The Resume

(February 12, 1924-January 30, 2018)
Born in Chicago, Illinois
Portrayed Jules Berger in ‘Brooklyn Bridge’ (1991-93) and Burt Buchman in Mad About You (1993-99)
Appeared in the films ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ (1971), ‘For Pete’s Sake’ (1974), ‘The Muppets Take Manhattan’ (1984), ‘Club Paradise’ (1985), ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’ (1988) and ‘Detachment’ (2011)
Appeared on Broadway in ‘Becket’ (1960-61), ‘The Odd Couple’ (1965-67), ‘Hadrian VII’ (1969), ‘Death of a Salesman’ (1984), ‘She Loves Me’ (1993-94), ‘Follies’ (2001) and ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ (2003)

Why he might be annoying:

He met his future wife, Olympia Dukakis, when he failed an audition to play her husband in an off-Broadway play, ‘The Opening of a Window.’
He claimed that during a production of ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,’ he and Dukakis go so into character as a battling couple that ‘we almost got divorced.’
He played two different judges in episodes of Law and Order.

Why he might not be annoying:

He and Olympia Dukakis were married for 55 years until his death.
During World War II, he served in an army engineering unit under General Patton’s command.
He was nominated for a Tony as Best Featured Actor in a Play for ‘Hadrian VII.’
He suffered a broken hip and fractured kneecap in a car crash (1977).

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 67]
• I Did Not Graduate High School [T-Z]
• I Died in 2018 (Ranked: 93)
• I Have Diabetes
• I Performed in a Sondheim Musical
• I Portrayed King Lear
• Look at Me, Yes You! - Finger Pointers
• Mad About You
• Profiles 42292-42500 (Ranked: 42451)
• Served in World War II
• We Celebrated Our Golden Anniversary
• We Died on the Same Day (Ranked: 20180130)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 5 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 170 Votes: 60.0% Annoying