Handsome, chameleon character actor and sometimes lead, best known for his performances in Paint Your Wagon (1969), the TV series The Young and the Restless (1973), and Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) in which he also sang the title song. Ligon created the role of Orson in the prize-winning Off-Broadway musical 'Your Own Thing', and starred on ...
[responding to news that a career burglar he once chased away was in jail] Well, he's not having much of a career right now. You have your ups and downs. It's like acting.
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Playing the Tiger in Rajiv Joseph's "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo," directed by Giovanna Sardelli, at the Lark Theatre, New York City. [March 2007]
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Plays H. C. Curry in "The Rainmaker" play by N. Richard Nash directed by Tim Vasen (Center Stage, Baltimore, Maryland, USA). [June 2003]
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Appearing in The Audience, directed by Jack Cummings III for Transport Group, at the Connelly Theatre, New York City. [April 2005]
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Appearing in Tad Mosel's "All the Way Home" for Transport Group, directed by Jack Cummings III, at the Connelly Theatre, New York City. [November 2006]
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He and friend Sam Waterston shared a New York City apartment in the early 1960s when they were struggling young actors, splitting rent of $25 a month. Waterson left to get married.
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At age 67, sent an intruder tumbling to the pavement below with a hit on the forehead after the man had who entered Ligon's Greenwich Village apartment through the window one August afternoon in 2013.
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