Saul Rubinek

Saul Rubinek is a German-born Canadian actor, director, producer, and playwright. He is widely known for his television roles, notably Artie Nielsen on Warehouse 13, Donny Douglas on Frasier, Lon Cohen on A Nero Wolfe Mystery, and Louis B. Mayer on The Last Tycoon. He also starred in the films Against All Odds (1984), Wall Street (1987), The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), Unforgiven (1992), Nixon (1995), True Romance (1993), The Express (2008), Barney's Version (2010), and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018). Rubinek was born in Föhrenwald, Germany, in 1948. His parents were Polish Jews who had been hidden by Polish farmers during World War II. They immigrated to Canada after the war. Rubinek began his acting career in theater, appearing in several productions with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and Theatre Passe Muraille. He made his television debut in 1977, with a guest appearance on the series Baretta. In 1984, Rubinek starred in the film Against All Odds. He followed that up with roles in the films Wall Street (1987), The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), and Unforgiven (1992). In 1995, Rubinek starred in the film Nixon. He received critical acclaim for his performance, and he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture. In 1998, Rubinek directed his first feature film, Jerry and Tom. The film was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. From 2009 to 2014, Rubinek starred as Artie Nielsen on the Syfy series Warehouse 13. The series was a critical and commercial success, and it ran for five seasons. In 2013, Rubinek starred as Louis B. Mayer on the Amazon Prime series The Last Tycoon. The series was based on the novel of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Rubinek is a five-time Genie Award nominee, winning Best Supporting Actor for Ticket to Heaven (1981). He is also a two-time Gemini Award nominee. Rubinek is married to Elinor Reid, a playwright and producer. They have two children.

Known For: Acting

Born: Wolfratshausen, Germany, 1948-07-02

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1978	Seer Was Here		0
2	1979	The Wordsmith	Mervyn Kaplansky	0
3	1980	Agency	Sam Goldstein	63
4	1980	Death Ship	Jackie	52
5	1980	Nothing Personal	Peter Braden (uncredited)	57
6	1981	Ticket to Heaven	Larry	66
7	1982	Soup for One	Allan	54
8	1982	By Design	Terry	48
9	1982	Young Doctors in Love	Floyd Kurtzman	52
10	1982	Highpoint	Centino	48
11	1984	Against All Odds	Steve Kirsch	57
12	1985	Martin's Day	Hitchhiker	62
13	1986	Sweet Liberty	Bo Hodges	54
14	1986	Half a Lifetime	Sam	0
15	1987	Wall Street	Harry Salt	72
16	1990	The Bonfire of the Vanities	Jed Kramer	56
17	1991	The Quarrel	Hersh Rasseyner	55
18	1992	Unforgiven	W.W. Beauchamp	79
19	1993	True Romance	Lee Donowitz	75
20	1994	Death Wish V: The Face of Death	Brian Hoyle	55
21	1994	Getting Even with Dad	Robert 'Bobby' Drace	53
22	1994	I Love Trouble	Sam Smotherman	55
23	1995	The Android Affair	Fiedler	50
24	1995	Memory Run	Dr. Munger	55
25	1996	Past Perfect	Bookkeeper	41
26	1997	Pale Saints	Whitey	20
27	1997	Hostile Intent	Kendall	55
28	1999	36 Hours to Die	Morano	42
29	1999	Dick	Henry Kissinger	59
30	2000	Lakeboat	Cuthman	47
31	2000	The Contender	Jerry Tolliver	67
32	2000	The Family Man	Alan Mintz	68
33	2001	Laughter on the 23rd Floor	Ira Stone	38
34	2002	Gleason	George 'Bullets' Durgom	57
35	2002	The Brady Bunch in the White House	Sal Astor	40
36	2003	And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself	Eli Morton	68
37	2004	Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss	Dr. Paul Fleiss	43
38	2004	White Coats	Dr. Sam Bonnert	50
39	2004	Baadasssss!	Howard Kaufman	65
40	2005	Santa's Slay	Mr. Green	54
41	2006	Jesse Stone: Night Passage	Hasty Hathaway	69
42	2007	War	Dr. Sherman	64
43	2007	A Broken Life	The Boss	28
44	2008	Julia	Mitch	67
45	2010	The Trotsky	David Bronstein	67
46	2010	Kill Me Please	M. Breiman	66
47	2011	Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost	Hasty Hathaway	64
48	2012	Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt	Hasty Hathaway	68
49	2021	I Am Normal	Rosenhan	60
50	2023	BlackBerry	John Woodman	72
51	2023	Clock	Joseph	56
52		Grierson and Gouzenko	Gouzenko	0
53	1968	Slow Run	Narrator	0
54	1976	Friday Night Adventure		0
55	1979	Sanctuary of Fear	Jerry Stone	60
56	1981	Clown White	Mr. Freed	0
57	1983	The Terry Fox Story	Dan Grey	61
58	1985	The Suicide Murders	Benny Cooperman	0
59	1986	Murder Sees the Light	Benny Cooperman	0
60	1987	Taking Care		0
61	1987	So Many Miracles	Narrator	0
62	1988	Hitting Home	Owen Hughes	40
63	1988	The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick	Rabbi Teitelman	55
64	1988	Liberace: Behind the Music	Seymour Heller	43
65	1990	Falling Over Backwards	Mel	55
66	1992	Man Trouble	Laurence Moncrief	49
67	1993	Woman on Trial: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story	Bill Bryson	35
68	1993	Undercover Blues	Mr. Ferderber	60
69	1993	And the Band Played On	Dr. Jim Curran	65
70	1995	Open Season	Eric Schlockmeister	48
71	1995	Nixon	Herb Klein	69
72	1996	Toe Tags		0
73	1996	Rainbow	Sam Cohen	36
74	1997	Color of Justice	Norm	48
75	1998	Blackjack	Thomas	53
76	1998	Bad Manners	Matt Carroll	50
77	1998	Jerry and Tom	Dogtrack Victim	61
78	2000	The Bookfair Murders	Martin P. Barrett	43
79	2000	The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery	Saul Panzer	81
80	2001	Rush Hour 2	Red Dragon Box Man	68
81	2001	Bleacher Bums	Reid (uncredited)	65
82	2002	Claude Jutra: An Unfinished Story	Self	60
83	2002	Triggermen	Jazzer	46
84	2003	The Singing Detective	Skin Specialist	51
85	2004	Hollywood North	Paul Linder	51
86	2004	Coast to Coast	Gary Pereira	66
87	2004	Camp Hollywood	Himself	0
88	2005	Trump Unauthorized	Peter Wennik	32
89	2005	Partner(s)	Matthew	62
90	2006	Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Diff'rent Strokes'	Fred Silverman	60
91	2007	Jesse Stone: Sea Change	Hasty Hathaway	69
92	2007	Blackout	Sol	56
93	2008	The Express	Art Modell	71
94	2010	Jesse Stone: No Remorse	Hasty Hathaway	68
95	2010	Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!	Martin Hirsch	50
96	2010	Knucklehead	Rabbi	56
97	2010	Barney's Version	Charnofsky	70
98	2014	A Star Is Drawn: Rob Simone's Look Inside Comic-Con	Self	0
99		Redefining the Outsider: Saul Rubinek in Early Canadian Television	Self	0
100	2016	Gridlocked	Marty	59
101	2018	The Ballad of Buster Scruggs	Frenchman (segment "The Mortal Remains")	71
102	2019	A Magical Journey	Saul	29
103	2019	The Song of Names	Mr. Feinman	67
104	2019	The Song of Names	Feinman	67
105	2023	SHTTL	Rebbe Weitsenzang	67

