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Judd Seymore Hirsch (born March 15, 1935) is an American actor known for playing Alex Rieger on the television comedy series Taxi (1978–1983), John Lacey on the NBC series Dear John (1988–1992), and Alan Eppes on the CBS series Numb3rs (2005–2010). He is also well known for his career in theatre and for his roles in films such as Ordinary People (1980), Running on Empty (1988), Independence Day (1996), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Independence Day: Resurgence (2016), Uncut Gems (2019) and The Fabelmans (2022).

Judd Hirsch
Hirsch in 1967
Born	Judd Seymore Hirsch[1] (1935-03-15) March 15, 1935 (age 87) New York City, U.S.
Alma mater	City College of New York (BS) American Academy of Dramatic Arts
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1959–present
Spouses	Elisa Sadaune ​ ​ (m. 1963; div. 1967)​ Bonni Sue Chalkin ​ ​ (m. 1992; div. 2005)​
Children	3

He has twice won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, twice won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his turn as Dr. Tyrone C. Berger in Ordinary People.

Early life and education

Hirsch was born in the Bronx, New York, the son of Sally (née Kitzis) and Joseph Sidney Hirsch, an electrician.[2] Joseph was born in New York, to a German Jewish father, Benjamin Hirsch, and an English-born mother, Rosa Hirsch Benjamin, whose family were Dutch Jews.[3][4][5] Sally Hirsch was born in Russia, also to a Jewish family.[6] Judd Hirsch has a brother named Roland.[7]

He grew up in both Brooklyn and The Bronx[4] and graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School[8] (in The Bronx) in 1952. He earned a degree in physics from City College of New York.[1]

After graduating from college, Hirsch served in the United States Army Reserve in 1958 at Fort Leonard Wood for six months as a surveyor.[4][9] Next Hirsch worked as an engineer for Westinghouse before he found work in the theater.[10] He studied acting at HB Studio[11] in New York City. He graduated in 1962 from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City.[12]

Career

Over the last several decades, Hirsch has distinguished himself in film, television, and theatre. The Los Angeles Times noted that Hirsch is "one of the very few actors who slips effortlessly from TV series to Broadway to feature films and back again, racking up awards and favorable reviews wherever he performs."[10]

After appearing frequently on television in the 1970s, including one season (1976–1977) in the series Delvecchio,[13] Hirsch gained stardom for his lead role of Alex Rieger in the popular sitcom Taxi, which ran from 1978 to 1983. For his performance in the series, Hirsch won the Emmy Award for Lead Actor In a Comedy Series in 1981 and 1983.[14] 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).[15]

After Taxi, Hirsch played 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.[16] He later teamed up with Bob Newhart in the short-lived comedy George and Leo.[17]

Hirsch received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Ordinary People (1980), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture that year. His other film performances from the decade include leading roles in 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 the blockbuster Independence Day, a role that he later reprised in its 2016 sequel. In 2001, he played a Princeton University professor in the Academy Award-winning film A Beautiful Mind. Hirsch has more recently had supporting roles in acclaimed films such as The Meyerowitz Stories (2017) and Uncut Gems (2019).[18]

Hirsch co-starred on the CBS Television drama Numb3rs (2005–2010) as Alan Eppes, father of FBI agent Don Eppes (Rob Morrow), and Professor Charlie Eppes (David Krumholtz). When Krumholtz was 13, he played the role of a son to Hirsch's father role in Conversations with My Father,[19] a Herb Gardner play for which Hirsch won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play.[20] Krumholtz credits Hirsch with jump-starting his career after Hirsch chose him during the audition process for Conversations.^{[citation needed]} Other noteworthy stage performances include The Hot l Baltimore, Talley's Folly, and his starring role in I'm Not Rappaport, for which Hirsch also won a Tony Award in 1986.[13]

More recently Hirsch guest-starred on episodes of Warehouse 13, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, God Friended Me, and The Whole Truth (he reunited with Numb3rs co-star Rob Morrow), among others and lent his voice to the animated programs Tom Goes to the Mayor and American Dad! Judd has also appeared several times on the television show Maron as comedian Marc Maron's father; he has had a recurring role on The Goldbergs, playing the father of Jeff Garlin's character. In 2016, Hirsch appeared on the CBS comedy series The Big Bang Theory portraying the father of Johnny Galecki's character, Leonard.[18]

