George S. Irving has died. He was 94.
Mr. Irving was a Tony award winner (for a revival of “Irene” in which he acted opposite Debbie Reynolds):
Mr. Irving was a regular on Broadway, in the musicals “Can-Can,” “Bells Are Ringing” and “Irma La Douce,” among others, and in plays like Gore Vidal’s political satire “An Evening With Richard Nixon and…,” in which he played the title role.
He was also a television spokesman for White Owl cigars, and narrated episodes of “Underdog”.
But he was perhaps best known as the voice of Heat Miser in “The Year Without a Santa Claus”. He was also in “A Miser Brothers’ Christmas” (which I’d never even heard of, but I was apparently in my 40s when that premiered).
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What, you don’t remember my coverage of A Miser Brother’s Christmas?
From what I’ve seen, it makes the original Year Without a Santa Claus look like Citizen Kane.