Anthony Holland, Award-Winning Stage, Film Actor

Anthony Holland, an actor known for his performances in film, theater and television comedies, has killed himself at the age of 60.

Holland committed suicide Sunday in his Manhattan apartment, the New York Times reported in its Tuesday editions. The actor had been ill with AIDS, said his cousin, Jessica Holland.

Holland, a two-time Obie winner and member of the original Second City comedy troupe that performed out of Chicago in the 1950s, made his Broadway debut in 1963 in Lillian Hellman’s “My Mother, My Father and Me.” He gave one of his most praised performances last year as Franz Kafka in Martha Clarke’s “The Hunger Artist,” for which he won one of his Obies.

The actor’s screen credits include “All That Jazz,” “Klute” and “The Tempest.” Among his television appearances were ones in “MASH,” “Hill Street Blues,” “Cagney & Lacey” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”

Holland was also an artist and taught art classes at the University of Chicago. With William M. Hoffman, author of “As Is,” he wrote three comedies for the stage.