David Rasche did receive a graduate degree in English from the University of Chicago.
17 Facts About David Rasche
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David Rasche worked as a writer and teacher, including teaching English for two years at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota.
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David Rasche performed for two years in Chicago's Second City improvisation group after studying there, and he helped fund Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago.
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David Rasche began appearing on television and films in 1977, making his film debut in 1978 in An Unmarried Woman, directed by Paul Mazursky.
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David Rasche played a terrorist in the 1983 television film Special Bulletin.
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David Rasche appeared on the Miami Vice episode "Bushido" as a KGB agent attempting to capture a former colleague of Lt.
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David Rasche played Petruchio to Frances Conroy's Kate in a production of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew directed by Zoe Caldwell at the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut in the mid-1980s.
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David Rasche had a minor role as a photographer in the movie Cobra alongside Brigitte Nielsen.
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David Rasche was lead character Buddy Wheeler in the 1990 biker comedy Masters of Menace.
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David Rasche played Parnelli, one of two corrupt narcotics police officers, in the 1989 Tom Selleck crime drama, An Innocent Man.
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David Rasche played the role of Ted Forstmann in the 1993 made-for-television movie Barbarians at the Gate, about the leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco.
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David Rasche had a leading role in the 1997 Columbo episode, "A Trace of Murder".
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David Rasche had a major role in the 2009 satirical political comedy In the Loop, as a US official pushing for an invasion of an unspecified Middle Eastern country.
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David Rasche had a main role in HBO's Succession as Karl Muller from 2018 to 2023.
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David Rasche participated in an industry reading of Rob Sedgwick's play, Please Leave, on February 13,2023.
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David Rasche met his future wife Heather Lupton after he moved to New York City in 1976.
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David Rasche has taught acting at the University of California, Santa Barbara.