Is George Riddle alive?

Famous veteran Broadway and screen actor, George Riddle has been announced dead by his longtime friend, Christie Wagner. He died on Friday, June 2, 2023, at age 86.

He died after suffering from duodenal cancer. His death occurred in North Plainfield, New Jersey.

Riddle had one of the longest careers in the film industry, spanning over 65 years before his death. He made his acting debut in the 1980 film Simon by Marshall Brickman.

Before that, he had a career in the circus, but after he fell from the high wire, he decided to pursue acting as a full-time job.

Riddle was best known for his works was on The Onion News Network, where he gained a good number of fans with his turn as the irascible, wildly opinionated Cressbeckler, whose predictions and political analysis were peppered with malapropisms and nonsequiturs.

He logged more than 5,000 performances as The Old Actor in The Fantasticks, the longest-running Off-Broadway play, starting with the musical’s debut at The Sullivan Street Playhouse in Greenwich Village in 1960.