Anthony Zerbe
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Disdaining the "surfer" mentality of his California boyhood friends, Anthony Zerbe chose to head to New York to become an actor. He studied with Stella Adler and worked off-Broadway before achieving success in the mid-'60s. He made his film debut in 1967's Will Penny, after which he settled into a series of sharkish, saturnine villainous portrayals. An adherent of EST training, Zerbe preferred to work with people who allowed him "space" to develop a characterization; one such person was David Janssen, with whom Zerbe appeared on the mid-'70s TV series Harry O (in which he won an Emmy award for his portrayal of Lieutenant Trench). Active on-stage and in films and television into the 1990s, Anthony Zerbe has contributed some unforgettable acting moments to the big screen, notably as the shadow-enshrouded leper in 1971's Papillon and the "blowed up real good" secondary villain in the 1989 James Bond opus License to Kill.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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50% | Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks |
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$74.1k | 2014 |
92% | American Hustle |
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$99.2M | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Untitled Ice Cube/David O. Russell Project |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Veritas: Prince of Truth |
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— | 2007 |
35% | The Matrix Revolutions |
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$139.1M | 2003 |
73% | The Matrix Reloaded |
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$281.6M | 2003 |
54% | True Crime |
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— | 1999 |
54% | Star Trek: Insurrection |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Asteroid |
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— | 1997 |
33% | Touch |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance |
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— | 1996 |
77% | Licence To Kill |
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— | 1989 |
28% | See No Evil, Hear No Evil |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Listen to Me |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Steel Dawn |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | P.I. Private Investigations |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | Baja Oklahoma |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | Independence |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | Opposing Force |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | Off Beat |
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— | 1986 |
89% | The Dead Zone |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | A Question of Honor |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | Rascals and Robbers/Sawyer and Finn |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | Soggy Bottom U.S.A. |
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— | 1981 |
63% | The First Deadly Sin |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | Attica |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | The Chisholms |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | KISS Meets the Phantom |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | Child of Glass |
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— | 1978 |
75% | Who'll Stop the Rain |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | Centennial |
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— | 1978 |
65% | The Turning Point |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Woman Accused |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | In the Glitter Palace |
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— | 1977 |
44% | Rooster Cogburn |
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— | 1975 |
76% | Farewell, My Lovely |
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— | 1975 |
89% | The Parallax View |
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— | 1974 |
57% | The Laughing Policeman |
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— | 1973 |
79% | Papillon |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | Carola |
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— | 1973 |
80% | The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | Snatched |
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— | 1972 |
65% | The Omega Man |
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— | 1971 |
60% | They Call Me Mister Tibbs |
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— | 1970 |
67% | The Liberation of L.B. Jones |
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— | 1970 |
90% | The Molly Maguires |
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— | 1970 |
85% | Will Penny |
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— | 1968 |
100% | Cool Hand Luke |
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— | 1967 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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No Score Yet |
Judging Amy
1999-2005
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93% |
Frasier
1993-2004
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33% |
Total Recall 2070
1999
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No Score Yet |
Walker, Texas Ranger
1993-2001
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No Score Yet |
Murder, She Wrote
1984-1996
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82% |
Tales from the Crypt
1989-1996
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No Score Yet |
Columbo
1968-2003
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No Score Yet |
The Equalizer
1985-1989
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No Score Yet |
Highway to Heaven
1984-1989
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No Score Yet |
Little House on the Prairie
1974-1983
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No Score Yet |
The Rockford Files
1974-1980
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No Score Yet |
Kung Fu
1972-1975
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No Score Yet |
The Streets of San Francisco
1972-1977
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No Score Yet |
Gunsmoke
1955-1975
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No Score Yet |
Ironside
1967-1975
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No Score Yet |
Mission: Impossible
1966-1973
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No Score Yet |
Bonanza
1959-1973
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No Score Yet |
It Takes a Thief
1968-1970
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Quotes from Anthony Zerbe's Characters
Matthias: | Definition of a scientist: a man who understood nothing, until there was nothing left to understand. |
Councillor Hamann: | There is so much in this world that I do not understand. See that machine? It has something to do with recycling our water supply. I have absolutely no idea how it works. But I do understand the reason for it to work. I have absolutely no idea how you are able to do some of the things you do, but I believe there's a reason for that as well. I only hope we understand that reason before it's too late. |