Judd Hirsch
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| Born | March 15, 1935 Bronx, New York, United States |
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| Occupation | actor, writer | ||||||
| Years active | 1971 – present | ||||||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||||
| Alma mater | City College of New York | ||||||
| Spouse | Bonni Chalkin – 1992-2005 divorced Elissa – 1956 - 1958 divorced |
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Judd Hirsch (born March 15, 1935) is an American actor known for playing the characters Alex Reiger on the television comedy series Taxi and Alan Eppes on the current CBS series Numb3rs.
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[edit] Personal life
Judd Seymore Hirsch was born in the Bronx, New York, the son of Sally (née Kitzis) and Joseph Sidney Hirsch, an electrician.[1] Hirsch was raised in a Jewish family and his father was an immigrant from Russia.[2] Hirsch attended De Witt Clinton High School and later earned a college degree from the City College of New York in physics. He was married to his first wife from 1956 to 1958. He married Bonni Sue Chalkin in 1992 and divorced her in 2003. Hirsch has two children: Alexander and Montana.
[edit] Career
For his performance in Taxi, in 1981 and again in 1983,[3] Judd Hirsch won the Emmy Award for Lead Actor In a Comedy Series. Hirsch went on to play the title character on the modestly successful sitcom Dear John and in 1989 won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series in a Comedy or Musical for this role.[4] He later teamed with Bob Newhart in the short-lived comedy George and Leo. He had also previously starred for one season in the series Delvecchio, playing a police detective (1976-1977).
In motion pictures, Hirsch received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in 1980s Ordinary People. Other films in the 1980s include the 1983 drama Without a Trace, the 1984 dramedies Teachers and The Goodbye People, and the 1988 drama Running on Empty directed by Sidney Lumet and co-starring River Phoenix. In 1996 Hirsch portrayed the father of Jeff Goldblum's character in Independence Day, and in 2001 he appeared in the acclaimed A Beautiful Mind.
Hirsch has been been co-starring since 2005 on the CBS Television drama NUMB3RS as Alan Eppes, father of FBI agent Don Eppes (Rob Morrow) and Professor Charlie Eppes (David Krumholtz). Hirsch and Krumholtz also played father and son in Conversations with My Father, a Herb Gardner play for which Hirsch won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play.[5] Krumholtz credits Hirsch with jump-starting his career after Hirsch chose him during the audition process for Conversations. Other noteworthy stage performances include The Hot l Baltimore, Talley's Folley, and his starring role in I'm Not Rappaport, in which Hirsch also won a Tony Award in 1986.
Hirsch once voiced himself on an episode of Family Guy. He is seen building a nuclear bomb within a bowling ball dispenser. His two lines consisted of three words. He starred on an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as a pediatrician accused of murder.
Most recently, Hirsch was a guest star on the pilot episode of the NBC series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip as the producer of an SNL-esque sketch show who goes into an on-air rant reminiscent of the 1976 film Network. On the cable TV channel TV Land, an archived coffee commercial (the channel dubs them "retromercials") from the 1960s is sometimes shown with Hirsch playing the husband, as well as a Listerine commercial from the 1970s where he played a radio DJ. In 1979, he portrayed Count Dracula in ABC's holiday telefilm The Halloween That Almost Wasn't.
In 1999, he reprised his role from Taxi for a brief moment in Man on the Moon, the biopic film of his co-star from Taxi, Andy Kaufman (portrayed by Jim Carrey). A host of other co-stars from the TV show also had cameo roles in the film.
