Ron Leibman

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Biography

This charismatic character lead has excelled in quirky, explosive, often Jewish, types and has been prominent on stage and TV since the 1960s. Ron Leibman was particularly applauded as the union organizer Ruben Warshawsky in Martin Ritt's "Norma Rae" (1979), in his Emmy-winning role as "Kaz" (CBS, 1978-79) and as Roy Cohn in Tony Kushner's two-part Broadway epic "Angels in America" (1993-94).

Raised in an upper middle class family on …

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Job Title

Actor, Writer, Music

Born

October 11, 1937

LATEST CREDITS

Rivkin: Bounty Hunter

Stan Rivkin

The Super Cops

Greenberg

Class Act: A Teacher's Story

Sam Greene

Door to Door

Larry Price

Kaz

Martin Kazinski

The Art of Crime

Roman Grey

Up the Academy

Major

The Outside Man

Richie Martinelli

Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami

Sion Resnik

A Question of Guilt

Detective Louis Kazinsky

Side By Side

Joey Caruso

Seven Hours to Judgment

David Reardon

Slaughterhouse-Five

Paul Lazzaro

Your Three Minutes Are Up

Mike

Many Happy Returns

Jerry Brenner

The Hot Rock

Murch

Just the Ticket

Barry the Book

Linda in Wonderland

Guest

Christmas Eve

Huffner

In the Wings: Angels in America on Broadway

Actor

Norma Rae

Reuben

Steve Martin's The Winds of Whoopie

Guest

Pacific Station

Al Burkhardt

Where's Poppa?

Actor

Rhinestone

Freddie Ugo