Robert Moore
(August 7, 1927 - May 10, 1984) U.S.A.
Actor and film director
Robert Moore was born in Detroit, Michigan. He studied at the Catholic University of America Drama Department under Gilbert V. Hartke. H
He is best known for his direction of the ground-breaking play The Boys in the Band , his Broadway productions (which garnered him five Tony Award nominations), and his collaborations - three plays and three films - with Neil Simon, including the classic detective spoof, Murder By Death , and The Cheap Detective .
As an actor, he played a disabled gay man opposite Liza Minnelli in the 1970 drama Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon , appeared in two episodes of Valerie Harper's sitcom Rhoda (for which he also directed 26 episodes), and was a regular on Diana Rigg's shortlived 1973 sitcom.
His other television directing credits include The Bob Newhart Show and the 1976 production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, Laurence Olivier, and Maureen Stapleton.
Openly gay actor, Robert Moore died of AIDS-related pneumonia in New York City.
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