John Rubinstein
John Arthur Rubinstein ( born December 8, 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American film and theater actor, and film music composer and film director.
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- Composer 2.2
Life
Early life
Rubinstein was born as a son of the Polish pianist Arthur Rubinstein and his wife Aniela Młynarska. His maternal grandfather was the Polish conductor Emil Młynarski. A passion for music was placed so that it in the cradle, and he studied at the University of California, Los Angeles musicology and drama.
Career
1967 debuted Rubinstein as an actor in an episode of the television series Dragnet 1967. Three years later, in 1970, he composed for the film comedy Paddy his first soundtrack.
Theater
In October 1972, Rubinstein made his Broadway debut as the lead in the musical Pippin and convinced it to December 1977 in 1,944 performances. The magazine lauded Rubinstein's performance in 1973 with a Theatre World Award. For his role in the drama of God's Forgotten Children ( Children of a Lesser God), which was seen from March 1980 to May 1982 887 times on Broadway, Rubinstein 1980 he received both a Drama Desk Award and the coveted Tony Award. The comedy Getting Away With Murder, in which he appeared in March 1996, it took only 17 performances.
Music composer for movies
Rubinstein's career as a composer for movies includes in the period 1970-1991 25 works. Among his best known films include Bill McKay - The Candidate, directed by Robert Redford in 1972 In the same year he also composed the music for the Western Jeremiah Johnson.. After 1991, Rubinstein has composed no more film music.
Screen actor
After his debut in the television series Dragnet 1967 Rubinstein was so far over 140 times in front of the camera. Here, Rubinstein was mainly seen as a guest performer in television series, as in recent years, inter alia, in Star Trek: Enterprise (2002/2004), 24 ( 2003) or Angel - Hunters of darkness. He had one of his better-known feature film appearances in 1978 in the thriller The Boys from Brazil. In Germany it was mainly through the evening series The Falls of the Harry Fox (1984 - 1986) is known, in which he played the son of Jack Warden 's lawyer Harrison Fox.
Private life
John Rubinstein was previously married twice. In 1971 he married the actress Judi West, with whom he was married until 1989. From this marriage a daughter and son Michael Weston come. 1992 married Rubinstein, the actress Jane Lanier, with whom he has two sons. This relationship ended in 2002.