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One of the most recognizable American character actors in film and television.He is best known for his work, often in classic films, with distinguished film directors, including Peter Bogdanovich, Mario Monicelli, Richard Benjamin, Carl Reiner (twice), Peter Medak (five times) and Alan J. Pakula (twice); Academy Award winners Paolo Sorrentino, Michel Hazanavicius, Steven Spielberg, Delbert Mann, Blake Edwards, Stanley Donen, Sydney Pollack, Ron Howard and Robert Redford (twice); and many others. His many films include ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, THE ELECTRIC HORSEMAN, NIGHT SHIFT, MY FAVORITE YEAR, and Academy Award winning Best Pictures ORDINARY PEOPLE and THE ARTIST. A long-time private acting teacher and coach, he has also been a frequent guest lecturer and teacher at prestigious academic institutions, including (among many others) the American Film Institute, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, the University of Southern California, Confederation College in Canada, the National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest, Romania, and the Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts in Beirut, Lebanon.In 2008, he returned to Beirut as a U.S. State Department Cultural Envoy to Lebanon to teach acting and directing at the University of Balamand's Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts, Lebanese University, Notre Dame University and St. Joseph University's Institut D'Etude Sceniques Audiovisuelles et Cinematographiques.He is a former member of the Board of Directors of Screen Actors Guild and the Fine Arts Advisory Council of Loyola Marymount University. He is an Advisory Director of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and is a member of both the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.He is also the author of the acting textbooks, Cold Reading and How to Be Good at It and Acting and How to Be Good at It (and The Second Edition) with a foreword by Sydney Pollack.

Listed skills include Acting, Improvisation, Feature Films, Stage, and 29 others.