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Lester Rawlins (September 24, 1924 – March 22, 1988) was an American stage, screen, and television actor. He graduated from the Carnegie Mellon College of Drama in 1950 with a BFA.[1]

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Born in Sharon, Pennsylvania, Rawlins appeared in off-Broadway productions of Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, Winterset, In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel, and Nightride, for which he won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance.[2]

His Broadway credits included A Man for All Seasons and Da, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play and was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play. Rawlins also won Obie Awards for his performance in the 1964 off-Broadway production of the play The Old Glory by the poet Robert Lowell[3] and for his performances in off-Broadway productions of Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow and Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler.[4][5]

On television, Rawlins had recurring roles on The Defenders, Kojak, The Secret Storm and Ryan's Hope. His feature films included Diary of a Mad Housewife and They Might Be Giants. Rawlins was a regular on the CBS soap opera, The Edge of Night for several years, where he played the role of wealthy Orin Hillyer.[6]

He also could be heard on television and radio commercials, and was most notably the voice-over for the Dunkin' Donuts TV and radio advertising campaign created by the New York advertising agency Ally & Gargano.

Death

Rawlins died of cardiac arrest in New York City in 1988.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1970	Diary of a Mad Housewife	Dr. Linstrom
1971	They Might Be Giants	Blevins
1975	Starsky & Hutch	C.J. Woodfield
1976	God Told Me To	Board Chairman
1977	A Secret Space	Kevin King
1983	Lovesick	Silent Patient

References

External links

• Lester Rawlins at the Internet Broadway Database
• Lester Rawlins at IMDb
• Lester Rawlins at the Lucille Lortel Archives
• New York Times obituary, March 29, 1988

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Lester Rawlins (* 24. September 1924 in Sharon, Pennsylvania; † 22. März 1988 in Manhattan, New York City) war ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler.

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