Career
Zerbe made his New York City stage debut at the Greenwich Mews Theatre on October 15, 1961 with The Cave Dwellers. [7] He performed with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada for its 1962 season, and was a member of the San Diego National Shakespeare Festival between 1965 and 1972. [8]
On television, he has played guest roles on such series as Naked City , The Virginian , Kung Fu (2 episodes), The Big Valley , Route 66 , The Wild Wild West , Twelve O'Clock High , Bonanza , Mission: Impossible (5 episodes), Gunsmoke (3 episodes with one a double role), Hawaii Five-O , Mannix (4 episodes), It Takes a Thief , The Chisholms , Ironside , The F.B.I. , The Rookies , The Rockford Files , Dynasty , and Columbo , among others. In 1976, Zerbe won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Lieutenant K.C. Trench in the private detective television series Harry O. [9]
In 1981, he played eldest brother Benjamin Hubbard in a Broadway revival of The Little Foxes . [10]
Zerbe played the commanding character for the television series The Young Riders (1989..1992). He featured in the television series Harry O from the second half of the first season through the series' conclusion at the end of the second season as Lieutenant Trench, known for his stentorian baritone, alternately heard yelling for his underling, Sergeant Roberts, or, at a lower decibel, horse-trading for information with the title character, P.I. Harry Orwell, played by David Janssen. He played Pontius Pilate in the miniseries A.D. and as General Grant in North and South: Book II . He co-starred in the mini-series Centennial , in 1978. In 2013, he played Senator Horton Mitchell in the dark comedy/crime movie American Hustle . [1] He was Mr. Crumwald in the 2014 Hungarian-American movie, Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks . [11]
Zerbe is the former artistic director of Reflections, A New Plays Festival at the Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, New York, and toured the United States, in 1981, with Behind The Broken Words, a performance of contemporary poetry, comedy, and dramatic works with fellow actor Roscoe Lee Browne. [12] He also co-created a devised piece, Lime Creek Christmas, with musician John Denver, and the one-man show It's All Done With Mirrors ... an avalanche of e.e. cummings. He served as a director of Millay Arts.
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