Born Reginald Carey Harrison in Huyton, Lancashire, England, he changed to Rex as a young boy. He found out it meant “king.” That became his destiny. The debonair archetypal English gentleman, who won his first Tony Award in 1949 as Henry VIII in Anne of the Thousand Days, got more kudos at the opening night party for Emperor Henry IV on March 28, 1973, at Sardi’s. His wife Elizabeth (one of six) was so proud, until she faced divorce two years later.