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- ↑ STAGE TO SCREENS: A Chat with Theatre Veteran Jerry Orbach By Michael Buckley Paybill 16 Feb 2003 accessed 15 June 2013
- ↑ Hill, McGraw (1984). McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, Second edition. McGraw-Hill. p. 110.
