Tony Randall

Anthony Leonard Randall[1] (born Aryeh Leonard Rosenberg; February 26, 1920 – May 17, 2004) was an American actor, comedian and singer. He is best known for his role as Felix Unger in a television adaptation of the 1965 play The Odd Couple by Neil Simon.[2][3] In a career spanning six decades, Randall received six Golden Globe Award nominations and six Primetime Emmy Award nominations, winning one.

Randall was born to a Jewish family in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Julia (née Finston) and Mogscha Rosenberg, an art and antiques dealer.[citation needed] He attended Tulsa Central High School.[4]

Randall attended Northwestern University for a year before going to New York City to study at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. He studied under Sanford Meisner and choreographer Martha Graham. Randall worked as an announcer at radio station WTAG in Worcester, Massachusetts.[5] As Anthony Randall, he starred with Jane Cowl in George Bernard Shaw’s Candida and Ethel Barrymore in Emlyn Williams’s The Corn Is Green.

Randall served for four years with the United States Army Signal Corps in World War II, including work at the codebreaking Signal Intelligence Service.[6]: 207  After the war, he worked at the Olney Theatre in Montgomery County, Maryland before heading back to New York City.