James Rebhorn
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One of America's most recognizable character actors, James Rebhorn was a veteran of over 100 television shows, feature films, and plays. While best known for portraying lawyers, politicians, doctors, and military men, he delivered equally notable performances in a variety of other roles, including that of a brutal serial killer on NBC's Law & Order, a shipping magnate in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), and a comically doomed restaurateur in Billy Morrisette's Scotland, PA (2001).Born in Philadelphia, PA, on September 1, 1948, Rebhorn moved to Anderson, IN, as a child. A devout Lutheran, he attended the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Wittenburg University in Ohio, where he studied political science. After graduating in 1970, Rebhorn moved to New York City, where he earned a Master's of Fine Arts in acting from Columbia University's School of the Arts and joined the metropolitan theater scene.After making his television debut on the NBC soap opera The Doctors in 1977, Rebhorn starred on Another World: Texas and The Guiding Light, as well as earned a 1989 Soap Opera Digest Award for his performance as Henry Lange on As the World Turns. He displayed his comic talents during a recurring role on Kate and Allie, and in an unforgettable turn as the district attorney who jails the Seinfeld gang in the show's final episode. He also garnered recurring roles on some of television's most heralded dramas -- including Law & Order, Third Watch, Now and Again, and The Practice -- and memorable telefilms -- including Sarah, Plain and Tall (1981), North and South (1985), Skylark (1993), From the Earth to the Moon (1998), and A Bright Shining Lie (1998).Rebhorn's feature-film career began in the early '80s with roles such as "Lawyer" in Soup for One (1982), "Los Alamos Doctor" in Silkwood (1983), and "Drunken Business Man" in Cat's Eye (1985). As the decade progressed, his parts increased in importance and he emerged in the '90s as an established supporting actor with roles in several high-profile films. After appearing in 1991's Regarding Henry with Harrison Ford and Annette Bening, Rebhorn gave stand-out performances opposite Marisa Tomei and Joe Pesci in My Cousin Vinny (1992), Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas in Basic Instinct (1992), Chris O'Donnell and Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman (1992), and Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte in Lorenzo's Oil (1992). He went on to earn prominent roles in Carlito's Way (1993), Guarding Tess (1994), I Love Trouble (1994), Up Close & Personal (1996), Independence Day (1996), If Lucy Fell (1996), and My Fellow Americans (1996). Rebhorn rounded out the '90s by playing the mysterious Consumer Recreation Services representative in The Game (1997), the prosecuting attorney in Snow Falling on Cedars (1999), and Jude Law's shipping magnate father in the above-mentioned The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999). The new millennium saw him starring as Robert De Niro's future in-law in Meet the Parents (2000) and a modern-day version of Macbeth's Duncan in the above-mentioned Scotland, PA, before gearing up for the Eddie Murphy sci-fi vehicle The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002), and Todd Haynes' long-awaited return to directing, Far From Heaven (2002).Towards the end of his career, Rebhorn returned to television, playing recurring characters on several different shows, playing the CEO of Abbadon Industries on HBO's Enlightened, an FBI special agent on USA's White Collar and, his final role, Carrie Mathison's father on Showtime's Homeland.While juggling his film and television work, Rebhorn frequently returned to the stage. He appeared at the Manhattan Theater Club, Playwright's Horizons, the New York Shakespeare Festival, the LaJolla Playhouse, the Ensemble Studio Theater, and Lincoln Center. In 2002, he earned rave reviews for his performance in the Roundabout Theater's production of Arthur Miller's first play, The Man Who Had All the Luck, with Chris O'Donnell and Samantha Mathis.Rebhorn was diagnosed
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | The Perfect Wedding |
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— | 2014 |
No Score Yet | Before I Sleep |
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— | 2013 |
84% | Sleepwalk With Me |
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$2.3M | 2012 |
36% | The Odd Life of Timothy Green |
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$51.9M | 2012 |
60% | Real Steel |
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$85.5M | 2011 |
38% | Don McKay |
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— | 2010 |
43% | The Box |
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$114.9M | 2009 |
16% | Spinning Into Butter |
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— | 2009 |
16% | An American Affair |
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— | 2009 |
58% | The International |
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$25.5M | 2009 |
63% | Baby Mama |
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$60.3M | 2008 |
27% | Anamorph |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Comanche Moon |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Bernard and Doris |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Candles on Bay Street |
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— | 2006 |
61% | How to Eat Fried Worms |
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$13.1M | 2006 |
62% | The Last Shot |
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$0.4M | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Reversible Errors |
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— | 2004 |
70% | Cold Mountain |
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— | 2003 |
87% | Far From Heaven |
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$15.9M | 2003 |
30% | Head of State |
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$37.8M | 2003 |
No Score Yet | The Trade |
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— | 2003 |
4% | The Adventures of Pluto Nash |
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$4.4M | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Oprah Winfrey Presents: Amy & Isabelle |
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— | 2001 |
59% | Scotland, Pa. |
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$0.3M | 2001 |
84% | Meet the Parents |
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$164.5M | 2000 |
43% | The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle |
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$0.5M | 2000 |
83% | The Talented Mr. Ripley |
