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William Edward Fichtner (born November 27, 1956) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Sheriff Tom Underlay on Invasion, as Alexander Mahone on Prison Break, as William Sharp in Armageddon, and as Ken Rosenberg in the video games Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Early life Fichtner was born at Mitchel Air Force Base in East Meadow, New York, and was raised in Cheektowaga, New York, the son of Patricia A. and William E. Fichtner. He is of German descent. Career Fichtner began his acting career as Josh Snyder in As the World Turns in 1987. Fichtner's film credits include Contact, Heat, Armageddon, Go, Equilibrium, Black Hawk Down, The Perfect Storm, The Longest Yard, Crash, Ultraviolet, and The Dark Knight. Mainly a character actor, one of Fichtner's few leading roles is in Passion of Mind, also starring Demi Moore and Stellan Skarsgård. For his role in Crash he won a Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Performance Award and a "Best Acting Ensemble" Award from Broadcast Film Critics Choice. Credited as Bill Fichtner, he lent his voice to the character Ken Rosenberg in the popular video games Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. From 2005-2006, Fichtner also starred in the science fiction drama series Invasion as Sheriff Tom Underlay. After Invasion was cancelled, Fichtner was chosen to play Agent Alexander Mahone in the second, third and fourth seasons (2006–2009) of Prison Break. Later that year, he also presented an award at the National Hockey League award show. He also appears in The West Wing episode, "The Supremes" as Christopher Mulready, a brilliant conservative judge nominated to the Supreme Court. Fichtner also had a role as the Gotham National Bank manager in the feature film The Dark Knight, and as Jurgen in Equilibrium; both action movies feature Christian Bale. In June 2009, Fichtner signed on to guest star on Entourage playing TV producer Phil Yagoda, who is trying to remake his hit 1990s teen series. His most recent film was 2011's Drive Angry. Film and TV appearances 1987-1993 As the World Turns Josh Snyder TV Series 1989 Baywatch Howard Ganza TV Series: 1 Episode 1992 Malcolm X Police in the Harlem Station 1994-1995 Grace Under Fire Ryan TV Series: 8 Episodes 1995 Virtuosity Wallace 1995 Reckless Rachel's Father 1995 Strange Days Dwayne Engelman 1995 Heat Roger Van Zant 1995 High Lonesome Sheriff 1995 Underneath Tommy Dundee 1996 Albino Alligator Law 1997 Contact Kent 1997 Switchback Chief Jack McGinnis 1998 Armageddon Colonel William Sharp 1999 Go Burke 1999 The Settlement Jerry 2000 The Perfect Storm David "Sully" Sullivan 2000 Drowning Mona Phil Dearly 2000 Passion of Mind Aaron 2000 Endsville Prince Victor 2001 Pearl Harbor Danny's Father 2001 Black Hawk Down Sfc. Jeff Sanderson 2001 What's the Worst That Could Happen? Detective Alex Tardio 2002 MDs Bruce Kellerman TV Series: 10 Episodes 2002 Julie Walking Home Henry 2002 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Ken Rosenberg Video Game - Voiceover (credited as Bill Fichtner) 2002 Equilibrium Jürgen 2004 Crash Flanagan 2004 The West Wing Justice Christopher Mulready TV Series: 1 Episode - "The Supremes" 2004 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Ken Rosenberg Video Game - Voiceover (credited as Bill Fichtner) 2005 The Moguls Otis 2005-2006 Invasion Tom Underlay TV Series: 22 Episodes 2005 Nine Lives Andrew 2005 The Chumscrubber Dr. Bill Stifle 2005 Empire Falls Jimmy Minty 2005 The Longest Yard Captain Knauer 2005 Mr. & Mrs. Smith Dr. Wexler, marriage counselor Voice - uncredited 2006 Ultraviolet Garth 2006-2009 Prison Break Alexander Mahone TV Series: 59 Episodes 2007 Blades of Glory Darren MacElroy 2007 First Snow Ed 2008 The Dark Knight Bank Manager Cameo 2008 Turok Logan Video game - Voiceover 2009-2010 Entourage Phil Yagoda TV Series: 8 Episodes 2010 Forehead Tittaes Boss Short Skit 2010 Date Night D.A. Frank Crenshaw 2011 The Big Bang Detective Poley 2011 Drive Angry The Accountant

Paul Adelstein (born April 29, 1969) is an American television and film actor, best known for the role of Agent Paul Kellerman in the television series, Prison Break, and his current role as pediatrician Cooper Freedman in the series Private Practice. Life and career Adelstein was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1969 to a Reform Jewish family. Prior to his professional acting career, Adelstein attended the progressive Francis W. Parker School, then Bowdoin College where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude with a degree in English. He began his career in theatre, working with New Crime Productions, a company founded by John Cusack, and later with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Making his film debut in 1990 in The Grifters, Adelstein went on to appear in several television series which include Cupid, ER, Without a Trace and Scrubs and to have a number of significant supporting roles in films such as Bedazzled (2000), Intolerable Cruelty (2003), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), and Be Cool (2005). In 2005, he received his most significant role to date as a member of the regular cast of Prison Break. Interestingly, though he played the role of Paul Kellerman, he had originally auditioned for the role of Lincoln Burrows. When he left the show in 2007, he joined the regular cast of Private Practice. In November 2006, Adelstein married actress Liza Weil, who played Paris Geller on Gilmore Girls. They had their first child in April 2010, a girl named Josephine Elizabeth Weil-Adelstein. Adelstein is also lead singer and guitarist of a band called Doris. Filmography 1990 The Grifters Sailor - Young Paul 1997 Peoria Babylon Brad Kessler 1998–1999 Cupid Mike Television episodes (1x01, 1x02, 1x06, 1x07, 1x09, 1x11, 1x14) 1999 Turks Officer Cliff Fowler Television series ER Hank Loman Television episode (6x09) 2000 Bedazzled Bob/Roberto/Beach Jock/Sportscaster 2002 R.U.S./H. Tom Epstein Television movie ER Television episode (8x17) Breaking News Julian Kerbis Television series 2002–2003 Hack Sergeant Aldo Rossi Television episodes (1x13, 1x14, 1x20, 2x04, 2x10) 2003 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Steven Kellerman Television episode (4x14) Partners and Crime Television movie Intolerable Cruelty Wrigley The Lyon's Den Snyder Television episode (1x09) Without a Trace Dave Television episode (2x05) 2004 Lawrence Melm Bandwagon Joe Rice Collateral Fed #3 Las Vegas Alex Brooks Television episode (2x11) 2005 Medium Craig Television episode (1x14) Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law Murro Television episode (3x02) Memoirs of a Geisha Lieutenant Hutchins Be Cool Hy Gordon 2005–2007, 2009 Prison Break Paul Kellerman Series regular 2006 Nobody's Watching Jeff Tucker Television series Scrubs Dr. Stone Television episode (5x21) 2007 Grey's Anatomy Cooper Freedman Television episodes (3x22, 3x23) 2007–present Private Practice Cooper Freedman Series Regular 2009 Land of the Lost Astronaut (voice) The Missing Person Drexler Hewitt

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Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, writer, playwright, producer, musician and composer. Martin was born in Waco, Texas, and raised in Southern California, where his early influences were working at Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm and working magic and comedy acts at these and other smaller venues in the area. His ascent to fame picked up when he became a writer for the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and later became a frequent guest on The Tonight Show. In the 1970s, Martin performed his offbeat, absurdist comedy routines before packed houses on national tours. Since the 1980s, having branched away from stand-up comedy, he has become a successful actor, playwright, pianist, banjo player, and juggler, eventually earning Emmy, Grammy, and American Comedy awards. Early life Martin was born in Waco, Texas, the son of Mary Lee Martin and Glenn Vernon Martin, a real estate salesman and an aspiring actor. Martin was raised in Inglewood, California, and then later in Garden Grove, California, in a Baptist family. One of his earliest memories is of seeing his father, as an extra, serving drinks onstage at the Call Board Theatre on Melrose Place. During World War II, in England, Martin's father had appeared in a production of Our Town with Raymond Massey. Years later, he would write to Massey for help in Steve's fledgling career, but would receive no reply. Expressing his affection through gifts of cars, bikes, etc., Martin's father was stern, not emotionally open to his son. He was proud but critical, with Martin later recalling that in his teens his feelings for his father were mostly ones of hatred. Martin's first job was at Disneyland, selling guidebooks on weekends and full-time during the summer school break. That lasted for three years (1955–1958). During his free time he frequented the Main Street Magic shop, where tricks were demonstrated to potential customers. By 1960, he had mastered several of the tricks and illusions, and took a paying job there in August. There he perfected his talents for magic, juggling, and creating balloon animals, frequently performing for tips. In his authorized biography, close friend Morris Walker suggests that Martin could "be described most accurately as an agnostic [...] he rarely went to church and was never involved in organized religion of his own volition". Comedy After high school graduation, Martin attended Santa Ana Junior College, taking classes in drama and English