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| Richard Zobel | |
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| Born | (1952-06-18)June 18, 1952 West Chester, Pennsylvania |
| Died | October 4, 2005(2005-10-04) (aged 53) |
| Occupation | Actor |
Richard Zobel (June 5, 1952 – October 4, 2005) was an American actor.
Zobel was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and moved to New York City for his acting career. His Off-Broadway credits included All's Well That Ends Well and The Taming of the Shrew in the New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park in 1978, and The Country Girl in 1984. He starred as Levinsky in the original Broadway run of Nuts in 1980. He appeared in small film roles, and had guest appearances in over a dozen television series including The X Files, ER, China Beach, and Hill Street Blues, from 1984 through 1999. He was also a singer and a musician. He acted and sang in, and was the vocal arranger for, the 1987 film Walker, and the 2008 making-of documentary about the film, Dispatches from Nicaragua, is dedicated to his memory.
He was a commentator in the 2004 documentary The Loss of Nameless Things, about seriously injured playwright Oakley Hall III, in whose first adaptations of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi (called Ubu Rex) Zobel had starred in as the title role, in New York City Off-Off-Broadway and at the Lexington Conservatory Theatre 1976–1977. Zobel also produced the play, and created the masks for it.
In 2000, Zobel co-founded Rubber Chicken Cards, which sells online greeting cards that combine voice-over acting with irreverent humor, with fellow actor Steven Rotblatt.
He died in October 2005 of cancer.
Partial filmography
- Once Upon a Time in America (1984) - Reporter 2
- Teachers (1984) - Propes
- Turk 182 (1985) - TV interviewer
- From the Hip (1987) - Matt Cowens
- Walker (1987) - Lemuel
- To Sleep with a Vampire (1993) - Cabby
- Warlock: The Armageddon (1993) - Barker
- Tall Tale (1995) - Barkeep
- Montana (1998) - Simms
Notes
- Richard Zobel at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
- Richard Zobel at the Internet Broadway Database
- ^ Independent Lens. The Loss of Nameless Things: The Players (page 2). PBS. Retrieved December 23, 2017.
- Rubber Chicken Cards: From the Beak. Archived June 28, 2009.
- "Who's behind the Best Electronic Greeting Cards?". RubberChickenCards.com. Retrieved December 23, 2017.
- Walker at AllMusic. Retrieved December 24, 2017.
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4478522/fullcredits
- Independent Lens. The Loss of Nameless Things: The Film. PBS. Retrieved December 23, 2017.
- Oakley Hall III (2010). Jarry and Me: The Autobiography of Alfred Jarry. Absintheur Press.
- Oakley Hall III. "UBU ROI by Alfred Jarry; Translated by Oakley Hall III" (Production Notes). Firlefanz-Gallery.com. Retrieved December 23, 2017.
- ^ Verrier, Richard. "Actor Plays His Cards Right". Los Angeles Times. July 5, 2006.
- Verrier, Richard. "Rubber Chicken Tickles the Funny Bone." The Standard. July 19, 2006.
External links
- Richard Zobel at IMDb
- Richard Zobel at the Internet Broadway Database
- Richard Zobel at the Internet Off-Broadway Database