Ben Gazzara
Biography
Biagio Anthony Gazzarra (August 28, 1930 – February 3, 2012), known as Ben Gazzara, was an American film, stage, and television actor and director. His best known films include Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Voyage of the Damned (1976), Inchon (1981), Road House (1989), The Big Lebowski (1998), Happiness (1998), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Summer of Sam (1999), Dogville (2003) and Paris, je t'aime (2006). He was a recurring collaborator with John Cassavetes, working with him on Husbands (1970), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) and Opening Night (1977).
As the star of the television series Run for Your Life (1965-1968), Gazzarra was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and two Emmy Awards. He won his first, and only, Emmy Award for his role in the television film Hysterical Blindness (2002).
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- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) as E.A.D.A.
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) as Self
- Run for Your Life (1965) as Paul Bryan
- The Mike Douglas Show (1961) as Self
- The Mike Douglas Show (1961) as Self - Co-Host
- Golden Globe Awards (1944) as Self - Nominee / Presenter
- Tony Awards (1956) as Self - Nominee
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963) as Sidney
- What's My Line? (1950) as Self - Mystery Guest
- What's My Line? (1950) as Self - Panelist
- The Dick Cavett Show (1968) as Self - Guest
- Film '72 (1971) as Self
- Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963) as Paul Bryan
- The Tony Danza Show (2004) as Self - Guest
- Dinah! (1974) as Self
- The Big Lebowski (1998) as Jackie Treehorn
- Arrest and Trial (1963) as Nick Anderson
- 13 (2010) as Schlondorff
- Dogville (2003) as Jack McKay
- Road House (1989) as Brad Wesley
- The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) as Andrew Wallace
- Buffalo '66 (1998) as Jimmy Brown
- L'onore e il rispetto (2006) as Don Fred Di Venanzio
- Anatomy of a Murder (1959) as Lieutenant Frederick "Manny" Manion