Joel Fabiani
| Joel Fabiani | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 28, 1936 Watsonville, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Film, television and stage actor |
Joel Fabiani (born September 28, 1936) is an American film, television and theater actor. Generally most famous for the British cult classic Department S, he is also known to fans of 1970s cop shows for guest starring in The FBI, Barnaby Jones, The Streets of San Francisco, Banacek, Cannon, The Rockford Files, Starsky and Hutch and many more.
To movie fans, he is known for roles in films such as Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Reuben, Reuben and Tune In Tomorrow, while he is familiar to fans of soap operas for recurring roles in shows like Dallas, Dynasty, As the World Turns, and All My Children.
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 attended a total of no less than 17 different schools. After graduating from high school, he joined the Army, then went to college, where he earned a degree in English and became interested in acting. After graduation, he studied at the Actors Workshop in San Francisco for two years.
At the San Francisco Actors Workshop, he learned acting, as well as stagecraft, and appeared in plays such as "The Alchemist" (Cf. The Alchemist (play) ) (in 1960, as Kastril), "Saint's Day" and "Twinkling of an Eye", as well as classics such as Shakespeare's "King Lear". After two years at the Workshop, he moved to New York, where he started out playing in and Off-Broadway productions. He appeared in "One Way Pendulum" (1961), was an understudy for Robert Shaw and Alan Bates in a Broadway production of " The Caretaker " (1961), had his Broadway debut in "The Affair" (1962), 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 U.S. tour of "Beyond The Fringe" (1965) – in which he faked a British accent so well that people couldn't believe he wasn't actually English – and many other plays, such as "A Doll's House" and "Hedda Gabler", in which he played opposite Claire Bloom, while he also worked on television commercials.
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