poetry. In his free time, he teamed up with friend and Garden Grove High School classmate Kathy Westmoreland to participate in comedies and other productions at the Bird Cage Theatre. He joined a comedy troupe at Knott's Berry Farm. Later, he met budding actress Stormie Sherk, and they developed comedy routines while becoming romantically involved. Stormie's influence caused Steve to apply to the California State University, Long Beach, for enrollment with a major in Philosophy Stormie enrolled at UCLA, about an hour's drive north, and the distance eventually caused them to lead separate lives. Being inspired by his philosophy classes, for a short while he considered becoming a professor instead of an actor-comedian. His time at college changed his life. "It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy. Something about non-sequiturs appealed to me. In philosophy, I started studying logic, and they were talking about cause and effect, and you start to realize, 'Hey, there is no cause and effect! There is no logic! There is no anything!' Then it gets real easy to write this stuff, because all you have to do is twist everything hard—you twist the punch line, you twist the non sequitur so hard away from the things that set it up". In an article in Smithsonian magazine he recalled, "In a college psychology class, I had read a treatise on comedy explaining that a laugh was formed when the storyteller created tension, then, with the punch line, released it. I didn't quite get this concept, nor do I still [...]. What if there were no punch lines? What if there were no indicators? What if I created tension and never released it? What if I headed for a climax, but all I delivered was an anticlimax? What would the audience do with all that tension? Theoretically, it would have to come out sometime. But if I kept denying them the formality of a punch line, the audience would eventually pick their own place to laugh, essentially out of desperation. [...] My first reviews came in. One said, 'This so-called "comedian" should be told that jokes are supposed to have punch lines.' Another said I represented 'the most serious booking error in the history of Los Angeles music.' " Martin periodically spoofed his philosophy studies in his 1970s stand-up act, comparing philosophy with studying geology. "If you're studying geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life." In 1967, Martin transferred to UCLA and switched his major to theater. While attending college, he appeared in an episode of The Dating Game. Martin began working local clubs at night, to mixed notices, and at twenty-one he dropped out of college. Career Early career – stand-up In 1967, his former girlfriend Nina Goldblatt, a dancer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, helped Martin land a writing job with the show by submitting his work to head writer Mason Williams. Williams initially paid Martin out of his own pocket. Along with the other writers for the show, Martin won an Emmy Award in 1969, aged 23. He also wrote for John Denver (a neighbor of his in Aspen, Colorado, at one point), The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, and The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour. Martin's first TV appearance was on The Steve Allen Show in 1969. He says: " appeared on The Virginia Graham Show, circa 1970. I looked grotesque. I had a hairdo like a helmet, which I blow-dried to a puffy bouffant, for reasons I no longer understand. I wore a frock coat and a silk shirt, and my delivery was mannered, slow and self-aware. I had absolutely no authority. After reviewing the show, I was depressed for a week." During these years his roommates included comedian Gary Mule Deer and singer/guitarist Michael Johnson. Martin opened for groups such as The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The Carpenters, and Toto. He appeared at San Francisco's The Boarding House, among other venues. He continued to write, earning an Emmy nomination for his work on Van Dyke and Company in 1976. In the mid-1970s, Martin made frequent appearances as a stand-up comedian on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson., and on The Gong Show, HBO's On Location and NBC's Saturday Night Live (SNL). SNL's audience jumped by a million viewers when he made guest appearances, though despite a common misconception, he was never a cast member. Martin has guest-hosted Saturday Night Live 15 times, as of January 2009, tied in numbers of presentations with host Alec Baldwin. On the show, Martin popularized the air quotes gesture, which uses four fingers to make double quote marks in the air. While on the show Martin became close with several of the cast members, including Gilda Radner. On the day Radner died of ovarian cancer in 1989, Martin was hosting SNL and featured footage of himself and Radner together in a 1978 sketch. His TV appearances in the 1970s led to the release of comedy albums that went platinum. The track "Excuse Me" on his first album, Let's Get Small, helped establish a national catch phrase. His next album, A Wild and Crazy Guy (1978), was an even bigger success, reaching the No.2 spot on the US sales chart, selling over a million copies. "Just a wild and crazy guy" became another of Martin's known catch phrases. The album featured a character based on a series of Saturday Night Live sketches where Martin and Dan Aykroyd played "Georgi" and "Yortuk" the Festrunk Brothers, a couple of bumbling Czechoslovak would-be playboys. The album ends with the song "King Tut", sung and written by Martin and backed by the "Toot Uncommons", members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. It was later released as a single, reaching No.17 on the US charts in 1978 and selling over a million copies. The song came out during the King Tut craze that accompanied the popular traveling exhibit of the Egyptian king's tomb artifacts. Both albums won Grammys for Best Comedy Recording in 1977 and 1978, respectively. Martin performed "King Tut" on the April 22, 1978 edition of SNL. On his comedy albums, Martin's stand-up is self-referential and sometimes self-mocking. It mixes philosophical riffs with sudden spurts of "happy feet", banjo playing with balloon depictions of concepts like venereal disease, and the controversial kitten juggling (he is a master juggler). His style is off-kilter and ironic, and sometimes pokes fun at stand-up comedy traditions, such as Martin opening his act (from A Wild and Crazy Guy) by saying, "I think there's nothing better for a person to come up and do the same thing over and over for two weeks. This is what I enjoy, so I'm going to do the same thing over and over and over [...] I'm going to do the same joke over and over in the same show, it'll be like a new thing." Or: "Hello, I'm Steve Martin, and I'll be out here in a minute." In one comedy routine, used on the Comedy Is Not Pretty! album, Martin claimed that his real name was "Gern Blanston". The riff took on a life of its own. There is a Gern Blanston website, and for a time a rock band took the moniker as their name. He stopped stand-up in 1981 to concentrate on movies and never went back. Acting career – film By the end of the 1970s, Martin had acquired the kind of following normally reserved for rock stars, with his tour appearances typically occurring at sold-out arenas filled with tens of thousands of screaming fans. But unknown to his audience, stand-up comedy was "just an accident" for him; his real goal was to get into film. Martin's first film was a short, The Absent-Minded Waiter (1977). The seven-minute-long film, also featuring Buck Henry and Teri Garr, was written by and starred Martin. The film was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Short Film, Live Action. He made his first feature film appearance in the musical Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, where he sang The Beatles' "Maxwell's Silver Hammer". In 1979, Martin co-wrote and starred in his first full-length movie, The Jerk, directed by Carl Reiner. The movie was a huge success, grossing over $100 million on a budget of approximately $4 million. Stanley Kubrick met with him to discuss the possibility of Martin starring in a screwball comedy version of Traumnovelle (Kubrick later changed his approach to the material, the result of which was 1999's Eyes Wide Shut). Martin was executive producer for Domestic Life, a prime-time television series starring friend Martin Mull, and a late-night series called Twilight Theater. It emboldened Martin to try his hand at his first serious film, Pennies from Heaven, a movie he was anxious to perform in because of his desire to avoid being typecast. To prepare for that film, Martin took acting lessons from director Herbert Ross, and spent months learning how to tap dance. The film was a financial failure; Martin's comment at the time was "I don't know what to blame, other than it's me and not a comedy." Martin was in three more Reiner-directed comedies after The Jerk: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid in 1982, The Man with Two Brains in 1983 and All of Me in 1984, possibly his most critically acclaimed comic performance to date. In 1986, Martin joined fellow Saturday Night Live veterans Martin Short and Chevy Chase in ¡Three Amigos!, directed by John Landis, and written by Martin, Lorne Michaels, and singer-songwriter Randy Newman. It was originally entitled The Three Caballeros and Martin was to be teamed with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. In 1986, Martin was in the movie musical film version of the hit Off-Broadway play Little Shop of Horrors (based on a famous B-movie), playing