Born on this day – Roger Rees:

Roger Rees

Actor

Director

May 5, 1944 – July 10, 2015

Credits:

22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2016); 3 A.M. (2001); A Christmas Carol (1984); A Life in Suitcases (2005); A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999); Affluenza (2014); Almost Perfect (2011); American Experience (2015); Anatomía Unplugged (2007); Angela Lansbury & Friends Benefiting Salute to Terrence McNally (2011); BBC Play of the Month (1979); BlackMale (2000); Boston Common (1997); Bouquet of Barbed Wire (1976); Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After (1992); Cheers (1989–1993); CNN Showbiz Today (1995); Crazy Like a Fox (2004); Damian Cromwell's Postcards from America (1997); Double Platinum (1999); E! True Hollywood Story (2000); Elementary (2012–2014); Extreme Ghostbusters (1997); Falling for Grace (2006); Footsteps (1987); Forever (2015); Frida (2002); Friday Night, Saturday Morning (1982); Game 6 (2005); Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006); Gargoyles (1995); God's Outlaw (1986); Going Under (2004); Grey's Anatomy (2007); Happy Tears (2009); If Looks Could Kill (1991); Imaginary Friends (1982); It Could Be Worse (2013–2014); Law & Order (2003); Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2009); Liberty! The American Revolution (1997); Loop Dreams: The Making of a Low-Budget Movie (2001); M.A.N.T.I.S. (1994–1995); Macbeth (1979); Mighty Max (1994); Minty Comedic Arts (2021); Mountains of the Moon (1990); My So-Called Life (1994); Next (1990); Next Stop Wonderland (1998); Nicholas Craig, the Naked Actor (1990); Oz (2001 / 2002); P.J. Sparkles (1992); Phantom 2040 (1995); Playing Shakespeare (1982); Portraits in Dramatic Time (2011); Related (2005–2006); Return to Never Land (2002); Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993); Russian Broadway Shut Down (2014); SAG Foundation Conversations (2012); Saigon: Year of the Cat (1983); Shakespeare's Women & Claire Bloom (1999); Singles (1988–1989); Sly (2023); Star 80 (1983); Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992); Submissions Only (2012); Sudden Manhattan (1996); Survivor (2015); Tales of the Unexpected (1984); Ten Great Writers of the Modern World (1988); The 49th Annual Tony Awards (1995); The 50th Annual Tony Awards (1996); The 66th Annual Tony Awards (2012); The 70th Annual Tony Awards (2016); The 78th Annual Drama League Awards (2012); The Brand New Illustrated Journal of the Arts (1982); The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (1999); The Cleveland Show (2010); The Comedy of Errors (1978); The Crossing (2000); The Ebony Tower (1984); The Education of Max Bickford (2002); The Emperor's Club (2002); The English Programme (1980); The Finding (1987); The Good Wife (2010); The Invasion (2007); The Legend of Prince Valiant (1991–1993); The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1982); The Middle (2013); The Narrows (2008); The New World (2005); The Pilgrims (2015); The Pink Panther (2006); The Place of Peace (1975); The Possession of Michael D. (1995); The Prestige (2006); The Return of Sam McCloud (1989); The Scorpion King (2002); The Sonnets of William Shakespeare (1984); The Substance of Fire (1996); The Theatre Quiz (1981); The Three Sisters (1981); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1990–1991); The Tower (1993); The Treatment (2006); The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea (2004); The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish (2004); The West Wing (2000–2005); The Young Riders (1990); Theater Talk (2012–2015); Three Sisters (2001); Titanic (1996); Trouble on the Corner (1997); Under Western Eyes (1975); Valentines. A Bouquet of Letters and Poetry of Lovers (1994); Veritas: The Quest (2003); Warehouse 13 (2009–2013); Wogan (1988); Working in the Theatre (1995–1998); World of Robin Hood (2006).