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The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play is awarded to the actor who was voted as the best actor in a play, whether a new production or a revival. This Tony Award has been announced since 1947.

Contents 1 1948-1959 2 1960-1969 3 1970-1979 4 1980-1989 5 1990-1999 6 2000-2009 7 Winners with Multiple Tony Awards for Leading Actor in a Play

• 1947 - José Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac), Fredric March (Years Ago)

• 1948 - Henry Fonda (Mister Roberts), Paul Kelly (Command Decision), Basil Rathbone (The Heiress)

• 1949 - Rex Harrison (Anne of the Thousand Days)

• 1950 - Sidney Blackmer (Come Back, Little Sheba)

• 1951 - Claude Rains (Darkness at Noon)

• 1952 - José Ferrer (The Shrike)

• 1953 - Tom Ewell (The Seven Year Itch)

• 1954 - David Wayne (The Teahouse of the August Moon)

• 1955 - Alfred Lunt (Quadrille)

• 1956 - Paul Muni (Inherit the Wind)

Ben Gazzara (A Hatful of Rain)

Boris Karloff (The Lark)

Michael Redgrave (Tiger at the Gates)

Edward G. Robinson (Middle of the Night)

• 1957 - Fredric March (Long Day's Journey Into Night)

Maurice Evans (The Apple Cart)

Wilfred Hyde-White (The Reluctant Debutante)

Eric Portman (Separate Tables)

Ralph Richardson (The Waltz of the Toreadors)

Cyril Ritchard (A Visit To A Small Planet)

• 1958 - Ralph Bellamy (Sunrise At Campobello)

Richard Burton (Time Remembered)

Hugh Griffith (Look Homeward, Angel)

Laurence Olivier (The Entertainer)

Anthony Perkins (Look Homeward, Angel)

Peter Ustinov (Romanoff and Juliet)

Emlyn Williams (A Boy Growing Up)

• 1959 - Jason Robards, Jr. (The Disenchanted)

Cedric Hardwicke (A Majority of One)

Alfred Lunt (The Visit)

Christopher Plummer (J.B.)

Cyril Ritchard (The Pleasure of His Company)

Robert Stephens (Epitaph for George Dillon)

• 1960 - Melvyn Douglas (The Best Man)

Lee Tracy (The Best Man)

Jason Robards, Jr., (Toys in the Attic)

Sidney Poitier (A Raisin in the Sun)

George C. Scott (The Andersonville Trial)

• 1961 - Zero Mostel (Rhinocéros)

Hume Cronyn (Big Fish, Little Fish)

Sam Levene (The Devil's Advocate)

Anthony Quinn (Beckett)

• 1962 - Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons)

Fredric March (Gideon)

John Mills (Ross)

Donald Pleasence (The Caretaker)

• 1963 - Arthur Hill (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

Charles Boyer (Lord Pengo)

Paul Ford (Never Too Late)

Bert Lahr (The Beauty Part)

• 1964 - Alec Guinness (Dylan)

Richard Burton (Hamlet)

Albert Finney (Luther)

Jason Robards, Jr. (After the Fall)

• 1965 - Walter Matthau (The Odd Couple)

John Gielgud (Tiny Alice)

Donald Pleasence (Poor Bitos)

Jason Robards (Hughie)

• 1966 - Hal Holbrook (Mark Twain Tonight)

Roland Culber (Ivanov)

Donal Donnelly and Patrick Bedford (Philadelphia, Here I Come!)

Nicol Williamson (Inadmissible Evidence)

• 1967 - Paul Rogers (The Homecoming)

Hume Cronyn (A Delicate Balance)

Donald Madden (Black Comedy)

Donald Moffat (Right You Are and The Wild Duck)

• 1968 - Martin Balsam (You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running)

Albert Finney (Joe Egg)

Milo O'Shea (Staircase)

Alan Webb (I Never Sang for My Father)

• 1969 - James Earl Jones (The Great White Hope)

Art Carney (Lovers)

Alec McGowen (Hadrian VII)

Donald Pleasence (The Man in the Glass Booth)

• 1970 - Fritz Weaver (Child's Play)

James Coco (Last of the Red Hot Lovers)

Frank Grimes (Borstal Boy)

Stacy Keach (Indians)

• 1971 - Brian Bedford (The School for Wives)

John Gielgud (Home)

Alec McGowen (The Philanthropist)

Ralph Richardson (Home)

• 1972 - Cliff Gorman (Lenny)

Tom Aldredge (Sticks and Bones)

Donald Pleasence (Wise Child)

Jason Robards (The Country Girl)

• 1973 - Alan Bates(Butley)

Jack Albertson (The Sunshine Boys)

Wilfrid Hyde-White (The Jockey Club Stakes)

Paul Sorvino (That Championship Season)

• 1974 - Michael Moriarty (Find Your Way Home)

Zero Mostel (Ulysses in Nighttown)

Jason Robards (A Moon for the Misbegotten)

George C. Scott (Uncle Vanya)

Nicol Williamson (Uncle Vanya)

• 1975 - John Kani and Winston Ntshona (Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Island)

Jim Dale (Scapino)

Peter Firth (Equus)

Henry Fonda (Clarence Darrow)

Ben Gazzara (Hughie and Duet)

John Wood (Sherlock Holmes)

• 1976 - John Wood (Travesties)

Moses Gunn (The Poison Tree)

George C. Scott(Death of a Salesman)

Donald Sinden (Habeas Corpus)

• 1977 - Al Pacino (The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel)

Tom Courtenay (Otherwise Engaged)

Ben Gazzara (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

Ralph Richardson (No Man's Land)

• 1978 - Barnard Hughes (Da)

Hume Cronyn (The Gin Game)

Frank Langella (Dracula)

Jason Robards (A Touch of the Poet)

• 1979 - Tom Conti (Whose Life Is It Anyway?)

