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Mini Biography:
Actor and director, born in Chicago, IL. He studied at Drake University... more
Trivia:
In the 1970s he and actress Jan Sterling entered into a relationship... more
Awards:
Nominated for Primetime Emmy.
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Filmography
Actor:
- Bloodlines: Murder in the Family (1993) (TV) .... Gerald Woodman
- Killer Rules (1993) (TV) .... Gambon
- Wild Justice (1993) (TV) .... Kingston Parker
... aka Covert Assassin (International: English title) - City of Joy (1992) (uncredited)
... aka La cité de la joie (France) - Pure Luck (1991) .... Highsmith
- Guilty by Suspicion (1991) .... Felix Graff
... aka La liste noire (France) - Always Remember I Love You (1990) (TV) .... Grandfather Mendham
- Running Against Time (1990) (TV) .... Hendryk Koopman, Ph.D.
- The Shell Seekers (1989) (TV) .... Richard
- "Baby Boom" .... Fritz Curtis (13 episodes, 1988-1989)
- When It Rains (1989) TV episode .... Fritz Curtis
- X-y-l-o-p-h-o-n-e (1989) TV episode .... Fritz Curtis
- One Wednesday (1989) TV episode .... Fritz Curtis
- A Fine Romance (1989) TV episode .... Fritz Curtis
- Charlotte's Secret (1989) TV episode .... Fritz Curtis
(8 more) - Tajna manastirske rakije (1988) .... Ambassador Morley
... aka Cognac (International: English title)
... aka Secret Ingredient - Judgment in Berlin (1988) .... Bernard Hellring
... aka Ein Richter für Berlin (West Germany)
... aka Escape to Freedom - Sadie and Son (1987) (TV) .... Marty Goldstein
... aka Detective Sadie & Son (USA: video title) - Baby Boom (1987) .... Fritz Curtis
- Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) .... David Warfield
... aka Superman IV (Australia: TV title) - The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (1987) (TV) .... District Attorney
- Raw Deal (1986) .... Luigi Patrovita
... aka Triple Identity - Deceptions (1985) (TV) .... Jim Nolan
- Embassy (1985) (TV) .... Ambassador Arthur Ingram
- "Berrenger's" .... Simon Berrenger (11 episodes, 1985)
- Maelstrom (1985) TV episode .... Simon Berrenger
- Hidden Agenda (1985) TV episode .... Simon Berrenger
- Roll Tape (1985) TV episode .... Simon Berrenger
- Best Laid Plans (1985) TV episode .... Simon Berrenger
- Power Play (1985) TV episode .... Simon Berrenger
(6 more) - The Aviator (1985) .... Bruno Hansen
- Heartsounds (1984) (TV) .... Moe Silverman
- Irreconcilable Differences (1984) .... David Kessler
- The Ghost Writer (1984) (TV) .... E.I. Lonoff
- I Was a Mail Order Bride (1982) (TV) .... Frank Tosconi
- Our Family Business (1981) (TV) .... Ralph
- "Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years" (1981) TV mini-series .... Bernard Baruch
- The Competition (1980) .... Andrew Erskine
- Private Benjamin (1980) .... Teddy Benjamin
- Charlie Muffin (1979) (TV) .... Ruttgers
... aka A Deadly Game (USA) - Contro 4 bandiere (1979) .... Ray MacDonald
... aka De Dunkerke a la victoria (Spain)
... aka De Dunquerque à la victoire (France)
... aka De l'enfer à la victoire (France)
... aka From Hell to Victory (USA) - "Return of the Saint" .... Domenico (1 episode, 1979)
... aka The Son of the Saint
- Dragonseed (1979) TV episode .... Domenico - Death on the Nile (1978) .... Sterndale Rockford
... aka Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile (UK: complete title) - "Holocaust" .... Moses Weiss (4 episodes, 1978)
... aka Holocaust: The Story of the Family Weiss (USA: alternative title)
