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1940S

1949 Arthur Kennedy ('' Death Of A Salesman '')

1950S

1951 '' Eli Wallach '' ('' The Rose Tattoo '')

1952 '' John Cromwell '' ('' Point Of No Return '')

1953 '' John Williams '' ('' Dial M For Murder '')

1954 '' John Kerr '' ('' Tea And Sympathy '')

1955 '' Francis L. Sullivan '' ('' Witness For The Prosecution '')

1956 '' Ed Begley '' ('' Inherit The Wind '')

---'' Anthony Franciosa '' ('' A Hatful Of Rain '')

---'' Andy Griffith '' ('' Not Time For Sergeants '')

---'' Anthony Quayle '' ('' Tamburlaine The Great '')

---'' Fritz Weaver '' ('' The Chalk Garden '')

1957 '' Frank Conroy '' ('' The Potting Shed '')

---'' Eddie Mayehoff '' ('' A Visit To A Small Planet '')

---'' William Podmore '' ('' Separate Tables '')

---'' Jason Robards, Jr. '' ('' Long Day's Journey Into Night '')

1958 '' Henry Jones '' ('' Sunrise At Campobello '')

---'' Sig Arno '' ('' Time Remembered '')

---'' Theodore Bikel '' ('' The Rope Dancers '')

---'' Pat Hingle '' ('' The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs '')

---'' George Relph '' ('' The Entertainer '')

1959 '' Charlie Ruggles '' ('' The Pleasure Of His Company '')

---'' Marc Connelly '' ('' Tall Story '')

---'' George Grizzard '' ('' The Disenchanted '')

---'' Walter Matthau '' ('' Once More, With Feeling '')

---'' Robert Morse '' ('' Say, Darling '')

---'' George Scott '' ('' Comes A Day '')

1960S

1960 '' Roddy McDowall '' ('' The Fighting Cock '')

---'' Warren Beatty '' ('' A Loss Of Roses '')

---'' Harry Guardino '' ('' One More River '')

---'' Rip Torn '' ('' Sweet Bird Of Youth '')

---'' Lawrence Winters '' ('' The Long Dream '')

1961 '' Martin Gable '' ('' Big Fish, Little Fish '')

---'' Philip Bosco '' ('' The Rape Of The Belt '')

---'' Eduardo Ciannelli '' ('' The Devil's Advocate '')

---''George Grizzard'' ('' Big Fish, Little Fish '')

1962 ''Walter Matthau'' ('' A Shot In The Dark '')

---'' Godfrey M. Cambridge '' ('' Purlie Victorious '')

---'' Joseph Campanella '' ('' A Gift Of Time '')

---'' Paul Sparer '' ('' Ross '')

1963 '' Alan Arkin '' ('' Enter Laughing '')

---'' Barry Gordon '' ('' A Thousand Clowns '')

---'' Paul Rogers '' ('' Photo Finish '')

---'' Frank Silvera '' ('' The Lady Of The Carnellias '')

1964 '' Hume Cronyn '' ('' Hamlet '')

---'' Lee Allen '' ('' Marathon '33 '')

---'' Michael Dunn '' ('' The Ballad Of The Sad Café '')

---'' Larry Gates '' ('' A Case Of Libel '')

1965 '' Jack Albertson '' ('' The Subject Was Roses '')

---'' Murray Hamilton '' ('' Absence Of A Cello '')

---'' Martin Sheen '' (''The Subject Was Roses'')

---'' Clarence Williams, III '' ('' Slow Dance On The Killing Ground '')

1966 '' Patrick Magee '' ('' Marat/Sade '')

---'' Burt Brinckerhoff '' ('' Cactus Flower '')

---'' A. Larry Haines '' ('' Generation '')

---'' Eamon Kelly '' ('' Philadelphia, Here I Come! '')

1967 '' Ian Holm '' ('' The Homecoming '')

---'' Clayton Corzatte '' ('' The School For Scandal '')

---'' Stephen Elliot '' (''Marat/Sad]'')

---'' Sydney Walker '' ('' The Wild Duck '')

1968 '' James Patterson '' ('' The Birthday Party '')

---'' Paul Hecht '' ('' Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead '')

---'' Brian Murray '' (''Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead'')

---'' John Wood '' (''Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead'')

1969 '' Al Pacino '' ('' Does A Tiger Wear A Necktie? '')

---'' Richard Castellano '' ('' Lovers And Other Strangers '')

---'' Anthony Roberts '' ('' Play It Again Sam '')

---'' Louis Zorich '' ('' Hadrian VII '')

1970S

1970 '' Ken Howard '' ('' Child's Play '')

---'' Joseph Bova '' ('' The Chinese And Dr. Fish '')

---'' Dennis King '' ('' A Patriot For Me '')

1971 '' Paul Sand '' ('' Story Theatre '')

---'' Ronald Radd '' ('' Abelard And Heloise '')

---'' Donald Pickering '' ('' Conduct Unbecoming '')

---'' Ed Zimmermann '' ('' The Philanthropist '')

1972 '' Vincent Gardenia '' ('' The Prisoner Of Second Avenue '')

---'' Douglas Rain '' ('' Vivat! Vivat! Regina! '')

---'' Lee Richardson '' (''Vivat! Vivat! Regina!'')

