Ray Reinhardt

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Ray Reinhardt (born 1930 in New York City ) is an American actor .

Life

Reinhardt grew up in the Bronx . He studied at the American Theater Wing , the Piscator Dramatic Workshop in New York, and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art . Reinhardt is married and has three daughters. He and his wife sold their home near the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco in 2000 . In 2001 he lived in New Mexico .

Theater career

During his military service he played in 1949 his first theater role in Golden Boy by Clifford Odets . Reinhardt took part in several Broadway plays from the late 1950s . In 1959 he was in The Great God Brown of Eugene O'Neill to see. In the same year he played in Lysistrata . In 1960 he played in Peer Gynt , in the two parts of Henry IV and in She Stoops to Conquer . From December 1960 to January 1961 he appeared in the play The Plow and the Stars ( The Plow and the Stars ) by Seán O'Casey . He also appeared in 1961 in The Octoroon and as Horatio in Hamlet . From 1964 to 1965 he was in Tiny Alice ( Tiny Alice ) by Edward Albee alongside John Gielgud and Irene Worth as deadly lawyer to see. It was through this play that he became aware of Bill Ball , founding director of the American Conservatory Theater (ACT).

Reinhardt was a founding member there from 1965. He portrayed Alfred Ill in The Old Lady's Visit , Stanley Kowalski in Endstation Sehnsucht and McLeavy in Booty , among others .

He played in 1987 James Tyrone in Long Day's Journey into Night ( Long Day's Journey Into Night ) at the Berkeley Repertory Theater and 1993 Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman at the San Jose Repertory Theater . In 1996 he was Poppy in the short play Slavs! by Tony Kushner in Berkeley and in 1998 in the two-person piece Old Wicked Songs by Jon Marans in San Jose .

In 2001 he played the title role in King Lear at the Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Theater at the Shakespeare Festival in San Francisco . Reinhardt returned to the Bay Area in 2005 and appeared in Awake and Sing! by Clifford Odets and in 2006 in The Price by Arthur Miller at the Aurora Theater and in 2006 at the Lucie Stern Theater in Palo Alto , Brooklyn Boy by Donald Margulies , a TheatreWorks production.

For his portrayal of Jacob in Awake and Sing in September 2009 with the Aurora Theater Company, he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 2009 San Francisco Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Awards.

In winter 2009 he appeared again as Gregory Solomon in The Price at Vienna's English Theater in Vienna .

He starred alongside Sharon Gless in A Round-Heeled Woman in San Francisco in 2010 . The pieces he appeared in also included Greed Under Elms by Eugene O'Neill, The Miser , Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer and Cyrano de Bergerac . In Almost a Poet by Eugene O'Neill, he portrayed Con Melody .

Movie and TV

From the early 1970s he worked in various films and television series. His first series appearances took place in 1971 in Smoking Colts and Arnie . In 1976 he made his first film appearance in the Russ Meyer film Over, Under and On . He first appeared in a science fiction film in 1979 , Escape to the Future . During the 1980s, he appeared on numerous well-known television series, including Starship Enterprise: The Next Century , Golden Girls , The A-Team , Matlock, and A Terribly Nice Family . He continued to take on roles regularly through the first half of the 1990s. He appeared in several series, for example Star Trek: Spaceship Voyager , LA Law - Star Lawyers, Tricks, Trials and Murder is their hobby . He has made film appearances in Nearly an Angel , Dynasty - The Reunion (graduation film) and Tyson , a film about the life of Mike Tyson . After 1995 there was a longer break. In 2007 he worked in the short film Violet .

In 1979 he also took on the role of Bilbo Baggins in a radio play version of The Lord of the Rings for National Public Radio .

Reinhardt also appeared in commercials and a short film from the Pixar Academy .

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ACT's 40th season - an interview with Ray Reinhardt  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. San Francisco Chronicle Podcasts October 7, 2006@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.sfchron.com  
  2. ↑ SLAVS! / Tony Kushner play at Berkeley Rep breathes life into Soviet socialism's last gasp Review: SF Gate.com, March 9, 1996
  3. ↑ Inner Voices Lifted in 'Songs' / Well-tuned play at San Jose Rep. Review: SF Gate.com March 17, 1998
  4. ↑ Photo Flash: Brooklyn Boy Opens at TheatreWorks Broadwayworld.com, 2006
  5. ↑ Donald Margulies' Brooklyn Boy is a Deeply Penetrating Drama Review on Talkin Broadway, 2006
  6. ^ Aurora Theater Co Adds Performance for AWAKE AND SING !, Now Running Thru 9/27 BroadwayWorld, September 10, 2009
  7. ^ American Idiot Garners 12 SF Critics Circle Noms. BroadwayWorld on March 9, 2010
  8. ↑ There's a 'Price' to Pay  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Review in: The Vienna Review 2009 @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.viennareview.net  
  9. ↑ Older women's sexual liberation-Sharon Gless on "A Round-Heeled Woman" EDGE San Francisco, January 8, 2010
  10. ↑ The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit Audiobook Set cast at the Tolkien Library
  11. ↑ The cast - Ray Reinhardt  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Vita and portrait of Ray Reinhardt@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.aroundheeledwoman.com  
personal data
SURNAME Reinhardt, Ray
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City