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Judd Hirsch |
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JUDD HIRSCH twice honored with the coveted Tony Award on Broadway, is no newcomer to Herb Gardner's work. He started his stage career playing Murray Burns in Gardner's A Thousand Clowns, subsequently the movie of Mr. Gardner's play The Goodbye People and finally the author's 1992 production of Conversations With My Father, for which Mr. Hirsch won the Tony and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Actor. (His first Tony was for I'm Not Rappaport.) Last on Broadway, Mr. Hirsch was seen in Art, thence to London and finally the national tour. Mr. Hirsch made his Broadway debut in Barefoot in the Park and created the role of Matt Friedman in Lanford Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Talley's Folly, for which he was nominated for a Tony. On Broadway, he also starred in Chapter Two and played the multifaceted character of Wiseman in Jules Feiffer's Knock, Knock, for which he won a Drama Desk Award. Mr. Hirsch developed a production of Death of a Salesman, playing Willy Loman at the Manitoba Theatre Center in Winnipeg and at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto. He appeared Off-Broadway in a string of performances, including Bruce Jay Friedman's Scuba Duba, Jean-Claude Van Itallie's King of the United States, Lanford Wilson's Hot L Baltimore and Talley's Folly, before receiving an Obie Award for these achievements. Also Off-Broadway, he appeared in Chekhov's The Seagull and Richard Dresser's Below the Belt. He made his TV debut in the Emmy Award-winning movie The Law and has since headlined four TV series: Delvecchio, Taxi (two Emmy Awards), Dear John (Golden Globe Award) and George & Leo with Bob Newhart. Mr. Hirsch's film credits include King of the Gypsies, Ordinary People (Oscar nomination), Without a Trace, Teachers, Sidney Lumet's Running on Empty, Independence Day, Man on the Moon and most recently A Beautiful Mind directed by Ron Howard.
Bio as of February, 2008.
Working in the Theatre (video)
Performance - September, 1985
Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)
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