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Dan Hedaya (born July 24, 1940) is an American actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
. He often plays sleazy villains or uptight, wisecracking individuals.

ya was born in Brooklyn, New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
, to a Sephardic Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish family from Syria
Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
. Hedaya was a junior high school teacher for many years before deciding to pursue acting full-time.

gside a successful career in the movies, Hedaya has held several TV roles, including Carla Tortelli
Carla Tortelli

Carla Maria Victoria Angelina Teresa Apollonia Lozupone Tortelli LeBec, known as Carla Tortelli, was a waitress on the United States television show Cheers, portrayed by Rhea Perlman....
's ex-husband Nick on the sitcom Cheers
Cheers

Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for eleven seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television for NBC, having been created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles....
 and its short-lived spinoff The Tortellis
The Tortellis

The Tortellis was a Cheers spin-off that aired for four months in 1987 in television. NBC had an open spot in their comedy lineup, and decided to attempt to benefit from the success of Cheers....
.






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Dan Hedaya (born July 24, 1940) is an American actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
. He often plays sleazy villains or uptight, wisecracking individuals.

Biography

Hedaya was born in Brooklyn, New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
, to a Sephardic Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish family from Syria
Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
. Hedaya was a junior high school teacher for many years before deciding to pursue acting full-time.

Career

Alongside a successful career in the movies, Hedaya has held several TV roles, including Carla Tortelli
Carla Tortelli

Carla Maria Victoria Angelina Teresa Apollonia Lozupone Tortelli LeBec, known as Carla Tortelli, was a waitress on the United States television show Cheers, portrayed by Rhea Perlman....
's ex-husband Nick on the sitcom Cheers
Cheers

Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for eleven seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television for NBC, having been created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles....
 and its short-lived spinoff The Tortellis
The Tortellis

The Tortellis was a Cheers spin-off that aired for four months in 1987 in television. NBC had an open spot in their comedy lineup, and decided to attempt to benefit from the success of Cheers....
. He played the estranged father of Mallory Keaton's boyfriend, Nick, on the sitcom Family Ties
Family Ties

Family Ties is a television sitcom that aired on NBC for seven seasons, from 1982 to 1989. The sitcom reflected the move in the United States from the cultural liberalism of the 1960s and 1970s to the conservatism of the 1980s....
. More recently, he played an Italian-American priest in the controversial and quickly cancelled NBC series The Book of Daniel
The Book of Daniel (TV series)

The Book of Daniel was a short-lived television series broadcast on NBC. The network promoted it as a serious drama about Christians and the Christian faith, but it was controversial with some Christians regarding certain aspects of the show....
. Adding to his list of television credits is his performance as the long-lost father of Adrian Monk on Monk
Monk (TV series)

Monk is an Television in the United States comedy-drama Television program created by Andy Breckman and starring Tony Shalhoub as the main character....
. He also guest starred in 1997 and 2005 as a wise cracking lawyer on the medical drama ER
ER (TV series)

ER is an Emmy Award-winning Television in the United States medical drama television series created by the late novelist Michael Crichton and airing on NBC....
.

In films, Hedaya has played the evil dictator Arius in 1985's Commando
Commando (film)

Commando is a 1985 in film Cinema of the United States action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The film's use of humor in an action film context became a distinctive element in Schwarzenegger's later roles....
, Mel Horowitz, the father of Alicia Silverstone
Alicia Silverstone

Alicia Silverstone is an United States film and theater actor and former model . She first came to widespread attention in music videos for Aerosmith, and is best known for her roles in Hollywood films such as Clueless and her portrayal of Batgirl#Adaptations in other media in Batman & Robin ....
's Cher in the 1995
1995 in film

The year 1995 in film involved some significant events....
 film Clueless. He played Julian Marty in the first Coen Brothers
Coen Brothers

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, known together professionally as the Coen brothers, are American filmmakers. For more than twenty years, the pair have written and directed numerous successful films, ranging from Screwball comedy film to hardboiled , to movies where genres blur together ....
 feature, Blood Simple
Blood Simple

Blood Simple is a 1985 in film neo-noir crime film. It was the directorial debut of Coen brothers, and the first major film of cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld, who later became a noted director....
. His physical similarity to Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States and the only president to resign the office....
 led to him being cast as the former president
President of the United States

The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence and recognition....
 for the film Dick
Dick (film)

Dick is a 1999 in film United States comedy Film directed by Andrew Fleming from a script by himself and Sheryl Longin. It is a parody retelling the events of the Watergate scandal which ended the President of the United States of Richard Nixon and features several cast members from Saturday Night Live....
.