the sadistic dentist, Orin Scrivello. The film was the first of three films teaming Martin with Rick Moranis. In 1987, Martin joined comedian John Candy in the John Hughes movie Planes, Trains & Automobiles. That same year, Roxanne, the film adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac which Martin co-wrote, won him a Writers Guild of America, East award. It also garnered recognition from Hollywood and the public that he was more than a comedian. In 1988, he performed in the Frank Oz remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels alongside Michael Caine. Martin starred in the Ron Howard film Parenthood, with Moranis in 1989. He later met with Moranis to make the Mafia comedy My Blue Heaven in 1990. In 1991, Martin starred in and wrote L.A. Story, a romantic comedy, in which the female lead was played by his then-wife Victoria Tennant. Martin also appeared in Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon, in which he played the tightly-wound Hollywood film producer, Davis, who was recovering from a traumatic robbery that left him injured, which was a more serious role for him. Martin also appeared in a remake of the comedy Father of the Bride in 1991 (followed by a sequel in 1995). He starred in the 1992 comedy HouseSitter, with Goldie Hawn and Dana Delany. In David Mamet's 1997 thriller, The Spanish Prisoner, Martin played a darker role as a wealthy stranger who takes a suspicious interest in the work of a young businessman (Campbell Scott). He went on to star with Eddie Murphy in the 1999 comedy Bowfinger, which Martin also wrote. He appeared in a version of Waiting for Godot as Vladimir, with Robin Williams as Estragon and Bill Irwin as Lucky. In 1998, Martin guest starred with U2 in the 200th episode of The Simpsons titled "Trash of the Titans", providing the voice for sanitation commissioner Ray Patterson. In 1999, Martin and Hawn starred in a remake of the 1970 Neil Simon comedy, The Out-of-Towners. By 2003, Martin ranked 4th on the box office stars list, after starring in Bringing Down The House and Cheaper By The Dozen, each of which earned over $130 million at U.S. theaters. That same year, he also played the villainous Mr. Chairman in the animation/live action blend, "Looney Tunes: Back in Action". Martin wrote and starred in Shopgirl (2005), based on his own novella (2000), and starred in Cheaper by the Dozen 2. He also starred in the box office hit The Pink Panther in 2006, standing in Peter Sellers's shoes as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau, a role which he reprised in 2009's The Pink Panther 2. In Baby Mama (2008), he played the founder of a health food company, and in It's Complicated (2009), he played opposite Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin. In 2009, an article in The Guardian listed Martin as one of the best actors never to receive an Oscar nomination. He is set to appear with Jack Black, Owen Wilson, and JoBeth Williams in the birdwatching comedy The Big Year in 2011. Writing In 1993, Martin wrote his first full length play Picasso at the Lapin Agile. The first reading of the play took place in Beverly Hills, California at Steve Martin's home, with Tom Hanks reading the role of Pablo Picasso and Chris Sarandon reading the role of Albert Einstein. Following this, the play opened at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois, and played from October 1993 to May 1994, then went on to run successfully in Los Angeles, New York City and several other US cities. In 2009, the La Grande, Oregon school board refused to allow the play to be performed after several parents complained about the content. In an open letter in the local Observer newspaper, Martin wrote "I have heard that some in your community have characterized the play as 'people drinking in bars, and treating women as sex objects.' With apologies to William Shakespeare, this is like calling Hamlet a play about a castle [...] I will finance a non-profit, off-high school campus production [...] so that individuals, outside the jurisdiction of the school board but within the guarantees of freedom of expression provided by the Constitution of the United States can determine whether they will or will not see the play". Throughout the 1990s, Martin wrote various pieces for The New Yorker. In 2002, he adapted the Carl Sternheim play The Underpants, which ran Off Broadway at Classic Stage Company and in 2008, co-wrote and produced Traitor, starring Don Cheadle. He has also written the novellas, Shopgirl (2000), and The Pleasure of My Company (2003), both more wry in tone than raucous. A story of a 28-year-old woman behind the glove counter at the Neiman Marcus department store in Beverly Hills, Shopgirl was made into a film starring Martin and Claire Danes. The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2005 and was featured at the Chicago International Film Festival and the Austin Film Festival before going into limited release in the US. In 2007, he published a memoir, Born Standing Up, which TIME magazine named as one of the Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2007, ranking it at #6, and praising it as "a funny, moving, surprisingly frank memoir." In 2010, he published the novel An Object of Beauty. Writing in Modern Painters, critic Scott Indrisek described the book as a "a limp, hackneyed saga of New York's culture scene from 1997 through the present day" notable for its "gleeful abuse of the simile." In a Houston Chronicle review of the book, critic Thomas J. Walsh calls it a "tasty light meal ...(many of the chapters are but a page or two)" which "is strongest when Martin frees himself from the little black skirt of his story to editorialize about art." The writer says the work is "a continuation of Martin's medium- to high-brow efforts to tease out the content and meaning of a particular aesthetic that is by turns sublime and commercial but never, ever pedestrian." Hosting Martin hosted Academy Awards solo in 2001 and 2003 and with Alec Baldwin in 2010. In 2005, Martin co-hosted Disneyland: The First 50 Magical Years, marking the park's anniversary. Disney continued to run the show until March 2009, which now plays in the lobby of Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln. Music The banjo was a staple of Martin's 1970s stand-up career and he periodically poked fun at his love for the instrument. On the Comedy Is Not Pretty! album he included an all-instrumental jam, titled "Drop Thumb Medley," and played the track on his 1979 concert tour. His final comedy album, 1981's The Steve Martin Brothers, featured one side of Martin's typical stand-up material, with the other side featuring live performances of Steve playing banjo with a bluegrass band. In 2001, he played banjo on Earl Scruggs' remake of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown". The recording was the winner of the Best Country Instrumental Performance category at the following year's Grammys. In 2008, Martin appeared with the band, In the Minds of the Living, during a show in Myrtle Beach. In 2009, Martin released his first all-music album, The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo with appearances from stars such as Dolly Parton. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album in 2010. Martin made his first appearance on The Grand Ole Opry on May 30, 2009. In the American Idol Season 8 Finals, he performed alongside Michael Sarver and Megan Joy in the song "Pretty Flowers". In June, Martin played banjo along with the Steep Canyon Rangers on A Prairie Home Companion, and began a two-month U.S. tour with the Rangers in September, including an appearances at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, Carnegie Hall and Benaroya Hall in Seattle. In November, they went on to play at the Royal Festival Hall in London with support from Mary Black. In 2010, Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers appeared at the New Orleans Jazzfest, Merlefest Bluegrass Festival in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, at Bonnaroo Music Festival, at Red Butte Garden Concert series and on the BBC's Later... with Jools Holland. Steve Martin performed "Jubilation Day" with the Steep Canyon Rangers on The Colbert Report on March 21, 2011, and on Conan on May 3, 2011. Personal life Martin was romantically involved with actress and singer Bernadette Peters, his costar in the films The Jerk and Pennies from Heaven, during the 1970s and early 1980s. He married actress Victoria Tennant on November 20, 1986, and the union lasted until 1994. On July 28, 2007, after three years together, Martin married Anne Stringfield, a writer and former staffer for The New Yorker magazine. Former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey presided over the ceremony at Martin's Los Angeles home. Lorne Michaels, creator of Saturday Night Live, was best man. Several of the guests, including close friends Tom Hanks, Eugene Levy, comedian Carl Reiner, and magician/actor Ricky Jay were not informed that a wedding ceremony would take place. Instead, they were told they were invited to a party, and were surprised by the nuptials. Investigators at Berlin's state criminal police office (LKA) think that Martin was one victim of a German art forgery scandal. In July 2004 Martin purchased what he believed to be a 1915 work by the German-Dutch painter Heinrich Campendonk, "Landschaft mit Pferden," or "Landscape With Horses," from a Paris gallery for what should have been a bargain price in the neighborhood of €700,000 (around $850,000 at the time). Before the purchase an expert authenticated the work and identified the painter's signature on a label attached to the back. Fifteen months later Martin put the painting up for sale, and auction house Christie's dispose of it in February 2006 to a Swiss businesswoman for €500,000 – a loss of €200,000. Police believe the fake Campendonk originated from an invented art collection devised by a group of German swindlers caught in 2010. Skillfully forged paintings from this group were sold to French galleries like the one where Martin bought the forgery. Awards and honors 1969 Emmy Award – The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (with other writers) 1978 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album – Let's Get Small 1979 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album – A Wild and Crazy Guy. 1989 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from California State University Long Beach 2002 Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance with Earl Scruggs (and others) – banjo performance of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown". 