Tony Winner Brian Bedford Dead at 80
Tony winner Brian Bedford, who last appeared on the Broadway stage as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest, died on January 13 at the age of 80. The cause was cancer, according to the New York Times. Born on February 16, 1935 in West Riding of Yorkshire, Bedford grew up in a home with no hot water, where two of his brothers died of tuberculosis. In a 2011 interview with the New York Times, he recalled h…