Filmography

  • The Good Student (2008) .... Gabrial
  • Monk
    Monk (TV series)

    Monk is an Television in the United States comedy-drama Television program created by Andy Breckman and starring Tony Shalhoub as the main character....
     (2006) .... Jack Monk
  • Robots
    Robots (film)

    Robots is a 2005 in film United States CGI-animated comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios for 20th Century Fox , and was released theatrically on March 11 2005 ....
     (2005) .... Mr.Gunk (voice)
  • Pizza My Heart
    Pizza My Heart

    Pizza My Heart is a 2005 film directed by Andy Wolk and starring Dan Hedaya, Michael Badalucco, Shiri Appleby, and Eyal Podell. This is a modern Romeo and Juliet set in modern-day Verona, New Jersey....
     (2005) .... Vinnie Montebello
  • Swimfan
    Swimfan

    Swimfan is a 2002 in film United States psychological thriller film directed by John Polson and written by Charles F. Bohl and Phillip Schneider....
     (2002) .... Coach Simkins
  • Quicksand
    Quicksand (2002 film)

    Quicksand is a 2002 in film United States-Indian action film that was released direct-to-video in March 2003 in film after a short initial run in theatres in Los Angeles in March 2002 in film....
     (2002) .... General Stewart
  • Mulholland Drive
    Mulholland Drive (film)

    Mulholland Drive is a surrealism, neo-noir psychological thriller directed by David Lynch, and starring Naomi Watts, Laura Harring and Justin Theroux....
     (2001) .... Vincenzo Castigliane
  • Shaft
    Shaft (2000 film)

    Shaft is a 2000 in film action film-crime film directed by John Singleton, and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Toni Collette, Busta Rhymes, Vanessa L....
     (2000) .... Detective Jack Roselli
  • The Crew (2000) .... Mike 'The Brick' Donatelli
  • Yes, Dear
    Yes, Dear

    Yes, Dear is a television sitcom which aired from 2000 to 2006 on CBS. It starred Anthony Clark , Jean Louisa Kelly, Mike O'Malley and Liza Snyder....
     (2000) .... Don Ludke
  • The Hurricane
    The Hurricane (1999 film)

    The Hurricane is a Cinema of the United States biographical film directed by Norman Jewison, and starring Denzel Washington. The script was adapted by Armyan Bernstein and Dan Gordon from the books Lazarus and the Hurricane by Sam Chaiton and Terry Swinton and The 16th Round by Rubin Carter....
     (1999) .... Detective Sgt. Della Pesca Paterson PD
  • Dick
    Dick (film)

    Dick is a 1999 in film United States comedy Film directed by Andrew Fleming from a script by himself and Sheryl Longin. It is a parody retelling the events of the Watergate scandal which ended the President of the United States of Richard Nixon and features several cast members from Saturday Night Live....
     (1999) .... President Richard M. 'Dick' Nixon
  • A Civil Action
    A Civil Action

    A Civil Action is a 1998 film, starring John Travolta and Robert Duvall, based on the book of the same name by Jonathan Harr. Both the book and the film are based on a true story that took place in Woburn, Massachusetts, Massachusetts in the 1980s....
     (1998) .... John Riley
  • A Night at the Roxbury
    A Night at the Roxbury

    A Night at the Roxbury is a 1998 in film comedy film based on a recurring skit on television's long-running Saturday Night Live called The Roxbury Guys....
     (1998) .... Kamehl Butabi
  • Alien: Resurrection
    Alien: Resurrection

    Alien Resurrection is a science fiction film released in 1997 by 20th Century Fox. Directed by French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the film is based on a screenplay by Joss Whedon....
     (1997) .... General Perez
  • A Life Less Ordinary
    A Life Less Ordinary

    A Life Less Ordinary is a 1997 in film Romantic love/black comedy film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Boyle and John Hodge . Following the international success of Trainspotting , Hodge and Boyle sought to use funding from Channel 4 to make a film that would appeal to a U.S....
     (1997) .... Gabriel
  • Marvin's Room
    Marvin's Room

    Marvin's Room is a 1996 in film film, based on the play of the Marvin's Room by Scott McPherson . The play, which was directed by David Petrarca, was adapted for the screen by McPherson and directed by Jerry Zaks....
     (1996) .... Bob
  • Ransom (1996) .... Jackie Brown
  • The First Wives Club
    The First Wives Club

    The First Wives Club is an Academy Award-nominated 1996 in film comedy film, based on the same-titled 1992 in literature novel by Olivia Goldsmith....
     (1996) .... Morton Cushman
  • Daylight
    Daylight (film)

    Daylight is a 1996 disaster film, starring Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Viggo Mortensen, Dan Hedaya, and Danielle Harris. It was directed by Rob Cohen and released in theaters on December 6, 1996....
     (1996)....Frank
  • Nixon
    Nixon (film)

    Nixon is a 1995 in film USA biographical film directed by Oliver Stone for Cinergi Pictures that tells the story of the political and personal life of former President of the United States Richard Nixon, played by Anthony Hopkins....
     (1995) .... Trini Cardoza
  • Clueless (1995) .... Mel Horowitz
  • To Die For
    To Die For

