Leonard Frey

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Leonard Frey (September 4, 1938 - August 24, 1988) was an American actor.Frey was born in Brooklyn, New York. After college, where he studied art with designs on being a painter, he studied acting at New York City's prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse under famed acting coach Sanford Meisner, and pursued a career in theater instead. In 1968, he received critical acclaim for his performance as a bitter, pockmarked gay man who dreads his birthday in off-Broadway's The Boys in the Band. This landmark play introduced mainstream audiences to the culture of gay men who supported each other, providing friendship, family and, when necessary, reality checks. (A gay man himself, Frey later died of an AIDS-related illness.