Tony-Nominated Director Ulu Grosbard Has Died

Two-time Tony Award nominee Ulu Grosbard has died at N.Y.U. Langone Medical Center earlier this week, according to The New York Times. He was 83.

Grosbard received Tony nominations for his direction of The Subject Was Roses (1965) and American Buffalo (1977). He also won Obie and Drama Desk Awards for his Off-Broadway staging of A View from the Bridge (1965).

Broadway directing credits also include The Investigation, That Summer – That Fall, The Price, The Floating Light Bulb, The Wake of Jamey Foster, and The Tenth Man.

Among his film credits are the 1968 movie adaptation of The Subject Was Roses, along with Georgia, The Deep End of the Ocean, Falling In Love, and the screen version of the John Gregory Dunne novel, True Confessions.