Clifton Oliver, a stage actor who appeared on Broadway in The Lion King, In The Heights and Wicked, died yesterday following a lengthy illness.
His death was announced by family and friends on social media. Additional details were not immediately available. “My baby brother, Clifton Oliver, has had his final curtain call,” wrote Roxy Hall of Jacksonville, Florida, on Facebook yesterday. “It was peaceful.
His partner Richard was singing to him the song Psalm 23 as he took his last breath this morning at 3:20 AM.” Hall indicated that Oliver had been hospitalized, and then in hospice care, for six weeks.
A native of Jacksonville, Oliver attended Douglas Anderson School of the Arts there before relocating to New York to pursue an acting career.
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