Alan Mandell
Alan Mandell (born Albert Mandell on December 27, 1927) is a Canadian-American actor known for playing Rabbi Marshak in the Coen Brothers' 2009 film A Serious Man. With several decades of experience as a stage actor, he is especially acclaimed as an interpreter of the works of Samuel Beckett. Albert Mandell was born to a Jewish family in Toronto, Ontario in 1927. He acted on stage in both Canada and the United States, building a reputation in San Francisco's theater scene in the 1950s. In 1968 he legally changed his given name to Alan to avoid being confused with noted mobster Albert Anastasia. Mandell's association with Beckett began in 1957, with a production of Waiting for Godot at the San Francisco Actor's Workshop. He subsequently played Lucky in a production of Godot directed by Beckett himself. Outside of Beckett, Mandell has acted in productions of Harold Pinter's No Man's Land and Arthur Miller's The Price. In 2007 he appeared as Juror #9 in a Los Angeles production of Twelve Angry Men, directed by Scott Ellis and costarring Richard Thomas and George Wendt.
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as Tobias, the MayorIn post-9/11 New York City, an eclectic group of citizens find their lives entangled,...
Movie pageA Serious Man
as Rabbi MarshakIt is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just...
Movie pageVelvet Buzzsaw
as Vetril DeaseBig money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce. After a...
Movie pageHedwig and the Angry Inch
as Patron at restaurant (uncredited)Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to...
Movie pageIllegally Yours
as Juror #8Called up for jury duty, Richard Dice finds his first crush and only real, but unrequited love,...
Movie pageMidnight Witness
as ShawRenegade cops are videotaped murdering a motorist and the witnesses are in danger of being their...
Movie pageLoose Change
as uncreditedThree girlfriends -- an author, an artist, and a political activist -- mature and change during...
Movie pageThe Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice
as The CaptainThe world premiere in 1990 of an avant-garde, queer retelling of the myth of Orpheus (Tommy) and...
Movie pageEnemies
as District Police InspectorIn a sun-dappled garden in provincial Russia in 1905, some factory owners and their wives...
Movie pageGrey's Anatomy
as Henry StammFollows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan...
TV Show pageThe Six Million Dollar Man
as TechnicianFollow the adventures of Steve Austin, cybernetically enhanced astronaut turned secret agent,...
TV Show pageCannon
as uncreditedCannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26,...
TV Show pageBaretta
as uncreditedBaretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show...
TV Show page79 Park Avenue
as Dr George WaldheimA poor New York teenager of the mid-1930 is forced into prostitution despite sincere efforts to...
TV Show pageSisters
as uncreditedSisters is an Emmy Award-winning television drama. It follows the lives and loves of four close,...
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