Rex Robbins

Rex McNicol Robbins (March 30, 1935 – September 23, 2003) was an American character actor of stage and screen. He played the Narrator/Mysterious Man in the first national tour of Into the Woods and appeared opposite Angela Lansbury in the 1974 Broadway revival of Gypsy. Robbins made his Broadway debut in 1963 in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and went on to perform in over 30 plays and films. He starred alongside John Lithgow in several British plays and was directed by Lithgow in Boy Meets Girl (1976). Robbins replaced David Ogden Stiers in The Magic Show and played Roger Sherman in the film adaptation of 1776.