Table from Encarta

Tony Award Winners

Year Winner
1947 José Ferrer, for Cyrano de Bergerac
Fredric March, for Years Ago
1948 Henry Fonda, for Mister Roberts
Paul Kelly, for Command Decision
Basil Rathborne, for The Heiress
1949 Rex Harrison, for Anne of the Thousand Days
1950 Sidney Blackmer, for Come Back Little Sheba
1951 Claude Rains, for Darkness at Noon
1952 José Ferrer, for The Shrike
1953 Tom Ewell, for The Seven Year Itch
1954 David Wayne, for The Teahouse of the August Moon
1955 Alfred Lunt, for Quadrille
1956 Paul Muni, for Inherit the Wind
1957 Fredric March, for Long Day's Journey into Night
1958 Ralph Bellamy, for Sunrise at Campobello
1959 Jason Robards, Jr., for The Disenchanted
1960 Melvyn Douglas, for The Best Man
1961 Zero Mostel, for Rhinoceros
1962 Paul Scofield, for A Man for All Seasons
1963 Arthur Hill, for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1964 Alec Guinness, for Dylan
1965 Walter Matthau, for The Odd Couple
1966 Hal Holbrook, for Mark Twain Tonight
1967 Paul Rogers, for The Homecoming
1968 Martin Balsam, for
You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running
1969 James Earl Jones, for The Great White Hope
1970 Fritz Weaver, for Child's Play
1971 Brian Bedford, for The School for Wives
1972 Cliff Gorman, for Lenny
1973 Alan Bates, for Butley
1974 Michael Moriarity, for Find Your Way Home
1975 John Kani, for Sizwe Banzi
Winston Ntshona, for The Island
1976 John Wood, for Travesties
1977 Al Pacino, for The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel
1978 Barnard Hughes, for Da
1979 Tom Conti, for Whose Life Is It Anyway
1980 John Rubinstein, for Children of a Lesser God
1981 Ian McKellen, for Amadeus
1982 Roger Rees, for
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1983 Harvey Fierstein, for Torch Song Trilogy
1984 Jeremy Irons, for The Real Thing
1985 Derek Jacobi, for Much Ado About Nothing
1986 Judd Hirsch, for I'm Not Rappaport
1987 James Earl Jones, for Fences
1988 Ron Silver, for Speed-the-Plow
1989 Philip Bosco, for Lend Me a Tenor
1990 Robert Morse, for Tru
1991 Nigel Hawthorne, for Shadowlands
1992 Judd Hirsch, for Conversations with My Father
1993 Ron Leibman, for
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
1994 Stephen Spinella, for Angels in America: Perestroika
1995 Ralph Fiennes, for Hamlet
1996 George Grizzard, for A Delicate Balance
1997 Christopher Plummer, for Barrymore
1998 Anthony LaPaglia, for A View From the Bridge
1999 Brian Dennehy, for Death of a Salesman
2000 Stephen Dillane, for The Real Thing
2001 Richard Easton, for The Invention of Love
2002 Alan Bates, for Fortune's Fool
2003 Brian Dennehy, for Long Day's Journey into Night
2004 Jefferson Mays, for I Am My Own Wife
2005 Bill Irwin, for Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2006 Richard Griffiths, for The History Boys
2007 Frank Langella, for Frost/Nixon