Robert Morse in one of the episodes of 'Mad Men'.©AMC/courtesy Everett Collection
American actor Robert Morse, known for his participation in the
Mad Men
series , has died at the age of 90.
It has been a message posted on Twitter by the producer and screenwriter Larry Karaszewski, one of the vice presidents of the Hollywood Academy, which has announced the death of the interpreter.
“My good friend Bobby Morse passed away at the age of 90.
A great talent and a beautiful spirit ”, explained this Thursday Karaszewski, who worked with him in 2016 in the
American Crime Story
series .
He was the man who embodied, always with a bow tie and never with shoes, Bertram Cooper
,
one of the founders of Sterling Cooper, the advertising agency for which Don Draper worked in the AMC series.
His character used to go in socks and imposed on everyone who entered his office to do the same.
My good pal Bobby Morse has passed away at age 90. A huge talent and a beautiful spirit.
Sending love to his son Charlie & daughter Allyn.
Had so much fun hanging with Bobby over the years - filming People v OJ & hosting so many screenings (How To Succeed, Loved One, That's Life) pic.twitter.com/H1vCD3jjul
— Larry Karaszewski (@Karaszewski) April 21, 2022
Morse, born in Massachusetts in 1931 and trained with acting teacher Lee Strasberg, has always had a calling in live performance.
After participating in the Korean War as a member of the US Navy, he began his career as an actor.
He first made it big on Broadway as Barnaby Tucker in
The Matchmaker
, which spawned the musical
Hello, Dolly!
and
that he also interpreted years later in the cinema.
It was Truman Capote who gave him some of his great professional joys.
And not because the actor interpreted any of his texts, but because he embodied the writer in theater and on television.
He won a Tony Award in 1989 for the editing
Tru
and won an Emmy in 1993 for the television adaptation of this script, in the anthology series
American Playhouse
of the American public network PBS.
He earned his next five Emmy nominations for his role in
Mad Men
.
One of his most celebrated roles came in the early 1960s.
He played the part of ambitious impresario J. Pierpont Finch in the Broadway musical
How to Make It Without Hitting
.
The play was so successful that John F. Kennedy himself was among its spectators.
“He came backstage and shook my hand.
He sent me a beautiful, beautiful photo [with the dedication] 'With best wishes, John F. Kennedy.'
Those are the memories that I now have because as you get older, sometimes you think 'Oh my God, I haven't done anything in life'.
And then you go to IMDb —artistic database— and you look at everything you've done and you're like, 'Hey, be proud of yourself,'” he explained in 2019 to
the Los Angeles Times
.
Like so many other times in his career, that success on the stage opened the doors of film and television for him and he returned to play this character in David Swift's big-screen adaptation of the play in 1967.
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