Robert Cornthwaite(1917-2006)

His death at age 89 was attributed to natural causes. He died at the Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California.

I prefer theater; it's far more liberating for the actor than film. Writers, directors, editors and cameramen -- those are the creative people in film. Actors are out of necessity farther down on the totem pole, although they don't like to think so and many of them don't admit it. But they're relatively unimportant. They are things being manipulated by these other people. I like theater because I've got the reins in my hands, at least once the curtain goes up.