John Kerr, Tony-winner for Tea & Sympathy, dies
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Buy SPH photosPASADENA, California (AP) - John Kerr, the stage and film actor whose credits include the movie South Pacific, the thriller The Pit And The Pendulum and a Tony Award-winning turn in Tea And Sympathy, has died. He was 81.
Kerr died on Saturday of heart failure in California, his son Michael said.
He was perhaps best known for playing a sensitive prep school student who is bullied for being a suspected homosexual in Elia Kazan's 1953 Broadway production of Tea And Sympathy. He went on to reprise the role in a 1956 film version.
Kerr also played a district attorney on TV in Peyton Place in the mid-1960s. After leaving show business, he became a lawyer specialising in personal injury law.
