In 1948, while starring in the Broadway production of The Heiress,[REF] an adaptation of Henry James's Washington Square, Cookson met Beatrice Straight (1914-2001), who he was acting opposite.
Tony Cookson, writer and director of And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird (1991)[REF] Cookson died in 1990 of bone cancer at his home in Southfield, Massachusetts [REF].