From 2014 to 2015, he appeared as a series regular on the ABC television series Forever. From 2017 to 2018, Hirsch starred in the CBS comedy Superior Donuts which lasted two seasons.[13]

In early 2020, Hirsch appeared in a scene as the historic Simon Wiesenthal, in season 1, episode 8 of the Amazon Prime Video show, Hunters which stars Al Pacino.[21]

Personal life

Hirsch was married to his first wife, Elisa Sadaune, from 1963 to 1967. Their son, Alex Hirsch, was born in 1966.[22] Hirsch married Bonni Sue Chalkin, a fashion designer, in 1992 and the couple divorced in 2005.[23] From this second marriage Hirsch has a daughter, Montana, and son, London.[24]

Filmography

Film[18]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1971	Jump	Unknown	Uncredited
1973	Serpico	Cop	Uncredited
1978	King of the Gypsies	Groffo
1980	Ordinary People	Dr. Tyrone C. Berger	Nominated - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
1983	Without a Trace	Detective Al Manetti
1984	The Goodbye People	Arthur Korman
1984	Teachers	Roger Rubell
1988	Running on Empty	Arthur Pope/Paul Manfield
1996	Independence Day	Julius Levinson
1999	Out of the Cold	Leon Axelrod
1999	Man on the Moon	Alex Rieger	Uncredited cameo
2001	A Beautiful Mind	Dr. Helinger	Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2004	Zeyda and the Hitman	Gideon Schub
2006	Brother's Shadow	Leo Groden
2011	Tower Heist	Mr. Simon
2011	The Muppets	Himself	Cameo
2011	This Must Be the Place	Mordecai Midler
2013	Altered Minds	Dr. Nathan Shellner
2016	Independence Day: Resurgence	Julius Levinson
2017	The Meyerowitz Stories	L.J. Shapiro
2019	Uncut Gems	Gooey
2021	Burning at Both Ends	Bertrand	Known as Resistance: 1942 in some territories
2022	Showing Up	Bill
2022	Hollywood Stargirl	Mr. Mitchell
2022	The Fabelmans	Uncle Boris
2023	iMordecai	Mordecai Samel

Television[18]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1974	The Law	Murray Stone	Television movie
1975	The Law	Murray Stone	3 episodes
1975	Fear on Trial	Saul	Television movie
1975	Medical Story	Dr. Joe Dempsey	Episode: "Waste Land"
1975	The Legend of Valentino	Jack Auerbach	Television movie
1976	The Keegans	Lieutenant Marco Ciardi	Television movie
1976	Visions	Joe Morris	Episode: "Two Brothers"
1977	Rhoda	Mike	2 episodes: "Rhoda Likes Mike", "The Weekend" Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
1976–1977	Delvecchio	Sergeant Dominick Delvecchio	22 episodes
1979	Sooner or Later	Bob Walters	Television movie
1979	The Halloween That Almost Wasn't	Count Dracula	Television movie
1980	Marriage Is Alive and Well	Herb Rollie	Television movie
1980	The Last Resort	Dr. Zegelman	Episode: "Zegelmania"
1981	The Robert Klein Show	Unknown	Television movie
1983	Lights: The Miracle of Chanukah	Unknown	Television movie
1978–1983	Taxi	Alex Reiger	114 episodes Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (1981, 1983) Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy (1979-1983) Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (1979-1980, 1982)
1985	Detective in the House	Press Wyman	6 episodes
1985	First Steps	Dr. Jerrold Petrofsky	Television movie
1985	Brotherly Love	Ben Ryder/Harry Brand	Television movie
1988–1992	Dear John	John Lacey	90 episodes Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy (1989) Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy (1990)
1988	The Great Escape II: The Untold Story	Capt. David Matthews	Television movie
1990	She Said No	Martin Knapek	Television movie
1994	Betrayal of Trust	Dr. Jules Masserman	Television movie
1996	Caroline in the City	Ben Karinsky	Episode: "Caroline and the Comic"
1997	Color of Justice	Sam Lind	Television movie
1997–1998	George and Leo	Leo Wagonman	22 episodes
1999	Rocky Marciano	Al Weill	Television movie
2000	Welcome to New York	Dr. Bob	Episode: "Dr. Bob"
2001	Family Law	Daniel Bonner	Episode: "Security"
2002	Philly	Rabbi Nathan Wexler	Episode: "The Curse of the Klopman Diamonds"
2003	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Dr. Judah Platner	Episode: "Mercy"
2003	Regular Joe	Baxter Binder	5 episodes
2003	Street Time	Shimi Goldman	Episode: "High Holly Roller"
2003	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Ben Elkins	Episode: "Pravda"
2003	Who Killed the Federal Theatre	Narrator	Television movie
2005	Family Guy	Himself (voice)	Episode: "Blind Ambition"
2006	Tom Goes to the Mayor	Prisoner (voice)	Episode: "Spray a Carpet or Rug"
2006	Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip	Wes Mendell	Episode: "Pilot"
2009	American Dad!	Rabbi (voice)	2 episodes
2005–2010	Numb3rs	Alan Eppes	114 episodes
2010	Warehouse 13	Isadore Weisfelt	Episode: "Secret Santa"
2011–2012	Damages	Bill Herndon	14 episodes
2012	The Good Wife	Judge Harrison Creary	Episode: "Here Comes the Judge"
2013–2015	Maron	Larry Maron	4 episodes
2014	Sharknado 2: The Second One	Ben	Television movie
2014–2015	Forever	Abraham "Abe" Morgan	22 episodes
2014	Small Miracles	Mort	4 episodes
2015–2022	The Goldbergs	Ben "Pop-Pop" Goldberg	11 episodes
2016	The Big Bang Theory	Dr. Alfred Hofstadter	2 episodes
2016	Family Guy	Himself (voice)	Episode: "Take a Letter"
2017–2018	Superior Donuts	Arthur Przybyszewski	34 episodes
2018	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Joseph Edelman	Episode: "Alta Kockers"
2019–2021	Big Mouth	Lewis Glouberman (voice)	3 episodes
2019	Modern Love	Cop, Vendor, Taxi Driver	Episode: "Take Me as I Am, Whoever I Am"
2020	God Friended Me	Abe	Episode: "A New Hope"
2020	Hunters	Simon Wiesenthal	Episode: "The Jewish Question"
2020	A Deadly Legend	Carl Turner	Television movie
2020	Cosmos: Possible Worlds	J. Robert Oppenheimer (voice)	Episode: "A Tale of Two Atoms"[25]
TBA	Extrapolations		Upcoming Apple TV+ series

