Tony Roberts, a versatile, Tony Award-nominated theater performer at home in both plays and musicals and who appeared in several Woody Allen movies — often as Allen's best friend — has died. He was 85.

He had an acclaimed Broadway career in musicals and comedies, but moviegoers knew him mostly as the self-assured, easygoing friend of Mr. Allen’s insecure heroes.

Tony Roberts, the supporting actor in six Woody Allen films and a Broadway fixture, died Friday at his Manhattan home. He was 85. The cause of death was complications from lung cancer, his daughter, Nicole Burley,