2005 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor 2005 Disney Legend award 2007 30th Annual Kennedy Center Honors 2009 Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album for his album The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo. Written works by Martin The Jerk (1979) (Written with Carl Gottlieb) Cruel Shoes (1979) (Essays) Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays: Picasso at the Lapin Agile, the Zig-Zag Woman, Patter for the Floating Lady, WASP (1996) (Play) L.A. Story and Roxanne: Two Screenplays (published together in 1997) (Screenplays) Pure Drivel (1998) (Stories) Bowfinger (1999) (screenplay) Eric Fischl : 1970–2000 (2000) (Afterword) Modern Library Humor and Wit Series (2000) (Introduction and Series Editor) Shopgirl (2000) (Novella) Kindly Lent Their Owner: The Private Collection of Steve Martin (2001) (Art) The Underpants: A Play (2002) (Play) The Pleasure of My Company (2003) (Novel) The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z (2007) (Children's Books illustrated by Roz Chast) Born Standing Up (2007) (Memoir) An Object of Beauty (2010) (Novel) Late For School (2010) (Children's book) Released stand-up shows Steve Martin-Live! (1986, VHS) Saturday Night Live: The Best Of Steve Martin (1998, DVD) Filmography 1956 Disneyland Dream Documentary 1977 The Absent-Minded Waiter Short Subject 1978 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Dr. Maxwell Edison 1979 The Muppet Movie Insolent Waiter The Kids Are Alright Documentary The Jerk Navin R. Johnson Also Writer 1981 Pennies from Heaven Arthur Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy 1982 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid Rigby Reardon Also Writer 1983 The Man with Two Brains Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr 1984 The Lonely Guy Larry Hubbard All of Me Roger Cobb National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy 1985 Movers & Shakers Fabio Longio 1986 Three Amigos Lucky Day Also Writer and Executive Producer Little Shop of Horrors Orin Scrivello, DDS Billed as "Special Appearance" 1987 Roxanne C.D. Bales Also Writer and Executive Producer Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Planes, Trains and Automobiles Neal Page 1988 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Freddy Benson 1989 Parenthood Gil Buckman Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy 1990 My Blue Heaven Vinnie Antonelli 1991 L.A. Story Harris K. Telemacher Also Writer and Executive Producer Father of the Bride George Banks Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance Grand Canyon Davis 1992 HouseSitter Newton Davis Leap of Faith Jonas Nightengale 1993 And the Band Played On The Brother Cameo 1994 A Simple Twist of Fate Michael McCann Also Writer and Executive Producer Mixed Nuts Philip 1995 Father of the Bride Part II George Banks Nominated – American Comedy Award for Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture (Leading Role) Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy 1996 Sgt. Bilko Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko 1997 The Spanish Prisoner Jimmy Dell 1998 The Prince of Egypt Hotep Voice 1999 The Out-of-Towners Henry Clark Bowfinger Bobby Bowfinger Also writer The Venice Project Cameo Fantasia 2000 Introductory Host Disney Re-Release 2000 Joe Gould's Secret Charlie Duell 2001 Novocaine Frank Sangster 2002 Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour As himself 2003 Bringing Down the House Peter Sanderson Looney Tunes: Back in Action Mr. Chairman Cheaper by the Dozen Tom Baker 2004 Jiminy Glick in Lalawood Cameo The Merchant of Venice 2005 Shopgirl Ray Porter Also Writer and Producer Cheaper by the Dozen 2 Tom Baker Disneyland: The First 50 Magical Years As himself 2006 The Pink Panther Inspector Clouseau A remake of the earlier series 2008 Baby Mama Barry Traitor Writer and Producer 2009 The Pink Panther 2 Inspector Clouseau Also Screenplay It's Complicated Adam Schaffer 2011 The Big Year Stu

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Peter Michael Falk (September 16, 1927 – June 23, 2011) was an American actor, best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the television series Columbo. He appeared in numerous films and television guest roles and was nominated for an Academy Award twice (for 1960's Murder, Inc. and 1961's Pocketful of Miracles), and won the Emmy Award on five occasions (four for Columbo) and the Golden Globe award once. Director William Friedkin, when discussing Falk's role in his 1978 film The Brink's Job said that "Peter has a great range from comedy to drama. He could break your heart or he could make you laugh." In 1968, he starred with Gene Barry in a ninety-minute TV pilot about a highly-skilled, laid-back detective. Columbo eventually became part of an anthology series titled The NBC Mystery Movie, along with McCloud and McMillan & Wife. The detective series stayed on NBC from 1971–1978, took a respite, and returned occasionally on ABC from 1989–2003. He was "everyone's favorite rumpled television detective", writes historian David Fantle. Describing his role, Variety columnist Howard Prouty writes, "The joy of all this is watching Columbo dissemble the fiendishly clever cover stories of the loathsome rats who consider themselves his better." Early life Born in New York City, Falk was the son of Michael Peter Falk, owner of a clothing and dry goods store, and his wife, Madeline , an accountant and buyer. His family was Jewish, his father of Russian ancestry and his mother of Polish descent with Hungarian and Czech roots. Falk's right eye was surgically removed when he was three because of a retinoblastoma; he wore a glass eye for most of his life. Despite this, Falk participated in team sports, mainly baseball and basketball, as a boy. In a 1997 interview in Cigar Aficionado magazine with Arthur Marx, Falk said, "I remember once in high school the umpire called me out at third base when I was sure I was safe. I got so mad I took out my glass eye, handed it to him and said, 'Try this.' I got such a laugh you wouldn't believe." Falk's first stage appearance was at the age of 12 in The Pirates of Penzance at Camp High Point in upstate New York, where one of his camp counselors was Ross Martin (they would later act together in The Great Race and the Columbo episode "Suitable For Framing"). Falk attended Ossining High School in Westchester County, New York, where he was a star athlete and president of his senior class. After graduating from high school in 1945, Falk briefly attended Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, and then tried to join the armed services as World War II was drawing to a close. Rejected because of his glass eye, he joined the United States Merchant Marine, and served as a cook and mess boy. "There they don't care if you're blind or not", Falk said in 1997. "The only one on a ship who has to see is the captain. And in the case of the Titanic, he couldn't see very well, either." Falk recalls this period in his autobiography: "A year on the water was enough for me, so I returned to college. I didn't stay long. Too itchy. What to do next? I signed up to go to Israel to fight in the war with Egypt. ... I just wanted more excitement ... However, the war, to everyone's amazement, was over in the blink of an eye." After a year and a half in the Merchant Marine, Falk returned to Hamilton College and also attended the University of Wisconsin. He transferred to the New School for Social Research in New York City, which awarded him a bachelor's degree in literature and political science in 1951. He then traveled in Europe and worked on a railroad in Yugoslavia for six months. He returned to New York, enrolling at Syracuse University, but he recalled in his 2006 memoir Just One More Thing that he was unsure what he wanted to do with his life for years after leaving high school. Falk obtained a Master of Public Administration degree at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University in 1953. The program was designed to train civil servants for the federal government, a career that Falk said in his memoir that he had "no interest in and no aptitude for." He applied for a job with the CIA, but was rejected because of his membership in the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union while serving in the Merchant Marine, even though he was required to join and was not active in the union. He then became a management analyst with the Connecticut State Budget Bureau in Hartford. Falk characterized his Hartford job as "efficiency expert". "I was such an efficiency expert that the first