Allan Rich
Allan Rich could have easily quit acting when his liberal beliefs got him blacklisted during Hollywood's shameful Red Scare. He instead reinvented himself as a successful stock broker-turned-respected-art-gallery-owner before returning to his first career love. Rich started acting onstage alongside storied performers like Edward G. Robinson, Milton Berle, and Henry Fonda. Blacklisted for allegedly being a Communist sympathizer, the New York native turned to Wall Street, where within five years he had opened his own brokerage firm and started collecting fine art. After opening Allen Rich Galleries on Madison Avenue, he returned to the stage alongside Dustin Hoffman in Ron Ribman's "Journey of the Fifth Horse." Rich made his film debut with a juicy role as D.A. Herman Tauber in the 1973 biopic "Serpico" with Al Pacino. When scenes of his were shown on the Academy Awards broadcast, the entrepreneurial thespian took out ads in various Hollywood trade papers, landed an agent, and started earning roles in film and television at a brisk rate. With his stentorian voice and no-nonsense demeanor, Rich wound up playing authority figures ranging from judges ("Kojak," "Hill Street Blues") and doctors ("Night Court," "Jack") to Nazis ("Eating Raoul") and professors ("Happy Days"). Along with major roles playing a 1950s television exec in "Quiz Show" and Demi Moore's attorney in "Disclosure," Rich has also taught acting and summed up his philosophy in the 2007 book "A Leap From the Method." Allan Rich died of complications of dementia on August 22, 2020. He was 94.
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Allan Rich
Filmography
Movies
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45% |
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Wish I Was Here | Rabbi Twersky (Character) | $3.6M | 2014 |
40% |
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The Last Word | Unknown (Character) | - | 2008 |
47% |
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Man in the Chair | Speed (Character) | - | 2007 |
33% |
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Rise: Blood Hunter | Mr. Harrison (Character) | - | 2007 |
57% |
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Lies & Alibis | Klump (Character) | - | 2006 |
40% |
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Intoxicating | Micheal Reilly (Character) | - | 2004 |
50% |
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The Burial Society | Hy Leibowicz (Character) | $20.6K | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Skippy | Gordan Gates (Character) | - | 2001 |
50% | No Score Yet | The Dogwalker | Sam (Character) | $6.8K | 2000 |
No Score Yet |
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The Christmas Path | Unknown (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Malaika | Sal's Pizza Customer (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Miami Hustle | Stein (Character) | - | 1996 |
17% |
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Jack | Dr. Benfante (Character) | $58.6M | 1996 |
14% |
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Two Much | Reverend Larrabee (Character) | $1.1M | 1996 |
13% |
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The Rich Man's Wife | Bill Adolphe (Character) | $8.5M | 1996 |
No Score Yet |
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National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins | Ziggy Brillman (Character) | - | 1995 |
59% |
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Disclosure | Ben Heller (Character) | $81.3M | 1994 |
97% |
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Quiz Show | Robert Kintner (Character) | $24.8M | 1994 |
0% |
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Highlander II: The Quickening | Allan Neyman (Character) | $13.7M | 1991 |
68% |
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Guilty by Suspicion | Leonard Marks (Character) | $8.4M | 1991 |
No Score Yet |
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Dead On: Relentless II | Grazinsky (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet |
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Matters of the Heart | Boston official (Character) | - | 1990 |
62% |
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The Entity | Dr. Walcott (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ordeal of Bill Carney | Judge Stanley Mosk (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Leo and Loree | Jarvis (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet |
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Hero at Large | Marty Fields (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet |
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Gideon's Trumpet | Tobias Simon (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet |
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Voices | Montrose Meier (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Uncle Joe Shannon | Dr. Clark (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Terraces | Mr. Vogel (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Behind the Badge | Capt. Bullis (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Hostage Heart | Dr. Motzkin (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Scott Free | Max (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mallory: In Circumstantial Evidence | Judge Paul Pieter (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet |
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Strike Force | Police Commissioner (Character) | - | 1975 |
82% |
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The Gambler | Bernie (Character) | - | 1974 |
93% |
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Serpico | Dist. Atty. Herman Tauber (Character) | - | 1973 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 63% | 2 Broke Girls | Lou (Guest Star) | 2013 |
90% | 96% | House | Sidney (Guest Star) | 2010 |
92% | 90% | Curb Your Enthusiasm | Solly (Guest Star) | 2004 |
83% | 95% | NYPD Blue | Vasiliy Choushkin (Guest Star) | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Judging Amy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2000-2001 |
No Score Yet | 81% | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2000 |
No Score Yet | 73% | The Nanny | Pauly the Pawnbroker (Guest Star) | 1993 1995 1997 |
No Score Yet | 94% | The Golden Girls | Alexi (Guest Star) | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jake and the Fatman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trapper John, M.D. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1985-1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fall Guy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1985 |
97% | 85% | Hill Street Blues | Judge Maurice Schiller (Guest Star) | 1981-1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gimme a Break | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1983 |
81% | No Score Yet | Square Pegs | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Barney Miller | Leonard the Theatre Producer (Guest Star) | 1979 1981-1982 |
No Score Yet | 95% | Magnum, P.I. | Coluga (Guest Star) | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alice | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1978 1981 |
No Score Yet | 74% | Incredible Hulk | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | CHiPs | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Happy Days | Professor Thomas (Guest Star) | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Little House on the Prairie | Otto Ripley (Guest Star) | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kojak | Judge Walter Miller (Guest Star) | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rockford Files | Charles 'Pebbles' Runkin (Guest Star) | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Harry O | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | East Side/West Side | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963 |