37 stories by "Sam Roberts"
A prolific journalist and author, he wrote the only authorized biography of Alfred Hitchcock and heaped early praise on the future Nobel laureate Harold Pinter.
His work was seen in "Angels in America" and Victoria's Secret runway shows. He also made outlandish ensembles for Heidi Klum and Marc Jacobs.
As an award-winning actor and director, he appeared in scores of stage plays, movies and TV shows over six decades, most often as unsavory characters.
He turned "an insignificant trade house" into a powerhouse, publishing best sellers like "The Silence of the Lambs" and "All Creatures Great and Small."
Jeannette Charles, who transformed a portrait rejected by a royal art show into a career as a Queen Elizabeth II look-alike in movies and on television, died on Tuesday in Great Baddow, Engl…
As a press agent, he had his first big hit with "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" In dog competitions, his first big hit was a dachshund named Virginia.
She ran the famous New York comedy club with her husband for years as they launched the careers of many comic stars.
A litigator for 44 years, he was also a novelist; a writer, director and producer of plays and films; and helped establish the independent publishing house Soho Press.
She was a familiar, sometimes meddling, presence on a hit '90s sitcom about a pair of newlyweds. Earlier she won acclaim as Wallis Simpson, who inspired a king to abdicate.
As a spirited impresario of public relations, he promoted entertainers, films and the "I Love New York" tourism campaign.
He more or less stumbled into a career as an actor, but it proved to be a long and prolific one, on film, on television and especially on the stage.
Curious about creativity, she chronicled the lives of Agnes de Mille, Jacqueline du Pré, Samuel Goldwyn and Stan Kenton.
As chairman of New York's preservation commission, he also oversaw the preservation of St. Bartholomew's Church, the Coney Island Cyclone and Ladies' Mile.
He was chairman of the Brooklyn Academy of Music and a benefactor of St. Ann's Warehouse. He and his wife also helped create a center for women's history.
A struggling performer herself, she began publishing The Players' Guide, a compendium of names, photographs, credits and phone numbers, in 1944.
She married the composer Frank Loesser and stopped performing after starring in his "Most Happy Fella." Resuming her career after he died, she emphasized his music.
With little formal training, he made his debut on Broadway when he was 19 and became a prolific presence on TV and in concert halls around the world.
As a tormented young gay man aspiring to be a Broadway dancer, he delivered a wrenching monologue. But his career soon took a downturn.
A third-generation real estate owner and manager, he was instrumental in a public-private partnership in Queens that spurred filmmaking in New York.
A coal miner's son, he had a long theater, film and TV career, but he was best known as the rebellious antihero in John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger."
Ms. Sawyer performed in vaudeville and acted on stages and screens for more than eight decades. "Just keep me workin'," she said.
Mr. Martin developed a knack for discovering new talent and for redeeming scripts that fellow producers had rejected as potential flops.
Ms. Lyng not only inspired the show and starred in its original cast; she also invested her comic talent and meager financial resources in it.
Ms. Button helped define hundreds of characters in Broadway and Off Broadway plays.
Mr. Hoffman began his career as a book editor and also wrote the groundbreaking libretto for John Corigliano's opera "The Ghosts of Versailles."