morning on the job, I couldn't find the building where I was to report for work", he said in 1997. "Naturally, I was late, which I always was in those days, but ironically it was my tendency never to be on time that got me started as a professional actor." Career Stage career While working in Hartford, Falk joined a community theater group called the Mark Twain Masquers, where he performed in plays that included The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, The Crucible, and The Country Girl by Clifford Odets. Falk also studied with Eva Le Gallienne, who was giving an acting class at the White Barn Theatre in Westport, Connecticut. Falk later recalled that he had "lied his way" into the class, which was for professional actors. He drove down to Westport from Hartford every Wednesday, when the classes were held, and was usually late. In his 1997 interview with Arthur Marx in Cigar Aficianado magazine, Falk said "One evening when I arrived late, she looked at me and asked, 'Young man, why are you always late?' and I said, 'I have to drive down from Hartford.'" She looked down her nose and said, "What do you do in Hartford? There's no theater there. How do you make a living acting?" Falk confessed he wasn't a professional actor. According to Falk, she looked at him sternly and said, "Well, you should be." He drove back to Hartford and quit his job. Falk stayed with the Le Gallienne group for a few months more, and obtained a letter of recommendation from Le Galliene to an agent at the William Morris Agency in New York. In 1956, he left his job with the Budget Bureau and moved to Greenwich Village to pursue an acting career. His first New York stage role was in an Off-Broadway production of Molière's Dom Juan at the Fourth Street Theatre that closed after its only performance on January 3, 1956. Falk played the second lead, Sganarelle. His next theater role proved far better for his career. In May he appeared at Circle in the Square in a revival of The Iceman Cometh with Jason Robards, playing the bartender. Falk made his Broadway debut also in 1956, appearing in Alexander Ostrovsky's Diary of a Scoundrel. As the year came to an end, he appeared again on Broadway as an English soldier in Shaw's Saint Joan, with Siobhán McKenna. In 1972, he appeared in Broadway's The Prisoner of Second Avenue. According to film historian Ephraim Katz, "His characters derive added authenticity from his squinty gaze, the result of the loss of an eye ..." Early films Despite his stage success, a theatrical agent advised Falk not to expect much film acting work because of his glass eye. He failed a screen test at Columbia Pictures and was told by studio boss Harry Cohn that "for the same price I can get an actor with two eyes." He also failed to get a role in the film Marjorie Morningstar despite a promising interview for the second lead. His first film performances were in small roles in Wind Across the Everglades (1958), The Bloody Brood (1959) and Pretty Boy Floyd (1960). Falk's performance in Murder, Inc. (1960) was a turning point in his career. He was cast in the supporting role of killer Abe Reles, in a film based on the real-life murder gang of that name, that had terrorized New York in the 1930s. The New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther, while dismissing the movie as "an average gangster film", singled out Falk's "amusingly vicious performance." Crowther wrote: Mr. Falk, moving as if weary, looking at people out of the corners of his eyes and talking as if he had borrowed Marlon Brando's chewing gum, seems a travesty of a killer, until the water suddenly freezes in his eyes and he whips an icepick from his pocket and starts punching holes in someone's ribs. Then viciousness pours out of him and you get a sense of a felon who is hopelessly cracked and corrupt. The film turned out to be Falk's breakout role. In his autobiography Just One More Thing (2006), Falk said that his selection for the film from thousands of other Off-Broadway actors was a "miracle" that "made my career", and that without it he would not have gotten the other significant movie roles that he later played. Falk, who played Reles again in the 1960 TV series The Witness, was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his performance in the film. Pocketful of Miracles (1961) In 1961, multiple Academy Award winning director Frank Capra cast Falk in the comedy Pocketful of Miracles. The film was Capra's last feature, and although it was not the commercial success he hoped it would be, he "gushed about Falk's performance.":217 Falk was nominated for an Oscar for his role. In his autobiography Capra writes about Falk: In Pocketful of Miracles "The entire production was agony ... except for Peter Falk. He was my joy, my anchor to reality. Introducing that remarkable talent to the techniques of comedy made me forget pains, tired blood, and maniacal hankerings to murder Glenn Ford (the film's star). Thank you Peter Falk.":480 For his part, Falk says that he "never worked with a director who showed greater enjoyment of actors and the acting craft." Falk says, "There is nothing more important to an actor than to know that the one person who represents the audience to you, the director, is responding well to what you are trying to do." Falk recalled one time that Capra reshot a scene even though he yelled "Cut and Print", indicating the scene was finalized. When Falk asked him why he wanted it reshot, "he laughed and said that he loved the scene so much he just wanted to see us do it again. How's that for support!":217 For the remainder of the 1960s Falk had mainly small movie roles and TV guest-starring appearances. He had a role in the epic 1963 comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, a star-studded adventure that saw him playing a cop-hating cab driver who gets caught up in the hilarity. Other roles included a comical crook in the 1964 Rat Pack film, Robin and the 7 Hoods, and the 1965 spoof The Great Race, with Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis. Early television roles Falk first appeared on television in 1957, in the dramatic anthology programs that later became known as the "Golden Age of Television." He appeared in one episode of Robert Montgomery Presents in 1957, and also appeared in Studio One, Kraft Television Theater, New York Confidential, Naked City, Have Gun–Will Travel and Decoy. In 1961, Falk was nominated for an Emmy Award for his performance in the episode "Cold Turkey" of James Whitmore's short-lived series The Law and Mr. Jones on ABC. On September 29, 1961, Falk and Walter Matthau guest-starred in the premiere episode, "The Million Dollar Dump," of ABC's crime drama Target: The Corruptors!, with Stephen McNally. He won an Emmy for The Price of Tomatoes, a Dick Powell TV drama in 1962. Falk's first television series was in the title role of the drama The Trials of O'Brien, in which he played a lawyer. The show ran in 1965 and 1966 and was cancelled after 22 episodes. In 1971, Pierre Cossette produced the first Grammy Awards show on television with some help from Falk. Cossette writes in his autobiography, "What meant the most to me, though, is the fact that Peter Falk saved my ass. I love show business, and I love Peter Falk." Columbo Although Falk appeared in numerous other television roles in the 1960s and 1970s, he is best known as the star of the TV series Columbo, "everyone's favorite rumpled television detective", writes historian David Fantle. His character was a shabby and ostensibly absent-minded police detective lieutenant, who had first appeared in the 1968 film Prescription: Murder. Falk described his role to Fantle: "Columbo has a genuine mistiness about him. It seems to hang in the air ... [and] he's capable of being distracted ... Columbo is an ass-backwards Sherlock Holmes. Holmes had a long neck, Columbo has no neck; Holmes smoked a pipe, Columbo chews up six cigars a day.":216 Television critic Ben Falk adds that Falk "created an iconic cop ... who always got his man (or woman) after a tortuous cat-and-mouse investigation." He notes also that the idea for the character was "apparently inspired by Dostoyevsky's dogged police inspector, Porfiry Petrovich, in the novel Crime and Punishment. Falk tries to analyze the character and notes the correlation between his own personality and Columbo's: "I'm a Virgo Jew, and that means I have an obsessive thoroughness. It's not enough to get most of the details, it's necessary to get them all. I've been accused of perfectionism. When Lew Wasserman (head of Universal Studios) said that Falk is a perfectionist, I don't know whether it was out of affection or because he felt I was a monumental pain in the ass.":216 With "general amazement", Falk notes that "the show is all over the world". He added, "I've been to little villages in Africa with maybe one TV set, and little kids will run up to me shouting, 'Columbo, Columbo!'" Singer Johnny Cash recalled acting in one episode, and although he was not an experienced actor, he writes in his autobiography, "Peter Falk was good to me. I wasn't at all confident about handling a dramatic role, and every day he helped me in all kinds of little ways." The debut episode in 1971 was directed by 25-year-old Steven Spielberg in one of his earliest directing roles. Falk recalled the episode to Spielberg biographer Joseph McBride: "Let's face it, we had some good fortune at the beginning. Our debut episode, in 1971, was directed by this young kid named Steven Spielberg. I told the producers, Link and Levinson, This guy is too good for Columbo ... Steven was shooting me with a long lens from across the street. That