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Ron Leibman is a Actor American born on 11 october 1937 at New York City (USA)

Ron Leibman

Ron Leibman
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Nationality USA
Birth 11 october 1937 at New York City (USA)
Death 6 december 2019 (at 82 years)

Ron Leibman (born October 11, 1937) is an American actor. He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1993.

Biography

Leibman was born in New York City, New York, the son of Grace (née Marks) and Murray Leibman, who worked in the garment business. He graduated in 1958 from Ohio Wesleyan University. He has been married to actress Jessica Walter since 1983. He was previously married to actress Linda Lavin (1969–1981). He currently teaches at and used to chair the acting department at The New School in New York City.

Best films

Norma Rae (1979)
(Actor)
The Hot Rock (1972)
(Actor)

Usually with

Andy García
Andy García
(2 films)
Marvin Worth
Marvin Worth
(3 films)
Ellen Kuras
Ellen Kuras
(2 films)
Zach Braff
Zach Braff
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Ron Leibman (20 films)

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Actor

A Little Help, 1h49
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Jenna Fischer, Chris O'Donnell, Kim Coates, Robert Benedict, Lesley Ann Warren, Arden Myrin
Roles Warren Dunning
Rating55% 2.7988252.7988252.7988252.7988252.798825
Laura Pehlke (Jenna Fischer) is married to Bob (Chris O'Donnell) and together they raise their 12 year-old son Dennis (Daniel Yelsky). Laura is a dental hygienist and Bob works in a real estate office and comes home late. The family goes to a birthday barbecue of Laura's twin nieces. Laura suspects Bob is cheating on her and they get into a fight. She runs away from the house and Bob runs after her and suddenly falls on the road. After a brief examination the doctor says he had a panic attack. Later that night Laura tries to have sex with Bob and during a blowjob he has another stroke and he dies, later diagnosed as arrhythmia. Laura's sister, Kathy Helms (Brooke Smith) makes her go to a lawyer to discuss her economic state. The lawyer claims the only way to get along with the money they have is suing the doctor. Reluctantly, Laura cooperates. During the process Bob secretary admits having an affair with him.
Garden State, 1h42
Directed by Zach Braff
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about families
Actors Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Ian Holm, Jean Smart, George C. Wolfe
Roles Dr. Cohen
Rating73% 3.6986953.6986953.6986953.6986953.698695
Struggling actor Andrew Largeman (Braff) wakes up from a dream—in which he apathetically sits on a crashing plane—to a telephone message from his father (Holm), telling Andrew that he needs to return home because his mother has died.
Personal Velocity, 1h26
Directed by Rebecca Miller, Lady Day-Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Kyra Sedgwick, Parker Posey, Fairuza Balk, Wallace Shawn, Lou Taylor Pucci, Patti D'Arbanville
Roles Avram Herskowitz
Rating64% 3.2462453.2462453.2462453.2462453.246245
Personal Velocity is a tale of three women who have reached a turning point in their lives. Delia is a spirited, working-class woman from a small town in New York state who leaves her abusive husband and sets out on a journey to reclaim the power she has lost. Greta is a sharp, spunky editor who is rotten with ambition. To spite the hated unfaithful ways of her father, she has settled into a complacent relationship and is struggling (not too hard) with issues of fidelity to her kind but unexciting husband. Finally Paula, who ran away from home and got pregnant, is now in a relationship she doesn't want. She's a troubled young woman who takes off on a journey with a hitchhiker after a strange, fateful encounter on a New York street.
Auto Focus
Auto Focus (2002)
, 1h46
Directed by Paul Schrader
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about television, Films about pornography
Actors Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Rita Wilson, Maria Bello, Ed Begley Jr., Ron Leibman
Roles Lenny
Rating66% 3.34783.34783.34783.34783.3478
Disc-jockey-turned-actor Bob Crane develops a secret personal life, focusing on his relationship with John Henry Carpenter, an electronics expert involved with the nascent home video market.
Dummy
Dummy (2002)
, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Adrien Brody, Milla Jovovich, Illeana Douglas, Vera Farmiga, Jared Harris, Ron Leibman
Roles Lou Schoichet
Rating65% 3.2953353.2953353.2953353.2953353.295335
Steven Schoichet is a recently unemployed ne'er-do-well who has difficulty expressing himself. Steven finds he has a knack for ventriloquism. Steven's best friend is Fangora "Fanny" Gurkel, an aspiring punk rock singer who, along with Steven, is just looking for her niche. Eventually, Fanny takes a shine to klezmer music when she learns of an opportunity to get an actual gig. Through his newfound talent, Steven discovers that he is able to overcome his social problems through his dummy and decides to try impressing and winning the heart of Lorena Fanchetti.
Just the Ticket, 1h55
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Andy García, Andie MacDowell, Richard Bradford, Alice Drummond, Laura Harris, Fred Asparagus
Roles Barry the Book
Rating56% 2.8014852.8014852.8014852.8014852.801485
Gary Starke (Garcia) is a New York ticket scalper who, in the old traditional style of scalping "works the street", known as "the walk", as opposed to the plethora of modern-day ticket brokers who ply the Internet for sales. Yet when his girlfriend Linda (MacDowell) gets enough of his lifestyle and leaves him, he decides to mend his ways and make one last big score, something that will help him win Linda back and straighten out his life. He finds his chance in an epiphanic moment; an opportunity to scalp a large stack of tickets to see the hottest show in town --- the Pope at Yankee Stadium.
Don King: Only in America
Directed by John Herzfeld
