Stephen Macht
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Macht in 1981.
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Stephen Robert Macht May 1, 1942 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Spouse(s) | Suzanne Victoria Pulier (1964-present; 4 children) |
Stephen Robert Macht (born May 1, 1942) is an American television and film actor.
Macht was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was raised in Brooklyn Heights, New York until, at age nine, his father died and he moved with his mother, Janette, and older brother, to live with his maternal grandfather, a haberdasher, in Mystic, Connecticut.
After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1963 (where he roomed with future actor Michael Moriarty), Macht attended Tufts University, receiving an M.A. in Drama in 1967. He later enrolled at Indiana University and obtained a Ph.D. in Dramatic Literature and Theatre History in 1970. Macht studied acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on the history of acting training there. He also trained with Milton Katselas at the Beverly Hills Playhouse.
While teaching at Queens College, Macht received approval by his department chair to appear in plays in New York City in lieu of publishing scholarly articles as part of the tenure track.
Spotted by a Universal Studios talent scout while starring at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada in 1975, Macht was signed to a contract and by the mid 1970s had left teaching and was making frequent appearances in TV episodes and movies.
In Raid on Entebbe (1977), he portrayed Yoni Netanyahu, the Israeli officer killed in the rescue of hostages in Uganda. In 1978, he had a lead role in The Immigrants a syndicated miniseries about the rise of the son of Italian immigrants in turn-of-the-century San Francisco.
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