wasn't common twenty years ago. The comfort level it gave me as an actor, besides its great look artistically — well, it told you that this wasn't any ordinary director." The character of Columbo had previously been played by Bert Freed in a single TV episode and by Thomas Mitchell on Broadway. Falk first played Columbo in Prescription: Murder, a 1968 TV-movie, and from 1971 to 1978 Columbo aired regularly on NBC as part of the umbrella series NBC Mystery Movie. All episodes were of TV-movie length, in a 90 or 120 minutes slot including commercials. The show returned on ABC in the form of a less frequent series of TV-movies, still starring Falk, from 1989 until 2003. Falk won four Emmys for his role in Columbo. The series was so popular that co-creator William Link wrote a series of short stories published as The Columbo Collection (Crippen & Landru, 2010) which includes a drawing by Falk of himself as Columbo, and the cover features a caricature of Falk/Columbo by Al Hirschfeld. Later career Falk was a close friend of independent film director John Cassavetes and appeared in Cassavetes' films Husbands, A Woman Under the Influence, and, in a cameo, at the end of Opening Night. Cassavetes, in turn, guest-starred in the Columbo episode "Étude in Black" in 1972. Falk describes his experiences working with Cassavetes, and specifically remembers his directing strategies such as "shooting an actor when he might be unaware the camera was running." "You never knew when the camera might be going. And it was never: 'Stop. Cut. Start again.' John would walk in the middle of a scene and talk, and though you didn't realize it, the camera kept going. So I never knew what the hell he was doing. [Laughs] But he ultimately made me, and I think every actor, less self-conscious, less aware of the camera than anybody I've ever worked with." In 1978, he appeared on the comedy TV show Dean Martin Celebrity Roast, where Frank Sinatra was the evening's victim. Falk continued to work in films, including his performance as a questionable ex-CIA agent of dubious sanity in the comedy The In-Laws. Director Arthur Hiller said during an interview that the "film started out because Alan Arkin and Peter Falk wanted to work together. They went to Warner's and said, 'We'd like to do a picture,' and Warner's said fine ... and out came The In-laws ... of all the films I've done, The In-laws is the one I get the most comments on."[1]:290 Movie critic Roger Ebert compared the film with a later remake: "Peter Falk and Alan Arkin in the earlier film, versus Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks this time ... yet the chemistry is better in the earlier film. Falk goes into his deadpan lecturer mode, slowly and patiently explaining things that sound like utter nonsense. Arkin develops good reasons for suspecting he is in the hands of a madman." He also appeared in The Princess Bride, and (as himself) in Wim Wenders' 1987 film Wings of Desire and its 1993 sequel, Faraway, So Close!. In 1998, Falk returned to the New York stage to star in an Off-Broadway production of Arthur Miller's Mr. Peters' Connections. His previous stage work included shady real estate salesman Shelley "the Machine" Levine in a Boston/Los Angeles production of David Mamet's prizewinning Glengarry Glen Ross. Falk also starred in such holiday television movies as A Town Without Christmas (2001), Finding John Christmas (2003) and When Angels Come to Town (2004). In 2005, he starred in The Thing About My Folks. Although movie critic Roger Ebert was not impressed with most of the other actors, he writes in his review, " ... we discover once again what a warm and engaging actor Peter Falk is. I can't recommend the movie, but I can be grateful that I saw it, for Falk." In 2007, Falk appeared with Nicolas Cage in the thriller Next. Personal life Falk married Alyce Mayo, whom he had met when they were both students at Syracuse University, on April 17, 1960. They adopted two daughters, Catherine (who is a private investigator) and Jackie. They divorced in 1976. On December 7, 1977, Falk married actress Shera Danese, who guest-starred on the Columbo series on numerous occasions. Falk was an accomplished artist, in October 2006 he had an exhibition of his artwork at the Butler Institute of American Art. He took classes at the Art Students League of New York for many years. Examples of his sketches can be seen on his official website. Falk was also a chess aficionado and was a spectator at the American Open in Santa Monica, California, in November 1972, and at the U.S. Open in Pasadena, California, in August 1983. His memoir, Just One More Thing, was published by Carroll & Graf on August 23, 2006 (ISBN 978-0786717958). Of death, he once said: "It is just the gateway." Failing health and death At a two-day conservatorship trial in Los Angeles in June 2009, one of Falk's personal physicians, Dr. Stephen Read, reported Falk rapidly slipped into dementia after a series of dental operations in 2007. Dr. Read said it was unclear whether Falk's condition had worsened as a result of anesthesia or some other reaction to the operations. He went on to add that Falk's condition was so bad he could no longer remember the character of Columbo. Shera Danese Falk was appointed as her husband's conservator. Falk died at his Beverly Hills home on June 23, 2011, at the age of 83. According to his daughter, Catherine Falk, the actor had been suffering from dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Falk was survived by his wife and two daughters. Filmography Film 1959 The Bloody Brood Nico 1960 Murder Inc. Abe Reles Nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor The Secret of the Purple Reef Tom Weber 1961 Pocketful of Miracles Joy Boy Nominated again for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor 1962 Pressure Point Young Psychiatrist 1963 The Balcony Police Chief It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Cab Driver 1964 Robin and the 7 Hoods Guy Gisborne Attack and Retreat (Italiani brava gente) Medic Italian production 1965 The Great Race Max 1966 Penelope Lieutenant Horatio Bixbee Too Many Thieves Danny 1967 Luv Milt Manville 1968 Anzio Corporal Jack Rabinoff Alternative titles: The Battle of Anzio, Lo Sbarco di Anzio (Italian) 1969 Machine Gun McCain Charlie Adamo Alternative titles: For a Price, Gli intoccabili (Italian) Castle Keep Sergeant Rossi 1970 Husbands Archie Black Directed by John Cassavetes 1974 A Woman Under the Influence Nick Longhetti Directed by John Cassavetes 1976 Murder by Death Sam Diamond Mikey and Nicky Mikey Griffin and Phoenix: A Love Story Geoffrey Griffin 1977 Opening Night Cameo appearence Directed by John Cassavetes 1978 The Brink's Job Tony Pino The Cheap Detective Lou Peckinpaugh Alternative title: Neil Simon's The Cheap Detective Scared Straight! Himself - Host Documentary; directed by Arnold Shapiro 1979 The In-Laws Vincent J. Ricardo 1981 …All the Marbles Harry Sears Alternative title: The California Dolls "The Great Muppet Caper" Tramp (uncredited) 1986 Big Trouble Steve Rickey Directed by John Cassavetes 1987 The Princess Bride Grandfather/Narrator Happy New Year Nick Directed by John G. Avildsen Wings of Desire Himself Directed by Wim Wenders 1988 Vibes Harry Buscafusco Alternative title: Vibes: The Secret of the Golden Pyramids 1989 Cookie Dominick "Dino" Capisco 1990 Tune in Tomorrow Pedro Carmichael Alternative title: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter 1993 Faraway, So Close! Himself Directed by Wim Wenders 1995 Roommates Rocky Holzcek 1998 Money Kings Vinnie Glynn 2001 Made Max Corky Romano Francis A. "Pops" Romano Alternative title: Corky Romano: 'Special' Agent 2002 Undisputed Mendy Ripstein 2004 Shark Tale Don Feinberg Voice 2005 The Thing About My Folks Sam Kleinman 2005 Checking Out Morris Applebaum 2007 Next Irv 2008 American Cowslip Father Randolph Television Year Show Role Notes 1958 Kraft Suspense Theatre Izzy 1 episode 1959 Decoy Fred Dana 1 episode 1960 Have Gun–Will Travel Waller 1 episode The Untouchables Duke Mullen 1 episode, "The Underworld Bank" 1961 The Twilight Zone Ramos Clemente 1 episode "The Mirror" The Barbara Stanwyck Show Joe 1 episode, "The Assassin" 1962 The New Breed Lopez 1 episode 1963 Wagon Train Gus Morgan 1 episode 1964 Ben Casey Dr. Jimmy Reynolds 2 episodes 1965–1966 The Trials of O'Brien Daniel O'Brien 22 episodes 1968 A Hatful of Rain Polo Pope 1 episode 1968–2003 Columbo Lieutenant Columbo 69 episodes 1971 The Name of the Game Lewis Corbett 1 episode 1978 Dean Martin Celebrity Roast (comedy) Guest appearance with Frank Sinatra — Watch 1995 The Sunshine Boys Willie Clark Television movie 2001 The Lost World Reverend Theo Kerr Television movie 2001 A Town Without Christmas Max Television Movie 2003 Finding John Christmas Max Television movie 2004 When Angels Come To Town Max Television Movie

