![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: May 20, 1936 in Long Beach, CA Biography:Disdaining the "surfer" mentality of his California boyhood friends, "Anthony Zerbe" chose to head to New York to become an actor. He studied with "Stella Adler" and worked off-Broadway before achieving success in the mid-'60s. He made his film debut in 1967's "Will Penny", after which he settled into a series of sharkish, saturnine villainous portrayals. An adherent of EST training, Zerbe preferred to work with people who allowed him "space" to develop a characterization; one such person was "David Janssen", with whom Zerbe appeared on the mid-'70s TV series "Harry O" (in which he won an Emmy award for his portrayal of Lieutenant Trench). Active on-stage and in films and television into the 1990s, "Anthony Zerbe" has contributed some unforgettable acting moments to the big screen, notably as the shadow-enshrouded leper in 1971's "Papillon" and the "blowed up real good" secondary villain in the 1989... Full Biography
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