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— | 1999 |
39% | Snow Falling on Cedars |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Marriage Material |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | A Bright Shining Lie |
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— | 1998 |
76% | The Game |
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— | 1997 |
47% | My Fellow Americans |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Mistrial |
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— | 1996 |
68% | Independence Day |
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— | 1996 |
18% | If Lucy Fell |
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— | 1996 |
31% | Up Close & Personal |
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— | 1996 |
58% | White Squall |
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— | 1996 |
63% | How to Make an American Quilt |
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— | 1995 |
22% | I Love Trouble |
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— | 1994 |
57% | Guarding Tess |
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— | 1994 |
31% | 8 Seconds |
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— | 1994 |
9% | Blank Check |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | JFK: Reckless Youth |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Skylark |
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— | 1993 |
82% | Carlito's Way |
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— | 1993 |
92% | Lorenzo's Oil |
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— | 1992 |
89% | Scent of a Woman |
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— | 1992 |
44% | White Sands |
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— | 1992 |
55% | Basic Instinct |
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— | 1992 |
52% | Shadows and Fog |
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— | 1992 |
86% | My Cousin Vinny |
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— | 1992 |
50% | Wind |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Deadly Matrimony |
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— | 1992 |
43% | Regarding Henry |
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— | 1991 |
80% | Sarah, Plain and Tall |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Mob Justice |
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— | 1991 |
36% | Desperate Hours |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Heart of Midnight |
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— | 1988 |
67% | The House on Carroll Street |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Rockabye |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | A Deadly Business |
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— | 1986 |
76% | Silkwood |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | Will: G. Gordon Liddy |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | Soup for One |
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— | 1982 |
30% | He Knows You're Alone |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | Boy of Pigs |
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TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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93% |
The Good Wife
2009-2016
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87% |
Enlightened
2011-2013
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96% |
White Collar
2009-2014
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48% |
Coma
2012
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33% |
Made in Jersey
2012
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No Score Yet |
Blue Bloods
2010
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85% |
Homeland
2011-2020
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78% |
30 Rock
2006-2020
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43% |
Big Lake
2010
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94% |
Royal Pains
2009-2016
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86% |
Boston Legal
2004-2008
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58% |
Canterbury's Law
2008
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No Score Yet |
Comanche Moon
2008
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No Score Yet |
Law & Order
1990
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74% |
The Knights of Prosperity
2007
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54% |
The Book of Daniel
2006
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20% |
Hack
2002-2004
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No Score Yet |
The Practice
1997-2004
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20% |
UC: Undercover
2001-2002
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100% |
Now and Again
1999-2000
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No Score Yet |
Third Watch
1999-2005
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No Score Yet |
From the Earth to the Moon
1998
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89% |
Seinfeld
1989-1998
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No Score Yet |
New York Undercover
1994-1998
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No Score Yet |
Kate & Allie
1984-1989
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Quotes from James Rebhorn's Characters
Jim Feingold: | What are you gonna do, anyway? You won't get your money back. |
Nicholas Van Orton: | I don't care about money. I'm pulling back the curtain. I want to meet the wizard. |
Mr. Trask: | Mr. Simms your are a cover-up artsist and you are a liar. |
Lt. Col. Frank Slade: | But not a snitch! |
Mr. Trask: | Excuse me !? |
Mr. Trask: | Excuse me? |
Lt. Col. Frank Slade: | No I don't think I will ! |
Lt. Col. Frank Slade: | No I don't think I will! |
Herbert Greenleaf: | People say you can't choose your parents, but I believe you can't choose your children. |
Principal Burdock: | "Billy Forrester." With two Rs. |
Principal Burdock: | Billy Forrester. With two R's. |
Billy Forrester: | There's three. |
Principal Burdock: | I beg your pardon? |
Billy Forrester: | There's three Rs. |
Billy Forrester: | There's three R's. |
Principal Burdock: | Ally oop. |
Lt. Col. Frank Slade: | Well, gentlemen! When the shit hits the fan, some guys run and some guys stay. Here's Charlie facin' the fire and there's George hidin' in Big Daddy's pocket. And what are you doin'? You're gonna reward George and destroy Charlie. |
Mr. Trask: | Are you finished, Mr. Slade? |
Lt. Col. Frank Slade: | No, I'm just gettin' warmed up! |
Mr. Trask: | Mr. Simms, you are a cover-up artist and you are a liar. |
Lt. Col. Frank Slade: | But not a snitch! |
Mr. Trask: | Excuse me? |
Lt. Col. Frank Slade: | No, I don't think I will. |