David Joseph Margulies (February 19, 1937 â€" January 11, 2016) was an
American actor.Margulies was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of
Runya (née Zeltzer), a nurse and museum employee, and Harry David
Margulies, a lawyer. He graduated from City College of New
York.Margulies made his stage debut in the off-Broadway play Golden 6
(1958). In that same year, he joined the American Shakespeare Festival
as an apprentice, which led to his receiving an Actors' Equity
Association contract for the 1960 theater season. His first Broadway
appearance was in the 1973 revival of The Iceman Cometh.His film
credits include The Front (1976), Last Embrace (1979), All That Jazz
(1979), Hide in Plain Sight (1980), Dressed to Kill (1980), Times
Square (1980), I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982), Daniel (1983),
Ghostbusters (1984), Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986), 9½ Weeks (1986),
Ishtar (1987), Running on Empty (1988), Ghostbusters II (1989), Out on
a Limb (1992), A Stranger Among Us (1992), Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
(1994), and Fading Gigolo (2013).
American actor.Margulies was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of
Runya (née Zeltzer), a nurse and museum employee, and Harry David
Margulies, a lawyer. He graduated from City College of New
York.Margulies made his stage debut in the off-Broadway play Golden 6
(1958). In that same year, he joined the American Shakespeare Festival
as an apprentice, which led to his receiving an Actors' Equity
Association contract for the 1960 theater season. His first Broadway
appearance was in the 1973 revival of The Iceman Cometh.His film
credits include The Front (1976), Last Embrace (1979), All That Jazz
(1979), Hide in Plain Sight (1980), Dressed to Kill (1980), Times
Square (1980), I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982), Daniel (1983),
Ghostbusters (1984), Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986), 9½ Weeks (1986),
Ishtar (1987), Running on Empty (1988), Ghostbusters II (1989), Out on
a Limb (1992), A Stranger Among Us (1992), Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
(1994), and Fading Gigolo (2013).
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