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Tony Roberts, 'Annie Hall' star and Tony-nominated stage actor, dies at 85

Tony Roberts, a stage and screen actor who starred in several Woody Allen films, including 'Annie Hall' and 'Hannah and Her Sisters,' has died at 85.

Born in Manhattan in 1939, Roberts studied acting at the borough's High School of Music & Art and at Northwestern University on the advice of family friend Lee Strasberg. The same year, he appeared in the film adaptation of Star Spangled Girl, followed by Sidney Lumet's 1973 crime drama Serpico and the Walter Matthau–starring 1974 subway thriller The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. The actor played one of his only big-screen leading roles in the 1983 horror sequel Amityville 3-D, and later appeared in films like Switch with Ellen Barkin and The Longest Week with Jason Bateman.

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