Tony Randall: Felix Unger of The Odd Couple Dies at 84

Tony Randall was an American actor and theater founder, best known as Felix Unger on The Odd Couple. Born Leonard Rosenberg on February 26, 1920, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he studied acting in New York.

Randall played Felix opposite Jack Klugman's Oscar Madison from 1970 to 1975 and won an Emmy in 1975. He also appeared in the films Pillow Talk (1959) and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957). He founded the National Actors Theatre in 1991 to bring classic plays to Broadway.

After his first wife, Florence Gibbs, died in 1992, Randall married Heather Harlan in 1995, and the couple had two children when he was in his late seventies. He died in New York City on May 17, 2004, at age 84, of complications from pneumonia after heart bypass surgery.

Achievements: Emmy Award for The Odd Couple (1975), founder of the National Actors Theatre (1991).

Birth: February 26, 1920 - Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Profession: Actor.

Interesting Facts: He was a devoted opera fan and appeared frequently as a panelist on opera quizzes.