George Dzundza is an American television and film actor.
12 Facts About George Dzundza
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George Dzundza's parents were forced into factory labour by the Nazis.
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George Dzundza spent the first few years of his life in displaced persons camps with his parents and one brother.
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George Dzundza attended 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 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 made-for-television movie 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.
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George Dzundza quit after the first season of the show, making his last full appearance in the season finale, "The Blue Wall".
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George Dzundza's character was murdered in the second season premiere episode, "Confession".
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George Dzundza's other acting work includes an appearance on The Waltons, playing the Archie Bunker-like father in the short-lived Christina Applegate sitcom Jesse, and voicing supervillain the Ventriloquist in Batman: The Animated Series and Perry White in Superman: The Animated Series, as well as numerous minor roles such as G Carl Francis and Dr Gregory Belson, within both shows.
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George Dzundza has been married since 1982 to Mary Jo Vermeulen.