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1975	Sidestreet	Frank	50
2	1977	For The Record		0
3	1981	Hill Street Blues		76
4	1985	The Ray Bradbury Theater	John Griffths	69
5	1985	The Equalizer	Jason Masur	72
6	1986	L.A. Law	Harold Schoen	71
7	1987	Star Trek: The Next Generation	Kivas Fajo	84
8	1989	Men	Paul Armas	0
9	1990	Law & Order	Professor Ira Simpkis	74
10	1993	Frasier	Donny Douglas	77
11	1995	The Outer Limits	Professor Hugaro	77
12	1995	The Outer Limits	Aaron Zgierski	77
13	1996	Ink	Alan Mesnick	40
14	1997	The Practice	Arnold Hunter	77
15	1997	Stargate SG-1	Emmett Bregman	83
16	1999	Mentors	Napoleon Bonaparte	87
17	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Mr. Price	79
18	1999	Once and Again		68
19	2000	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Dr. Saul Funkhouser	80
20	2001	A Nero Wolfe Mystery	Lon Cohen	78
21	2003	Threat Matrix	Peter Tomashevski	60
22	2004	Jack & Bobby		70
23	2004	Lost	Clark Finney	79
24	2004	Boston Legal	Donald Feldcamp	79
25	2005	Blind Justice	Dr. Alan Galloway	63
26	2005	Grey's Anatomy	Eli Rigler	82
27	2005	Masters of Horror		72
28	2006	Psych	Lance	79
29	2006	Eureka	Dr. Carl Carlson	78
30	2008	The Trojan Horse	Rafe Kott	40
31	2009	Warehouse 13	Arthur "Artie" Nielsen	77
32	2009	The Good Wife	Judge Thomas Treem	76
33	2011	Person of Interest	Arthur Claypool	81
34	2015	Schitt's Creek	Tippy Bernstein	77
35	2016	Angie Tribeca	Pfoopa	64
36	2017	The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel	Pauly Auerbach	81
37	2018	FBI	Senator David Becker	79
38	2019	For All Mankind	Rep. Charles Sandman	77
39	2020	Hunters	Murray Markowitz	72

Saul Rubinek

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