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Every so often I do a Robert Lansing search on Google. The last
time I did, I ran across a site for Tom Todoroff, an Emmy-winning writer, producer, and actor who also teaches
voice and acting. On his resume he listed Bob as one of his clients, so I contacted him to see if he would be willing
to share what it was like to work with the man himself. Much to my surprise and delight, he returned my call and graciously
answered my questions. Below are his comments:
I worked with him as a dialectician
and an acting coach on an off-Broadway production called The Sum of Us that ran off-Broadway in 1990. He played
one of two leads. I taught him an Australian sound from an industrial suburb of Melbourne called Footscray.
I worked with him in his Park Avenue home.
He was a charming guy, a bit cantankerous at first
because I was markedly younger than he. I felt he was a bit distrustful, but by the end of the first hour of
our session, we were friends. By the end of the second hour, we were great pals. I loaned him Simon
Callow's book, "On Acting". I had a really great time with him.
His death was a great loss.
He was really a fine man and I enjoyed our time together. Having watched 12 O'Clock High as a kid,
it was a real kick to teach him.
Tom went on to say that they worked together for about three weeks.
He said that RL had a very nice apartment and that he showed him his art collection while he was there. He also said
that he got to meet Anne once and that she was a very nice lady. He said she called him not long after RL passed away
so that she could make arrangements to return the book he had loaned him, but that he told her just to keep it because
he liked the idea that one of his books was in RL's library.
For more information about Tom, you can check out his website here:
Tom Todoroff
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