Actor
Ben Gazzara
August 28, 1930 · Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Biagio Anthony Gazzarra (August 28, 1930 – February 3, 2012), known as Ben Gazzara, was an American film, stage, and television actor and director. His best known films include Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Voyage of the Damned (1976), Inchon (1981), Road House (1989), The Big Lebowski (1998), Happiness (1998), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Summer of Sam (1999), Dogville (2003) and Paris, je t'aime (2006). He was a recurring collaborator with John Cassavetes, working with him on Husbands (1970), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) and Opening Night (1977). As the star of the television series Run for Your Life (1965-1968), Gazzarra was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and two Emmy Awards. He won his first, and only, Emmy Award for his role in the television film Hysterical Blindness (2002).
Notable work
8Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
as E.A.D.A.
7.8Dogville (2003)
as Jack McKay
6.8Road House (1989)
as Brad Wesley
6.8The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
as Andrew Wallace
7.8Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
as Lieutenant Frederick "Manny" Manion
7.1Buffalo '66 (1998)
as Jimmy Brown
7.4Happiness (1998)
as Lenny Jordan
5.813 (2010)
as Schlondorff
8.1Columbo (1971)
Director
6.5Summer of Sam (1999)
as Luigi
6.8The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
as Mr. Klein
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