Robert Morse, Broadway and 'Mad Men' actor, dies at age 90

Actor Robert Morse arrives at the premiere of 'FX's 'American Crime Story - The People V. O.J. Simpson' at Westwood Village Theatre on January 27, 2016 in Westwood, California. Actor Robert Morse, who won a Tony Award as a hilariously brash corporate climber in "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" and a second one a generation later as the brilliant, troubled Truman Capote in "Tru," has died. He was 90.

Morse was already well-established on Broadway, with two Tony nominations to his credit, when he became nationally famous at age 30 as the star of Abe Burrows and Frank Loesser’s smash 1961 Broadway satire of corporate life, "How to Succeed...". The show won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony for best musical and ran for more than three years.

"Imagine a collaboration between Horatio Alger and Machiavelli and you have Finch, the intrepid hero of this sortie into the canyons of commerce," The New York Times wrote. "As played with unfaltering bravura and wit by Robert Morse, he is a rumpled, dimpled angel with a streak of Lucifer." Television’s "Mad Men" returned Morse to the "How to Succeed" milieu of Manhattan office politics, 1960s-style.

"I don’t think in terms of whether a picture will help or hinder my career," Morse told the Los Angeles Times when the film was in production. "I think of who I’m working with." Among his "Loved One" co-stars were Jonathan Winters, John Gielgud and Tab Hunter. "Say, Darling" was a comedy about a young writer’s experience as his novel is turned into a Broadway show. The play was based on the creation of "The Pajama Game," and Morse’s character, a "boy producer" who hated being called that, was modeled on Harold Prince, a "Pajama Game" co-producer.

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