordon Parks’ “The Super Cops”.

Leibman starred conflicting Sally Field as a dedicated kinship repute in 1979’s “Norma Rae”, for that Field won her initial Oscar. Other credits enclosed “Your Three Minutes Are Up”, “Rhinestone”, “Night Falls on Manhattan”, “Auto Focus” and “Garden State”.

He done his Broadway entrance in 1963 in “Dear Me, The Sky Is Falling” and was celebrated with Drama Desk Awards in 1969 and 1970 for his performances in “We Bombed in New Haven” and “Transfers”.

Survivors embody his wife, singer Jessica Walter, whom he married in 1983, and his stepdaughter Brooke Bowman, a TV programming executive. He was married from 1969 to 1981 to singer Linda Lavin.

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