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Ving Rhames, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Jeremy Piven, Lou Rawls, Darius McCrary, Keith David
Roles Harry Shondor
Rating69% 3.4940553.4940553.4940553.4940553.494055
Un portrait cinématographique du célèbre promoteur de combat et manager de boxe.
Night Falls on Manhattan, 1h54
Directed by Sidney Lumet
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes La corruption policière
Actors Andy García, Ian Holm, James Gandolfini, Lena Olin, Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Leibman
Roles Morgenstern
Rating65% 3.2973753.2973753.2973753.2973753.297375
Detectives Liam Casey (Ian Holm) and Joey Allegretto (James Gandolfini) are conducting a surveillance operation to apprehend Jordan Washington (Shiek Mahmud-Bey), a notorious drug dealer. On a tip from an informant, they venture into a building where Washington is presumed to be hiding. Washington preemptively fires a submachine gun through his front door, seriously wounding Casey. Police backup units arrive and swarm the building, but Washington executes a cunning escape in an NYPD squad car after murdering two police officers, while police officers mistakenly kill another one.
Rhinestone
Rhinestone (1984)
, 1h52
Directed by Bob Clark
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Sylvester Stallone, Dolly Parton, Richard Farnsworth, Ron Leibman, Tim Thomerson, Ritch Brinkley
Roles Freddie Ugo
Rating40% 2.007212.007212.007212.007212.00721
Jake Farris (Dolly Parton), a country singer stuck in a long-term contract performing at a sleazy urban cowboy nightclub in New York City, boasts to the club's manager, Freddie (Ron Leibman), that she can make anybody into a country sensation, insisting that she can turn any normal guy into a country singer in just two weeks. Freddie accepts Jake's bet, putting up the remainder of Jake's contract (if she wins the bet, the contract becomes void; if she loses, another five years will be added). He then ups the ante: if Jake loses, she must also sleep with him. The problem is that Freddie can select the man, and he selects an obnoxious New York cabbie named Nick Martinelli (Sylvester Stallone). Nick not only has no musical talent whatsoever, he claims to hate country music "worse than liver". Realizing she is stuck with Nick, Jake takes him back to the hills of Tennessee for a two-week crash course in how to walk, talk, and sing like a genuine country star.
Phar Lap
Phar Lap (1983)
, 1h47
Directed by Simon Wincer
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Horse sports in film
Actors Tom Burlinson, Ron Leibman, Judy Morris, Robert Grubb, Vincent Ball, Richard Morgan
Roles Dave Davis
Rating71% 3.595213.595213.595213.595213.59521
Phar Lap, known affectionately as "Bobby" by his strapper Tommy Woodcock (Burlinson), collapses and dies in Woodcock's arms, at Menlo Park in California, in 1932. The news is greeted with great sadness and anger in Australia. The remainder of the film is done as flashback.
Romantic Comedy, 1h43
Directed by Arthur Hiller
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Dudley Moore, Mary Steenburgen, Frances Sternhagen, Robyn Douglass, Ron Leibman, George Tyne
Roles Leo Jessup
Rating53% 2.655412.655412.655412.655412.65541
Jason Kramer is a popular New York City playwright in desperate need of a new writing partner who can provide him with inspiration. Phoebe Craddock is a small-town teacher who aspires to be a writer.
Zorro, The Gay Blade, 1h33
Directed by Peter Medak
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance, Western
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Superhero films, Films about disabilities, LGBT-related films, Personne sourde ou muette, Zorro, LGBT-related film
Actors George Hamilton, Lauren Hutton, Ron Leibman, Brenda Vaccaro, Donovan Scott, Clive Revill
Roles Captain Esteban
Rating61% 3.0985453.0985453.0985453.0985453.098545
Set in an indeterminate year of the 1840s, the film opens in a villa in Madrid, Spain, where Don Diego Vega (George Hamilton), the archetypal Spanish Don Juan, is in bed with a beautiful woman who, we learn shortly, is not his wife, but someone else's. The couple are caught by her husband, Garcia, who "is not in Barcelona", as they had previously thought. Diego, with considerable panache, fights Garcia and his five brothers with swords. During the fight, Diego's mute servant Paco (Donovan Scott) reads a letter (via gestures) from Diego's father requesting that Diego return to California [then a part of Mexico]. Diego and Paco escape by jumping from a high wall directly into a waiting carriage.
Up the Academy, 1h27
Directed by Robert Downey Sr.
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Superhero films
Actors Ron Leibman, Ralph Macchio, Tom Poston, King Coleman, Barbara Bach, Ian Wolfe
Roles Major Vaughn Liceman (uncredited)
Rating47% 2.3560052.3560052.3560052.3560052.356005
At the Sheldon R. Wienberg Academy, four young teens are sent to school and learn the discipline that the school teaches. Almost immediately, they don't like what is going on. Along the way, they plan their own actions from looking for girls to holding a party without the faculty's knowledge. The film's title comes from the fictitious academy itself.
Norma Rae
Norma Rae (1979)
, 1h50
Directed by Martin Ritt
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Feminist films, Films about the labor movement, Political films, Children's films
Actors Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle, Morgan Paull, Barbara Baxley
Roles Reuben
Rating72% 3.648243.648243.648243.648243.64824
Norma Rae Webster is a minimum-wage worker in a cotton mill that has taken too much of a toll on the health of her family for her to ignore their poor working conditions. After hearing a speech by a New York union organizer, Reuben Warshowsky, Norma Rae decides to join the effort to unionize her shop. This causes conflict at home when Norma Rae's husband, Sonny, says she's not spending enough time in the home.