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We pause to remember friends and colleagues in the Broadway community who have left us during the past year (May 2015-May 2016).

Each spring as the American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards® approach, we pause to remember friends and colleagues who have left us during the past year. The names of some of those who worked on Broadway are listed below. They are always in our hearts.

We invite you to share specific memories about these individuals, and to add the names of others in the theatre community who died during the past year, by leaving a comment at the bottom of this page.

Mitchell Agruss

Muhammad Ali

Billie Allen

Arthur Anderson

Humbert Allen Astredo

Lani Ball

Brian Bedford

Melvin Bernhardt

Leon Bibb

Theodore Bikel

Shannon Bolin

Pierre Boulez

David Bowie

Martin Brooks

Virginia Campbell

David Canary

Judy Carne

Jack Carter

John Carter

Myra Carter

Sterling Clark

George Coe

Martha Coigney

Natalie Cole

Austin Colyer

John Connell

Adrienne Corri

Luigi Creatore

Joseph Daly

Jean Darling

Richard Davalos

Robert deMichiell

Jo de Winter

E.L. Doctorow

Diana Douglas

John Duffy

Patty Duke

Bob Elliott

Patricia Elliott

Shawn Elliott

Vivian Eng

Frank Finlay

Don Francks

Brian Friel

Rita Gam

Rex Garner

Sylvia Gassell

James P. Gatens

George Gaynes

Ronnie L. Gilbert

Frank D. Gilroy

Sheri M. Goldhirsch

Coleen Gray

Don Gregory

Hal Hackady

Margaret Hall

Inge Hardison

Pat Harrington

William Herz, Jr.

Will Holt

J. R. Horne

Robert Horton

Ken Howard

Beth Howland

Bruce Hyde

Anne Jackson

Saeed Jaffrey

Kyle Jean-Baptiste

Raymond Jessel

Richard Johnson

Ron Johnston

Dean Jones

Kitty Kallen

James Karr

Jerome Kass

Sylvia Kauders

Dennis Kelly

Zale Kessler

Christopher Kirby

Jack Lee

Renee Lee

Michael "Mickey" Leonard

Monica Lewis

Richard Libertini

Samuel "Biff" Liff

Gloria Lind

Leslie Loeb

Robert Loggia

David London

Robert Lone

Denise Lor

Marjorie Lord

Edmund Lyndeck

Patrick MacNee

Warren Manzi

Colette Marchand

David Margulies

Preshy Marker

Jack Matthew

John Maxtone-Graham

Edwin J. McDonough

Julia Meade

DeAnn Mears

Barbara Meek

Frankie Michaels

Keith Michell

Martin Milner

Ron Moody

Dick Moore

Aubrey Morris

Meg Mundy

William Needles

James Noble

Patricia O'Connell

Maureen O'Hara

Gerald S. O'Loughlin

Kenneth Paine

Betsy Palmer

Joshua Park

Edward Parone

Natasha Parry

Angela Paton

Ezio Petersen

Robin Phillips

James Prideaux

Maria Cristina Pucci

Marc Raboy

Roger Allan Raby

Nancy Reagan

Roger Rees

Reynaldo Rey

Alan Rickman

Pamela Rivers

Doris Roberts

Wayne Rogers

Jack Rollins

Enid Rudd

Arnold Scaasi

Sandra “Sandy” Lynn Schlender

Gunther Schuller

Donald R. Seawell

Renee Semes

Peter Shaffer

Afeni Shakur

Sloane Shelton

Madeleine Sherwood

Brett Smiley

David Langston Smyrl

Leslie J. Stark

Leon B. Stevens

Robert Stigwood

Elizabeth Swados

Ron Tassone

Fred Dalton Thompson

Tom Toner

Allen Toussaint

Ret Turner

Dick Van Patten

Tim Vasen

Abe Vigoda

Allan Wallach

Betty Jane Watson

Janet Watson

Alan Weeks

Jerry Weintraub

Arnold Wesker

Janet Stewart White

Maurice White

Michael White

David Williams

Dudley Williams

Jason Wingreen

Holly Woodlawn

Michael F. Wolf

Martha Wright

Bud Yorkin

Alan Young

Kyle Jean-Baptiste