Steven Gilborn

Steven Neil Gilborn (July 15, 1936 – January 2, 2009) was an American television and film actor.

Gilborn was born in New Rochelle, New York on July 15, 1936. He attended Swarthmore College, where he was awarded a bachelor's degree in English and earned a Ph.D. in dramatic literature from Stanford University in 1969, where his dissertation provided a psychoanalytic perspective on the plays of the 19th-century French dramatist Émile Augier.^[1]

Before becoming an actor, Gilborn was a Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and faculty adviser to the Gilbert and Sullivan Society. He also taught at Stanford University, Columbia University and at the University of California, Berkeley. He was married to the American landscape photographer Karen Halverson.

Gilborn guest starred in a number notable television series including Perfect Strangers, JAG, ER, The West Wing, and NYPD Blue. He also appeared in the show Ellen (as "Harold Morgan", Ellen's father). Another notable recurring role was his three episode stint as "Mr. Collins", Kevin Arnold's algebra teacher on The Wonder Years. Film credits include "Mr. Phillips" in The Brady Bunch Movie.

Gilborn died at age 72 on January 2, 2009, of cancer at his home in North Chatham, New York.^[1]

References

External links

• Steven Gilborn at the Internet Movie Database

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