NEW YORK — Robert Guillaume, who dreamed of being the first black tenor to sing at the Metropolitan Opera but settled for acting onstage and on television — and won Emmy Awards for playing the ...

Though Guillaume’s name evokes origins in some far off French Caribbean island, he was born Robert Williams on November 30, 1927, and by his own definition was “a bastard, a Catholic, the son ...

Star of stage and screen Robert Guillaume has died. The actor was 89. Guillaume, best known for his roles on Benson, ... Our thoughts and prayers are with his family. TOPICS: ...

When Robert Guillaume was first looking at the part of Benson DuBois in the hit TV series Soap, he was apprehensive about playing a black butler to a white family, feeling that it might be a ...

Editor's note: Robert Guillaume, who starred in stage musicals and won Emmy Awards for his roles on television, died Tuesday at age 89 in Los Angeles amid a battle with prostate cancer, his wife ...

Robert Guillaume, known for his Emmy, Tony and Grammy-winning work, as well as TV sitcoms "Soap" and "Benson," has died at age 89. The St. Louis-born performer died at home Tuesday in Los Angeles ...

Robert Guillaume, who played Benson DuBois on 'Soap' and 'Benson,' has died after a battle with prostate cancer. ... Guillaume took on the role of DuBois, a butler to the wealthy Tate family, ...

Emmy-winning actor Robert Guillaume has died. He was best known as TV butler Benson DuBois, a role which could have been an awful stereotype, but was transformed by Guillaume into a classic.

Emmy Award-winning actor Robert Guillaume, best known as the title character in the TV sitcom "Benson," died Tuesday. He was 89. His wife Donna Brown Guillaume told the Associated Press he died at ...