Lawrence Dobkin

Lawrence Dobkin ( born September 16, 1919 in New York; † October 28, 2002 in Los Angeles ) was an American actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter. Dobkin occurred mostly before the camera in appearance, but also has directed several television series.

Life

Dopkin was a popular speaker on radio radio plays of the 1940s, 50s and 60s and made a name for himself as the voice of the taxi driver Louie in the long-lived radio drama series The Saint. From 1949, he became increasingly smaller roles in movies, where he showed, among other things as a doctor, a lawyer and psychiatrist in various productions. However, he remained faithful to the oppo until end of his life, as if narrating voice in movies and in the synchronization of video games.

Larger roles he took on television, where he mainly played the role of the villain. For his performance in a TV movie of the CBS Playhouse, he was nominated for a 1968 Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor. From the 1960s he focused on the work behind the camera and resulted in numerous television series director. In 1972 he was the director at his first and only feature film, the film drama Sixteen.

By 2001, he took over yet guest appearances on television shows such as Judging Amy and NYPD Blue. In October 2002, he died of a heart failure.

Dobkin was married twice; first with colleague Joanna Barnes, from 1970 with Anne Collings, with whom he had three children.

Filmography (excerpt)

Movies

TV series

• Merciless city, Perry Mason, Cobra, accept, MacGyver, LA Law, Knight Rider, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Melrose Place, Profiler, Judging Amy

Direction

• Star Trek
• The Waltons
• Charlie's Angels
• Dallas