Theatre[26]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1963	Barefoot in the Park	Telephone Man
1972–1973	The Hot l Baltimore	Bill Lewis	Best American Play - New York Drama Critics' Circle Best American Play - Obie Award
1976	Knock Knock	Multiple roles	Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play
1977–1978	Chapter Two	George Schneider	Nominated - Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play
1980	Talley's Folly	Matt Friedman	Nominated - Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play Nominated - Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play
1985–1988	I'm Not Rappaport	Nat	Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
1992–1993	Conversations with My Father	Eddie	Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
1996	A Thousand Clowns	Murray Burns
1998–1999	Art	Marc
2002	I'm Not Rappaport	Nat
2004	Sixteen Wounded	Hans

References

External links

• Judd Hirsch at the Internet Broadway Database
• Judd Hirsch at IMDb
• Judd Hirsch at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• TonyAwards.com Interview with Judd Hirsch
• Dave Ross interview with Judd Hirsch on MyNorthwest.com

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[de] Judd Hirsch

Judd Seymore Hirsch (* 15. März 1935 in Bronx, New York City, New York) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler, der in seiner Hauptrolle als Alex Reiger in der Fernsehserie Taxi bekannt wurde.

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[es] Judd Hirsch

Judd Seymore Hirsch (Nueva York; 15 de marzo de 1935) es un actor estadounidense. Fue nominado a un premio Óscar al mejor actor de reparto por su interpretación en la película de 1980 Ordinary People. También fue nominado a cuatro premios Globo de Oro (de los que ganó uno), un premio SAG, tres premios Primetime Emmy (de los que ganó uno) y tres premios Tony (de los que ganó dos). [2][3] Ha trabajado en películas como A Beautiful Mind, Rocky Marciano, Independence Day, Man on the Moon, entre otras.

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[ru] Хирш, Джадд

Джадд Сеймор Хирш (англ. Judd Seymore Hirsch; род. 15 марта 1935 (1935-03-15)) — американский актёр. Хирш наиболее известен благодаря своей длительной карьере на телевидении, где он сыграл ведущие роли в ситкомах «Такси» (1978—83) и «Дорогой Джон» (1988—92). На позднем этапе карьеры он взял на себя роли второго плана в «4исла» (2005—10) и «Вечность» (2014—2015).

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