Actor

Alan Mandell

December 27, 1927 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Alan Mandell (born Albert Mandell on December 27, 1927) is a Canadian-American actor known for playing Rabbi Marshak in the Coen Brothers' 2009 film A Serious Man. With several decades of experience as a stage actor, he is especially acclaimed as an interpreter of the works of Samuel Beckett.

Albert Mandell was born to a Jewish family in Toronto, Ontario in 1927. He acted on stage in both Canada and the United States, building a reputation in San Francisco's theater scene in the 1950s. In 1968 he legally changed his given name to Alan to avoid being confused with noted mobster Albert Anastasia.

Notable work

8.2
Grey's Anatomy (2005)
as Henry Stamm
6.7
A Serious Man (2009)
as Rabbi Marshak
5.4
Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)
as Vetril Dease
6.3
Shortbus (2006)
as Tobias, the Mayor
7.4
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
as Patron at restaurant (uncredited)
7.3
The Six Million Dollar Man (1974)
as Technician

Often works with

Sook-Yin Lee
2 titles together
Shortbus, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Alan Oppenheimer
2 titles together
The Six Million Dollar Man, Macbeth
Dana Elcar
2 titles together
Baretta, Cannon
Joshua Shelley
2 titles together
Baretta, Loose Change
H
Hank Stohl
2 titles together
The Six Million Dollar Man, Man from Atlantis II: The Death Scouts

Full filmography · 16

Velvet Buzzsaw
as Vetril Dease
20195.4
A Serious Man
as Rabbi Marshak
20096.7
Shortbus
as Tobias, the Mayor
20066.3
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
as Patron at restaurant (uncredited)
20017.4
The Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice
as The Captain
1996
Midnight Witness
as Shaw
1993
Illegally Yours
as Juror #8
1988
Macbeth
as Scottish Doctor
1981
Man from Atlantis II: The Death Scouts
as Grant Stockwood
1977
Enemies
as District Police Inspector
1974