Rupert Holmes

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Born 1947-02-24 Cheshire, England, UK 14 credits Tony Awards 1 Edgar Awards 2 Outer Critics Circle Award 1

Awards

Won 1 Tony Award

Tony Awards 1 won · 3 nominated

2007 Best Book of a Musical Nominated Curtains
2007 Best Original Score Nominated Curtains
2003 Best Play Nominated Say Goodnight, Gracie
1986 Best Original Score Won Drood

Edgar Awards 2 won · 1 nominated

2007 Edgar Awards Nominated Curtains
1991 Edgar Awards Won
1986 Edgar Awards Won Drood

Outer Critics Circle Award 1 won

2003 Outer Critics Circle Award Won Say Goodnight, Gracie

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Rupert Holmes (born February 24, 1947) is an American-British composer, singer-songwriter, musician and author of plays, novels and stories. He is best known for his number one pop hit "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" (1979/1980) and the song "Him", which reached the number 6 position on the Hot 100 U.S. pop chart in 1980. He is also known for his 1985 Tony Award-winning musical Drood (originally The Mystery of Edwin Drood) and his 2007 Drama Desk Award-winning book for the Broadway musical Curtains, and for his television series Remember WENN. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rupert Holmes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Filmography

Other credits 7 credits