Richard Kiley
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Richard Paul Kiley (March 31, 1922 â March 5, 1999) was an American stage, film and television actor and singer. He is best known for his distinguished theatrical career in which he twice won the Tony Award for Best Actor In A Musical. Kiley created the role of Don Quixote in the original 1965 production of the Broadway musical Man of La Mancha and was the first to sing and record "The Impossible Dream", the hit song from the show. In the 1953 hit musical Kismet, he played the Caliph in the original Broadway cast and, as such, was one of the quartet who sang "And This Is My Beloved". Additionally, he won three Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards during his 50-year career and his "sonorous baritone" was also featured in the narration of a number of documentaries and other films. At the time of his death, Kiley was described as "one of theater's most distinguished and versatile actors" and as "an indispensable actor, the kind of performer who could be called on to play kings and commoners and a diversity of characters in between."
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- The Impossible Dream: The Impossible Dream
- Man of La Mancha (I, Don Quixote) by Irving Jacobson
- Getting to Know You
- The Other Half Of Me
- Aldonza by Joan Diener
- Stranger in Paradise featuring Richard Kiley
- Christmas Bells
- Three Kings
- Is There a Santa Claus?
- Little Breeches
- I Need Air by Richard Kiley
- Be My Host featuring Ann Hodges
- I Never Met A Rose by Richard Kiley
- The Sweetest Sounds featuring Diahann Carroll
- Little Prince by Richard Kiley
- Nobody Told Me featuring Diahann Carroll
- I'm On Your Side by Richard Kiley
- Maine featuring Diahann Carroll
- How Sad
- Look No Further featuring Diahann Carroll
- No Strings featuring Diahann Carroll
- Act 2. And This Is My Beloved featuring Alfred Drake
- Finale: The Sweetest Sounds featuring Diahann Carroll
- Barber's Song / Golden Helmet featuring Irving Jacobson
