Stage, TV, and film actor Ben Gazzara, a Lee Strasberg student who played Brick in the original Broadway production of Cat on a Tin Roof, died Friday of pancreatic cancer at age 81. Sign up His long, ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Ben Gazzara, whose powerful dramatic performances brought an intensity to a variety of roles and made him a memorable presence in such iconic productions over the decades as the ...

Ben Gazzara’s expression of sardonic bemusement came to him early, growing up on East 29th Street. It was one of those melting-pot neighborhoods which contained a brewery, a doughnut factory, a ...

'Frasier' offered legendary actor Ben Gazzara a role on one episode of the 'Cheers' spinoff. Had Gazzara not made this demand, they would've hired him. “There was a part for Martin’s partner,” Levine ...

Actor Ben Gazzara died in New York Friday at the age of 81. The man, whose film and Broadway career spanned more than five decades, succumbed to pancreatic cancer at Bellevue Hospital, his lawyer told ...

Ben Gazzara, the actor known for his intensity and for his work with helmer John Cassavetes, died Friday in Gotham. He was 81. His long career stretched from the New York stage to live TV in the 1950s ...

Actor Ben Gazzara, known for his brooding tough-guy presence in dozens of films, television shows and stage productions over his long career, died of pancreatic cancer on Friday at a Manhattan ...

LOS ANGELES -- Actor Ben Gazzara, known for his brooding tough-guy presence in dozens of films, television shows and stage productions over his long career, died of pancreatic cancer on Friday at a ...