SAUL RUBINEK

'Saul Rubinek' (born July 2, 1948) is a Canadian film actor, often cast as a shady professional.
Rubinek was born in Föhrenwald, Wolfrathausen, Germany, the son of Polish-born Jews Frania and Israel Rubinek, a factory worker, theater company manager, Yiddish Theatre actor, and Talmudic scholar. Rubinek's parents were hidden by farmers for over two years during WWII, and moved to Canada in 1948.^[1][2] Early in his career he gained the attention of Canadian audiences when he starred as detective Benny Cooperman in two TV movies, ''The Suicide Murders'' (1985) and ''Murder Sees the Light'' (1986), which are based on books in author Howard Engel's popular series of mystery novels set in the Niagara Region of Canada.
He subsequently appeared in Oliver Stone's ''Wall Street'' (1987) as a lawyer, and in Brian DePalma's ''The Bonfire of the Vanities'' (1990), again as a lawyer. He is also noted for his performance in Clint Eastwood's ''Unforgiven'' (1992) as a pulp fiction writer. He had a notable role in Tony Scott's ''True Romance'' (1993) as a pompous, cocaine-addicted movie producer. Rubinek played the character Kivas Fajo in the '' episode "The Most Toys". He took over the role after David Rappaport, the actor who was originally cast to guest in the episode, committed suicide. He also played Daphne Moon's fiancé Donny Douglas in several episodes of the American sitcom Frasier.
Rubinek had a recurring role as reporter Lon Cohen in the 2001-2002 A&E TV series ''A Nero Wolfe Mystery'', after initially playing detective Saul Panzer in the series pilot, '' (2000). He also appeared in the short-lived American television series ''Blind Justice''. He played a dentist in an episode of ''Curb Your Enthusiasm''. He recently played a role in the ''Eureka'' episode Invincible, and in ''Stargate SG-1's'' "Heroes".

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1. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800014215/bio
2. http://www.filmreference.com/film/81/Saul-Rubinek.html

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