Richard Kiley

Person · Open Library

Works

10

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Film & TV

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Richard Paul Kiley (March 31, 1922 – March 5, 1999) was an American actor and singer. He is best known for his distinguished theatrical career in which he twice won the Tony Award for Best Actor In A Musical (for Redhead and Man of La Mancha). Kiley was also nominated for nine Emmy Awards, winning four, including for his roles on the series The Thorn Birds, A Year in the Life, and Picket Fences.…

Known for

• Broadway's Lost Treasures II — Don Quixote (segment "Man Of La Mancha")2004
• Hugh Hefner: American Playboy — Narrator (voice)2003
• The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller — Joey (archive footage)2002
• Heroes of Horror — Narrator2001
• Blue Moon — Jimmy Keating1999
• Searching for Lost Worlds — narrator1999
• Patch Adams — Dr. Titan1998
• The Gates of Jerusalem: A History of the Holy City — Host1998
• Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady — Narrator1997
• Wolves at Our Door — Narrator1997

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Listeners

7,000

Total plays

39,754

Richard Paul Kiley (March 31, 1922 – March 5, 1999) was an American stage, television, and film actor. He is best known for his voice work, as narrator of various documentary series, and for having played Don Quixote in the original 1965 production of the Broadway musical Man of La Mancha. Kiley was the first to sing and record "The Impossible Dream", the hit song from the show. In the 1953 hit musical Kismet, he played the Caliph, and introduced the song "Stranger in Paradise". <a href="https:/

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Richard

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Chicago

Place of death

Warwick

Occupation

actor

Languages spoken

English language

Award

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series

Field of work

acting

Image

Richard Kiley 1960.JPG

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