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.

Mr. Roberts appeared in dozens of films and Broadway shows but was best known as the unflappable counterpoint to Allen’s tightly wound characters.

Tony Roberts, a legendary Broadway and film actor, has died. He was 85.His daughter Nicole Burley told The New York Times that he died at his home in Manhattan, N.Y., on Friday, Feb. 7, after suffering complications of lung cancer.