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Ron Leibman
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Actor Born: October 11, 1937 in New York City, NY Biography:The son of a Manhattan clothing manufacturer, "Ron Leibman" defied his family's wishes by dropping out of Wesleyan University to study at the Actor's Studio. Appearing in off-Broadway productions from 1959, Leibman made his Broadway debut in 1963's Dear Me, the Sky is Falling. He won an Obie Award for his work in Transfers, and a New York Drama Desk Award for "We Bombed in New Haven". An undeniably major talent, Leibman's explosive temper and entrenched insistence upon integrity at all costs has lost him more jobs than he'd probably care to count (There are some who say that much of Leibman's fabled contentiousness was incorporated into "Dustin Hoffman"'s character in "Tootsie").
After resisting series TV for many years, Leibman accepted the role of Martin Kazinksi, ex-con turned lawyer, in the 1978 weekly "Kaz"; the show died after a single season, but not before he won an Emmy Award (At the time,... Full Biography
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