One of his last acting credits was narrating a documentary series on cancer, while he himself was dying of brain cancer. He thought of it as a fitting and important final performance.
Was the voice of many specials on The History
Channel.
Won his Tony the same year that Kelly Bishop - who portrays his wife in Gilmore Girls (2000) - won hers, albeit in two completely different shows.
He had completed many voiceover assignments: from Dodge TV commercials,
to documentaries to dozens of audio-books (in many cases, using
different accents and dialects).