14 Facts About Joel Fabiani

Joel Fabiani was born on September 28,1936 and is an American film, television and theater actor.

Joel Fabiani was born in Watsonville, California, as the youngest of three children to parents whose backgrounds were a mix of Italian, Austrian, Irish and Native American roots.

The family moved a lot, so young Joel Fabiani attended a total of no less than 17 different schools.

Joel Fabiani appeared in One Way Pendulum, was an understudy for Robert Shaw and Alan Bates in a Broadway production of The Caretaker, had his Broadway debut in "The Affair", and played in A Thousand Clowns, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and others, plus more Shakespeare, such as Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, and Henry IV, Part 1, as well as the US tour of Beyond The Fringe.

Joel Fabiani became the star of a series of commercials for a cigarette, in which he played what Fabiani himself described as a "watered-down James Bond character", usually wearing a tuxedo and being surrounded by beautiful girls while smoking that particular brand of cigarette.

Joel Fabiani was highly esteemed and appreciated by his fellow cast members.

Joel Fabiani always came prepared, and he knew exactly what he was doing.

Joel Fabiani returned to television work, at first still very much in line with his Department S character, such as playing the FBI agent Barris in the TV movie The Longest Night opposite David Janssen.

Joel Fabiani appeared in numerous TV movies, including Brenda Starr with Jill St John, thrillers like the Edgar Allan Poe Award-nominated One of My Wives Is Missing with Jack Klugman and The President's Mistress with Beau Bridges and Larry Hagman, and the prison movie Attica with Morgan Freeman, which was nominated for several Emmys and won one.

Joel Fabiani guest starred in Hotel, and had the somewhat difficult task of assessing Jane Wyman's mental capacities as Dr Quentin King in Falcon Crest.

Joel Fabiani then married actress Audree Rae, whom he met while they were doing a stage play together.

Joel Fabiani was the voice-over for dozens of Sony television and radio commercials in the late 1970s and early 1980s when the New York advertising agency McCann-Erickson had the account.

Joel Fabiani started out at the San Francisco Actor's Workshop and afterwards worked with several theater companies over the years, including the National Touring Company, Phoenix Theater Company, Paper Mill Playhouse, and the American Shakespeare Festival, appearing in numerous plays both on and off Broadway, including:.

Joel Fabiani appeared in many television shows in either starring, recurring, or guest starring roles, as well as numerous television movies and half a dozen feature films.