Known For
Acting
Born
Dec 27, 1927
Place of Birth
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Credits
20 titles
Alan Mandell
Biography
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. Mandell's association with Beckett began in 1957, with a production of Waiting for Godot at the San Francisco Actor's Workshop. He subsequently played Lucky in a production of Godot directed by Beckett himself. Outside of Beckett, Mandell has acted in productions of Harold Pinter's No Man's Land and Arthur Miller's The Price. In 2007 he appeared as Juror #9 in a Los Angeles production of Twelve Angry Men, directed by Scott Ellis and costarring Richard Thomas and George Wendt.
Known For
Filmography
Velvet Buzzsaw
Vetril Dease
A Serious Man
Rabbi Marshak
Shortbus
Tobias, the Mayor
Grey's Anatomy
Henry Stamm
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Patron at restaurant (uncredited)
The Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice
The Captain
Midnight Witness
Shaw
Sisters
Illegally Yours
Juror #8
Macbeth
Scottish Doctor
Goin' South
Screenplay
House Calls
Screenplay
Loose Change
Svenson
79 Park Avenue
Dr George Waldheim
Smokey and the Bandit
Screenplay
Man from Atlantis II: The Death Scouts
Grant Stockwood
Baretta
Enemies
District Police Inspector
The Six Million Dollar Man
Technician
Cannon