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Allan Rich

Highest Rated: 97% Quiz Show (1994)

Lowest Rated: 0% Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)

Birthday: Feb 8, 1926

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Birthplace: Bronx, New York, USA

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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Highest rated movies

97% 87% Quiz Show
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93% 88% Serpico
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82% 77% The Gambler
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68% 55% Guilty by Suspicion
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62% 61% The Entity Watchlist 59% 41% Disclosure Watchlist
57% 53% Lies & Alibis
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50% 23% The Burial Society
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50% The Dogwalker
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47% 68% Man in the Chair
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Filmography

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45% 59% Wish I Was Here Rabbi Twersky (Character) $3.6M 2014
40% 48% The Last Word Unknown (Character) - 2008
47% 68% Man in the Chair Speed (Character) - 2007
33% 20% Rise: Blood Hunter Mr. Harrison (Character) - 2007
57% 53% Lies & Alibis Klump (Character) - 2006
40% 60% Intoxicating Micheal Reilly (Character) - 2004
50% 23% 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 62% 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% 49% Jack Dr. Benfante (Character) $58.6M 1996
14% 35% Two Much Reverend Larrabee (Character) $1.1M 1996
13% 39% The Rich Man's Wife Bill Adolphe (Character) $8.5M 1996
No Score Yet 39% National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins Ziggy Brillman (Character) - 1995
59% 41% Disclosure Ben Heller (Character) $81.3M 1994
97% 87% Quiz Show Robert Kintner (Character) $24.8M 1994
0% 23% Highlander II: The Quickening Allan Neyman (Character) $13.7M 1991
68% 55% Guilty by Suspicion Leonard Marks (Character) $8.4M 1991
No Score Yet 8% Dead On: Relentless II Grazinsky (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet 88% Matters of the Heart Boston official (Character) - 1990
62% 61% 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 68% Hero at Large Marty Fields (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 55% Gideon's Trumpet Tobias Simon (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 71% 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 50% Strike Force Police Commissioner (Character) - 1975
82% 77% The Gambler Bernie (Character) - 1974
93% 88% 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