He wasn't all that expansive in character choices but his sheer presence gave him his quality.
As Willy Loman, he was entirely believable, lost and in decline as a salesman - a family with no future but full of promising ideas.
He led that household into blind destruction like not many could do.
He was an American actor who looked the part of and carried himself like the consummate neighborhood hero - the one we all wish to be
at one time or another.