News on your favorite shows, specials & more!

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Tony Award Winners

2024 Tony Awards Header

days             hours          minutes             seconds
Scorecard
Nominations
Videos
Tony Quiz
Party Guide
Musicals
Plays
Database

Sign-Up for Tony Awards News

Be the first to get news, photos, videos & more.

Search


Note: Award winners will appear on a background
Year Category Nominee Show Nom
1979 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jack Lemmon Tribute
1979 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Alec McCowen St. Mark's Gospel production took place the previous year
1978 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Barnard Hughes Da Award winner
1978 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Hume Cronyn The Gin Game production took place the previous year
1978 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Frank Langella Dracula production took place the previous year
1978 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jason Robards A Touch of the Poet Production took place the previous year.
1977 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Al Pacino The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel Award winner
1977 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Tom Courtenay Otherwise Engaged
1977 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Ben Gazzara Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf production took place the previous year
1977 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Ralph Richardson No Man's Land production took place the previous year
1976 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play John Wood Travesties Award winner
1976 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Moses Gunn The Poison Tree
1976 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play George C. Scott Death of a Salesman
1976 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Donald Sinden Habeas Corpus
1975 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play John Kani Sizwe Banzi is Dead Joint nomination with Winston Ntshona for "Sizwe Banzi is Dead" and "The Island" Award winner
1975 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Winston Ntshona Sizwe Banzi is Dead Joint nomination with John Kani for "Sizwe Banzi is Dead" and "The Island" Award winner
1975 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play James Dale Scapino
1975 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Peter Firth Equus
1975 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Henry Fonda Clarence Darrow
1975 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Ben Gazzara Hughie and Duet
1975 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play John Wood Sherlock Holmes
1975 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play John Kani The Island Joint nomination with Winston Ntshona for "Sizwe Banzi is Dead" and "The Island" Award winner
1975 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Winston Ntshona The Island Joint nomination with John Kani for "Sizwe Banzi is Dead" and "The Island" Award winner
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
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
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
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
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
1969 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play James Earl Jones The Great White Hope Production took place the previous year. Award winner
1969 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Art Carney Lovers
1969 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Alec McCowen Hadrian VII
1969 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Donald Pleasance The Man in the Glass Booth
1968 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Martin Balsam You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running Award winner
1968 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Albert Finney Joe Egg
1968 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Milo O'Shea Staircase
1968 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Alan Webb I Never Sang for My Father
1967 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Paul Rogers The Homecoming Award winner
1967 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Hume Cronyn A Delicate Balance
1967 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Donald Madden Black Comedy
1967 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Donald Moffat Right You Are
1967 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Donald Moffat The Wild Duck
1966 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Hal Holbrook Mark Twain Tonight! Award winner
1966 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Roland Culver Ivanov
1966 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Donal Donnelly Philadelphia, Here I Come!
1966 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Patrick Bedford Philadelphia, Here I Come!
1966 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Nicol Williamson Inadmissible Evidence
1965 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Walter Matthau The Odd Couple Award winner
1965 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play John Gielgud Tiny Alice Production took place the previous year.
1965 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Donald Pleasence Poor Bitos Production took place the previous year.
1965 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jason Robards Hughie 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
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
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
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
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
1960 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play George C. Scott The Andersonville Trial
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
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

Videos

View all Videos

TICKET CENTRAL
Ticket Central
SHOP BROADWAY
MARY JANE
THE LION KING
Ticket Central
OUTSIDRS
A BEAUTIFUL NOISE
THE OUTSIDERS

Recommended For You