American Actor Charles Kimbrough died on January 11, 2023. Let’s see more details about the Murphy Brown actor in the following paragraphs.
What happened to Charles Kimbrough?
Kimbrough died in Culver City, California on January 11, 2023, aged 86.
Charles Kimbrough an actor known for his patrician looks and stately bearing who was nominated for an Emmy Award for portraying a comically rigid news anchor on the hit sitcom “Murphy Brown,” died on Jan. 11 in Culver City, Calif. He was 86. His son, John Kimbrough, confirmed the death.
I have fond memories of seeing Charles Kimbrough onstage in the Encores! No, No, Nanette (my favorite Encores! experience to date) and the Musicals in Mufti Coco.
I used to see him and his wife Beth Howland at various events, often hand in hand. They were quite adorable. pic.twitter.com/WJRLQBU2ES
— Kevin Daly (@kevinddaly) February 5, 2023
Cause of death
Charles Kimbrough, Actor Best Known for ‘Murphy Brown,’ Dies at 86. His son confirmed the news on social media. As soon as the news came out friends and families are pouring tributes on social media.
At this point, it is unknown precisely what led to his death apart from the confirmation of his death and the exact cause of the death Charles was not released as well.
In order to learn more about Charles’s death, we are attempting to get in touch with his friends and family. This section will be updated as soon as we learn any new information regarding the tragic event that brought many people to tears.
Who was Charles Kimbrough?
Charles Kimbrough was born on May 23, 1936. He was an American actor, best known for his role as the straight-faced anchorman Jim Dial on Murphy Brown. In 1990, his performance in the role earned him a nomination for an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.
Kimbrough, who was raised in Minnesota’s St. Paul, has a wealth of theatre experience. Kimbrough and his first wife Mary Jane performed in pieces including Georges Feydeau’s Cat Among the Pigeons and Jules Feiffer’s The White House Murder Case while they were members of the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre’s resident company in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Kimbrough’s wife Beth Howland died of lung cancer in December 2015 at the age of 76. Her death was not reported to the media until May 24, 2016.
Career Journey
As Harry in Stephen Sondheim’s Company, he was nominated for a Tony Award in 1971 for best-featured actor in a musical. He participated in the 1984 Broadway production of Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George. He played the lead role in the 1985 Off-Broadway premiere of A.R. Gurney’s comedy Sylvia.
He appears in a Chef Boyardee Spaghetti & Meatballs commercial somewhere between 1976 and 1977. On the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown in 1988, Kimbrough was cast as Jim Dial, a seasoned network news anchor with the ethics and knowledge of a Walter Cronkite or Edward R. Murrow.
Throughout its ten seasons and 247 episodes, the show won three Golden Globes and 17 Emmy Awards. Mr. Kimbrough was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 1990.
Kimbrough’s Theatrical Life
Kimbrough was part of the cast of the Roundabout Theater Company’s 2012 Broadway revival of Mary Chase’s Pulitzer prize-winning play Harvey playing William R. Chumley, M.D., with Jim Parsons in the lead as Elwood P. Dowd. The show ran from June 14 to August 5, 2012, at New York’s Studio 54 Theatre. Kimbrough’s son, John Kimbrough, founded, sang, and played guitar for the St. Paul-based alternative rock band Walt Mink which was active from 1989–1997. The 2018 revival of Murphy Brown had Kimbrough return playing a retired Jim Dial for a multi-episode arc
He was married to actor and fellow Company cast member Beth Howland, who was best known for her role in the sitcom Alice as Vera Louise Gorman-Novak.
At Indiana University Bloomington, he majored in theatre and drama, earning his degree there in 1958. Charles graduated from Yale University’s School of Drama with a Master of Fine Arts.
He is probably best known to younger audiences for providing the voice of Victor, the oldest gargoyle, in Disney’s 1996 animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Charles also voiced Victor in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance and its direct-to-video sequel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame II.
Received strong reviews for his performance
In a career that included a Tony nomination for “Company,” he specialized in playing uptight characters, notably Candice Bergen’s stuffy straight man. Mr. Kimbrough received strong reviews for his performance in the 1995 production of A.R. Gurney’s “Sylvia” at the Manhattan Theater Club. He played Greg, a middle-class husband struggling with a midlife crisis, a wobbly career, and his marriage to Kate (Blythe Danner), which grows more complicated after he brings home a new dog, Sylvia, played in very human form by Sarah Jessica Parker.
Not that Mr. Kimbrough ever sought to play stiffs. Unfortunately, I’m really good at playing jackasses of one kind or another,” he told The Wall Street Journal in 2012. “I’ve always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity.
He came to realize that “stuffiness is not dullness,” Mr. Kimbrough told Newsday. “And that gave me a new lease on life.”
RIP to the wonderful Charles Kimbrough. So funny as the stiff Jim Dial on Murphy Brown. But he'll always be Company's first Harry, who first performed "Sorry-Grateful". https://t.co/FhvGn5D6k7
— Michael Schwartz (@mschwartz95) February 5, 2023
Condolence Posted
Michael Paulson Posted
Charles Kimbrough was best known for “Murphy Brown.” But he also performed in 15 Broadway shows, picking up a Tony nomination for the original production of “Company” (and later marrying another member of the cast).
Mike Barnes Posted
#RIP Charles Kimbrough, so good on ‘Murphy Brown.’ Said Diane English: “When he came to read, he brought it all: ramrod posture, anchor voice, slick-back hair. He brought credibility to the character. We didn’t want a Ted Baxter version of this guy.”
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