Listen to me on TV CONFIDENTIAL:
As always, the further we go back in Hollywood history, the more that fact and legend become intertwined. It's hard to say where the truth really lies.
March 9, 2005
Dan Rather appeared for the last time on The CBS Evening News.
March 10, 1965
Neil Simon’s play The Odd Couple debuted on Broadway.
Felix Ungar was played by Art Carney and Oscar Madison was played by Walter Matthau (Matthau was later replaced
with Jack Klugman). The show, directed by Mike Nichols, ran for 966 performances and
won several Tony Awards,
including Best Play. The play was followed by a successful film (Jack Lemmon as Felix and Walter Matthau as Oscar) and television
series (Tony Randall as Felix and Jack Klugman as Oscar).
March 15, 1935
Judd Hirsch is born.
He was born in The Bronx borough of New York City, New York, the son of Sally (née Kitzis) and Joseph Sidney Hirsch, an electrician. His father was also born in New York where the family had lived since the mid-1800s. Sally
(Sarah) Kitzis was born in Russia. Hirsch was raised Jewish.
He attended DeWitt
Clinton High School, located in The
Bronx, and later earned a college degree from the City
College of New York in physics.
Hirsch's first major television appearance was in the
mini-series The Law (1974).
For his performance in Taxi, in 1981 and again in 1983, Judd Hirsch won the Emmy Award for Lead Actor In a Comedy Series. Hirsch went on to
play the title character on the modestly successful sitcom Dear
John and in 1989 won a Golden
Globe Award for Best Actor in a
Television Series in a Comedy or Musical for this role. He later teamed with Bob Newhart in the short-lived comedy George and Leo. He had also previously starred for one season in the
series Delvecchio, playing a police detective (1976–1977).
In film, Hirsch received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the drama film Ordinary People (1980). Other films in the 1980s include the 1983
drama Without
a Trace, the 1984 dramedies Teachers and The
Goodbye People, and the 1988
drama Running on Empty
directed by Sidney
Lumet and co-starring River Phoenix. In 1996, Hirsch portrayed the father of Jeff Goldblum's character in Independence
Day, and in 2001 he appeared in
the acclaimed A
Beautiful Mind.
Hirsch co-starred on the CBS Television
drama NUMB3RS as Alan Eppes, father of FBI agent Don Eppes (Rob Morrow) and Professor Charlie Eppes (David Krumholtz). Hirsch and Krumholtz also played father and son in Conversations with My Father, a Herb Gardner play for which Hirsch won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a
Leading Actor in a Play. Krumholtz
credits Hirsch with jump-starting his career after Hirsch chose him during the
audition process for Conversations. Other noteworthy stage performances
include The
Hot l Baltimore, Talley's Folly, and his starring
role in I'm
Not Rappaport, in which Hirsch also won a Tony Award in 1986.
More recently, Hirsch guest-starred on episodes of Warehouse 13, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Law & Order: SVU and The Whole Truth
(which saw him reunite with Numb3rs co-star Rob Morrow), among others,
and lent his voice to the animated programs Tom
Goes to the Mayor and American Dad! In 1999, he reprised his role from Taxi for a
brief moment in Man
on the Moon, the biopic of
his co-star from Taxi, Andy Kaufman (portrayed by Jim Carrey).
To quote the Bicentennial Minute, "And that's the way it was".
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Tony Figueroa
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