But Libertone is hip to the passage of time and wide open to the possibility of character roles. Come September, he heads for the Westport Country Playhouse, where he did That Championship Season, to play Mr. Dussel, the fussy old fuddy-duddy in The Diary of Anne Frank. Jack Gilford and Austin Pendleton played the part on Broadway, and Ed Wynn got an Oscar nomination for the movie version.
— Harry Haun