John Rubinstein
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John Rubinstein (born December 8, 1946 in Los Angeles) is an American film, Broadway, and television actor, a composer of film and theatre music, and a director in theatre and television. He made his Broadway acting debut in 1972 and received a Theater World Award for creating the title role in the musical Pippin, directed by Bob Fosse. In 1980 he won the Tony, Drama Desk, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, and Drama-Logue Awards for his portrayal of James Leeds in Mark Medoff's Children Of A Lesser God, directed by Gordon Davidson. Other Broadway appearances were in Neil Simon's Fools, directed by Mike Nichols, and Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, which earned him a Drama Desk nomination; he replaced William Hurt as Eddie in David Rabe's Hurlyburly, replaced David Dukes in David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly, and starred in Getting Away With Murder, by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth, directed by Jack O'Brien. In 1987 he made his off-Broadway debut at the Roundabout Theater as Guildenstern in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, with Stephen Lang and John Wood, and subsequently performed in Urban Blight and Cabaret Verboten. In 2005 he received the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Lead Actor in a Play, as well as nominations for both the Outer Critics’ and Drama League Awards, for his portrayal of George Simon in Elmer Rice’s Counsellor-at-Law.
His appearances in regional theaters began with his first professional job in 1965 in the musical Camelot, with Howard Keel. In later years he returned to Camelot, playing, at various times,Tom of Warwick, Mordred, and King Arthur. Other regional appearances include South Pacific; the role of Billy in David Rabe's Streamers, Ariel in The Tempest, Marchbanks in Shaw's Candida, both Sergius and Bluntschli in Shaw's Arms And The Man, several roles in Arnold Weinstein's Metamorphoses, directed by Paul Sills at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, Sight Unseen at L.A.’s Odyssey Theatre, Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass at Monterey Peninsula College, and Warren Smith in On A Clear Day You Can See Forever (in a 160-city National Tour in 1968). He starred in Merrily We Roll Along at the La Jolla Playhouse, in a version newly re-written by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth, directed by James Lapine. He was the original Andrew Ladd III in A.R. Gurney's Love Letters at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, opened the play in New York off-Broadway, and later performed it on Broadway, in San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles and Washington D.C. He created the role of Molina in Kiss Of The Spider Woman, the musical by Terrence McNally, John Kander, and Fred Ebb, directed by Harold Prince, and the role of Kenneth Hoyle in Jon Robin Baitz's Three Hotels. In 1997, he played Tateh in the American premiere run of the musical Ragtime, by Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty, and Lynn Ahrens, directed by Frank Galati, at the Shubert Theater in Los Angeles, receiving both an L. A. Drama Critics Circle nomination and a Drama-Logue Award as Best Actor in a Musical, and continued in the show both in Vancouver and on Broadway. He appeared opposite Donald Sutherland in Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt’s Enigmatic Variations at London’s Savoy Theatre, and at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto.
His seventeen feature films include 21 Grams, Red Dragon, Mercy, Another Stakeout, Someone To Watch Over Me, Daniel, The Boys From Brazil, Rome and Jewel, Jekyll, Kid Cop, Getting Straight, Zachariah, The Trouble with Girls, and The Car. Since 1965 he has acted in over 150 television films and series episodes, including Arthur Miller's “The American Clock” (CableAce Award Nomination), “Mrs. Harris”, “Perfect Murder, Perfect Town”, “Norma And Marilyn”, “Robocop: The Series”, “The Sleepwalker”, “In My Daughter's Name”, “Perry Mason”, “Voices Within: The Lives Of Truddi Chase”, “The Two Mrs. Grenvilles”, “Skokie”, “Movieola”, “Roots: The Next Generations”, and “A Howling In The Woods”. He received an Emmy Award nomination for his portrayal of Jeff Maitland in the series “Family”, a role he played for five years; and he starred for two years with Jack Warden in the series “Crazy Like a Fox”. He has subsequently played recurring parts on “Angel”, “The Guardian”, “The Practice”,”Star Trek: Enterprise”, and “Barbershop.” In the series finale of "Friends", he played the doctor who delivered Monica and Chandler's babies.
Mr. Rubinstein has composed, orchestrated, and conducted the musical scores for five features, including Jeremiah Johnson (directed by Sidney Pollack), and The Candidate (Michael Ritchie), both starring Robert Redford; Paddy, with Milo O'Shea, and Kid Blue, with Dennis Hopper and Peter Boyle; and for over 150 television films and episodes, among them the Peabody Award-winning "Amber Waves" (with Kurt Russell), "The Dollmaker" (with Jane Fonda), "A Walton Wedding" (Richard Thomas), "The Ordeal of Patty Hearst" (Dennis Weaver), "Choices of the Heart" (Melissa Gilbert), and "Emily, Emily" (Tom Hulce), as well as the weekly themes for "Family" and "China Beach".
He spent six years as host for the radio program “Carnegie Hall Tonight”, broadcast on l80 stations in the United States and Canada, and two years as the keyboard player for the jazz-rock group Funzone. He has recorded over sixty-five books on cassette tapes, including eighteen of the best-selling Alex Delaware novels by Jonathan Kellerman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Independence Day”, by Richard Ford, I. B. Singer's "Shadows on the Hudson", and Tom Clancy’s “Debt Of Honor” and “Op Center”.
In 1987, Mr. Rubinstein made his directorial debut at the Williamstown Theater Festival, staging Aphra Behn's The Rover, with Christopher Reeve; the following season he directed the first American-cast production of Christopher Hampton's Les Liaisons Dangereuses, with Dwight Schultz and Dianne Wiest. Off-Broadway, he directed the New York premieres of Phantasie, by Sybille Pearson, and Nightingale, by Elizabeth Diggs; and the world premiere of A. R. Gurney's The Old Boy. At the Cape Playhouse in Massachusetts, he staged Wait Until Dark with Hayley Mills and William Atherton. In Los Angeles, at Interact Theatre Company, of which he is a member, he co-directed and starred in the revival of Elmer Rice's Counsellor-at-Law, winning Drama-Logue Awards and L.A. Drama Critics Circle Awards in both categories, as well as Ovation Awards for Ensemble Acting and Sound Design; the production itself won 22 awards; he also directed and acted in Sondheim and Lapine’s Into The Woods and A Little Night Music, and Meredith Willson’s The Music Man, and he directed Sheridan’s The Rivals and Frank Loesser’s Guys and Dolls. For television, he directed the CBS Schoolbreak Special “A Matter Of Conscience”, which won the Emmy Award for Best Children's Special in 1990, an episode of the CBS series “Nash Bridges”, the ABC AfterSchool Special miniseries “Summer Stories”, and three episodes of the TV series “High Tide”.
His father was the pianist Arthur Rubinstein.
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[edit] Partial filmography
- Getting Straight
- The Boys From Brazil
- Someone to Watch Over Me
- 21 Grams
[edit] Television work as an actor
- Angel - He portrayed the character, Linwood Murrow
- Family
- Crazy Like a Fox
- Three different characters on Star Trek Enterprise
- He portrayed Matt Bryan Jr. in a 1972 episode of the Mary Tyler Moore Show entitled "You Certainly Are A Big Boy".
[edit] Television work as a director
- Nash Bridges
- High Tide
[edit] External links
- John Rubinstein at the Internet Movie Database
- John Rubinstein at TV.com
- John Rubinstein at the Internet Broadway Database
- John Rubinstein article at Memory Alpha, the Star Trek wiki.fr:John Rubinstein
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