Los Angeles [US], Edgar Lansbury, younger brother of Tony Award-winning producer and actress Angela Lansbury, has died. He was 94 years old. The news of Lansbury's death was confirmed by his son David Lansbury. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he breathed his last on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. Edgar won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1964 for his Broadway debut The Subject or Roses. His Broadway credits include Godspell, The Only Game in Town, Look for the Lilies, The Magic Show, American Buffalo, Lennon, and the 1974 Broadway revival of Gypsy Lansbury's first Broadway production, the intense family drama The Subject or Roses. 1964, ran for two years, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Best Play and Tony. Written by Frank Gilroy and directed by Ulu Grosbard, it stars Martin Sheen as a returning veteran and the son of wartime parents, played by Jack Albertson and Irene Daly, played by future Hill Street Blues actor Charles Head. Invited to perform Godspell at the New York Experimental Theatre. Club La Mama in March 1971 Lansbury and his frequent producing partner Joseph Beruh took the musical to the Off-Broadway Cherry Lane Theater in 1971 and then to Broadway in 1976. (Victo Garber played the role of Jesus in the 1973 Columbia adaptation. In 2007, he was awarded the John Houseman Award from The Acting Company to honor his commitment to the development of national audiences for classical actors and theater.) was awarded. In addition to David, an actor, survivors include his second wife, artist Louise Peabody (they married in 2008). ), and his other children, James (an assistant director on Seinfeld), George, Michael, Brian, and Kate.