Los Angeles: Actor Ron Leibman who played the father of Jennifer Aniston's character Rachel Green in Friends passed away on Friday.
The Emmy award-winning actor breathed his last at the age of 82.
Robert Attermann, CEO of Abrams Artists Agency, confirmed the news to a leading media outlet.
No further details are immediately available.
He is survived by his wife and actress Jessica Walter, and stepdaughter Brooke Bowman.
Leibman, a native of New York, played Dr. Leonard Green on Friends as a no-nonsense father.
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He received an Emmy Award in 1979 for portraying a reformed convict who became a criminal attorney in the series Kaz.
Leibman won a Tony Award in 1993 for playing a fictional version of Roy Cohn in Tony Kushner's Angels in America: Millennium Approaches.
Leibman broke into the entertainment business in 1956 with the soap opera The Edge of Night. He made his movie debut with the 1970 comedy-drama Where's Poppa?.
Other work credits of the actor include Your Three Minutes Are Up, Rhinestone, Night Falls on Manhattan, Auto Focus and Garden State.
Honoured with Drama Desk Awards in 1969, he made his Broadway debut in 1963 with Dear Me, The Sky Is Falling. The following year, he was once again titled for the same award for his performances in We Bombed in New Haven and Transfers.
