Hart Bochner

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Biography

His chiseled good looks, thick dark hair and soulful brown eyes made him a natural to play charming cads, and Hart Bochner began honing that screen persona as the preppie nemesis to Dennis Christopher in the Oscar-nominated sleeper "Breaking Away" (1979). Along those same lines, he went on to portray Doc, the sinister and scheming medical student in the Canadian thriller "Terror Train" (1980) before "Rich and Famous" (1981), George Cukor's …
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Job Title

Actor, Director, Producer, Writer

Born

October 3, 1956

Career Milestones

Acting debut in a TV commercial for Kool-Aid

1976

Film debut in "Islands in the Stream", playing the eldest son of a sculptor (George C Scott)

1979

Played the preppie nemesis to Dennis Christopher in "Breaking Away"

1980

Appeared as a younger man involved with Jacqueline Bisset in "Rich and Famous"

1980

TV-movie debut in "Haywire" (CBS), playing Bill Hayward

1981

Initial TV collaboration with Jane Seymour, played her adult son Aron Trask in the ABC miniseries "John Steinbeck's 'East of Eden'"

1982

Grew a beard to play Dyan Cannon's young husband in the ABC TV-movie about a female bigamist "Having It All"

1982

Made stage debut in Los Angeles production of "The Wager"

1984

Reteamed with Seymour for the NBC miniseries "Ernest Hemingway's 'The Sun Also Rises'", this time playing Jake Barnes to her Lady Brett Ashley

1988

Cast as Byron Henry opposite Seymour as his wife Natalie in the epic ABC miniseries "War and Remembrance"; Jan-Michael Vincent and Ali MacGraw had created roles in "The Winds of War"

1988

Had small role as a smarmy businessman in "Die Hard"

1988

Played first leading role in features in "Apartment Zero", directed by Martin Donovan

1990

First screen collaboration with Jon Lovitz, "Mr. Destiny"

1991

Co-starred in the murder mystery "And the Sea Will Tell" (CBS)

1992

Reteamed with Martin Donovan for "Mad at the Moon"

1992

Wrote, produced and directed the short "The Buzz", featuring Jon Lovitz

1993

Portrayed a cop investigating a series of rapes at an apartment complex in the CBS movie "Complex of Fear"

1994

Feature directorial debut, "PCU"

1995

Cast as member of the Ku Klux Klan in the period drama "Children of the Dust" (CBS)

1996

Helmed second feature "High School High", starring Lovitz

1999

Enjoyed a one-night stand with Susan Sarandon (who read much more into it) in Wayne Wang's "Anywhere But Here"

1999

Returned to features as Bridget Fonda's boyfriend in "The Break Up"; aired on Cinemax in lieu of a theatrical release

2000

Portrayed Professor Solomon in John Ottman's feature directing debut, "Urban Legends: Final Cut"

2001

Had featured role in "Investigating Sex"