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Year Category Nominee Show Nom
1947 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jose Ferrer Cyrano de Bergerac Award winner
1990 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Robert Morse Tru production took place the previous year Award winner
1990 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play David Carroll Grand Hotel production took place the previous year
1990 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Dustin Hoffman The Merchant of Venice production took place the previous year
1990 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Tom Hulce A Few Good Men production took place the previous year
1950 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Sidney Blackmer Come Back, Little Sheba Award winner
1951 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Claude Rains Darkness At Noon Award winner
1952 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jose Ferrer The Shrike Award winner
1953 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Tom Ewell The Seven Year Itch Production took place the previous year Award winner
1954 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play David Wayne The Teahouse of the August Moon Award winner
1955 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Alfred Lunt Quadrille Production took place the previous year Award winner
1956 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Paul Muni Inherit the Wind Production took place previous year Award winner
1956 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Ben Gazzara A Hatful of Rain
1956 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Boris Karloff The Lark
1956 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Michael Redgrave Tiger at the Gates
1956 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Edward G. Robinson Middle of the Night
1957 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Fredric March Long Day's Journey Into Night Award winner
1957 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Maurice Evans The Apple Cart
1957 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Wilfred Hyde-White The Reluctant Debutante
1957 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Eric Portman Separate Table
1957 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Ralph Richardson The Waltz Of The Toreadors
1957 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Cyril Ritchard A Visit To A Small Planet
1948 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Henry Fonda Mister Roberts Award winner
1958 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Ralph Bellamy Sunrise At Campobello Award winner
1958 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Richard Burton Time Remembered
1958 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Hugh Griffith Look Homeward, Angel
1958 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Laurence Olivier The Entertainer
1958 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Anthony Perkins Look Homeward, Angel
1958 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Peter Ustinov Romanoff and Juliet
1958 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Emlyn Williams A Boy Growing Up
1989 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Victor Garber Lend Me a Tenor
1989 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Philip Bosco Lend Me a Tenor Award winner
1991 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Nigel Hawthorne Shadowlands production took place the previous year Award winner
1991 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Peter Frechette Our Country's Good
1991 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Tom McGowan La Bête
1991 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Courtney B. Vance Six Degrees of Separation production took place the previous year
1970 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Fritz Weaver Child's Play Award winner
1970 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play James Coco Last of the Red Hot Lovers
1970 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Frank Grimes Borstal Boy
1970 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Stacy Keach Indians
1992 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Judd Hirsch Conversations With My Father Award winner
1992 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Alan Alda Jake's Women
1992 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Alec Baldwin A Streetcar Named Desire
1992 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Brian Bedford Two Shakespearean Actors
1971 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Brian Bedford The School for Wives Award winner
1971 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play John Gielgud Home
1971 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Alec McCowen The Philanthropist
1971 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Ralph Richardson Home
1959 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jason Robards, Jr. The Disenchanted Award winner
1959 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Cedric Hardwicke A Majority of One
1959 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Alfred Lunt The Visit
1959 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Christopher Plummer J. B.
1959 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Cyril Ritchard The Pleasure of His Company
1959 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Robert Stephens Epitaph for George Dillon
1947 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Fredric March Years Ago Award winner
1960 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Melvyn Douglas The Best Man Award winner
1960 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Lee Tracy The Best Man
1960 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jason Robards, Jr. Toys in the Attic
1960 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Sidney Poitier A Raisin in the Sun
1948 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Paul Kelly Command Decision Award winner
1960 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play George C. Scott The Andersonville Trial
1948 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Basil Rathbone The Heiress Award winner
1961 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Zero Mostel Rhinoceros Award winner
1961 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Hume Cronyn Big Fish, Little Fish
1961 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Sam Levene The Devil's Advocate
1961 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Anthony Quinn Becket
1972 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Cliff Gorman Lenny Award winner
1972 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Tom Aldredge Sticks and Bones Award winner
1972 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Donald Pleasence Wise Child Award winner
1972 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jason Robards The Country Girl Award winner
1962 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Paul Scofield A Man for All Seasons Production took place the previous year. Award winner
1962 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Fredric March Gideon
1962 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play John Mills Ross
1962 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Donald Pleasence The Caretaker
1963 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Arthur Hill Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Production took place the previous year. Award winner
1963 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Charles Boyer Lord Pengo
1963 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Paul Ford Never Too Late
1963 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Bert Lahr The Beauty Part
1949 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Rex Harrison Anne of the Thousand Days Award winner
1973 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Alan Bates Butley Award winner
1973 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jack Albertson The Sunshine Boys
1973 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Wilfrid Hyde White The Jockey Club Stakes
1973 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Paul Sorvino That Championship Season
1974 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Michael Moriarty Find Your Way Home Award winner
1974 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Zero Mostel Ulysses in Nighttown
1974 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jason Robards A Moon for the Misbegotten
1974 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play George C. Scott Uncle Vanya
1974 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Nicol Williamson Uncle Vanya
1993 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Ron Leibman Angels in America: Millennium Approaches Award winner
1993 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play K. Todd Freeman The Song of Jacob Zulu
1993 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Liam Neeson Anna Christie
1993 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Stephen Rea Someone Who'll Watch Over Me production took place the previous year
1994 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Stephen Spinella Angels in America: Perestroika production took place the previous year Award winner
1994 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Brian Bedford Timon of Athens production took place the previous year
1994 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Christopher Plummer No Man's Land
1994 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Sam Waterston Abe Lincoln in Illinois production took place the previous year
1964 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Alec Guinness Dylan Award winner
1964 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Richard Burton Hamlet
1964 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Albert Finney Luther
1964 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jason Robards, Jr. After the Fall

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