Alan Mandell
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.[1]
Albert Mandell was born to a Jewish family in Toronto in 1927.[2] He acted on stage in both Canada and the United States, building a reputation in San Francisco's theater scene in the 1950's.[3] In 1968 he legally changed his given name to Alan.[2]
Mandell's association with Beckett began in 1957, with a production of Waiting for Godot at San Francisco's Actor's Workshop. He subsequently played Lucky in a production of Godot directed by Beckett himself.[4]
Outside of Beckett, Mandell has acted in productions of Harold Pinter's No Man's Land and Arthur Miller's The Price.[3] 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.[5]
References
- ^ Byrd, Craig (April 20, 2016). "Alan Mandell Will Finish His Stage Career the Way He Started It: with a Performance of Endgame". Los Angeles. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
- ^ a b "Alan Mandell papers, 1950-2012". Online Archive of California. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
- ^ a b McNulty, Charles (February 13, 2015). "Theater pulses in Alan Mandell's veins". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
- ^ Rampell, Ed (April 11, 2012). "Q&A: Actor Alan Mandell on Samuel Beckett". The Forward. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
- ^ Verini, Bob (March 30, 2007). "Twelve Angry Men". Variety. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
External links
- Alan Mandell at IMDb
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