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Stefan Gierasch

 
Actor: Stefan Gierasch
  • Born: Feb 05, 1926 in New York City, New York
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '60s-'90s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
  • Career Highlights: Jeremiah Johnson, Blood Beach
  • First Major Screen Credit: Jeremiah Johnson (1972)

Biography

Stefan Gierasch made his earliest Broadway appearances in comic juvenile roles in such popular fare as Kiss and Tell and A Hatful of Rain. As he matured, Gierasch was afforded meatier assignments in plays like a Hatful of Rain, Compulsion and The Iceman Cometh. He made his first film appearance as a preacher in The Hustler (1961); subsequent film roles have included murder victim Professor Schreiner in Silver Streak (1974), Principal Norton in Carrie (1976) and the House Majority Leader in Dave (1993). Stefan Gierasch has been seen on TV as hospital bureaucrat J. Powell Karbo in AES Hudson Street (1978) and in the dual role of Professor Woodard and Joshua in the 1991 prime time revival of Dark Shadows. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Stefan Gierasch
Born February 5, 1926 (1926-02-05) (age 83)
New York City, USA
Years active 1951 - 2004

Stefan Gierasch (5 February 1926) is an American television and film actor.

Stefan Gierasch has made over 100 screen appearances, mostly in American television, beginning in 1951. In the mid-60s, he performed with the Trinity Square Players in Providence, Rhode Island. He has appeared in dozens of films including in 1961's The Hustler as 'Preacher', Jeremiah Johnson alongside Robert Redford as 'Del Gue', and What's Up Doc? as hotel clerk 'Fritz', both in 1972, Clint Eastwood's High Plains Drifter as the town mayor in 1973, Perfect as 'Charlie ' in 1985. In 1994 he appeared in the Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito film Junior as 'Edward Sawyer', and in 1995's Murder in the First as Warden James Humson'. Gierasch has made many TV appearances, as on Star Trek: The Next Generation, ER, and several commercials.

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