Popular Stage actor, Ron Faber has been reported dead. According to his publicist, he died on March 26, 2023, at the age of 90 after a prolonged battle with lung cancer.
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Born on February 16, 1933, in Milwaukee, Ron Faber started his career in the entertainment industry at a radio station on a children’s show while he was in college.
He directed a show monitored by Eva Le Gallienne when he joined the Marquette Players and later the Van Buren Players.
La Gallienne gave him a scholarship to direct at the Lucille Lortel White Barn Theatre due to his outstanding performance exhibited previously; and that’s how his professional career began.
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In the 1970s, he appeared in a Broadway Production dubbed First Monday in October, Medea, and more. He starred alongside actors like Irene Papas and Henry Fonda.
He received numerous applauds and adoration for his role as a political prisoner of Fernando Arrabal’s movie And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers. He shaved his hair and delivered a phenomenal performance in the movie, winning Obie and Drama Desk Awards in 1972 for his role. The movie was about the Spanish Civil War.
Faber also featured in the play The Hotel Play in 1981 at the La Mama Experimental Theatre. The cast were made up of 70 members and was dubbed unassailable as a mad theatrical stunt.
The veteran stage actor is also known for several Broadway roles. Some of them include; Hamlet, Mary Stuart, Scenes From Everyday Life, Woyzeck, Happy Days, Troilus and Cressida, Lucky Stiff, Stonewall Jackson’s House, Times and Appetites of Toulouse Lautrec, The Beauty Part, Tunnel Fever, and more.
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