Jerry Wasserman (born November 2, 1945) is an American professor and film and television actor.

Jerry Wasserman
Born (1945-11-02) November 2, 1945 (age 79)

Wasserman was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.

He was a professor of English and Theatre at the University of British Columbia.[1] He was also a frequent co-star of Don S. Davis. At Cornell University, he received a doctorate in English literature.

Edited works

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  • Modern Canadian Plays (1985)[2][3][4][5]
  • Spectacle of Empire: Marc Lescarbot’s Theatre of Neptune in New France (2006)[6]
  • Theatre and AutoBiography: Writing and Performing Lives in Theory and Practice (2006) (with Sherrill Grace)[7][8]

Filmography

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Actor
Year Film Role Other notes
1984 Low Visibility Dr. Korona
1985 Blackout (TV movie) Motel Clerk
1986 Spot Marks the X (TV movie) Elvis
The Christmas Star (TV movie) Desk Sergeant
Danger Bay 1986–1989 (TV series) Len / Mark Shapiro / 'Redd'
1987 Stingray (TV series) Head Marshal
Stone Fox (TV movie) Carson
Hands of a Stranger (TV movie) Hotel Employee
Airwolf (TV series) Ackroyd / Valdez
Assault and Matrimony (TV movie) Desk Clerk
The New Adventures of Beans Baxter (TV series) Number Two
21 Jump Street (TV series) Assistant District Attorney Brabeck / Anderson / Knoller / Sergeant Crenshaw
Wiseguy (TV series) 1987–1990 (TV series) Max / Burt / Monique's Friend
1988 MacGyver 1988–1990 (TV series) Falco / Maddox / Nick Milani
Deadly Pursuit FBI Agent
J.J. Starbuck (TV series) Jean Claude
The Red Spider (TV movie) Velch
The Accused Plea Bargain Lawyer
1989 Quarantine Senator Ford
The Fly II Simms
The Penthouse (TV movie) Unknown
Unsub (TV series) Magnus
Top of the Hill (TV series) Dr. Eisenberg
Cold Front Cooper
Look Who's Talking 'Mr. Anal'
Bordertown 1989–1990 (TV series) Hank Jefferies / Timmins / Whiskey Wagon Guard
1990 Sky High (TV movie) Ralph
Booker (TV series) Lieutenant Goodman
Short Time Cop
Neon Rider 1990–1993 (TV series) Detective Hepburn / Mr. Amberson / Patrick
1991 The Black Stallion (TV show) (TV series) Dr. Harrison
Fly by Night (TV series) Nick Sconto
Run Halloran's Lieutenant
Scene of the Crime (TV series) Unknown
Broken Badges (TV series) Attorney
Mystery Date Detective Al Condon
Palace Guard (TV series) Grant Dillon
1992 Still Not Quite Human (TV movie) Man Tourist
Crow's Nest Detective Ray Quinlan
Stay Tuned Cop
Shame (TV movie) Tom Rainey
The Heights (TV series) Jimmy Bandisi
1993 Alive Co-Pilot Dante Lagurara
The Hat Squad (TV series) Tony 'Tony D.'
Miracle on Interstate 880 (TV movie) Dr. Scott
When a Stranger Calls Back (TV movie) Detective Brauer
Sherlock Holmes Returns (TV movie) Lieutenant Civita
Final Appeal (TV movie) Miguel
Cobra (TV series) Calgrove
Other Women's Children (TV movie) Randy Gross
The Only Way Out (TV movie) Brock
Madison (TV series) 1993–1997 (TV series) Don Novak
1994 Max Attorney Lawrence
Trust in Me Kanzer
Birdland (TV series) Shalimar
Moment of Truth: Broken Pledges (TV movie) Dr. Parmel
Heart of a Child (TV movie) Cardiologist
Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story (TV movie) Max
Roommates (TV movie) ICU Doctor
Double Cross First Detective
The Disappearance of Vonnie (TV movie) Lieutenant Vigo
Nowhere to Hide (TV movie) Unknown
Beyond Betrayal (TV movie) Detective
M.A.N.T.I.S. (TV series) Detective Paul Warren
The X-Files (TV series) Dr. John Grago / Dr. Plith
1995 Red Scorpion 2 Steinberg
Robin's Hoods (TV series) Detective Conroy
Deadlocked: Escape from Zone 14 (TV movie) Archer's Attorney
She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal (TV movie) Carl Perkins
Crying Freeman Chief Randall
Cyberjack Neil Jervis
When the Vows Break (TV movie) Mr. Morley
The Outer Limits (TV series) Dr. Silcase / Gunther Van Owen / William Talbot
1996 When Friendship Kills (TV movie) E.R. Doctor
Profit (TV series) Dr. Wenner
She Woke Up Pregnant (TV movie) Judge Arnold Rolfe
Malicious Detective #1
Mask of Death Tony Lopata
Poltergeist: The Legacy (TV series) Dr. Patterson
Maternal Instincts Detective Jack Kramer
Two (TV series) Unknown
Diana Kilmury Teamster (TV movie) Les
Gone in a Heartbeat (TV movie) Mr. Ross
The Sentinel (TV series) Brad's Lawyer / Killibrew
1997 Contagious Detective Barnes
Their Second Chance (TV movie) Gordon
Dad's Week Off (TV movie) Detective
Wounded Dr. Sam Cohen
High Stakes (TV movie) Unknown
Intensity (TV movie) Head of The Hospital
The Diary of Evelyn Lau (TV movie) Man On Dock
Kitchen Party Les Sr.
Police Academy: The Series (TV series) Vic DiMozo
Mr. Magoo Javier
1998 Outrage (TV movie) Officer Dan McRyan
Dirty Repoman
Circle of Deceit (TV movie) Leo Pappas
Viper (TV series) (TV series) Philip Leech
Goldrush: A Real Life Alaskan Adventure (TV movie) Fisher
One Hot Summer Night (TV movie) Judge Block
Golf Punks Joe
Cold Squad (TV series) Inspector Vince Schneider
Stargate SG-1 1998–2004 (TV series) Chief Of Staff / Whitlow
1999 The Crow: Stairway to Heaven (TV series) Judge Paul Morrison
Beggars and Choosers (TV series) Irwin
A Cooler Climate (TV movie) Leo
Evolution's Child (TV movie) Agent Edmunds
So Weird 1999–2000 (TV series) Club Manager / James Garr
First Wave 1999–2000 (TV series) Dr. Markowitz / Sammy 'The Horse' Kozack
2000 Call of the Wild (TV series) Theobold 'Soapy' Smith
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show (TV series) Sonny
Christina's House Sheriff Mark Sklar
Scorn (TV movie) Swirski
Hollywood Off-Ramp (TV series) Unknown
The Operative Urquhart
2001 The Heart Department (TV movie) Doctor #4
Touched by a Killer Mitch Clarke
Head Over Heels (TV mini-series) FBI Captain Vince
Mysterious Ways 2001–2002 (TV series) Detective Cobb
2002 Liberty Stands Still Wall Street Man
Dark Angel (TV series) Dr. George
L.A. Law: The Movie (TV movie) Ron Gervin
Taken (TV mini-series) Surgeon
Smallville 2002–2005 (TV series) Dr. Yaeger Scanlan
2003 The Dead Zone (TV series) Sam Baker
First to Die Lieutenant Roth
Little Brother of War Hank O'Connor
2005 The Survivors Club (TV movie) 'Fitz' Fitzpatrick
Tru Calling (TV series) Marlon
I, Robot Baldez
Young Blades (TV series) Oliver Cromwell
Bob the Butler Detective Alvarez
Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Mork & Mindy' (TV movie) Frank
The Long Weekend Gordon Lanson
2004 Reunion (TV series) Investigator
Severed: Forest of the Dead John
FBI: Negotiator (TV movie) FBI Agent Jon Di Carlo
2006 A Little Thing Called Murder (TV movie) Jack Reynolds
Flight 93 (TV movie) Mickey Rothenberg
Final Days of Planet Earth (TV movie) Markley
Family in Hiding (TV movie) Cloninger
The Butterfly Effect 2 Alberto Fuentes
Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Diff'rent Strokes' (TV movie) Howard Leeds
Trapped Ashes Dr. Stengel
The Entrance Rapist
Black Christmas Medical Examiner
2007 The Last Mimzy Utilities Commissioner
Crossing Gerry Casteronova
Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series) Cabott
Unthinkable (TV movie) Ed Callahan
Write & Wrong (TV movie) Marty Rosen
2008 Blonde and Blonder Chief Fitzgerald
NYC: Tornado Terror (TV movie) Mayor Leonardo
Supernatural (U.S. TV series) Coroner
2009 Memory Lanes (TV movie) Earl Corvair
Alien Trespass Sam
Watchmen Detective Fine
Sight Unseen (TV movie) Detective Richard Walker
A Dangerous Man (video) Sergeant Ritchie
2010 Paradox Hillman
Sins of the Mother (TV movie) Carl
2011 Doomsday Prophecy (TV movie) Sam Lovell
Everything and Everyone William
2016 The Flash President of The United States Episode: Invasion!
2023 The Last of Us Abe Episode: When You're Lost in the Darkness

