Ron Leibman

Ron Leibman

Born: October 11, 1937
Died: December 6, 2019
in New York City, New York, USA
Ron Leibman (October 11, 1937 – December 6, 2019) was an American actor. He won both the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play in 1993 for his performance as Roy Cohn in Angels in America. Leibman also won a Primetime Emmy Award in 1979 for his role as Martin 'Kaz' Kazinsky in his short-lived crime drama series Kaz.

Leibman also acted in films such as Where's Poppa? (1970), The Hot Rock (1972), Norma Rae (1979), and Zorro, The Gay Blade (1982). Later in his career, he became widely known for providing the voice of Ron Cadillac in Archer (2013–2016) and for playing Dr. Leonard Green, Rachel's rich, short-tempered father, on the sitcom Friends (1996–2004).

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A Little Help
Title: A Little Help
Character: Warren Dunning
Released: May 21, 2010
Type: Movie
It's a movie for everyone whose life has been thrown off-course, out of whack, or simply not turned out the way they planned it. In other words, it's a movie for everyone, period. Set in suburban Long Island in the summer of 2002, with the psychic wounds of 9/11 still fresh, A Little Help is a story that takes a comic, searching and profoundly empathetic look at a few pivotal months in the life of dental hygienist Laura Pehlke (Jenna Fischer)-an ordinary woman whose life suddenly flies off the rails-and her heroic efforts to re-establish a sense of security and normalcy for herself and her son.
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Title: Archer
Character: Ron Cadillac (voice)
Released: September 17, 2009
Type: TV
Sterling Archer is the world's most daunting spy. He works for ISIS, a spy agency run by his mother. In between dealing with his boss and his co-workers - one of whom is his ex-girlfriend - Archer manages to annoy or seduce everyone that crosses his path. His antics are only excusable because at the end of the day, he still somehow always manages to thwart whatever crises was threatening mankind.
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Title: Archer
Character: Ron Cadillac (archive sound) (uncredited)
Released: September 17, 2009
Type: TV
Sterling Archer is the world's most daunting spy. He works for ISIS, a spy agency run by his mother. In between dealing with his boss and his co-workers - one of whom is his ex-girlfriend - Archer manages to annoy or seduce everyone that crosses his path. His antics are only excusable because at the end of the day, he still somehow always manages to thwart whatever crises was threatening mankind.
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Garden State
Title: Garden State
Character: Dr. Cohen
Released: July 28, 2004
Type: Movie
Andrew returns to his hometown for the funeral of his mother, a journey that reconnects him with past friends. The trip coincides with his decision to stop taking his powerful antidepressants. A chance meeting with Sam - a girl also suffering from various maladies - opens up the possibility of rekindling emotional attachments, confronting his psychologist father, and perhaps beginning a new life.
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Auto Focus
Title: Auto Focus
Character: Lenny
Released: October 18, 2002
Type: Movie
A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters with women, often with the help of his seedy friend, John Henry Carpenter. This biographical drama reveals how Crane's double life takes its toll on him and his family, and ultimately contributes to his death.
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Dummy
Title: Dummy
Character: Lou Schoichet
Released: September 12, 2002
Type: Movie
An ex-office worker becomes a ventriloquist, leading to a date with his unemployment counselor; but his quirky family and a gauche female friend may thwart his new career and love life.
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Personal Velocity
Title: Personal Velocity
Character: Avram Herskowitz
Released: January 12, 2002
Type: Movie
In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who restrict their personal freedom.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Stan Villani
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Title: The Sopranos
Character: Dr. Lior Plepler
Released: January 10, 1999
Type: TV
The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads. Those difficulties are often highlighted through his ongoing professional relationship with psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi. The show features Tony's family members and Mafia associates in prominent roles and story arcs, most notably his wife Carmela and his cousin and protégé Christopher Moltisanti.
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Title: Holding the Baby
Character: Stan Peterson
Released: August 23, 1998
Type: TV
Holding the Baby is an American sitcom television series that aired from August 23 until December 15, 1998. The series is an American version of the British show of the same name.
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Just the Ticket
Title: Just the Ticket
Character: Barry the Book
Released: February 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Gary Starke is one of the best ticket scalpers in New York City. His girlfriend, Linda, doesn't approve of his criminal lifestyle, though, and dumps him when she gets the opportunity to study cooking in Paris. Gary realizes that he has to give up scalping if he has any chance of winning her back. But before he does, he wants to cash out on one last big score. He gets his chance when the pope announces he'll be performing Easter Mass at Yankee Stadium.
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Don King: Only in America
Title: Don King: Only in America
Character: Harry Shondor
Released: November 15, 1997
Type: Movie
A cinematic portrait of the famous fight promoter and boxing manager.
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Night Falls on Manhattan
Title: Night Falls on Manhattan
Character: Morgenstern
Released: March 21, 1997
Type: Movie
A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.
