Maury Chaykin

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Maury Chaykin, 2010

Maury Chaykin (born July 27, 1949 in New York City , † July 27, 2010 in Toronto , Ontario ) was an American - Canadian actor .

Life

Maury Chaykin grew up in Brooklyn. His mother was Canadian and his father was American. He attended James Madison High School and then SUNY Buffalo , the state college of the US state New York , where he studied drama. In 1968 he was a founding member of the Swampfox Theater , an avant-garde theater group in Buffalo . After graduating from college, he moved to Toronto , Canada, where he has lived ever since. For several years he worked in the experimental theater in plays such as Gimme Shelter and Leave It to Beaver Is Dead . At the beginning of his professional career, Chaykin appeared in the television film Riel (1979), in which his uncle George Bloomfield directed. In 1990 he was in the Oscar-winning film Dances With Wolves by and with Kevin Costner .

In 1994, Chaykin won a Genie Award for Best Actor for Whale Music . In 1997 he received the NBR Award from the National Board of Review for the film drama The Sweet Beyond for best acting by an ensemble . In 1998 he received a Gemini Award for Best Guest Star in a Dramatic Series for Nikita . In it he played the mentally retarded but kind-hearted pizza driver Rudy , who is innocently involved in criminal machinations. His uncle George Bloomfield directed this first season episode. In 2006, Chaykin received this award for Best Guest Star for an episode of the dramatic series At the Hotel .

In his 30-year acting career, he had appeared in around 140 film and television roles.

He died in Toronto on July 27, 2010, his 61st birthday. The cause of death was complications from endocarditis . His first marriage was until 1993. He had a daughter from his second marriage to actress Susannah Hoffman.

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  1. ↑ Canadian actor Maury Chaykin died, derStandard.at July 28, 2010
  2. ↑ Newspaper article about Chaykin's death (English)
personal data
SURNAME Chaykin, Maury
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chaken, Maury
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Canadian actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York , New York , USA
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 2010
Place of death Toronto , Ontario , Canada