Tony Winners for Best Actor in a Musical

The Tony (Antoinette Perry) Awards are given by the American Theatre Wing for achievement in the Broadway theater.

• Jackie Gleason (born 1916, died 1987)

  American actor and comedian.

  • 1960 Tony Award winner for his performance in Take Me Along
• Matthew Broderick (born 1962)

  American actor.

  • 1995 Tony Award winner for his performance in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
• Phil Silvers (born 1912, died 1985)

  American actor and comedian.

  • Two-time Tony winner for Best Actor in a Musical: 1952, for Top Banana; 1972, for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• Rex Harrison (born 1908, died 1990)

  British actor. Original name: Reginald Carey.

  • 1957 Tony Award winner for his performance in My Fair Lady
• Samuel Joel ''Zero'' Mostel (born 1915, died 1977)

  American actor.

  • 1963 and 1965 Tony Award winner for his performances in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Fiddler on the Roof
• Ray Bolger (born 1904, died 1987)

  American dancer and actor.

  • 1949 Tony Award winner for his performance in Where''s Charlie?
• Cleavon Little (born 1939, died 1992)

  American actor.

  • 1970 Tony Award winner for his performance in Purlie
• Thomas E. Mitchell (born 1892, died 1962)

  American actor.

  • 1953 Tony Award winner for his performance in Hazel Flagg
• Robert Goulet (born 1933)

  American singer and actor.

  • 1968 Tony Award winner for his performance in The Happy Time
• Ezio Pinza (born 1892, died 1957)

  Italian-American opera singer.

  • 1950 Tony Award winner for his performance in South Pacific
• Ray Walston (born 1914, died 2001)

  American actor and director.

  • 1956 Tony Award winner for his performance in Damn Yankees
• Tommy Tune (born 1939)

  American director, choreographer and actor.

  • 1983 Tony Award winner for his performance in My One and Only
• Jonathan Pryce (born 1947)

  British actor.

  • 1991 Tony Award winner for his performance in Miss Saigon
• Jason Alexander (born 1959)

  American actor and director.

  • 1989 Tony Award winner for his performance in Jerome Robbins'' Broadway
• Ben Vereen (born 1946)

  American actor and entertainer.

  • 1973 Tony Award winner for his performance in Pippin
• Christopher Plummer (born 1927)

  Canadian actor.

  • 1974 Tony Award winner for his performance in Cyrano
• Kevin Kline (born 1947)

  American actor and director.

  • 1981 Tony Award winner for his performance in The Pirates of Penzance
• Robert Morse (born 1931)

  American actor.

  • 1962 Tony Award winner for his performance in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
• Richard Burton (born 1925, died 1984)

  Welsh actor.

  • 1961 Tony Award winner for his performance in Camelot
• Paul Hartman (born 1889, died 1973)

  German-American actor.

  • 1948 Tony Award winner for his performance in Angel in the Wings
• Robert Alda (born 1914, died 1986)

  American actor.

  • 1951 Tony Award winner for his performance in Guys and Dolls
• Alfred Drake (born 1914, died 1992)

  American singer, actor and director.

  • 1954 Tony Award winner for his performance in Kismet
• Robert Preston (born 1918, died 1987)

  American actor.

  • Two-time Tony award winner for Best Actor in a Musical: 1958, for The Music Man; 1967, for I Do! I Do!
• Richard Kiley (born 1922, died 1999)

  American singer and actor.

  • 1966 Tony Award winner for his performance in Man of La Mancha
• George Rose (born 1920, died 1988)

  English actor.

  • 1986 Tony Award winner for his performance in The Mystery of Edwin Drood
• Robert Lindsay (born 1951)

  English actor.

  • 1987 Tony Award winner for his performance in Me and My Girl
• James Naughton (born 1946)

  American actor.

  • 1997 Tony Award winner for his performance in Chicago
• Martin Short (born 1950)

  Canadian actor, producer, and comedian.

  • 1999 Tony Award winner for his performance in the musical Little Me.
• Alan Cumming
  • 1998 Tony Award winner for her performance in the musical Cabaret
• Nathan Lane
  • 1996 Tony Award winner for his performance in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.