 He appeared in the original 1951 production and later touring productions, as well as a 1977 Broadway revival, a London production in 1979, and another Broadway revival in 1985.He won Tony Awards for both the first and the last of these Broadway productions.He reprised the role in the 1956 film version, for which he won an Academy Award as Best Actor and in "Anna and the King", a short-lived TV version on CBS in 1972.