In 2005, he played Agostino Casaroli in the television miniseries, "Pope John Paul II". He completed filming his scenes in the film "The Wait" in early 2012, shortly before his death. In addition to acting, Gazzara worked as an occasional television director; his credits include the "Columbo" episodes "A Friend in Deed" (1974) and "Troubled Waters" (1975). Gazzara was nominated three times for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play—in 1956 for "A Hatful of Rain", in 1975 for the paired short plays "Hughie" and "Duet", and in 1977 for a revival of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", opposite Colleen Dewhurst. Gazzara was married three times; First to actress Louise Erickson (1951–1957). He married actress Janice Rule on November 25, 1961 in San Francisco. They had a daughter named Elizabeth. He married model Elke Krivat in 1982 and remained married to her until his death. Gazzara adopted his wife's daughter Danja from her prior relationship. Following his separation from his first wife, Gazzara was engaged to stage actress Elaine Stritch and later disclosed a love affair with actress Audrey Hepburn. He and Hepburn co-starred in two of her final films, "Bloodline" (1979) and "They All Laughed" (1981). In 1968, during filming of the war movie "The Bridge at Remagen", co-starring Gazzara and friend Robert Vaughn, the Soviet Union and its allies invaded Czechoslovakia. The cast and crew were detained for a time; filming was later completed in West Germany. During their departure from Czechoslovakia, Gazzara and Vaughn assisted with the escape of a Czech waitress whom they had befriended. They smuggled her to Austria in a car waved through a border crossing that had not yet been taken over by the Soviet army in its crackdown on the Prague Spring. Gazzara was the honorary starter of the 1979 Daytona 500, the first flag-to-flag Daytona 500 broadcast live on CBS. He was also featured in a 1994 article in "Cigar Aficionado", in which he admitted smoking four packs of cigarettes a day until taking up cigar smoking in the mid-1960s. Gazzara was diagnosed with throat cancer in 1999. He suffered a stroke in 2005. On February 3, 2012, he died of pancreatic cancer at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York.