---'' Joe Silver '' ('' Lenny '')

1973 '' John Lithgow '' ('' The Changing Room '')

---'' Barnard Hughes '' ('' Much Ado About Nothing '')

---'' John McMartin '' ('' Don Juan '')

---'' Hayward Morse '' ('' Butley '')

1974 '' Ed Flanders '' ('' A Moon For The Misbegotten '')

---'' Rene Auberjonois '' ('' The Good Doctor '')

---'' Douglas Turner Ward '' ('' The River Niger '')

---'' Dick Anthony Williams '' ('' What The Wine-Sellers Buy '')

1975 '' Frank Langella '' ('' Seascape '')

---'' Larry Blyden '' ('' Absurd Person Singular '')

---'' Leonard Frey '' ('' The National Health '')

---'' Philip Locke '' ('' Sherlock Holmes '')

---'' George Rose '' ('' My Fat Friend '')

---'' Dick Anthony Williams '' ('' Black Picture Show '')

1976 '' Edward Herrmann '' ('' Mrs. Warren's Profession '')

---'' Barry Bostwick '' ('' They Knew What They Wanted '')

---'' Gabriel Dell '' ('' Lamppost Reunion '')

---'' Daniel Seltzer '' ('' Knock Knock '')

1977 '' Jonathan Pryce '' ('' Comedians '')

---'' Bob Dishy '' ('' Sly Fox '')

---'' Joe Fields '' ('' The Basic Training Of Pavlo Hummel '')

---'' Laurence Luckinbill '' ('' The Shadow Box '')

1978 '' Lester Rawlins '' ('' Da '')

---'' Morgan Freeman '' ('' The Mighty Gents '')

---'' Victor Garber '' ('' Deathtrap '')

---'' Cliff Gorman '' ('' Chapter Two '')

1979 '' Michael Gough '' ('' Bedroom Farce '')

---'' Bob Balaban '' ('' The Inspector General '')

---'' Joseph Maher '' ('' Spokesong '')

---'' Edward James Olmos '' ('' Zoot Suit '')

1980S

1980 '' David Rounds '' ('' Morning's At Seven '')

---'' David Dukes '' ('' Bent '')

---'' George Hearn '' ('' Watch On The Rhine '')

---'' Earle Hyman '' ('' The Lady From Dubuque '')

---''Joseph Maher'' ('' Night And Day '')

1981 '' Brian Backer '' ('' The Floating Light Bulb '')

---'' Tom Aldredge '' ('' The Little Foxes '')

---'' Adam Redfield '' ('' A Life '')

---'' Shepperd Strudwick '' ('' To Grandmother's House We Go '')

1982 '' Zakes Mokae '' ('' 'Master Harold'…and The Boys '')

---'' Richard Kavanaugh '' ('' The Hothouse '')

---'' Edward Petherbridge '' ('' The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby '')

---'' David Threlfall '' (''The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby'')

1983 '' Matthew Broderick '' ('' Brighton Beach Memoirs '')

---'' Zelijko Ivanek '' (''Brighton Beach Memoirs'')

---'' George N. Martin '' ('' Plenty '')

---'' Stephen Moore '' ('' All's Well That Ends Well '')

1984 '' Joe Mantegna '' ('' Glengarry Glen Ross '')

---''Philip Bosco'' ('' Heartbreak House '')

---'' Robert Prosky '' (''Glengarry Glen Ross'')

---'' Douglas Seale '' ('' Noises Off '')

1985 '' Barry Miller '' ('' Biloxi Blues '')

---'' Charles S. Dutton '' ('' Ma Rainey's Black Bottom '')

---'' William Hurt '' ('' Hurlyburly '')

---''Edward Petherbridge'' ('' Strange Interlude '')

1986 '' John Mahoney '' ('' The House Of Blue Leaves '')

---'' Peter Gallagher '' ('' Long Day's Journey Into Night '')

---'' Charles Keating '' ('' Loot '')

---''Joseph Maher'' (''Loot'')

1987 '' John Randolph '' ('' Broadway Bound '')

---'' Frankie R. Faison '' ('' Fences '')

---'' Jamey Sheridan '' ('' All My Sons '')

---'' Courtney B. Vance '' (''Fences'')

1988 '' B.D. Wong '' ('' M. Butterfly '')

---''Michael Gough'' ('' Breaking The Code '')

---'' Lou Liberatore '' ('' Burn This '')

---'' Delroy Lindo '' ('' Joe Turner's Come And Gone '')

1989 '' Boyd Gaines '' ('' The Heidi Chronicles '')

---'' Peter Frechette '' ('' Eastern Standard '')

