1. Saul Hersh Rubinek was born on July 2,1948 and is a Canadian actor, director, producer, and playwright.
21 Facts About Saul Rubinek
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Saul Rubinek starred in the films Against All Odds, Wall Street, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Unforgiven, Nixon, True Romance, The Express, Barney's Version, and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
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Saul Rubinek was previously a stage actor and director, working with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and Theatre Passe Muraille, and co-founding the Canadian Stage Company.
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Saul Rubinek was born in Fohrenwald, a displaced-persons camp in Allied-occupied Germany, in 1948.
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Saul Rubinek's family settled down in Canada's capital city, Ottawa.
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Saul Rubinek spoke Yiddish, French and then learned heavily accented English, which caused him to be bullied when he was in school.
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At the encouragement of his parents, Saul Rubinek began taking acting lessons and joined the Ottawa Little Theatre in 1965.
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Saul Rubinek contributed to the Toronto theatre scene, co-founding the Toronto Free Theatre and working with Theatre Passe Muraille as an actor and producer.
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Saul Rubinek began working in the United States in the 1970s, acting in Off-Broadway productions.
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Early in his career, Saul Rubinek gained the attention of Canadian audiences when he starred as detective Benny Cooperman in two TV films: The Suicide Murders and Murder Sees the Light.
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Saul Rubinek starred as Owen Hughes, the antagonist, in Obsessed.
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Saul Rubinek appeared in: Taylor Hackford's Against All Odds ; Alan Alda's Sweet Liberty as director Bo Hodges; Oliver Stone's Wall Street, as a lawyer; The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick, as a fun-loving rabbi; Brian De Palma's The Bonfire of the Vanities, again as a lawyer; and in a lead part as a rabbi in The Quarrel.
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Saul Rubinek is noted for his performance in Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven as a pulp fiction writer.
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Saul Rubinek had a notable role in Tony Scott's True Romance as Lee Donowitz, a pompous, cocaine-addicted film producer based on Joel Silver.
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Saul Rubinek co-starred in the 1993 Emmy Award-winning American made-for-television docudrama And the Band Played On as Dr Jim Curran.
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Saul Rubinek played Donny Douglas in several episodes of the American sitcom Frasier.
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Saul Rubinek appeared, in various roles, in two episodes of the 1995 revival of The Outer Limits.
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Saul Rubinek played the role of Louis the Lion on YTV's The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon.
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Saul Rubinek had a cameo appearance as a casino pit boss in the film Rush Hour 2.
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Saul Rubinek played Alan Mintz opposite Nicolas Cage in the 2000 film The Family Man.
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Saul Rubinek starred in the Syfy series Warehouse 13 as Artie Nielsen, a covert agent employed by a secretive council to recover mystical artifacts with his team.