R.I.P.

Actor Tony Roberts of ‘Annie Hall,’ ‘Serpico,’ Dies at 85

Roberts also had a prolific Broadway career spanning nearly 50 years.

Tony Roberts, the supporting actor in six Woody Allen films and a Broadway fixture, died Friday at his Manhattan home. He was 85. The cause of death was complications from lung cancer, his daughter, Nicole Burley, told The New York Times. Roberts co-starred alongside Allen and Diane Keaton in the 1977 Oscar winner Annie Hall, and provided a similar, confident counterbalance to Allen’s self-doubting characters in several more Allen films in the 1980s. Roberts was a prolific Broadway performer, having appeared 23 times from 1961 to 2009 and garnering two Tony nominations along the way. Television appearances by Roberts include The Carol Burnett Show, Matlock, and Law & Order. In the 1973 crime drama Serpico, Roberts played Al Pacino’s colleague in the New York Police Department. The following year, the setting remained New York for The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, in which Roberts was Deputy Mayor Warren LaSalle.