LIVING ON LOVE's Douglas Sills Saves Fellow Diner from Choking!

Broadway's Douglas Sills can now add 'superhero' to his highly impressive list of accomplishments. According to The New York Post, the actor, who portrays Vito De Angelis in the new Broadway comedy Living on Love, was dining at New York City's 5 Napkin Burger Sunday night, located just a few streets away from the theater in which his show is now running.

As he ate, he noticed a fellow patron choking and immediately jumped into action. Other diners in the restaurant tell the Post that he "came to the woman's aid and gave her the Heimlich maneuver, saving her." The woman turned out to be renowned interior decorator Susan Zises Green, who had been enjoying her meal with her two grandchildren prior to the incident. When she realized she was choking on her burger, she frantically tapped Sills, who was dining at the next table, and managed to gasp the words, "Heimlich! Heimlich!"

Following the ordeal, Green told the Post, "Douglas Sills saved my life. I hope he'll live on love forever!" To show her gratitutde, the designer "paid for Sills' entire dinner," then "wished him luck on his Broadway opening."

All we can say is "Bravo Mr. Sills!"

Sills received Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations for his critically acclaimed performance as The Scarlet Pimpernel on Broadway; a role which he reprised on the first national tour earning him an Ovation Award. He most recently starred in Lady Be Good at Encores, My Favorite Year at the York Theatre and as the title character in the Actors Fund performance of Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol. Other Broadway/New York: Little Shop of Horrors (Broadway, Drama League Award), Music in the Air and Carnival (Encores), On the 20th Century(Actors Fund) and Moonlight & Magnolias (MTC). National Tour: Gomez Addams in The Addams Family, The Secret Garden, Into the Woods.

His regional theater credits include Living on Love (Williamstown Theater Festival), His Girl Friday (La Jolla Playhouse), Ride the Tiger (Long Wharf Theater), White Noise (Royal George, Chicago), Peter Pan (Paper Mill Playhouse), She Loves Me (Westport), A Little Night Music (Kennedy Center), Much Ado About Nothing (South Coast Rep), Mack & Mabel(Reprise LA) and numerous leading roles for the California Shakespeare Festival.

Douglas has appeared on the small screen in recurring roles on "CSI" and "The Closer" as well as "Numb3rs," "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" and "Will & Grace." His film credits include the upcoming featureErotic Fire of the Unattainable and Deuce Bigelow: European Gigolo. Douglas attended the University of Michigan and the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.

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