Saul Rubinek (born July 2, 1948) is a Canadian film actor, often cast as a shady professional. He has also directed and produced feature-length films.
Rubinek was born in Föhrenwald, Wolfratshausen, Germany, the son of Polish-born Jews Frania and Israel Rubinek, who was a factory worker, theater company manager, Yiddish Theatre actor, and Talmudic scholar. Rubinek's parents were hidden by farmers for over two years during World War II, and moved ...
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Saul Rubinek (born July 2, 1948) is a Canadian film actor, often cast as a shady professional. He has also directed and produced feature-length films.
Rubinek was born in Föhrenwald, Wolfratshausen, Germany, the son of Polish-born Jews Frania and Israel Rubinek, who was a factory worker, theater company manager, Yiddish Theatre actor, and Talmudic scholar. Rubinek's parents were hidden by farmers for over two years during World War II, and moved to Canada in 1948.
Early in his career he gained the attention of Canadian audiences when he starred as detective Benny Cooperman in two TV movies, The Suicide Murders (1985) and Murder Sees the Light (1986), which are based on books in author Howard Engel's popular series of mystery novels set in the Niagara Region of Canada.
He appeared in Taylor Hackford's Against All Odds (1984), Oliver Stone's Wall Street (1987) as a lawyer, and in Brian DePalma's The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), again as a lawyer, and in The Quarrel, (1991). He is...
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