References

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  1. ^ "Jerry Wasserman's Biography at UBC". faculty.arts.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2 April 2018.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ Loiselle, André (1995). "Jerry Wasserman, ed. Modern Canadian Plays". Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théâtrales au Canada. 16 (1).
  3. ^ Goldie, Terry (1986). ""Modern Canadian Plays" ed. Jerry Wasserman (Book Review)". Australasian Drama Studies (8): 113.
  4. ^ Wallace, Robert (1989). "Richard Perkyns, ed. Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre, 1934-1984; Richard Plant, ed. Modern Canadian Drama; Jerry Wasserman, ed. Modern Canadian Plays". Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théâtrales au Canada. 10 (2).
  5. ^ Parker, Brian (1986). "Major Plays of the Canadian Drama, 1934-1984 ed. by Richard Perkyns, and: The Penguin Book of Modern Canadian Drama, Volume I ed. by Richard Plant, and: Modern Canadian Plays ed. by Jerry Wasserman (review)". Modern Drama. 29 (1): 151–154. doi:10.1353/mdr.1986.0000. S2CID 162766277.
  6. ^ Wagner, Anton (2006). "Jerry Wasserman, ed. Spectacle of Empire: Marc Lescarbot's Theatre of Neptune in New France". Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théâtrales au Canada. 31 (1): 98–100. doi:10.3138/tric.31.1.98.
  7. ^ Stephenson, Jenn (2010). "Sherrill Grace and Jerry Wasserman, eds. Theatre and AutoBiography: Writing and Performing Lives in Theory and Practice". Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théâtrales au Canada. 31 (2).
  8. ^ Dwyer, Troy (2007). "Theatre and Autobiography: Writing and Performing Lives in Theory and Practice, and: 1001 Beds: Performances, Essays, and Travels". Theatre Journal. 59 (2): 332–333. doi:10.1353/tj.2007.0116. S2CID 191335016.
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