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Mike Nussbaum

Mike Nussbaum

Actor · 1923–2023 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

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Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Michael Nussbaum (December 29, 1923 - December 23, 2023) was an American actor and director. From the start of his acting career in the 1950s, Nussbaum appeared in many of David Mamet's plays both on and off Broadway, as well as in Chicago. His appearances in movies include roles in Field of Dreams (1989) and Men In Black (1997). In 1997 he received a Jeff Award for his performance as Reverend Lionel Espy in David Hare's Racing Demon. His performance in Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross on Broadway received a Drama Desk Award in 1984. As a director, his work has included Where Have You Gone, Jimmy Stewart? (2002) by Art Shay. Nussbaum also appeared in local TV commercials for Chicago's Northwest Federal Savings (with the jingle, "It's Northwest Federal Savings Time, sixty-three hours a week"). Description above from the Wikipedia article  Mike Nussbaum, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acted in 35

2020s

  1. 2021

    Three Short Plays by Tracy Letts

    Landy

  2. Smokefall

    Colonel

  3. 2020

    Tom of Your Life

    Father McMurphy

2010s

  1. 2011

    The Chicago Code

    Judge · 1 episode

2000s

  1. 2008

    Osso Bucco

    Uncle Sil

  2. 2005

1990s

  1. 1998

    The Con

    Harry

  2. 1997
  3. 1996
  4. 1995

    Steal Big Steal Little

    Sam Barlow

  5. 1993
  6. Class of '96

    TV

  7. 1992

    Condition: Critical

    Dr. Burton Langhern

  8. Overexposed

    Bob Davis

  9. 1991
  10. Separate but Equal

    Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter

  11. Separate but Equal

    Justice Felix Frankfurter · 2 episodes

  12. 1990
  13. Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again

    'Pop' Tate

1970s

  1. 1978
  2. 1974

    Harry and Tonto

    Old Age Home Clerk

  3. 1971

    T.R. Baskin

    Office Manager

1960s

  1. 1969

    The Monitors

    Exercise Chief