Judd Hirsch
Birthday: 1935-03-15
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Biography: Judd Seymore Hirsch (born March 15, 1935) is an American actor. He is known for playing Alex Rieger on the television comedy series Taxi (1978–1983), John Lacey on the NBC series Dear John (1988–1992), and Alan Eppes on the CBS series Numb3rs (2005–2010). He is also well known for his career in theatre and for his roles in films such as Ordinary People (1980), Running on Empty (1988), Independence Day (1996), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Independence Day: Resurgence (2016), Uncut Gems (2019), and The Fabelmans (2022). He won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, two Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Play, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy, and was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The 42-year gap between his first nomination (Ordinary People in 1980) and second (The Fabelmans in 2022) is the longest in history.
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A Beautiful Mind
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. A...
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Independence Day
Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major...
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King of the Gypsies
Zharko, leader of the Romanis in NYC, passes his position of leadership on to his unwilling grandso...
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Teachers
A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing t...
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Rocky Marciano
Step into the ring with one of America's greatest legends...and stand a couple of rounds with greatn...
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Going, Going, Almost Gone! Animals in Danger
An urgent plea to protect creatures from man's insensitivity and greed. The program offers clear exp...
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Ordinary People
Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad...
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iMordecai
Mordecai Samel is a Holocaust survivor. He grew up in a different time and does not fully understand...
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Without a Trace
English professor Susan Selky lives alone in a Brooklyn apartment with her young son, Alex. When Ale...
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Running on Empty
The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixti...
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This Must Be the Place
A bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father's tormentor, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a...
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Tower Heist
A luxury condo manager leads a staff of workers to seek payback on the Wall Street swindler who defr...
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Silent Witness
Prominent defense attorney Tony Lord returns to his hometown to defend an old friend, a teacher accu...
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Polish Bar
Reuben is a young, middle-class Jew who is fed up with the family jewelry business. He looks for res...
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Out of the Cold
An American entertainer and an Estonian woman are torn apart by hate and prejudice....
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Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer
Anectdotal portrait of the famed author....
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The Halloween That Almost Wasn't
Upset by rumors that Halloween may end, Dracula calls his mild-mannered monsters together and delive...
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Hollywood Stargirl
When Stargirl's mother is hired as the costume designer on a movie, they relocate to L.A., where Sta...
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Altered Minds
A family reunion goes awry when the oldest son makes the accusation that his dying father, a famed p...
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The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis...
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Sharknado 2: The Second One
A freak weather system turns its deadly fury on New York City, unleashing a Sharknado on the populat...
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Fear on Trial
The story of John Henry Faulk, a radio/TV personality of the 1950s, who was blacklisted during the M...
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The Law
An examination of the workings of a big city's legal system as seen through the eyes of people invol...
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The Fabelmans: A Family in Film
A fascinating behind-the-scenes special about Steven Spielberg's "The Fabelmans."...
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Coney Island
Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny piece of...
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The Keegans
A professional football player is accused of murdering the man who attacked his sister. His brother,...
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Jump
A Southern stock-car driver puts his rising career in the hands of a race promoter....
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First Steps
Teenage Nan Davis is left paralyzed in a car accident and has a tough time accepting her new wheelch...
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The Best You Can
Cynthia Rand is a buttoned-up New Yorker married to a brilliant professor 25 years her senior. She b...
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The Legend of Valentino
An embellished dramatization of the career and personal life of actor Rudolph Valentino, widely rega...
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Another Day: The Making of 'Independence Day: Resurgence'
Interviews about the making of the film and behind the scenes footage...
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Resurgence: It's Early Albuquerque
Ted Dudley, early morning talk TV Show Host featuring the Book "How I Saved the World" by Julius Lev...
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Man on the Moon
The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman....
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Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen
Explores sexuality and censorship over a hundred years of motion pictures....
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The 1964 World's Fair
Relive the dazzle, wonder and fun of The 1964 World's Fair, an extraordinary documentary that takes ...
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She Said No
A successful career woman is raped by a prominent lawyer. However, when she takes the case to court,...
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Sooner or Later
Thirteen-year-old Jessie is in love with Michael, a 17-year-old guitar instructor and aspiring music...
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Independence Day: Resurgence
We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have co...
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The Goodbye People
An elderly man is determined to reopen the Coney Island boardwalk hot dog stand he closed twenty-two...
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Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows
The stars of America's greatest comedies - like Cheers, Friends, Taxi and The Big Bang Theory - get ...
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Brother's Shadow
Jake Groden is the black sheep of his family. Ankle deep in fish guts, he serves out his parole in A...
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Brotherly Love
A businessman is stalked by his murderous twin brother, who has just been released from a mental hos...
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Serpico
New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his...
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The Muppets
When Kermit the Frog and the Muppets learn that their beloved theater is slated for demolition, a sy...
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Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
Offbeat documentarian Chris Smith provides a behind-the-scenes look at how Jim Carrey adopted the pe...
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The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their...
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Burning at Both Ends
The movie follows a group of resistance radio broadcasters in Nazi-occupied France as they evade cap...
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Uncut Gems
A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of h...
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Color of Justice
Four young black men kill a white woman. Now the D.A. is very cautious how to pursue this case becau...
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Summer Camp Island
Oscar has to accept that his totally normal sleepover with Hedgehog isn't going to be totally normal...
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The Making of 'Independence Day'
We take a look at various fields of development for the motion picture, Independence Day (1996). Jef...
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A Deadly Legend
Joan Huntar, a real estate developer, buys an old summer camp. However, the property has a dark hist...
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Marriage Is Alive and Well
A talented wedding photographer, at a crossroads with his own marriage, reflects on tales of past cl...
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Lights
Lights reminds us to stand up for what we believe! This Chanukah story is told through animation & g...
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Betrayal of Trust
A woman has been to a psychiatrist for years for drug and alcohol addiction, and whose treatment inc...
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Showing Up
In the days leading up to a possibly career-changing exhibition, a sculptor navigates her relationsh...
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The Fabelmans
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as h...
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Night of 100 Stars
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place ...
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Rally Caps
A young baseball player has his dreams of pitching for a Little League travel team derailed by a dev...
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The December Cross
Maya and Yosef build a friendship that will warm up the hearts of townspeople with lessons, when bor...
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Fantasy Life
After losing his job as a paralegal, Sam Stein suffers a panic attack and stumbles into a job babysi...
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Stay Forte
Tells the incredible true story of Alon Shamiriz, Yotam Haim and Samer Tallaka, three Israelis taken...
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Who Killed the Federal Theatre?
Part journalistic investigation and part performance documentary, "Who Killed The Federal Theater?" ...
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Eugene Gregan: Born Dead
A documentary short about reclusive painter Eugene Gregan and his wife Beverly....
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