Garber, Victor (b. 1949), actor. The baby‐face leading man graduated from good‐looking juvenile roles to sinister or stuffy characters, appearing in many hits along the way. He was born in London, Canada, and acted in various regional theatres before making an impressive New York debut as the cursed son Osvald in Ghosts (1973). Appearing in both musicals and plays, Garber has been lauded for such performances as the mystery writer's doomed lover Clifford in Deathtrap (1978), the innocent sailor Anthony Hope in Sweeney Todd (1979), a variety of wacky caricatures in Little Me (1982), the obtuse leading man Garry Lejune in a provincial theatre company in Noises Off (1983), the would‐be opera singer Max in Lend Me a Tenor (1989), a mesmerizing John Wilkes Booth in Assassins (1991), the rugged American actor Edwin Forrest in Two Shakespearean Actors (1992), the gleeful devil Applegate in Damn Yankees (1994), the snob literary critic Benedict Nightingale in Arcadia (1995), and the Parisian art collector Serge in Art (1998).

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