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Attended Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois), where he majored in speech and drama. Was militantly opposed to smoking. Founder of the National Actors' Theater, New York. Got his break on radio as Reggie in the long-running "I Love a Mystery" series during the 1940s. Second child: Jefferson Salvini Randall, born on June 15, 1998. Named after comic actor Joseph Jefferson and Italian tragic actor Tommasso Salvini. The two children of Felix and Gloria Unger in "The Odd Couple" (1970) were named Leonard and Edna, the real-life first names of Tony Randall and his late sister, Edna. Appeared on "Late Show with David Letterman" (1993) a record 70 times. The son of an art dealer, he graduated from Tulsa Central High School. National chairman of the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation, which is an incurable neuromuscular disease. An avid art collector, his father was an art and antiques dealer. Originated the role of E.K. Hornbeck in the Broadway production of "Inherit the Wind," which ran for 806 performances from Apr 21, 1955, to Jun 22, 1957, at the National Theater (now the Nederlander Theater). The role was played by Gene Kelly in the 1960 film Inherit the Wind (1960). In 1996, his National Actors' Theater company put on a Broadway revival of "Inherit the Wind" that ran for 45 appearances in 1996. Randall was a stand-in for both Anthony Heald as E. K. Hornbeck and George C. Scott as Henry Drummond, taking over the latter role when Scott had to leave the play. Scott was nominated for a 1996 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for the role. Was nominated for Broadway's Tony Award five times: as Best Actor (Musical) in 1958 for "Oh, Captain!" and, later, as co-producer with his National Actors' Theater of four nominated plays: as Best Revival, in 1993 for "St. Joan" and as Best Revival (Play) in 1994 for "Timon of Athens"; in 1996 for "Inherit the Wind" and in 1997 for "The Gin Game.". A liberal Democrat, in September 2003 Randall joked in a speech that President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney would be turned away if they tried to attend his funeral. Biography in "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives," Volume 7, 2003-2005, pp. 444-446. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007. Avid collector of modern art, opera recordings, and antiques.