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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Harrison Smith

Robert Morse: Tony-winning comic and Mad Men actor

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Robert Morse, a puckish Tony-winning actor who starred in the Broadway musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, transformed into author Truman Capote for a celebrated one-man show and delighted television viewers as the eccentric advertising executive Bert Cooper on Mad Men, has died aged 90.

A gap-toothed actor who retained a youthful energy well into retirement age, Morse became a Broadway sensation playing the beguiling schemer J Pierrepont Finch, a window washer who rises to become chairman of the World Wide Wicket Co in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

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