Anthony Zerbe

Highest Rated: 100% Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Lowest Rated: 28% See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)

Birthday: May 20, 1936

Birthplace: Not Available

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
50%	Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks	Mr. Crumwald	$74.1k	2014
92%	American Hustle	Senator Horton Mitchell	$99.2M	2013
No Score Yet	Untitled Ice Cube/David O. Russell Project	Senator Horton Mitchell	—	2013
No Score Yet	Veritas: Prince of Truth	Actor	—	2007
35%	The Matrix Revolutions	Councillor Hamann	$139.1M	2003
73%	The Matrix Reloaded	Councillor Hamann	$281.6M	2003
54%	True Crime	Henry Lowenstein	—	1999
54%	Star Trek: Insurrection	Matthew Dougherty	—	1998
No Score Yet	Asteroid	Dr. Charles Napier	—	1997
33%	Touch	Father Donahue	—	1997
No Score Yet	Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance	Sanford Miller	—	1996
77%	Licence To Kill	Milton Krest	—	1989
28%	See No Evil, Hear No Evil	Sutherland	—	1989
No Score Yet	Listen to Me	Sen. McKellar	—	1989
No Score Yet	Steel Dawn	Damnil	—	1987
No Score Yet	P.I. Private Investigations	Charles Bradley, Joey's Father and Newspape	—	1987
No Score Yet	Baja Oklahoma	Jeemy Williams	—	1987
No Score Yet	Independence	General Grey	—	1987
No Score Yet	Opposing Force	Becker	—	1986
No Score Yet	Off Beat	Mr. Wareham	—	1986
89%	The Dead Zone	Stuart	—	1983
No Score Yet	Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.	Justin Sepheran	—	1983
No Score Yet	A Question of Honor	Captain Marcus	—	1982
No Score Yet	Rascals and Robbers/Sawyer and Finn	Arco the Magnificent	—	1982
No Score Yet	Soggy Bottom U.S.A.	Morgan	—	1981
63%	The First Deadly Sin	Capt. Broughton	—	1980
No Score Yet	Attica	William Kunstler	—	1980
No Score Yet	The Chisholms	Jimmy Jackson	—	1979
No Score Yet	KISS Meets the Phantom	'''Abner Devereaux'''. Devereaux	—	1978
No Score Yet	Child of Glass	Actor	—	1978
75%	Who'll Stop the Rain	Antheil	—	1978
No Score Yet	Centennial	Mervin Wendell	—	1978
65%	The Turning Point	Rosie	—	1977
No Score Yet	Woman Accused	Danko	—	1977
No Score Yet	In the Glitter Palace	Danko	—	1977
44%	Rooster Cogburn	Breed	—	1975
76%	Farewell, My Lovely	Brunette	—	1975
89%	The Parallax View	Schwartzkopf	—	1974
57%	The Laughing Policeman	Lt. Steiner	—	1973
79%	Papillon	Toussaint Leper Colony Chief	—	1973
No Score Yet	Carola	Actor	—	1973
80%	The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean	Hustler	—	1972
No Score Yet	Snatched	Boone	—	1972
65%	The Omega Man	Matthias	—	1971
60%	They Call Me Mister Tibbs	Rice Weedon	—	1970
67%	The Liberation of L.B. Jones	Willie Joe Worth	—	1970
90%	The Molly Maguires	Dan Dougherty	—	1970
85%	Will Penny	Dutchy	—	1968
100%	Cool Hand Luke	Dog Boy	—	1967

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
No Score Yet	Judging Amy 1999-2005	Judge Sobel	2004
93%	Frasier 1993-2004	Cliff Guest	2000
33%	Total Recall 2070 1999	Tyler Hume	1999
No Score Yet	Walker, Texas Ranger 1993-2001	Joey Galloway	1996
No Score Yet	Murder, She Wrote 1984-1996	Mat Matthews	1994
82%	Tales from the Crypt 1989-1996	Actor	1994
No Score Yet	Columbo 1968-2003	Max Dyson	1989
No Score Yet	The Equalizer 1985-1989	Philip Marcel	1988 1987
No Score Yet	Highway to Heaven 1984-1989	Jabez Stone	1985
No Score Yet	Little House on the Prairie 1974-1983	Dr. McQueen McQueen	1982
No Score Yet	The Rockford Files 1974-1980	Skowron	1978
No Score Yet	Kung Fu 1972-1975	Klempt Rafe	1974 1973
No Score Yet	The Streets of San Francisco 1972-1977	Eddie	1973 1972
No Score Yet	Gunsmoke 1955-1975	Heraclio Cantrell and Father Hernando Cantrell Nick Talbot	1973 1970 1968
No Score Yet	Ironside 1967-1975	Vincent Wiertel Dunlap	1972 1971
No Score Yet	Mission: Impossible 1966-1973	Eric Schilling David Redding Col. Alex Vorda Reese Dolan Col. Helmut Kellerman	1971 1970 1969 1967
No Score Yet	Bonanza 1959-1973	John Spain	1969
No Score Yet	It Takes a Thief 1968-1970	O'Farrell	1968

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.

On Dvd & Streaming

Anthony Zerbe

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

TV

Quotes from Anthony Zerbe's Characters