Philip Anglim (The Elephant Man)

Jack Lemmon (Tribute)

Alec McCowen (St. Mark's Gospel)

• 1980 - John Rubinstein (Children of a Lesser God)

Charles Brown (Home)

Gerald Hiken (Strider)

Judd Hirsch (Talley's Folly)

• 1981 - Ian McKellen (Amadeus)

Tim Curry (Amadeus)

Roy Dotrice (A Life)

Jack Weston (The Floating Light Bulb)

• 1982 - Roger Rees (The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby)

Tom Courtenay (The Dresser)

Milo O'Shea (Mass Appeal)

Christopher Plummer (Othello)

• 1983 - Harvey Fierstein (Torch Song Trilogy)

Jeffrey DeMunn (K2)

Edward Herrmann (Plenty)

Tony Lo Bianco (A View from the Bridge)

• 1984 - Jeremy Irons (The Real Thing)

Calvin Levels (Open Admissions)

Rex Harrison (Heartbreak House)

Ian McKellen (Ian McKellen Acting Shakespeare)

• 1985 - Derek Jacobi (Much Ado About Nothing)

Jim Dale (Joe Egg)

Jonathan Hogan (As Is)

John Lithgow (Requiem for a Heavyweight)

• 1986 - Judd Hirsch (I'm Not Rappaport)

Hume Cronyn (The Petition)

Ed Harris (Precious Sons)

Jack Lemmon (Long Day's Journey Into Night)

• 1987 - James Earl Jones (Fences)

Philip Bosco (You Never Can Tell)

Richard Kiley (All My Sons)

Alan Rickman (Les Liaisons Dangereuses)

• 1988 - Ron Silver (Speed the Plow)

Derek Jacobi (Breaking the Code)

John Lithgow (M. Butterfly)

Robert Prosky (A Walk in the Woods)

• 1989 - Philip Bosco (Lend Me a Tenor)

Mikhail Baryshnikov (Metamorphosis)

Victor Garber (Lend Me a Tenor)

Bill Irwin (Largely New York)

• 1990 - Robert Morse (Tru)

Charles S. Dutton (The Piano Lesson)

Dustin Hoffman (The Merchant of Venice)

Tom Hulce (A Few Good Men)

• 1991 - Nigel Hawthorne (Shadowlands)

Peter Frechette (Our Country's Good)

Tom McGowan (La Bête)

Courtney B. Vance (Six Degrees of Separation)

• 1992 - Judd Hirsch (Conversations With My Father)

Alan Alda (Jake's Women)

Alec Baldwin (A Streetcar Named Desire)

Brian Bedford (Two Shakespearean Actors)

• 1993 - Ron Leibman (Angels in America: Millennium Approaches)

K. Todd Freeman (The Song of Jacob Zulu)

Liam Neeson (Anna Christie)

Stephen Rea (Someone Who'll Watch Over Me)

• 1994 - Stephen Spinella (Angels in America: Perestroika)

Brian Bedford (Timon of Athens)

Christopher Plummer (No Man's Land)

Sam Waterston (Abe Lincoln in Illinois)

• 1995 - Ralph Fiennes (Hamlet)

Brian Bedford (The Moliere Comedies)

Roger Rees (Indiscretions)

Joe Sears (A Tuna Christmas)

• 1996 - George Grizzard (A Delicate Balance)

Philip Bosco (Moon Over Buffalo)

George C. Scott (Inherit the Wind)

Martin Shaw (An Ideal Husband)

• 1997 - Christopher Plummer (Barrymore)

Brian Bedford (London Assurance)

Michael Gambon (Skylight)

Antony Sher (Stanley)

• 1998 - Anthony LaPaglia (A View From the Bridge)

Richard Briers (The Chairs)

John Leguizamo (Freak)

Alfred Molina ('Art')

• 1999 - Brian Dennehy (Death of a Salesman)

Brian F. O'Byrne (The Lonesome West)

Corin Redgrave (Not About Nightingales)

Kevin Spacey (The Iceman Cometh)

• 2000 - Stephen Dillane (The Real Thing)

Gabriel Byrne (A Moon for the Misbegotten)

Philip Seymour Hoffman (True West)

John C. Reilly (True West)

David Suchet (Amadeus)

• 2001 - Richard Easton (The Invention of Love)

Seán Campion (Stones in His Pockets)

Conleth Hill (Stones in His Pockets)

Brian Stokes Mitchell (King Hedley II)

Gary Sinise (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)

• 2002 - Alan Bates, Fortune's Fool

Billy Crudup, The Elephant Man

Liam Neeson, The Crucible

Alan Rickman, Private Lives

Jeffrey Wright, Topdog/Underdog

• 2003 - Brian Dennehy, Long Day's Journey into Night

Brian Bedford, Tartuffe

Eddie Izzard, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

Paul Newman, Our Town

Stanley Tucci, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune

• 2004 - Jefferson Mays, I Am My Own Wife

Simon Russell Beale, Jumpers

Kevin Kline, Henry IV

Frank Langella, Match

Christopher Plummer, King Lear

• 2005 - Bill Irwin, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Philip Bosco, Twelve Angry Men

Billy Crudup, The Pillowman

James Earl Jones, On Golden Pond

Brían F. O'Byrne, Doubt

• 2006 - Richard Griffiths, The History Boys

Ralph Fiennes, Faith Healer

Željko Ivanek, The Caine Mutiny Court Martial

Oliver Platt, The Drowsy Chaperone

David Wilmot, The Lieutenant of Inishmore

• Alan Bates (2)

• Brian Dennehy (2)

• José Ferrer (2)

• Judd Hirsch (2)

• James Earl Jones (2)

• Fredric March (2)