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Steven Berkoff
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Actor Born: August 3, 1937 in London, England, UK Biography:Trained in drama at Ecole Jacques LeCoq and Britain's Webber-Douglas Academy, actor Steven Berkoff made his London stage bow in a 1959 staging of Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge". Shortly thereafter, Berkoff formed the London Theatre Group, famed for its risk-taking, experimental theatrical pieces. As a playwright, Berkoff displayed a fondness bordering on obsession with Franz Kafka: among his Theatre Group offerings were such Kafka adaptations as "The Trial" and "Metamorphosis". He has also written such original plays as East, and has expressed his life-and-work philosophies in his books I Am Hamlet (a 1989 celebration of his favorite stage role) and Overview (1994). In films from the 1970's, Berkoff is often as not seen as a villain: "A Clockwork Orange", "Octopussy", "Rambo II". Most filmgoers will remember Berkoff as the despicable white-collar miscreant Victor Maitland in "Beverly Hills... Full Biography
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