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Lawrence Dobkin

The Silver Chalice [Widescreen]

Raiders of Old California

Above and Beyond

Johnny Yuma

Julius Caesar

The Cowboy

Whirlpool

The Cabinet of Caligari

Born: 09/16/1919

Decades Active:
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Biography: Along with such colleagues as William Conrad, John Dehner, Vic Perrin, Sam Edwards, Barney Phillips, and Virginia Gregg, bald-pated American character actor Lawrence Dobkin was one of the mainstays of network radio in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Dobkin began popping up in films in 1949, playing any number of doctors, lawyers, attach�s, military officials, and desk sergeants. Most of his parts were fleeting, many were unbilled: he can be seen as a soft-spoken rabbi in Angels in the Outfield (1951), one of the three psychiatrists baffled by alien visitor Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), an angered citizen of Rome in Julius Caesar (1953), and so on. Enjoying larger roles on TV, Dobkin was generally cast as a scheming villain (e.g., Dutch Schultz on The Untouchables). One of his showiest assignments was as the demented Gregory Praxas, horror film star turned mass murderer, in the 1972 pilot film for Streets of San Francisco. From the early '60s onward, Dobkin was busier as a writer and director than as an actor. He amassed a respectable list of TV directorial credits, as well as one theatrical feature, Sixteen (1972). Habitu�s of "speculation" docudramas of the 1970s and 1980s will recognize Lawrence Dobkin as the bearded, avuncular narrator of many of these efforts; he also appeared as Pontius Pilate in the speculative 1979 four-waller In Search of Historic Jesus. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

DVDs that Lawrence Dobkin appeared in...

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02/17/2009 - The Silver Chalice [Widescreen]
07/15/2008 - Raiders of Old California
03/25/2008 - Above and Beyond
11/27/2007 - Johnny Yuma
11/07/2006 - Julius Caesar
01/17/2006 - The Cowboy
09/06/2005 - Whirlpool
09/06/2005 - The Cabinet of Caligari
05/18/2004 - The Gene Krupa Story
01/06/2004 - People Will Talk