---'' Eric Stoltz '' ('' Our Town '')

---'' Gordon Joseph Weiss '' ('' Ghetto '')

1990S

1990 '' Charles Durning '' ('' Cat On A Hot Tin Roof '')

---'' Rocky Carroll '' ('' The Piano Lesson '')

---'' Terry Kinney '' ('' The Grapes Of Wrath '')

---'' Gary Sinise '' (''The Grapes of Wrath'')

1991 '' Kevin Spacey '' ('' Lost In Yonkers '')

---'' Adam Arkin '' ('' I Hate Hamlet '')

---'' Dylan Baker '' ('' La Bête '')

---'' Stephen Lang '' ('' The Speed Of Darkness '')

1992 '' Larry Fishburne '' ('' Two Trains Running '')

---'' Roscoe Lee Browne '' (''Two Trains Running'')

---'' Željko Ivanek '' ('' Two Shakespearean Actors '')

---'' Tony Shalhoub '' ('' Conversations With My Father '')

1993 ')'''

---'' Robert Sean Leonard '' ('' Candida '')

---'' Joe Mantello '' (''Angels in America: Millennium Approaches'')

---''Zakes Mokae'' ('' The Song Of Jacob Zulu '')

1994 '' Jeffrey Wright '' (''Angels in America: Perestroika'')

---'' Larry Bryggman '' ('' Picnic '')

---'' David Marshall Grant '' (''Angels in America: Perestroika'')

---'' Gregory Itzin '' ('' The Kentucky Cycle '')

1995 '' John Glover '' ('' Love! Valour! Compassion! '')

---'' Stephen Bogardus '' (''Love! Valour! Compassion!'')

---'' Anthony Heald '' (''Love! Valour! Compassion!'')

---'' Jude Law '' ('' Indiscretions '')

1996 '' Ruben Santiago-Hudson '' ('' Seven Guitars '')

---'' James Gammon '' ('' Buried Child '')

---'' Roger Robinson '' (''Seven Guitars'')

---'' Reg Rogers '' ('' Holiday '')

1997 '' Owen Teale '' ('' A Doll's House '')

---'' Terry Beaver '' ('' The Last Night Of Ballyhoo '')

---'' Brian Murray '' ('' The Little Foxes '')

---'' William Biff McGuire '' ('' The Young Man From Atlanta '')

1998 '' Tom Murphy '' ('' The Beauty Queen Of Leenane '')

---'' Brian F. O'Byrne '' (''The Beauty Queen of Leenane'')

---'' Sam Trammell '' ('' Ah, Wilderness! '')

---'' Max Wright '' ('' Ivanov '')

1999 '' Frank Wood '' ('' Side Man '')

---'' Kevin Anderson '' ('' Death Of A Salesman '')

---'' Finbar Lynch '' ('' Not About Nightingales '')

---'' Howard Witt '' (''Death of a Salesman'')

2000S

2000 '' Roy Dotrice '' ('' A Moon For The Misbegotten '')

---'' Kevin Chamberlin '' ('' Dirty Blonde '')

---'' Daniel Davis '' ('' Wrong Mountain '')

---'' Derek Smith '' ('' The Green Bird '')

---'' Bob Stillman '' ('' Dirty Blonde '')

2001 '' Robert Sean Leonard '' ('' The Invention Of Love '')

---'' Charles Brown '' ('' King Hedley II '')

---''Larry Bryggman'' ('' Proof '')

---'' Michael Hayden '' ('' Judgment At Nuremberg '')

---'' Ben Shenkman '' (''Proof'')

2002 '' Frank Langella '' ('' Fortune's Fool '')

---'' Brian Murray '' ('' The Crucible '')

---'' William Biff McGuire '' ('' Morning's At Seven '')

---'' Sam Robards '' ('' The Man Who Had All The Luck '')

---'' Stephen Tobolowsky '' ('' Morning's At Seven '')

2003 '' Denis O'Hare '' ('' Take Me Out '')

---'' Thomas Jefferson Byrd '' ('' Ma Rainey's Black Bottom '')

---'' Philip Seymour Hoffman '' ('' Long Day's Journey Into Night '')

---''Robert Sean Leonard'' (''Long Day's Journey into Night'')

---'' Daniel Sunjata '' ('' Take Me Out '')

2004 '' Brian F. O'Byrne '' ('' Frozen '')

---'' Tom Aldredge '' ('' Twentieth Century '')

---'' Ben Chaplin '' ('' The Retreat From Moscow '')

---'' Aidan Gillen '' ('' The Caretaker '')

---'' Omar Metwally '' ('' Sixteen Wounded '')

2005 '' Liev Schreiber '' ('' Glengarry Glen Ross '')

---'' Alan Alda '' (''Glengarry Glen Ross'')

---'' Gordon Clapp '' (''Glengarry Glen Ross'')

---'' David Harbour '' ('' Edward Albee's Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? '')

---'' Michael Stuhlbarg '' ('' The Pillowman '')