- Part 4 (1978) TV episode .... Moses Weiss
- Part 3 (1978) TV episode .... Moses Weiss
- Part 2 (1978) TV episode .... Moses Weiss
- The Gathering Darkness (1978) TV episode .... Moses Weiss - "Rafferty" .... Hollander (1 episode, 1977)
- Rafferty (1977) TV episode .... Hollander - "ITV Playhouse" .... Armitage (1 episode, 1977)
- Blind Love (1977) TV episode .... Armitage - Billy Jack Goes to Washington (1977) .... Bailey
- Voyage of the Damned (1976) .... Carl Rosen
- The Sell Out (1976) .... Harry Sickles
... aka La spia senza domani (Italy)
... aka Melimot Be-Yerushalaim (Israel: Hebrew title)
... aka The Sell-Out (USA)
... aka The Set-Up - The Billion Dollar Bubble (1976) .... Stanley Goldblum
- The Spiral Staircase (1975) .... Lt. Fields
- The Law (1974) (TV) .... Jules Benson
- Mousey (1974) (TV) .... Inspector
... aka Cat and Mouse (UK) - Arturo Ui (1972)
... aka Stage 2: The Resistable Rise of Arturo UI (UK: series title) - "Thirty-Minute Theatre" (1 episode, 1971)
- A Wen (1971) TV episode - "Judd for the Defense" .... Shelly Gould (1 episode, 1968)
- The Gates of Cerberus (1968) TV episode .... Shelly Gould - Danger Route (1967) .... Lucinda
- The Day the Fish Came Out (1967) .... Elias
... aka ...Otan ta psaria vgikan sti steria! (Greece) - "The Baron" .... Sefton Folkard (1 episode, 1967)
- You Can't Win Them All (1967) TV episode .... Sefton Folkard - Warning Shot (1967) .... Frank Sanderman
- "Run for Your Life" .... Major Joe Rankin (1 episode, 1967)
- A Rage for Justice: Part 2 (1967) TV episode .... Major Joe Rankin - "Gunsmoke" .... Asa Longworth (1 episode, 1966)
... aka Gun Law (UK)
... aka Marshal Dillon (USA: rerun title)
- Parson Comes to Town (1966) TV episode .... Asa Longworth - "The Wild Wild West" .... Dr. Arcularis (1 episode, 1965)
- The Night of the Howling Light (1965) TV episode .... Dr. Arcularis - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) .... Peters
- Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes (1965) .... George Gruber
... aka Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines - "The Defenders" .... Dr. Ralph Ames / ... (4 episodes, 1961-1964)
- A Taste of Ashes (1964) TV episode .... United States Attorney Brooker
- Hollow Triumph (1964) TV episode .... Edward Banter
- A Book for Burning (1963) TV episode .... James Henry David
- The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms (1961) TV episode .... Dr. Ralph Ames - "Love Story" (1 episode, 1964)
- The Rainbow Man (1964) TV episode - "The Outer Limits" .... Dr. Simon Holm (1 episode, 1964)
- A Feasibility Study (1964) TV episode .... Dr. Simon Holm - "Espionage" .... Colonel Sprague (1 episode, 1963)
- Festival of Pawns (1963) TV episode .... Colonel Sprague - Man in the Middle (1963) .... Major Kaufman
... aka The Winston Affair (USA) - "Man of the World" .... Nicko (1 episode, 1963)
- The Bandit (1963) TV episode .... Nicko - "Armchair Theatre" .... Frank Engel / ... (4 episodes, 1956-1963)
- The Paradise Suite (1963) TV episode .... Frank Engel
- The Mystery of Martin Wheeler (1961) TV episode
- Cold Fury (1960) TV episode .... Matt
- Flash Point (1956) TV episode - Taras Bulba (1962) .... Filipenko
- "Danger Man" .... Patrick Laurence (1 episode, 1960)
- The Lonely Chair (1960) TV episode .... Patrick Laurence - "Armchair Mystery Theatre" (1 episode, 1960)
- The Big Wheel (1960) TV episode - The Criminal (1960) .... Mike Carter
... aka Concrete Jungle (USA)
