Rex McNicol Robbins (March 30, 1935 – September 23, 2003) was an American character actor of stage and screen. He played the Narrator/Mysterious Man in the first national tour of Into the Woods. Robbins also portrayed Herbie in the first Broadway revival of Gypsy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rex Robbins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.