Broadway Star John Deyle Passes Away At 68

Veteran actor John Deyle is no more. He was 68.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Deyle, who appeared in four Broadway musicals, in more than 100 commercials, and as the inept Mr. Science on the first season of ‘Late Night With Conan O’Brien’, passed away on June 22.

He died at his home in Mount Kisco, New York, after a battle with esophageal cancer. The news of his demise was shared by his wife Rebecca Paller.

Deyle made his Broadway debut in March 1979 in the musical ‘Annie’, joining the ensemble of the Sarah Jessica Parker starrer by playing Louis Howe, Fred McCracken, and Bert Healy.

He went on to work in the 1980 Broadway revival of Lerner & Loewe’s ‘Camelot’, starring Richard Burton, and in the subsequent U.S. and Australian tours of the famed musical that featured Richard Harris in the lead.

Deyle also was on Broadway in ‘Footloose’ (as Principal Clark) starting in 1998 and in ‘Urinetown’ (as Senator Fipp) during its entire 2001-04 run. (He started out with the latter off-Broadway.)

Other stage highlights included playing Bert Bratt in the 1996 national tour of ‘How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying’; starring off-Broadway as Frankie Cavalier in ‘Pageant’ in 1992 and as Hucklebee in a 2006 revival of ‘The Fantasticks’; and regional stints at the Long Wharf, the Huntington Theater, the Arena Stage, the Walnut Street Theatre, Artpark and Goodspeed, The Hollywood Reporter reported.

He is survived by his wife, son leg; his sister, Kathryn; brother-in-law Ben; aunt Marylin; nephews Stephen, Brian, and Jay; and niece Erica.