Alan Mandell

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Alan Mandell
Born
Albert Mandell

(1927-12-27) December 27, 1927 (age 98)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
OccupationActor

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. [1]

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Life

Albert Mandell was born to a Jewish family in Toronto, Ontario in 1927. [2] He acted on stage in both Canada and the United States, building a reputation in San Francisco's theater scene in the 1950s. [3] In 1968 he legally changed his given name to Alan to avoid being confused with noted mobster Albert Anastasia. [2]

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. [4]

Outside of Beckett, Mandell has acted in productions of Harold Pinter's No Man's Land and Arthur Miller's The Price . [3] 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. [5]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1988 Illegally Yours Juror #8
1991 The Marrying Man Murch
1993Midnight WitnessShaw
2001 Hedwig and the Angry Inch Patron at BarUncredited role
2006 Shortbus Tobias, the Mayor
2009 A Serious Man Rabbi Marshak
2013Herblock: The Black & the White Herbert Block documentary
2015 Addicted to Fresno Arthur Lupka
2019 Velvet Buzzsaw Ventril Dease

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1974 Great Performances District Police InspectorEpisode: "Enemies"
1975 The Invisible Man Senator BaldwynEpisode: "Man of Influence"
1975 Cannon BillingsEpisode: "Fall Guy"
1976 The Six Million Dollar Man TechnicianEpisode: "The Secret of Bigfoot: Part 2 "
1976 Baretta Assistant DA MerrimanEpisode: "The Left Hand of the Devil"
1976 Baretta RichmondEpisode: "Runway Cowboy"
1977 Man from Atlantis Grant StockwoodEpisode: "The Death Scouts"
1978 79 Park Avenue Dr. George WaldheimTV miniseries
1978 Eight is Enough unknownEpisode: "Cinderella's Understudy"
1980 Breaking Away Pinball playerEpisode: "Grand Illusion"
1991 Sisters Owen GlendowerEpisode: "One to Grow On"
2010 Grey's Anatomy Henry StammEpisode: "Shiny Happy People"

References

  1. ↑ Byrd, Craig (20 April 2016). "Alan Mandell Will Finish His Stage Career the Way He Started It: with a Performance of Endgame". Los Angeles . Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Alan Mandell papers, 1950-2012". Online Archive of California . Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  3. 1 2 McNulty, Charles (13 February 2015). "Theater pulses in Alan Mandell's veins" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  4. ↑ Rampell, Ed (11 April 2012). "Q&A: Actor Alan Mandell on Samuel Beckett" . The Forward . Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  5. ↑ Verini, Bob (30 March 2007). "Twelve Angry Men". Variety . Retrieved 5 June 2018.


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