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Richard Masur

  • Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA
  • Birthday: November 20, 1948

A reliable character player of stage, screen and TV since the mid-1970s, Richard Masur has long been a familiar if unremarkable face. With his large mobile features, boyish demeanor and fairly indeterminate age, Masur has played a wide variety roles in most popular genres. In features, he has regularly shifted from comedy (the bewildered Dad of Sean Astin in "Encino Man" 1992) to drama ("The Man Without a Face" 1993), from Western ("Heaven's Gate" 1982) to sci-fi ("The Thing" 1982; "My Science Pr…more

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Career Milestones

  • 1997

    Re-elected to second term as SAG president

  • 1996

    As SAG president, worked on the merger plan between his guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA); put the guild on record as opposing the California Civil Rights Initiative (an anti-affirmative action measure); the initiative was subsequently voted in

  • 1995

    Directed an episode of "Picket Fences"

  • 1995

    Elected president of SAG

  • 1993

    Appeared in three consecutive episodes of the NBC legal drama "L.A. Law" as 1960s activist-turned-fugitive Barry Glassman (aka Jay Ellison)

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