Tony Awards: Best Lead Actor in a Play
Submitted by alsox4life on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 11:09
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- 1947- Jose Ferrer- Cyrano de Bergerac/ Fredric March- Years Ago
- 1948- Henry Fonda- Mister Roberts/ Paul Kelly- Command Decision/ Basil Rathbone- The Heiress
- 1949- Rex Harrison- Anne of the Thousand Days
- 1950- Sidney Blackmer- Come Back, Little Sheba
- 1951- Claude Rains- Darkness at Noon
- 1952- Jose Ferrer- The Shrike
- 1953- Tom Ewell- The Seven Year Itch
- 1954- David Wayne- The Teahouse of the August Moon
- 1955- Alfred Lunt- Quadrille
- 1956- Paul Muni- Inherit the Wind
- 1957- Fredric March- Long Day's Journey Into Night
- 1958- Ralph Bellamy- Sunrise at Campobello
- 1959- Jason Robards Jr.- The Disenchanted
- 1960- Melvyn Douglas- The Best Man
- 1961- Zero Mostel- Rhinoceros
- 1962- Paul Scofield- A Man for All Seasons
- 1963- Arthur Hill- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- 1964- Alec Guinness- Dylan
- 1965- Walter Matthau- The Odd Couple
- 1966- Hal Holbrook- Mark Twain Tonight
- 1967- Paul Rogers- The Homecoming
- 1968- Martin Balsam- You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running
- 1969- James Earl Jones- The Great White Hope
- 1970- Fritz Weaver- Child's Play
- 1971- Brian Bedford- The School for Wives
- 1972- Cliff Gorman- Lenny
- 1973- Alan Bates- Butley
- 1974- Michael Moriarty- Find Your Way Home
- 1975- John Kani- Sizwe Banzi Is Dead/ Winston Ntshona- The Island
- 1976- John Wood- Travesties
- 1977- Al Pacino- The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel
- 1978- Barnard Hughes- Da
- 1979- Tom Conti- Whose Life Is it Anyway?
- 1980- John Rubinstein- Children of a Lesser God
- 1981- Ian McKellen- Amadeus
- 1982- Roger Rees- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
- 1983- Harvey Fierstein- Torch Song Trilogy
- 1984- Jeremy Irons- The Real Thing
- 1985- Derek Jacobi- Much Ado About Nothing
- 1986- Judd Hirsch- I'm Not Rapaport
- 1987- James Earl Jones- Fences
- 1988- Ron Silver- Speed-the-Plow
- 1989- Philip Bosco- Lend Me a Tenor
- 1990- Robert Morse- Tru
- 1991- Nigel Hawthorne- Shadowlands
- 1992- Judd Hirsch- Conversations with My Father
- 1993- Ron Leibman- Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
- 1994- Stephen Spinella- Angels in America: Perestroika
- 1995- Ralph Fiennes- Hamlet
- 1996- George Grizzard- A Delicate Balance
- 1997- Christopher Plummer- Barrymore
- 1998- Anthony LaPaglia- A View from the Bridge
- 1999- Brian Dennehy- Death of a Salesman
- 2000- Stephen Dillane- The Real Thing
- 2001- Richard Easton- The Invention of Love
- 2002- Alan Bates- Fortune's Fool
- 2003- Brian Dennehy- Long Day's Journey Into Night
- 2004- Jefferson Mays- I Am My Own Wife
- 2005- Bill Irwin- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- 2006- Richard Griffiths- The History Boys
- 2007- Frank Langella- Frost/ Nixon
- 2008- Mark Rylance- Boeing-Boeing
- 2009- Geoffrey Rush- Exit the King
