Stephen Strimpell
Stephen Strimpell ( born January 17, 1937 in New York City; † 10 April 2006) was an American actor and acting teacher.
Biography
Strimpell, studied law. After 1956, he completed his education at Columbia Law School, he worked as a Member of the New York Lawyer, before he struck the artistic career.
He worked primarily as a stage actor. A wide audience, he was known only at the age of 30 years, when he took pills Whenever he played the lead role of the CBS television series. In this parody of Superman, he embodied the shy pump attendant " Stanley Beamish ", each of which briefly has super powers thanks to a pill.
After the series setting Strimpell only appeared sporadically in film and television productions. He starred opposite Dick Van Dyke in the comedy Fitzwilly, with Alan Alda in the drama Jenny, alongside Zero Mostel and Harry Belafonte in The Angel Levine, in the thriller scary ( Mary Higgins Clark) and next to Roy Scheider in All That Jazz, Bob Fosse's critically drama about the production of musicals. His last film role was as a stockbroker in Robin Williams' drama Seize the Day.
In addition Strimpell worked for many years as an acting teacher Herbert Berghof renowned drama school in New York.