David Spielberg
Biography
David Spielberg (March 6, 1939 – June 1, 2016) was an American television and film actor.
Spielberg was born in Weslaco, Texas, and was a resident of Mercedes, Texas. His father was a Romanian-Jewish immigrant, and his mother was a Mexican-American teacher. After serving in the United States Navy for two years, he enrolled in the University of Texas. Two summers' acting experience in New York City led him to drop out of the university and move to New York to pursue a career in acting. He was not related to American film director Steven Spielberg.
Spielberg's screen debut was in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972). He also appeared in Newman's Law (1974), Law and Disorder (1974), Hustle (1975), American Raspberry (1977), The Choirboys (1977), Real Life (1979), Winter Kills (1979), Christine (1983), The Stranger (1987), Alice (1990), and Red Ribbon Blues (1996).
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- Law & Order (1990) as Alvin Hoyt
- Law & Order (1990) as Isaac Shore
- Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) as Cmdr. Hutchinson
- ER (1994) as Neil Bernstein
- The West Wing (1999) as Congressman
- Murder, She Wrote (1984) as Det. Lt. Tad Travis
- Murder, She Wrote (1984) as Lt. Henry Girard
- Falcon Crest (1981) as Ned Vogel
- Baywatch (1989) as Eric Van Alden
- Magnum, P.I. (1980) as Dan Morgan / Inspector Vittorio Mono
- One Day at a Time (1975)
- Matlock (1986) as Peter Angelli
- Love, American Style (1969) as Lennie Corbett
- The Rockford Files (1974) as Police Sgt. Tom Garvey
- Family Ties (1982) as Arthur Press
- Northern Exposure (1990) as Professor Dick Schuster
- Hunter (1984) as Arthur Liggett
- Highway to Heaven (1984) as Pete Nelson
- Highway to Heaven (1984) as Bob Milhaus
- Airwolf (1984) as Robert Phelps
- CHiPs (1977)
- seaQuest DSV (1993) as Inspector Donnegan
- Monsters (1988) as Tom Reardon
- Family Law (1999) as Howard Thomas