Johnathan Southworth "John" Ritter (September 17, 1948 – September 11, 2003) was an American actor, voice over artist and comedian perhaps best known for playing Jack Tripper and Paul Hennessy in the ABC sitcoms Three's Company and 8 Simple Rules, respectively. Don Knotts called him the "Greatest physical comedian on the planet". Ritter's final films Bad Santa, Clifford's Really Big Movie and Stanley's Dinosaur Round-Up were all dedicated in his memory. Early life John Ritter was born in Burbank, California, the son of Dorothy Fay, an actress, and singing cowboy/matinee-star Tex Ritter. He attended Hollywood High School, where he was Student Body President. He went on to the University of Southern California, where he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI) fraternity, and majored in psychology and minored in architecture. In 1966 at the age of 18, John was a contestant on "The Dating Game". While still in college, John traveled to England, Scotland, Holland and Germany to perform in plays. After his 1970 graduation from University of Southern California his first TV acting experience was a campus revolutionary in the TV series, "Dan August". This show starred Burt Reynolds and Norman Fell. In 1971 John got his first movie "The Barefoot Executive". John had quite a few TV show guest appearances, as well Hawaii Five-O, The Streets of San Francisco, M*A*S*H, Kojak. Early television career The Waltons John Ritter was on The Waltons from October 26, 1972 to December 23, 1976 as Rev. Matthew Fordwick and in all John Ritter was on eighteen episodes. He was not a regular weekly cast member as a result he could have other obligations until the end of December 1976 when he bid the Waltons farewell for more permanent role on Three's Company. Three's Company Ritter headlined several stage performances before he was made a star by appearing in the hit sitcom Three's Company (the Americanized version of the 1970s British Thames Television series Man About the House) in 1977, playing a single ladies' man and culinary student, Jack Tripper, who lives with two female roommates. The females originally were Janet Wood (Joyce DeWitt) and Chrissy Snow (Suzanne Somers). While in later years Janet remained, Chrissy left and other characters replaced her tenancy, including Chrissy's cousin, Cindy (Jenilee Harrison), and unrelated roommate, Terri Alden (Priscilla Barnes). Jack pretended to be gay to keep the landlords appeased over their living arrangements. The show spent several seasons near the top of the TV ratings in the U.S. before ending in 1984. Ritter went on for one more year on the spin-off Three's a Crowd. The original series has been seen continuously in reruns and is also available on DVD. During the run of the show, he appeared in the feature films Hero at Large, Americathon, and They All Laughed. In 1978, he played Ringo Starr's manager on the television special Ringo, and in 1982, played the voice of Peter Dickinson in Flight of Dragons. Hooperman Hooperman was John's next TV series and it aired from 1987 to 1989. In the show John played Detective Harry Hooperman who inherits a run down apartment building in need of help. He hires Susan Smith Debrah Farentino. A relationship follows and Hooperman must juggle work, love, plus the antics of Bijoux the dog. John was nominated for both an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his work on Hooperman in 1988. However, he never won an Emmy or a Golden Globe yet he did win a People's Choice Award for this role. Hearts Afire In 1992-95 Ritter returned to TV for 3 seasons as John Hartman, aide to the Senator in "Hearts Afire". This series starred Markie Post as Georgie Anne Lahti and Billy Bob Thorton as Billy Bob Davis. Film career After his time on TV he appeared in a number of movies, most notably Problem Child and its first sequel. He appeared in the Oscar-winning Sling Blade (playing a gay, kindhearted discount store manager) and Noises Off and played the lead role in Blake Edwards' 1989 film Skin Deep. He starred with Markie Post in the early-1990s sitcom, Hearts Afire, and in the 1980s police comedy-drama Hooperman. He starred in many made-for-TV movies, including Gramps (1995), co-starring with Andy Griffith, Stephen King's It, Danielle Steel's Heartbeat with Polly Draper, and It Came From the Sky in 1999 with Yasmine Bleeth, and made guest appearances on TV shows, such as Ally McBeal, Scrubs, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He also provided the voice of the title character in the PBS animated children's show Clifford the Big Red Dog, a role for which he received two Emmy nominations. He starred alongside kickboxing actor Olivier Gruner for the buddy cop film Mercenary. Stage Plays He played Claude Pichon in The Dinner Party (2000) at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway, which was written by Neil Simon. It ran for three hundred and sixty-four performances. Ritter won the Theatre World Award in 2001 for his performance in that work. Later career 8 Simple Rules In 2002, he made a TV comeback with the ABC family sitcom 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter (later retitled 8 Simple Rules following his death). Final Works His final live action film appearance was as the store manager in Bad Santa (2003), starring personal friend Billy Bob Thornton and Bernie Mac. Ritter's last film Clifford's Really Big Movie was as his title character Clifford the Big Red Dog and released seven months after his death. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6631 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood. Personal life He married twice, first to actress Nancy Morgan (married 1977 – divorced 1996) and then to actress Amy Yasbeck (married 1999 – his death). Yasbeck had played variously his wife and love interest in the first two Problem Child movies. Yasbeck also played Ritter's wife in two sitcom appearances. In 1991, both were guest stars on The Cosby Show, where Yasbeck played the in-labor wife of Ritter's basketball coach character. In 1996, Ritter guest starred on Yasbeck's sitcom, Wings, as the estranged husband of Yasbeck's character, Casey. Ritter and Morgan had three children: Carly, Tyler, and Jason. He and Yasbeck had one daughter, Stella. Death On September 11, 2003, Ritter felt ill while rehearsing scenes for the second season of 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter. He was taken across the street to Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center, where he died later that evening, at approximately 10:45 pm PST. He was 54 years old, six days short of his 55th birthday. This was also the birthday of Ritter's then five-year-old daughter Stella. The cause of his death was an aortic dissection caused by a previously undiagnosed congenital heart defect. His father Tex Ritter had died of a heart attack almost thirty years earlier. Years later, Ritter's widow Amy Yasbeck testified in court that he had concerns for his own health because of the cause of his father's death. Ritter was interred at Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles. His mother died less than two months later. Following his death, Yasbeck filed a $67 million wrongful death suit against radiologist Dr. Matthew Lotysch and cardiologist Dr. Joseph Lee. She accused Lee, who treated Ritter on the day of his death, of misdiagnosing his condition as a heart attack, and Lotysch, who had given him a full-body scan two years earlier, of failing at that time to detect an enlargement of Ritter's aorta. "Both sides agree that his true condition—an aortic dissection, which is a tear in the largest blood vessel in the body—was not identified until right before his death." The trial began on February 11, 2008, in Los Angeles County Superior Court. On March 14, 2008, the defendants were found not responsible for Ritter's death by a jury vote of 9–3. The family already has received more than $14 million in settlements, according to court records, including $9.4 million from Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, where he died. Response and legacy Many of Ritter's co-workers expressed deep sorrow and heartbreak following the news of his death. Suzanne Somers expressed immense despair for Ritter's family, "I'm so sad for the family. We lost a good one, it was so unfinished." Zach Braff, who worked with Ritter on Scrubs called Ritter a "comic hero" of his and immediately approached series creator Bill Lawrence to get Ritter to play his TV-dad. Katey Sagal testified in the wrongful death lawsuit, calling Ritter a "funny man who was funny like nobody's business". 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter was later retitled 8 Simple Rules following Ritter's death and continued for two more seasons until its cancellation on May 17, 2005. Ritter's character, Paul Hennessy, was said to have died after collapsing in a grocery store while buying milk. ABC aired the first three episodes of the show's second season that had been taped before his death. The remainder of the show dealt with the family trying to grapple with Paul's death. New male characters, played by James Garner and David Spade, were later added as the main cast. Shortly before his death, Ritter did a week-long taping with Hollywood Squares, which was aired as a tribute to him, introduced by Henry Winkler, the executive producer of the show and very close friend of Ritter's. In 2004, Ritter was posthumously given an Emmy nomination for playing Paul Hennessey in 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, but lost to Kelsey Grammer for playing the title character of Frasier. Upon accepting his trophy, Grammer's remarks included comments made in tribute and remembrance of Ritter. His last films, Bad Santa and Clifford's Really Big Movie, along with an episode of Scrubs (His character in this series died as well following Ritter's real life death) and King of the Hill, were dedicated in his memory. On June 6, 2008, a mural of Ritter painted by Eloy Torrez was dedicated at Hollywood High School. In March 2010, the Thoracic Aortic Disease (TAD) Coalition, in partnership with Yasbeck, and the John Ritter Foundation, announced the creation of the Ritter Rules. The purpose of the charity is to help raise awareness among all of the public about aortic dissection so they can reduce their risk of the same kind of tragedy that took the life of Ritter. Yasbeck has been working with the University of Texas