R.I.P. Roger Rees

Roger Rees, Nicholas Nickleby star and Cheers actor, dead at 71

Roger Rees, the lanky Tony Award-winning Welsh-born actor and director who made his mark onstage as Nicholas Nickleby and became a mainstay on Broadway playing Gomez in The Addams Family and Chita Rivera's doomed lover in The Visit, has died. He was 71.

Rees died Friday night at his home in New York after a brief illness, said his representative, Rick Miramontez. Rees had abruptly left The Visit in late May to undergo a medical procedure.

Rees played the snobbish Robin Colcord on TV's Cheers and the British ambassador, Lord John Marbury, in The West Wing. Other recent TV credits include Elementary and The Good Wife.

(CBC)

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