Tony Award-nominated Broadway actor John McMartin dies at 86

NEW YORK (AP) - A Tony Award-nominated actor whose Broadway career spanned decades has died. John McMartin was 86.

McMartin's manager, Tony Cloer, says he died of cancer in New York on Wednesday surrounded by his family and his longtime companion, Charlotte Moore.

The versatile, gentlemanly McMartin was nominated for five Tonys, from 1966's "Sweet Charity" to the 2002 revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods." The silver-haired actor also was nominated for "Don Juan," ''Showboat" and "High Society."

The Warsaw, Indiana, native was most famous for originating the role of Ben Stone in Sondheim's "Follies." He remained active into his 80s, last starring in the Lyndon Johnson play "All the Way" in 2013.

McMartin also had many TV and film roles. He played a newspaper editor in "All the President's Men."

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