George Dzundza is known for his varied work in film and on television, including The Deer Hunter, Skokie, No Way Out, The Beast, Impulse, White Hunter Black Heart, The Butcher's Wife, Basic Instinct, Crimson Tide, Dangerous Minds, and City by the Sea.
13 Facts About George Dzundza
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George Dzundza starred on the short-lived sitcom Open All Night.
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George Dzundza was born in Rosenheim, Germany, to Ukrainian father Roman George Dzundza and Polish mother Maria Humenecka, who respectively originated from Kalush and Lviv in what is Ukraine.
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George Dzundza's family moved to Amsterdam, New York in 1949, eventually settling in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City.
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George Dzundza attended Xavier High School and St Johns University, and studied under Stella Adler and Harold Clurman.
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George Dzundza began acting in his freshman year of college at the insistence of another student.
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George Dzundza starred in the Broadway productions The Ritz and Legend, and in A Prayer for My Daughter at the Public Theatre.
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George Dzundza starred in a short-lived 1981 sitcom series Open All Night, about the owner of a "Store 364" convenience store in Inglewood, California.
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George Dzundza portrayed American Nazi leader Frank Collin in the 1981 television film Skokie.
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In 1987, George Dzundza played Sam Hesselman, a disabled man in a wheelchair, in No Way Out and Commander Daskal in The Beast in 1988.
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George Dzundza's other acting work includes an appearance on The Waltons, and playing the Archie Bunker-like father in the short-lived Christina Applegate sitcom Jesse.
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George Dzundza voiced supervillain the Ventriloquist in Batman: The Animated Series, and Perry White in Superman: The Animated Series.
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George Dzundza has been married to Mary Jo Vermeulen since 1982.