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Tony Best Actor Play

QuestionAnswer
1947 Tie José Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac/Cyrano De Bergerac Fredric March- Years Ago/Clinton Jones
1948 Tie Henry Fonda - Mister Roberts/Lt. Roberts Paul Kelly -Command Decision/Brigadier General K.C. Dennis Basil Rathbone-The Heiress / Dr. Austin Sloper
1949 Rex Harrison-Anne of the Thousand Days/Henry VIII
1950 Sidney Blackmer-Come Back, Little Sheba/Doc
1951 Claude Rains-Darkness at Noon/Rubashov
1952 José Ferrer-The Shrike/Jim Downs
1953 Tom Ewell-The Seven Year Itch/Richard Sherman
1954 David Wayne-The Teahouse of the August Moon/Sakini
1955 Alfred Lunt-Quadrille/Diensen
1956 Paul Muni-Inherit the Wind/Henry Drummond
1957 Fredric March-Long Day's Journey into Night/James Tyrone Sr.
1958 Ralph Bellamy-Sunrise at Campobello/Franklin D. Roosevelt
1959 Jason Robards-The Disenchanted/Manley Halliday
1960 Melvyn Douglas-The Best Man/William Russell
1961 Zero Mostel-Rhinocéros/John
1962 Paul Scofield-A Man for All Seasons/Sir Thomas More
1963 Arthur Hill-Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?/George
1964 Alec Guinness-Dylan/Dylan Thomas
1965 Walter Matthau-The Odd Couple/Oscar Madison
1966 Hal Holbrook-Mark Twain Tonight!/Mark Twain
1967 Paul Rogers-The Homecoming/Max
1968 Martin Balsam-You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running/Various Characters
1969 James Earl Jones-The Great White Hope/Jack Jefferson
1970 Fritz Weaver-Child's Play/Jerome Malley
1971 Brian Bedford-The School for Wives/Arnolphe
1972 Cliff Gorman-Lenny/Lenny Bruce
1973 Alan Bates-Butley/Ben Butley
1974 Michael Moriarty -Find Your Way Home/Julian Weston
1975 John Kani & Winston Ntshona-Sizwe Banzi Is Dead / The Island \Various Characters
1976 John Wood-Travesties/Henry Carr
1977 Al Pacino-The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel/Pavlo Hummel
1978 Barnard Hughes-Da/Da
1979 Tom Conti -Whose Life Is It Anyway?/Ken Harrison
1980 John Rubinstein-Children of a Lesser God/James Leeds
1981 Ian McKellen-Amadeus/Antonio Salieri
1982 Roger Rees-The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby /Nicholas Nickleby
1983 Harvey Fierstein-Torch Song Trilogy/Arnold Beckoff
1984 Jeremy Irons-The Real Thing/Henry
1985 Derek Jacobi-Much Ado About Nothing/Benedick
1986 Judd Hirsch-I'm Not Rappaport/Nat
1987 James Earl Jones-Fences/Troy Maxson
1988 Ron Silver - Speed-the-Plow/Charlie Fox
1989 Philip Bosco-Lend Me a Tenor/Saunders
1990 Robert Morse-Tru/Truman Capote
1991 Nigel Hawthorne-Shadowlands/C. S. Lewis
1992 Judd Hirsch-Conversations with My Father/Eddie
1993 Ron Leibman-Angels in America: Millennium Approaches/Roy Cohn, et al.
1994 Stephen Spinella-Angels in America: Perestroika/Prior Walter
1995 Ralph Fiennes-Hamlet/Prince Hamlet
1996 George Grizzard-A Delicate Balance/Tobias
1997 Christopher Plummer-Barrymore/John Barrymore
1998 Anthony LaPaglia -A View from the Bridge/Eddie Carbone
1999 Brian Dennehy-Death of a Salesman/Willy Loman
2000 Stephen Dillane-The Real Thing/Henry
2001 Richard Easton-The Invention of Love/A. E. Housman, aged 77
2002 Alan Bates-Fortune's Fool/Vassily Semyonitch Kuzovkin
2003 Brian Dennehy-Long Day's Journey into Night/James Tyrone Sr.
2004 Jefferson Mays-I Am My Own Wife /Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, et al.
2005 Bill Irwin-Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?/George
2006 Richard Griffiths-The History Boys/Douglas Hector
2007 Frank Langella-Frost/Nixon / Richard Nixon
2008 Mark Rylance-Boeing-Boeing/Robert Lambert
2009 Geoffrey Rush-Exit the King /King Berenger
2010 Denzel Washington-Fences/Troy Maxson
2011 Mark Rylance-Jerusalem/Johnny "Rooster" Byron
2012 James Corden-One Man, Two Guvnors/Francis Henshall
2013 Tracy Letts-Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?/George
2014 Bryan Cranston-All the Way/ Lyndon B. Johnson
2015 Alex Sharp-The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time/Christopher Boone
2016 Frank Langella-The Father/Andre
2017 Kevin Kline-Present Laughter/Garry Essendine
2018 Andrew Garfield-Angels in America/Prior Walter, et al.
2019 Bryan Cranston-Network/Howard Beale
2020 Andrew Burnap-The Inheritance/Toby Darling
2021 None
2022 Simon Russell Beale-The Lehman Trilogy/Henry Lehman
2023 Sean Hayes-Good Night, Oscar/Oscar Levant
2024 Jeremy Strong-An Enemy of the People/Doctor Thomas Stockman
2025 Cole Escola-Oh, Mary!/Mary Todd Lincoln
2026 John Lithgow-Giant/Roald Dahl
 

 



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