Medical School at Houston Team, identifying genes that may lead to an aortic aneurysm. Those included in the study are all four of Ritter's children, which are collected by a saliva sample along with many other samples. Yasbeck is certain that once these genes are identifiable, such a tragedy should not repeat itself. Filmography 1971 The Barefoot Executive Roger his film debut Scandalous John Wandell 1972 The Other Rider 1973 The Stone Killer Officer Mort 1976 Nickelodeon Franklin Frank 1978 Breakfast in Bed Paul 1979 Americathon President Chet Roosevelt 1980 Hero at Large Steve Nichols Wholly Moses! Satan (The Devil) 1981 They All Laughed Charles Rutledge 1982 The Flight of Dragons Peter Dickenson Voice Direct-to-video 1986 A Smoky Mountain Christmas Judge Harold Benton (uncredited) 1987 Real Men Bob Wilson/Agent Pillbox, CIA 1989 Skin Deep Zachary 'Zach' Hutton 1990 Problem Child 'Little' Ben Healy 1990 IT Ben Hanscom 1991 The Real Story of O Christmas Tree Piney Voice Direct-to-Video Problem Child 2 Ben Healy 1992 Noises Off Garry Lejeune/Roger Tramplemain Stay Tuned Roy Knable 1993 Danielle Steel's Heartbeat Bill Grant 1994 North Ward Nelson 1995 The Colony Rick Knowlton 1996 Sling Blade Vaughan Cunningham 1997 Nowhere Moses Helper A Gun, a Car, a Blonde Duncan/The Bartender Hacks Hank 1998 Montana Dr. Wexler Shadow of Doubt Steven Mayer I Woke Up Early the Day I Died Robert Forrest Bride of Chucky Police Chief Warren Kincaid 2000 Panic Dr. Josh Parks Lost in the Perishing Point Hotel Christian Therapist Tripfall Tom Williams Terror Tract Bob Carter Segment: Make Me an Offer 2001 Nuncrackers Narrator Direct-to-video 2002 Tadpole Stanley Grubman Man of the Year Bill 2003 Manhood Eli Bad Santa Bob Chipeska Posthumously released 2004 Clifford's Really Big Movie Clifford the Big Red Dog Voice Posthumously released 2006 Stanley's Dinosaur Round-Up Great Uncle Stew Voice Direct-to-video, posthumously released Television 1967 The Dating Game Bachelor Number Three 1968 Crazy World, Crazy People Various Characters TV special 1970 Dan August Episode: "Quadrangle for Death" 1971, 1977 Hawaii Five-O Ryan Moore Mike Welles Episodes: "Two Doves and Mr. Heron" "Dealer's Choice--Blackmail" 1972–1976 The Waltons Rev. Matthew Fordwick 18 episodes 1973 Medical Center Ronnie Episode: "End of the Line" Bachelor-at-Law Ben Sykes Unsold CBS TV pilot M*A*S*H Pvt. Carter Episode: "Deal Me Out" 1974 Kojak Kenny Soames Episode: "Deliver Us Some Evil" Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law Greg Episode: "To Keep and Bear Arms" The Bob Newhart Show Dave Episode: "Sorry, Wrong Mother" 1975 Movin' On Casey Episode: "Landslide" Mannix Cliff Elgin Episode: "Hardball" The Bob Crane Show Hornbeck Episode: "Son of the Campus Capers" Petrocelli John Oleson Episode: "Chain of Command" Barnaby Jones Joe Rockwell Episode: "The Price of Terror" The Streets of San Francisco John 'Johnny' Steiner Episode: "Murder by Proxy" The Night That Panicked America Walter Wingate ABC TV film The Mary Tyler Moore Show Reverend Chatfield Episode: "Ted's Wedding" The Rookies Hap Dawson Episode: "Reluctant Hero" 1975, 1976 Rhoda Vince Mazuma Jerry Blocker Episodes: "Chest Pains" "Attack on Mr. Right" 1976 Starsky and Hutch Tom Cole Episode: "The Hostages" Phyllis Paul Jameson Episode: "The New Job" 1976–1984 Three's Company Jack Tripper 174 episodes 1977 , 1983 The Love Boat Dale Riley/Reinhardt Episodes: "A Oh Dale..." "Japan Cruise...(1)" "Japan Cruise...(2)" 1978 Ringo Marty TV film Leave Yesterday Behind Paul Stallings ABC TV film 1979 The Ropers Jack Tripper Episode: "The Party" 1980 The Associates Chick Episode: "The Censors" The Comeback Kid Bubba Newman ABC TV film 1981 Insight Frankie Episode: "Little Miseries" 1982 Pray TV Tom McPherson ABC TV film In Love with an Older Woman Robert CBS TV film 1983 Sunset Limousine Alan O'Black CBS TV film 1984 Love Thy Neighbor Danny Loeb ABC TV film Pryor's Place Episode: "The Showoff" 1984–1985 Three's a Crowd Jack Tripper 22 episodes 1985 Letting Go Alex ABC TV film 1986 Living Seas Host NBC TV film Unnatural Causes Frank Coleman NBC TV film A Smoky Mountain Christmas Judge Harold Benton ABC film Life With Lucy Himself Guest Appearance 1987 The Last Fling Phillip Reed ABC TV film Prison for Children David Royce CBS TV film 1987–1989 Hooperman Det. Harry Hooperman 42 episodes 1988 Mickey's 60th Birthday Dudley Goode TV special Tricks of the Trade Donald Todsen Cameo CBS TV film 1989 My Brother's Wife Barney ABC TV film 1990 Stephen King's It Adult Ben 'Haystack' Hanscom ABC TV film The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story L. Frank Baum NBC TV film 1991 The Cosby Show Ray Evans Episode: "Total Control" The Summer My Father Grew Up Paul NBC TV film Anything But Love Patrick Serreau Episodes: "Say it Again, Han" "Martus Interruptus" "Hello...Mali" "Stop Me Before I...Again (1)" "Stop Me Before I...Again (2)" 1992 Fish Police Inspector Gill Voice 1992–1994 Hearts Afire John Hartman 54 episodes 1993 Heartbeat Bill Grant NBC TV film The Only Way Out Jeremy Carlisle ABC TV film The Larry Sanders Show Himself Episode: "Off Camera" 1994 Dave's World John Hartman Episode: "Please Won't You Be My Neighbor" 1995 Gramps Clarke MacGruder NBC TV film The Colony Rick Knowlton TV film NewsRadio Dr. Frank Westford Episode: "The Shrink" 1996 Totally Animals Host TV special Unforgivable Paul Hegstrom CBS TV film Wings Stuart Davenport Episode: "Love Overboard" For Hope Date #5 uncredited ABC TV film The World's Greatest Magic III Host TV special 1996, 1999 Touched by an Angel Mike O'Connor Tom McKinsley Episodes: "Random Acts" "Black Like Monica" 1997 Loss of Faith Bruce Simon Barker TV film Mercenary Jonas Ambler HBO TV film A Child's Wish Ed Chandler CBS TV film Dead Man's Gun Harry McDonacle Segment: "The Great McDonacle" Over the Top Justin Talbot Episode: "The Nemesis" Buffy the Vampire Slayer Ted Buchanan Episode: "Ted" The World's Greatest Magic IV Host TV special 1997, 2000, 2003 King of the Hill Eugene Grandy Episodes: "The Son that Got Away" "What Makes Bobby Run?" "The Witches of East Arlen" "Stressed for Success" 1998 Chance of a Lifetime Tom Maguire CBS TV film Ally McBeal George Madison Episode: "It's My Party" "The Story of Love" The World's Greatest Magic V Host TV special Dead Husbands Dr. Carter Elston TV film 1999 Veronica's Closet Tim Episode: "Veronica's Favorite Year" Holy Joe Joe Cass CBS TV film It Came from the Sky Donald Bridges TV film Lethal Vows Dr. David Farris CBS TV film 2000 Chicago Hope Joe Dysmerski Episode: "Simon Sez" Batman Beyond Dr. David Wheeler Voice Episode: "The Last Resort" Family Law Father Andrews Episode: "Possession is Nine Tenths of the Law" 2000–2003 Hollywood Squares Himself Guest panelist until 2002, when he became a regular panelist. 2000–2003 Clifford the Big Red Dog Clifford Voice 2000, 2001, 2002 Felicity Mr. Andrew Covington 7 episodes 2001 Tucker Marty Episode: "Homewrecker for the Holidays" 2002 The Ellen Show Percy Moss Episode: "Gathering Moss" Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Dr. Richard Manning Episode: "Monogamy" Breaking News Lloyd Fuchs Episode: "Pilot" Scrubs Sam Dorian Episodes: "My Old Man" "My Lucky Day" 2002–2003 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter Paul Hennessey 31 episodes Awards and nominations Chlotrudis Awards 1997: Nominated, "Best Supporting Actor" – Sling Blade DVD Exclusive Awards 2003: Nominated, "Best Audio Commentary, Library Release" – High Noon (shared w/Maria Copper & Tim Zinnemann) Daytime Emmy Awards 2001: Nominated, "Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program" – Clifford the Big Red Dog 2002: Nominated, "Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program" – Clifford the Big Red Dog 2003: Nominated, "Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program" – Clifford the Big Red Dog 2004: Nominated, "Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program" – Clifford the Big Red Dog Emmy Awards 1978: Nominated, "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series" – Three's Company 1981: Nominated, "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series" – Three's Company 1984: Won, "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series" – Three's Company 1988: Nominated, "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series" – Hooperman 1999: Nominated, "Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series" – Ally McBeal 2004: Nominated, "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series" – 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter Golden Globe Awards 1979: Nominated, "Best TV Actor in a Musical/Comedy" – Three's Company 1980: Nominated, "Best TV Actor in a Musical/Comedy" – Three's Company 1984: Won, "Best TV Actor in a Musical/Comedy" – Three's Company 1987: Nominated, "Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television" – Unnatural Causes 1988: Nominated, "Best TV Actor in a Musical/Comedy" – Hooperman People's Choice Awards 1988: Won, "Favorite Male Performer in a New TV Program" – Hooperman Screen Actors Guild Awards 1997: Nominated, "Outstanding Performance by a Cast" – Sling Blade (shared w/co-stars) Hollywood Walk of Fame 1983: "Star on the Walk of Fame" – 6627 Hollywood Boulevard; he and Tex Ritter were the first father-and-son pair to be so honored in different categories. Trivia: John Ritter played the role of "Dad" in the music video of "Innocent Eyes" by Graham Nash released off the album of the same name in 1986. The video centres around the theme of eternal youth and the characters proceed to dance at a Graham Nash concert.

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