    To Die For is a black comedy written by Buck Henry, based on the novel of the same name by Joyce Maynard, and directed by Gus Van Sant. It stars Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon and Joaquin Phoenix....
     (1995) .... Joe Maretto
  • The Usual Suspects
    The Usual Suspects

    The Usual Suspects is a 1995 Cinema of the United States neo-noir film written by Christopher McQuarrie and directed by Bryan Singer. The film tells the story of Roger "Verbal" Kint , a small-time Confidence trick who is the subject of a police interrogation....
     (1995) .... Sgt. Geoffrey 'Jeff' Rabin
  • For Love or Money
    For Love or Money

    For Love or Money can refer to:Films:* For Love or Money , starring Kirk Douglas* For Love or Money , a 1993 film starring Michael J. FoxTelevision shows or episodes:...
     (1993) .... Gene Salvatore
  • Searching for Bobby Fischer
    Searching for Bobby Fischer

    Searching for Bobby Fischer is an acclaimed 1993 film based on the life of prodigy chess player Joshua Waitzkin, played by Max Pomeranc. Adapted from the book of the same name by Joshua's father Fred, the film was written and directed by Steven Zaillian....
     (1993) .... Tournament Director
  • Rookie of the Year
    Rookie of the Year (film)

    Rookie of the Year is a 1993 Baseball movie#Fiction starring Thomas Ian Nicholas and Gary Busey.Albert Hall , Dan Hedaya, Eddie Bracken, Amy Morton, Bruce Altman, John Gegenhuber, and Daniel Stern co-star....
     (1993) .... Larry Fisher
  • Benny & Joon
    Benny & Joon

    Benny & Joon is a 1993 in film romantic comedy film about how two misfits, Sam and Juniper/Joon , find each other and fall in love. The film is perhaps best known for Depp's humorous physical comedy routines and for popularizing in the U.S....
     (1993) .... Thomas
  • The Mighty Ducks (1992) .... Sunny Young
  • The Addams Family
    The Addams Family

    The Addams Family is a group of fictional characters created by United States cartoonist Charles Addams. Earlier Addams had worked in collaboration with his friend Ray Bradbury....
     (1991) .... Tully Alford
  • Joe Versus the Volcano
    Joe Versus the Volcano

    Joe Versus the Volcano is a 1990 in film comedy film starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.The first film directed by screenwriter John Patrick Shanley, it was also the first of three films pairing Hanks and Ryan....
     (1990) ... The dour boss, Frank Waturi
  • Pacific Heights (1990) ... The banker
  • A Smoky Mountain Christmas
    A Smoky Mountain Christmas

    A Smoky Mountain Christmas is a 1986 fantasy television film directed by Henry Winkler. It stars Dolly Parton and Lee Majors....
     (1986) .... Harry
  • Running Scared
    Running Scared (film)

    Running Scared is a 1986 in film action/comedy film directed by Peter Hyams, and starring Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal....
     (1986) .... Captain Logan
  • Wise Guys
    Wise Guys (film)

    Wise Guys is a 1986 in film feature film directed by Brian De Palma and starring Danny DeVito and Joe Piscopo. A comedy revolving around two small-time mobsters from Newark, New Jersey, it also features Harvey Keitel, Lou Albano and Frank Vincent....
     (1986) .... Anthony Castelo
  • Commando
    Commando (film)

    Commando is a 1985 in film Cinema of the United States action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The film's use of humor in an action film context became a distinctive element in Schwarzenegger's later roles....
     (1985) .... Arius
  • Blood Simple
    Blood Simple

    Blood Simple is a 1985 in film neo-noir crime film. It was the directorial debut of Coen brothers, and the first major film of cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld, who later became a noted director....
     (1984) .... Julian Marty
  • Reckless
    Reckless (1984 film)

    Reckless is a 1984 in film love story shot in the Appalachian Mountains and Rust Belt of Steubenville, Ohio, Weirton, West Virginia and Mingo Junction, Ohio....
     (1984) .... Peter Daniels
  • I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
    I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can

    I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can is a 1982 in film United States biographical film directed by Jack Hofsiss. The screenplay by David Rabe is based on the memoir of the same title by Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Barbara Gordon, whose addiction to and difficult withdrawal from Diazepam serves as the basis of the plot....
     (1982) .... Dr. Klein
  • Endangered Species
    Endangered species

    An endangered species is a population of an organism which is at risk of becoming extinct because it is either few in numbers, or threatened by changing environmental or predation parameters....
     (1982) .... Peck
  • True Confessions
    True Confessions (film)

    True Confessions is a 1981 in film film directed by Ulu Grosbard, based on the Black Dahlia murder case in 1947. The film stars Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall....
     (1981) .... Howard Terke
  • The Seduction of Joe Tynan
    The Seduction of Joe Tynan

    The Seduction of Joe Tynan is a 1979 in film political film drama made by Universal Pictures, directed by Jerry Schatzberg and produced by Martin Bregman....
     (1979) .... Alex Heller


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