Robert Guillaume, the Emmy-winning and Tony-nominated star who is distinguished in theater circles as the first African-American actor to take on the title role in The Phantom of the Opera ...

Actor Robert Guillaume, the butler of popular TV series ... For the latter role, he became the first black actor to win an Emmy for outstanding lead actor in 1985. In 1990, he was the first ...

Robert Guillaume ... Donna Brown Guillaume, said. He had been battling prostate cancer. Among Guillaume’s achievements was playing Nathan Detroit in the first all-black version of “Guys ...