1. Maury Alan Chaykin was an American-Canadian actor.
21 Facts About Maury Chaykin
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Maury Chaykin won two Canadian Comedy Awards and an ACTRA Award for his work on Less Than Kind.
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Maury Chaykin was born to Jewish parents in Brooklyn, New York.
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Maury Chaykin's American father, Irving J Chaykin, was born in Brooklyn, and was a professor of accountancy at City College of New York.
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Maury Chaykin's Canadian mother, Clarice Chaykin, was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but raised in Montreal, Quebec, since the age of three.
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Maury Chaykin graduated from Beth Israel Hospital nursing school in Newark, New Jersey.
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Maury Chaykin's Montreal-born maternal uncle, George Bloomfield, was a veteran Canadian director, producer, writer and actor who directed Maury Chaykin in a number of projects for film and television.
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Maury Chaykin subsequently moved to Toronto in 1974, where he resided until his death.
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Maury Chaykin had his first starring role in Whale Music, a 1994 film in which he played a burned-out rock star, a character based largely on Brian Wilson.
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Maury Chaykin was named Best Actor at the 15th Genie Awards for his portrayal.
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Maury Chaykin had roles on the television series Seeing Things and Emily of New Moon as well as a recurring role as the intergalactic gourmand Nerus in Stargate SG-1.
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Maury Chaykin portrayed the colorful bookie Frank Perlin opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman's compulsive gambler Dan Mahowny in Owning Mahowny, a film that critic Roger Ebert named as one of the ten best of 2003.
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In 2006, Maury Chaykin appeared in an episode of the Ken Finkleman miniseries At the Hotel and received a Gemini Award for best performance by an actor in a guest role.
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Maury Chaykin had a semi-recurring role in the HBO series Entourage, as volatile movie producer Harvey Weingard, an inspiration of the soon-to-be disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein.
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Maury Chaykin appeared as Stan Deane, father of Kevin Zegers' character Woody Deane, in the 2006 romantic comedy It's a Boy Girl Thing.
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Maury Chaykin starred as Sam Blecher, the owner of a family-run driving school in Winnipeg, in the first two seasons of the Canadian comedy-drama television series Less Than Kind.
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Maury Chaykin had been nominated for the award in 2003, for his portrayal of Nero Wolfe.
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Maury Chaykin was married to Canadian actress Susannah Hoffmann, with whom he had one daughter, Rose.
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Maury Chaykin was a dual citizen of the United States and Canada.
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Maury Chaykin died in Toronto on July 27,2010, his 61st birthday, from complications of a heart valve infection.
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Select theatre credits for Maury Chaykin were part of his resume at Edna Talent Management, Ltd.