Robert osborn obituary
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David Staller, Robert Osborne’s Partner: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
(The Actors Company Theatre)
Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne died on March 6 at age 84. Osborne never revealed much about his private life, but his partner, David Staller, came forward in the Los Angeles Times’ obituary.
Osborne’s family said in his obituary that he died after a long battle with kidney disease.
TCM announced that it is hosting a 48-hour tribute to Osborne between Saturday, March 18 and Sunday, March 19. The network will air interviews Osborne conducted with stars, as well as his first-ever introduction on TCM, which was for Gone With The Wind.
Staller is a New York theater director and producer with a love of George Bernard Shaw’s works that mirrored Osborne’s love of classic movies.
Here’s a look at Staller’s life and career.
1. Staller Confirmed Osborne’s Death
Robert Osborne in 2009. (Getty)
Staller confirmed Osborne’s death in a brief interview with the Los Angeles Times. He said that Osborne died in his sleep fro
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How Lucy changed Robert Osborne’s life
Many of us recently lost a friend, passing earlier this month. Untold more thought the deceased an extended member of the family. The private man in the public arena was someone to admire, not just observe. Such amalgams are hard to find.
Robert Osborne could be with us almost any hour of any day — and for millions was, as he said, through “the magic of film.” All you had to do was turn to cable TV’s Turner Classic Movies — and never turn the channel. It was good advice, and even better viewing.
Choosing and exquisitely critiquing film from the moment he introduced the network in 1994, Robert Osborne became TCM – possible to succeed, impossible to replace. Like FDR and the presidency, Sinatra and a ballad, or, say, Derek Jeter and the Yankees, Osborne’s name meant the genre that he loved.
In a sense, his life resembled a Frank Capra made-in-USA biography: born, 1932, in Colfax, Washington, pop. 2,500, a youth where Bedford Falls met Winesburg, Ohio. It grounded him, especially working as a ticket-taker at the town’s two cinemas, w
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Robert Osborne
Robert Jolin Osborne Jr. (May 3, 1932 – March 6, 2017) was an American movie, stage, voice, television actor and movie historian who was known for hosting the Turner Classic Movies channel from the 1990s until his retirement in early 2016.
Osborne was born on May 3, 1932 in Colfax, Washington.[1] He was raised in Whitman County, Washington. He studied at the University of Washington. Osborne was gay. His life partner was David Staller from 1996 until his death in 2017.[2]
Osborne died in New York City, New York on March 6, 2017 from complications of kidney failure, aged 84.[3]
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