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Title: The Practice
Released: March 4, 1997
Type: TV
A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”
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A Rugrats Chanukah
Title: A Rugrats Chanukah
Character: Rabbi / Old Man (voice)
Released: December 4, 1996
Type: Movie
The story of the Jewish holiday Chanukah through the eyes of the Rugrats, who imagine themselves as the main characters. Meanwhile, Grandpa Boris and his long-time rival, Shlomo, feud over who will play the lead in the local synagogue's Chanukah play.
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Title: Central Park West
Released: September 13, 1995
Type: TV
The glamorous and exciting life for the staff of trendy magazine 'Communique', owned by Allen Rush, "the Darth Vader of publishing".
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Title: Friends
Character: Leonard Green
Released: September 22, 1994
Type: TV
Six young people from New York City, on their own and struggling to survive in the real world, find the companionship, comfort and support they get from each other to be the perfect antidote to the pressures of life.
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In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway
Title: In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway
Released: June 11, 1993
Type: Movie
Backstage documentary chronicling the Original Broadway Production of “Angels in America.”
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Title: Pacific Station
Character: Detective Al Burkhardt
Released: September 15, 1991
Type: TV
Pacific Station is an American situation comedy aired in the United States by NBC as part of its 1991 fall lineup. The series was created by the team of Barry Fanaro, Mort Nathan, Kathy Speer and Terry Grossman.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Defense Attorney Barry Nathanson
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Paul Kopell
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami
Title: Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami
Character: Defence Attorney
Released: December 30, 1988
Type: Movie
There is no question that the Arab terrorist portrayed by Robert Davi is guilty of killing five US citizens in Barcelona. Even his lawyers have zero respect for the rabidly sociopathic Davi. But Jewish defence attorney Ron Leibman is obsessed with the concept of Due Process, and has vowed that Davi will receive a scrupulously fair trial when the terrorist is extradited to America. The defence mounted by Leibman confounds and aggravates government prosecutor Sam Waterston--but he, like Leibman, remains a man of judiciary integrity.
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Seven Hours to Judgment
Title: Seven Hours to Judgment
Character: David Reardon
Released: September 16, 1988
Type: Movie
A distraught husband kidnaps the judge who freed his wife's killers on insufficient evidence. He gives him seven hours to find evidence that will put them away, or he'll kill his wife.
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Title: Aaron's Way
Released: March 9, 1988
Type: TV
Aaron's Way is a 1988 American family drama series that aired on NBC. The series stars Merlin Olsen as Aaron Miller, the husband and father of an Amish family that moves to California. The series follows the attempts of family members to adapt to California culture while retaining their personal values. Also appearing on the series were Samantha Mathis and Belinda Montgomery.
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Christmas Eve
Title: Christmas Eve
Character: Morris Huffner
Released: December 24, 1986
Type: Movie
Story of a well-to-do elderly woman, who befriends the homeless and volunteers her time with children, who learns she has an incurable illness and wants desperately to reunite her three grown grand children (who are scattered across the U.S. living their own lives), with their estranged father, her son. She hires a private detective to search for them so as to try to get everyone together on Christmas Eve.
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Many Happy Returns
Title: Many Happy Returns
Character: Jerry Brenner
Released: September 19, 1986
Type: Movie
In this satire of the I.R.S., George Segal plays an Average Joe targeted for the Audit from Hell. His bank accounts are frozen, his home and business are attached by the government, and his wife leaves him. Segal is forced to move into the house of his obnoxious brother-in-law where lot of Odd Couple-type comedy ensues. Segal then plots to turn the tables on the I.R.S., and win back his wife and life.
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Door to Door
Title: Door to Door
Character: Larry Price
Released: January 8, 1985
Type: Movie
A smooth-talking vacuum cleaner salesman takes a young man under his wing and teaches him how to swindle his way to riches. The two team up, conning everyone from car dealers to widows.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Roland Trent
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Darryl Heyward
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Rhinestone
Title: Rhinestone
Character: Freddie Ugo
Released: June 22, 1984
Type: Movie
After a big-time country singer brags that she can turn anybody in to a country-singin' star, she's out to prove she can live up to her talk when she recruits a cab-driver as a country singer. He's scheduled to sing at a big-time NYC country night club and she puts her ample powers to work in preparing her protege.
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Romantic Comedy
Title: Romantic Comedy
Character: Leo Jessup
Released: October 7, 1983
Type: Movie
Jason is in need of a collaborator to give him inspiration. Phoebe is a small-town English teacher with an urge to write. On the day Jason is being married, Jason and Phoebe meet and form a partnership.
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Phar Lap
Title: Phar Lap
Character: Dave Davis
Released: August 11, 1983
Type: Movie
Phar Lap, the big bold chestnut reigned as the king of the turf in the depression that gripped Australia of the 1930s. From his humble beginnings the New Zealand bred horse raced on to become the hero of a nation.