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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| 1971 | Jump | aka Fury on Wheels | |
| 1973 | Serpico | Cop | Uncredited |
| 1974 | The Law | Murray Stone | TV |
| 1975 | The Law | Murray Stone | TV Mini-Series |
| Fear on Trial | Saul | TV | |
| Medical Story | Dr. Joe Dempsey | TV - 1 episode | |
| The Legend of Valentino | Jack Auerbach | TV | |
| 1976 | The Keegans | Lieutenant Marco Ciardi | TV |
| Visions | Joe Morris | TV - 1 episode | |
| Delvecchio | Sergeant Dominick Delvecchio | TV - 3 episodes - 1976-1977 | |
| 1977 | Rhoda | Mike | TV - 2 episodes |
| 1978 | King of the Gypsies | Groffo | |
| Taxi | Alex Rieger | TV - 114 episodes - 1978-1983 | |
| 1979 | Sooner or Later | Bob Walters | TV |
| The Halloween That Almost wasn't | Count Dracula | TV - aka The Night Dracula Saved the World | |
| 1980 | Marriage Is Alive and Well | Herb Rollie | TV |
| The Last Resort | TV - 1 episode | ||
| Ordinary People | Dr. Tyrone C. Berger | ||
| 1981 | The Robert Klein Show | TV | |
| 1983 | Lights: The Miracle of Chanukah | TV | |
| Without a Trace | Al Menetti | ||
| 1984 | The Goodbye People | Arthur Korman | |
| Teachers | Roger Rubell | ||
| 1985 | Detective in the House | Press Wyman | TV |
| First Steps | Dr. Jerrold Petrofsky | TV | |
| Brotherly Love | Ben Ryder/Harry Brand | TV | |
| 1988 | Running on Empty | Arthur Pope/Paul Manfield | |
| The Great Escape II: The Untold Story | Capt. David Matthews | TV | |
| Dear John | John Lacey | TV - 74 episodes - 1988-1992 | |
| 1990 | She Said No | Martin Knapek | TV |
| 1991 | The American Experience | TV - 1 episode - Voice Only | |
| 1994 | Betrayal of Trust | Dr. Jules Masserman | TV |
| 1996 | Independence Day | Julius Levinson | |
| Caroline in the City | Ben Karinsky | TV - 1 episode | |
| 1997 | Color of Justice | Sam Lind | TV |
| George & Leo | Leo Wagonman | TV - 3 episodes | |
| 1999 | Rocky Marciano | Al Weill | TV |
| Out of the Cold | Leon Axelrod | ||
| Man on the Moon | Actor in Taxi Recreation | uncredited | |
| 2000 | Welcome to New York | Dr. Bob | TV - 1 episode |
| 2001 | Family Law | Daniel Bonner | TV - 1 episode |
| A Beautiful Mind | Helinger | ||
| 2002 | Philly | Rabbi Nathan Wexler | TV - 1 episode |
| 2003 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Dr. Judah Platner | TV - 1 episode |
| Regular Joe | Baxter Binder | TV - 5 episodes | |
| Street Time | Shimi Goldman | TV - 1 episode | |
| Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Ben Elkins | TV - 1 episode | |
| Who Killed the Federal Theatre | Narrator | TV | |
| 2004 | Zeyda and the Hitman | Gideon Schub | |
| 2005 | Numb3rs | Alan Eppes | TV - 101 episodes - 2005-2009 |
| 2006 | Brother's Shadow | Leo Groden | |
| Tom Goes to the Mayor | Prisoner | TV - 1 episode - Voice | |
| Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip | Wes Mendell | TV - 1 episode | |
| 2009 | American Dad! | Rabbi | TV - 2 episodes - Voice |
[edit] References
- ^ "Judd Hirsch Biography". filmreference. 2008. http://www.filmreference.com/film/40/Judd-Hirsch.html. Retrieved on 2008-04-10.
- ^ Ari L. Goldman (22 March 1992). "THEATER; Judd Hirsch Finds the Echoes in 'Conversations'". The New York Times. http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?_r=1&res=9E0CEEDE1131F931A15750C0A964958260&oref=slogin. Retrieved on 2008-04-10.
- ^ Emmy Awards Official Website
- ^ Golden Globe Official Website, 1989 awards.
- ^ Tony Awards Official Website
[edit] External links
- Judd Hirsch at the Internet Movie Database
- Judd Hirsch at the Internet Broadway Database
- Judd Hirsch at the Internet off-Broadway Database
- TonyAwards.com Interview with Judd Hirsch
- Dave Ross interview with Judd Hirsch on MyNorthwest.com
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