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American Playwright Arthur Miller Dies at 89

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Arthur Miller Dies at His Connecticut Home()  

February 11, 2005 Arthur Miller, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose six-decade career gave America some of its most memorable stage dramas died Thursday night. Miller was best known for his 1949 play, Death of a Salesman, the tragic story of an American working man at the end of his rope.

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Miller and  Dennehy as Miller was presented with a lifetime achievement Tony Award in June 6, 1999
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Brian Dennehy and Miller, who was presented with a lifetime achievement Tony Award in 1999.

Death of a Salesman reopens at the Eugene O'Neill Theater in New York, 50 years after it was first performed. Hear Miller and three actors who played Willy Loman: Brian Dennehy, George C.Scott and Dustin Hoffman.

Arthur Miller in Woodbury, Conn., 1994
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Arthur Miller in Woodbury, Conn., 1994