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   the Performing Arts) and studied acting at Northwestern University in   
   Illinois, where his classmates included Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss   
   and Karen Black. The college was recommended to him by a Fire Island   
   summer neighbor of the family’s who, back in the city, had taught acting:   
   Lee Strasberg,   
      
   Mr. Roberts graduated in 1961 and made his Broadway debut in 1962 in the   
   play “Something About a Soldier.” Because there was another David Roberts   
   in Actors’ Equity, he became Anthony Roberts and stuck with that name for   
   a decade or so, before switching to the more casual Tony.   
      
   “It’s difficult for me to characterize myself,” he told The Times in   
   1989.   
   “I probably have some kind of urbane street-smart wisdom that comes from   
   the New York public school system, my greatest teacher.”   
      
   In 1965, he replaced Robert Redford as the cautious young newlywed in Neil   
   Simon’s hit comedy “Barefoot in the Park.” That sort of thing became a   
   habit.   
      
   He took over for Robert Klein as a composer in love with his lyricist in   
   “They’re Playing Our Song” (1979) and as a witty faux-furrier in “The   
   Sisters Rosensweig” (1994). He replaced Ron Rifkin as Herr Schultz, the   
   bashful Jewish boarder, in a revival of “Cabaret” (2003). And he was able   
   to return to “Barefoot in the Park” in a 2006 revival, this time as Victor   
   Velasco, the newlyweds’ debonair upstairs neighbor.   
      
   Before he became Woody Allen’s best movie friend, he was Dean Jones’s in   
   Disney’s “The Million Dollar Duck” (1971), his film debut.   
      
   Mr. Roberts was Al Pacino’s politically savvy fellow police officer in   
   “Serpico” (1973). In “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” (1974), he   
   was a   
   sensible deputy mayor dealing with subway hijackers and their ransom   
   demands.   
      
   And in “Just Tell Me What You Want” (1980), he played the self-satisfied   
   young head of a Hollywood studio.   
      
   His last Broadway appearance was in 2009, in “The Royal Family,” playing   
   Oscar Wolfe, the colorful producer of some colorful aristocrats of the   
   theater. (His appearance in that production got off to a bumpy start when,   
   at 69, he had a minor seizure onstage shortly after curtain time during a   
   Sunday preview performance. He had to be escorted off the stage, and that   
   day’s performance was canceled. But he rallied and later rejoined the   
   cast.)   
      
   His final screen role was as Max Kellerman, a wistful Catskills resort   
   owner, in a 2017 television movie version of “Dirty Dancing.”   
      
   Mr. Roberts married Jennifer Lyons, a dancer, in 1969. They divorced in   
   1975.   
      
   In an NBC interview recounted in his 2015 memoir, “Do You Know Me?,” a   
   critic, impressed by — or concerned about — the number of television,   
   movie and theater projects Mr. Roberts had going on, asked him if he ever   
   took a vacation.   
      
   “No,” Mr. Roberts said. “I crack under leisure.”   
      
   William Grimes and Ash Wu contributed reporting.   
      
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