Award-winning actor Ron Leibman, whose career in movies, theatre and television spanned six decades, died after an illness at the age of 82.
Best known for playing Rachel's overbearing father, Dr Leonard Green in the popular sitcom "Friends", Leibman died on December 6 in Manhattan, reported The New York Times.
A spokeswoman for his wife, "Arrested Development" star Jessica Walter, said the cause of death was pneumonia.
Primarily a stage actor, Leibman won an Emmy award in 1979 for the short-lived CBS series "Kaz", which he created, and also has a Tony to credit for the play "Angels in America".
He played Cohn in the first part of Tony Kushner's monumental two-part play about homosexuality and the age of AIDS. Cohn, a conservative lawyer and closeted gay man who was once chief counsel to Senator Joseph R McCarthy and who died of AIDS in 1986, is a central figure in the work.
On the big screen, Leibman's credits include films such as "Norma Rae", "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Where's Poppa?"
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