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Lugar y fecha de nacimiento. Maury Chaykin (1950 - ) Actor Born: c.1950, Brooklyn, NY Education: University of Buffalo; American Conservatory Theatre Hefty, hirsute character actor with a menacing but still often sympathetic presence, especially prolific on stage and in films. An exceptionally versatile player, Chaykin, who holds a dual Canadian-American citizenship, formed a band of traveling performers, the award-winning Swamp Fox Theatre Group, while an undergraduate at the University of Buffalo. He later studied at the American Contemporary Theater for two years in the early 1970s, working with talents such as playwright Samuel Beckett, before trying his hand at New York theater. Chaykin left after several years to accept a role in Toronto, which has remained his home ever since. Chaykin had a more successful stint in New York later in the decade with roles in off-Broadway plays including Gimme Shelter (1978) and the musical Leave It to Beaver Is Dead (1979). Featured roles in Canadian films like EL SECUESTRO DEL PRESIDENTE (1980) began to pick up around the same time. After a small comedic turn in the hit thriller JUEGOS DE GUERRA (1983), Chaykin alternated between Canadian and American features and some TV. His talent for the outlandish made him right at home in modest-sized, but colorful character bits in FALSO TESTIGO (1987), GEMELOS (1988), MI PRIMO VINNY (1992), SOMMERSBY - EL REGRESO DE UN EXTRAÑO (1993), and BEETHOVEN 2 (1993). Chaykin was especially fine as the crazed major who sends Kevin Costner to the frontier before committing suicide in DANZA CON LOBOS (1990).
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