Steven Hill
Steven Hill ( born February 24, 1922 as Solomon Krakovsky in Seattle, Washington ) is an American actor.
Life
Hill had his first theater appearance in 1946 on Broadway in Ben Hecht's A Flag Is Born, along with Marlon Brando. The following year he was next Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and Julie Harris founding member of Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio. From 1948 to 1951 he played in Mr. Roberts, as well as in several other Broadway productions. He made his feature film debut in 1950 in Lady Without a Passport at the side of Hedy Lamarr.
In 1966 he was for the lead role in the series Mission: Impossible take occupied. After he refused, as an Orthodox Jew, to work on the Sabbath, he was replaced at the beginning of the second season of the production company by Peter Graves. In the following ten years, he was not working as an actor, was from the early 1980s, but to build on his earlier career. So he worked among other things, in movies such as The eyewitness, Yentl, prosecutors and not the company you with kisses. From 1990 to 2000 he played the role of the Attorney Adam Schiff in 229 episodes of the TV series Law & Order. For this he was nominated twice for an Emmy Award and five times for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
From 1951 to 1964 Hill was married to actress Selma Stern, with whom he has four children. The marriage ended in divorce.