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Alan Mandell
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Alan Mandell (born Albert Mandell on December 27, 1927) is a Canadian-American actor known for playing Rabbi Marshak in the Coen Brothers' 2009 film A Serious Man. With several de…
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Alan Mandell (born Albert Mandell on December 27, 1927) is a Canadian-American actor known for playing Rabbi Marshak in the Coen Brothers' 2009 film A Serious Man. With several decades of experience as a stage actor, he is especially acclaimed as an interpreter of the works of Samuel Beckett. Albert Mandell was born to a Jewish family in Toronto, Ontario in 1927. He acted on stage in both Canada and the United States, building a reputation in San Francisco's theater scene in the 1950s. In 1968 he legally changed his given name to Alan to avoid being confused with noted mobster Albert Anastasia. Mandell's association with Beckett began in 1957, with a production of Waiting for Godot at the San Francisco Actor's Workshop. He subsequently played Lucky in a production of Godot directed by Beckett himself. Outside of Beckett, Mandell has acted in productions of Harold Pinter's No Man's Land and Arthur Miller's The Price. In 2007 he appeared as Juror #9 in a Los Angeles production of Twelve Angry Men, directed by Scott Ellis and costarring Richard Thomas and George Wendt.
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Movies and shows, newest first
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2019
Velvet Buzzsaw
Movie Vetril Dease
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2015
Addicted to Fresno
Movie Arthur Lipka
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2009
A Serious Man
Movie Rabbi Marshak
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2006
Shortbus
Movie Tobias, the Mayor
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2005
Grey's Anatomy
TV show Henry Stamm
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2001
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Movie Patron at restaurant (uncredited)
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1996
The Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice
Movie The Captain
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1993
Midnight Witness
Movie Shaw
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1991
Sisters
TV show
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1988
Illegally Yours
Movie Juror #8
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1981
Macbeth
Movie Scottish Doctor
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1978
Goin' South
Movie Screenplay
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1978
House Calls
Movie Screenplay
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1978
Loose Change
TV show Svenson
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1977
79 Park Avenue
TV show Dr George Waldheim
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1977
Smokey and the Bandit
Movie Screenplay
More credits
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1977
Man from Atlantis II: The Death Scouts
Movie Grant Stockwood
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1975
Baretta
TV show
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1974
Enemies
Movie District Police Inspector
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1974
The Six Million Dollar Man
TV show Technician
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1971
Cannon
TV show
