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Lugar y fecha de nacimiento. Ron Leibman (1937 - ) Actor Born: October 11, 1937, New York, NY Education: Ohio Wesleyan University Charismatic character lead of quirky, explosive types, often Jewish, prominent on stage and TV beginning in the 1960s. After enjoying Broadway success in Dear Me, the Sky Is Falling (1963) and We Bombed in New Haven (1968), Leibman began making occasional feature films in the 1970s. His best-remembered parts are David Greenberg, the real-life street cop who formed half of the team nicknamed THE SUPER COPS (1974), and the committed union organizer who assists Sally Field in NORMA RAE (1979). He also won an Emmy in the title role of the CBS drama series Kaz (1978-79), as an uncompromisingly honest attorney who put himself through law school while serving a prison sentence. Leibman's 80s films proved disappointing: the Sylvester Stallone-Dolly Parton comedy RHINESTONE (1984), Arthur Hiller's unfunny, un-romantic ROMANTIC COMEDY (1983), and the lame teen farce UP THE ACADEMY (1980), from which Leibman attempted to have his name removed. An exception was the fine Australian-made horse-racing saga, PHAR LAP (1983). Several TV movies proved more rewarding, and he kept busy onstage in the modestly successful Neil Simon comedies, I Ought to Be in Pictures (1980) and Rumors (1989). In 1993 Leibman enjoyed a notable triumph onstage with his blistering, Tony-winning portrait of Joseph McCarthy's venomous right-hand man Roy Cohn in Angels in America: Millennium Approaches. Formerly married to actress Linda Lavin, he later wed actress Jessica Walter.
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