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Film (partial list)

Greenpoint Tavern (still in postproduction)
Do Not Disturb (co-star in the role of Collin Rosen, a coked-up rabbi! 2009)
Hubert Selby Jr.: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow (as himself being interviewed for the 2005 documentary about Selby)
The Technical Writer (Sundance Film Festival 2003, cameo as the doctor)
Not Again (co-star as Lenny, a wealthy gay philanthropist, 1996)
Ramona! (co-star as the corrupt Beverly Hills psychologist Dr. David Mesmer, 1993)
Cool World (voice of Sparks, Kim Bassinger’s character’s cartoon boyfriend, 1992)
Basic Instinct (cameo as a detective, 1993)
The Rapture (played the U.S. President but due to “technical difficulties” (i.e., the special effects didn’t work) reduced to “Man on Television,” 1991)
White Fang (pit bull owner Sykes, 1991)
The Runnin’ Kind (mobbish club owner)
The Nesting aka Massacre Mansion (the starring role of John Carradine’s wealthy grandson Daniel Griffith in Gloria Grahame’s last film, 1981)
Dracula’s Last Rites (starring role of Ted Fonda (!) who ultimately destroys Dracula and his crew in South Jersey (!) in 1979)
Whitey! (co-starring role as 1960s radical in first full-length feature funded by the American Film Institute, 1969)

TV (partial list)

Deadwood (crusty captain in the cavalry, 2004)
Ed (claimant in court)
Big Apple (Father O’Connor, 2001)
Law & Order (Paul Wheeler, State Department suit, 2000)
JAG (Frank Coster, detective turned psycho, 1997-98)
NYPD Blue (Walter Hoyt, artist/murder witness, 1995-97)
Brooklyn South (priest in confessional)
Diagnosis Murder (mob boss Pauli Rupp, 1994)
Caught in the Act (corrupt banker Rinehart in a 1993 movie of the week)
Father Dowling Mysteries (hit man Kelly, 1991)
L.A. Law (hit man on the stand, 1989)
Hardcastle & McCormick (music-biz baddie, 1986)
Berrengers (sweatshop owner Mister Allen in 11 of the 12 episodes shot, 1985)
Cagney & Lacey (Pharmacist/Don Juan killer, 1984)
My Mother’s Secret Life (a construction worker “john” in a movie of the week 1984)

Stage (partial list)

Short Eyes (the role of the Captain in the revival directed by Dylan McDermott)
The Rhythm of Torn Stars (as himself in the original, directed by Julian Neel)
The Coat (one-man staged reading of the Hubert Selby Jr. story, directed by Darrell Larson)
Balm in Gilead (John the counterman in the Los Angeles premier, directed by Paul Levine and produced by John Wells)
Hollywood Magic (as himself, based on his book of poems Hollywood Magic, self-directed)
The Heroes (as Hector/The Guard in the Eye & Ear Theater revival of the John Ashbery play)

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