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Zorro, The Gay Blade
Title: Zorro, The Gay Blade
Character: Captain Esteban
Released: July 17, 1981
Type: Movie
George Hamilton stars in a dueling dual role as twin sons of the legendary Zorro. Soon after the dashing Don Diego Vega inherits his father's famous sword and costume, a broken ankle prevents the masked avenger from fulfilling his heroic duties. When his flamboyantly fashion-conscious brother assumes the secret identity to continue an ongoing fight for justice, the results are nothing short of hilarious!
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Rivkin: Bounty Hunter
Title: Rivkin: Bounty Hunter
Character: Stan Rivkin
Released: May 20, 1981
Type: Movie
A New York-based bounty hunter who makes a living chasing and capturing bail jumpers matches wits with a heavily-armed drug dealer in this pilot to a prospective series.
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Linda in Wonderland
Title: Linda in Wonderland
Character: Himself
Released: November 27, 1980
Type: Movie
“Linda In Wonderland” is Linda Lavin’s variety television special that aired on Thanksgiving Day, 1980. Special guests include; Lynn Redgrave, Anthony Newley and Ron Leibman. Her characters of “Alice Hyatt” and “Sam Butler” from her television show “Alice” also make appearances as Ms. Lavin plays dual roles for both. Ms. Lavin and her guests perform Broadway and other musical numbers in various settings and medleys, mixed in with solo performances and Linda giving us a little background about herself growing up, along with some humor and pizzazz.
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Up the Academy
Title: Up the Academy
Character: Major Vaughn Liceman (uncredited)
Released: June 6, 1980
Type: Movie
Four boys are sent, for different reasons, to a Military Academy. The life of discipline asks a lot of the four geeks. Of course these boys know how to make a party out of the hard times. Will they be "real men" after one year.
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Norma Rae
Title: Norma Rae
Character: Reuben
Released: March 2, 1979
Type: Movie
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
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Title: Kaz
Released: September 10, 1978
Type: TV
Kaz is an American crime drama series that aired on CBS from September 10, 1978 to April 22, 1979.
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A Question of Guilt
Title: A Question of Guilt
Character: Detective Louis Kazinsky
Released: February 21, 1978
Type: Movie
A swinging divorcée is prejudged by a police detective and accused of killing her child.
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Title: Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Character: Rudy Montague
Released: July 26, 1976
Type: Movie
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.
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The Art of Crime
Title: The Art of Crime
Character: Roman Grey
Released: December 3, 1975
Type: Movie
A Romani antique dealer, who is also a private detective, gets involved in a murder case when one of his colleagues is accused of committing the murder.
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The Super Cops
Title: The Super Cops
Character: David Greenberg
Released: March 20, 1974
Type: Movie
The true story of two New York City cops. Greenberg & Hantz fought the system, became detectives and were known on the streets as "Batman & Robin".
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Your Three Minutes Are Up
Title: Your Three Minutes Are Up
Character: Mike
Released: August 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Charlie is a sad sack of a man, working at a depressingly dull office job and stuck in a passionless engagement to a neurotic woman. One of the few bright spots in his life is his friend Mike, who seems to be living a life of carefree bohemianism.
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Title: Police Story
Released: March 20, 1973
Type: TV
Police Story is an anthology television crime drama. The show was the brainchild of author and former policeman Joseph Wambaugh and represented a major step forward in the realistic depiction of police work and violence on network TV. Although it was an anthology, there were certain things that all episodes had in common; for instance, the main character in each episode was a police officer. The setting was always Los Angeles and the characters always worked for some branch of the LAPD. Notwithstanding the anthology format, there were recurring characters. Scott Brady appeared in more than a dozen episodes as "Vinnie," a former cop who, upon retirement, had opened a bar catering to police officers, and who acted as a sort of Greek chorus during the run of the series, commenting on the characters and plots.
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Title: Slaughterhouse-Five
Character: Paul Lazzaro
Released: March 15, 1972
Type: Movie
Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.
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The Hot Rock
Title: The Hot Rock
Character: Stanley Murch
Released: January 26, 1972
Type: Movie
Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it...
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Where’s Poppa?
Title: Where’s Poppa?
Character: Sidney Hocheiser
Released: November 10, 1970
Type: Movie
When New York attorney Gordon Hocheiser meets Louise Callan, the girl of his dreams, he schemes to eliminate his aging, senile mother, even though he promised his late father that he'd always take care of her. He fears that his batty mom's eccentricities will shortly lead to Louise's departure.
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Title: The Dick Cavett Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: June 6, 1968
Type: TV
The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.
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Title: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Title: The DuPont Show of the Week
Character: Carmatti
Released: September 17, 1961
Type: TV
The DuPont Show of the Week is an American anthology drama series which aired for three seasons on NBC from September 17, 1961 to August 30, 1964.
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Title: Tony Awards
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: April 1, 1956
Type: TV
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.