Larry Neumann Jr., an actor widely regarded as quintessential, died Wednesday at the age of 62. Sandy Borglum, his former wife, announced his death. Neumann died at his South Shore home, most likely due to diabetes, according to Borglum. Borglum said in an interview that Larry was the hardest working man she had ever known. Neumann's contributions to the Chicago theater have been there for decades. He served as managing director of the Famous Door Theatre Company, an influential off-Loop company, but he was mostly known as an actor. In later years, he took on a paternalistic role with younger actors, often signing himself off as Uncle Lar. The back room of the Amethyst Grill and Tavern on North Broadway was where Neumann worked in the 1980's. In 1986, Neumann played the title role in Artaud at Rodez, by Charles Marowitz, where he was nailed into a coffin at the end, and witnesses recalled him screaming and pounding on the cover. He played Iago in the Chicago Shakespeare Company production of Othello. Neumann played the sole sane survivor of a group of seven Russian officers, all imprisoned, abandoned and left naked in a cell, in a one-man show at Famous Door in 1995. He matched that psychological intensity stage time and time again, be it as a Shakespearean tragedian or simply a Chestnut Seller in the annual Goodman Theatre production of A Christmas Carol. In 1996, he played the Dalai Lama in Eric Overmyer's monologue, "The Dalai Lama Goes Three for Four." His performance in the 2001 Lookingglass Theatre production of "They All Fall Down" was remarkable. Neumann was born in 1959 and grew up in and around Chicago. Neumann was an outlier in a world of young actors with an eye on the future. Neumann worked constantly because of his focus on the work even at the expense of personal career development. The kind of tragedy he found in the seminal production of "Ghetto" was what made his comic turns in Will Kern's "Hellcab" so touching. He was one of a kind. A candidate for the actor who did the most off-loop shows. There was a time when I didn't think there was a theater in Chicago where Larry hadn't worked. He was an original. I know the theaters have been dark for a while now, but some key players are going to be missing when they come back. Neumann's mother, Patti, and three siblings are survivors. There are plans for a memorial celebration. Chris Jones is a critic. cjones5@chicagotribune.com The man was released after being arrested on suspicion of a crime. The death of his son, Hudson, who died of a gunshot wound to the head in a suspected suicide on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, came one month after his arrest. The possibility of returning to CBS after she was fired from "The Talk" is something Sharon Osbourne sounds off on. 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