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- In Matthew Broderick: Early roles
…in the Neil Simon play Brighton Beach Memoirs, for which he won a Tony for best featured actor in a play. Broderick’s success that year, however, was tempered by his father’s death of cancer at age 55. Broderick told The New York Times in 1983 that “he never got to…
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…of autobiographical plays consisting of Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983; film 1986); Biloxi Blues (1985; film 1988), which was awarded the Tony for best play; and Broadway Bound (1986; television movie 1992). Subsequent plays included Rumors (1988); Lost in Yonkers (1991;
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