... aka The Concrete Jungle (USA) - The Battle of the Sexes (1959) (voice) .... Commentary spoken by
- "Habatales" .... Narrator (1 episode, 1959)
- I Wanna Mink (1959) TV episode (voice) .... Narrator - "Lilli Palmer Theatre" .... Denis (1 episode, 1955)
... aka Theatre Royal (UK)
- The Door (1955) TV episode .... Denis - The Secret (1955) .... Nick Delaney
- "BBC Sunday-Night Theatre" .... Pepe (1 episode, 1955)
- The Legend of Pepito (1955) TV episode .... Pepe - Mr. Denning Drives North (1952) .... Chick Eddowes
- "Cameo Theatre" (1 episode, 1950)
- Manhattan Footstep (1950) TV episode - Give Us This Day (1949) .... Geremio
- My Girl Tisa (1948) .... Mark Denek
Director:
- "Columbo" (2 episodes, 1977-1989)
- Grand Deceptions (1989) TV episode
- The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case (1977) TV episode - The Killing of Randy Webster (1981) (TV)
- My Kidnapper, My Love (1980) (TV)
... aka Dark Side of Love - "Mrs. Columbo" (2 episodes, 1979)
... aka Kate Columbo (USA: alternative title)
... aka Kate Loves a Mystery
... aka Kate the Detective
- Falling Star (1979) TV episode
- A Puzzle for Prophets (1979) TV episode - "Hart to Hart" (1 episode, 1979)
- Death in the Slow Lane (1979) TV episode - "Return of the Saint" (1 episode, 1979)
... aka The Son of the Saint
- Vicious Circle (1979) TV episode - "David Cassidy - Man Undercover" (1 episode, 1978)
- Cage of Steel (1978) TV episode - Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
... aka Sinbad at the World's End - Catlow (1971)
- The Executioner (1970)
- The File of the Golden Goose (1969)
- "The Champions" (1 episode, 1968)
- To Trap a Rat (1968) TV episode - "Lancer" (1 episode, 1968)
- The High Riders (1968) TV episode - The Legend of Custer (1968)
- "Premiere" (1 episode, 1968)
- Lassiter (1968) TV episode - "Dundee and the Culhane" (1 episode, 1967)
- The Jubilee Raid Brief (1967) TV episode - "Cimarron Strip" (1 episode, 1967)
- Broken Wing (1967) TV episode - "Custer" (1 episode, 1967)
... aka The Legend of Custer (USA: theatrical title)
- Sabers in the Sun (1967) TV episode - "Coronet Blue" (4 episodes, 1967)
- The Presence of Evil (1967) TV episode
- Man Running (1967) TV episode
- The Rebels (1967) TV episode
- Where You from and What You Done? (1967) TV episode - "Hawk" (3 episodes, 1966)
- How Close Can You Get? (1966) TV episode
- Game with a Dead End (1966) TV episode
- Do Not Mutilate or Spindle (1966) TV episode - "Court Martial" (1 episode, 1966)
- The Bitter Wind (1966) TV episode - "For the People" (1 episode, 1965)
- Act of Violence: Part 2 (1965) TV episode - "The Defenders" (1 episode, 1965)
- Eyewitness (1965) TV episode - "Armchair Mystery Theatre" (1 episode, 1960)
- The Big Wheel (1960) TV episode
Miscellaneous Crew:
- Aida (1981/II) (TV) (opera director)
Producer:
- "ITV Television Playhouse" (producer) (1 episode, 1960)
- A Young Lady of Property (1960) TV episode (producer)
Additional Details
Other Works:
He was the driving force behind the restoration of William Shakespeare's original Globe Theatre in London, England. This replica is almost exact in every detail (apart from adhering to modern fire/safety regulations) to the construction of the original.The audience watches and feels a play in the same way as they would have done in Shakespeare's time. The Globe was fully restored and opened in the late 1990s, too late sadly for Wanamaker to see the fruits of his long labor of love--he died of cancer in 1993.
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