Anthony Zerbe

Anthony Zerbe
Anthony Zerbe in trailer for The Laughing Policeman (1973)
Born	Anthony Jared Zerbe (1936-05-20) May 20, 1936 Long Beach, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1963-present
Spouse(s)	Arnette Jens (m. 1962)

Anthony Jared Zerbe (born May 20, 1936) is an American stage, film and Emmy-winning television actor. Notable film roles include the post-apocalyptic cult leader Matthias in The Omega Man, a 1971 film adaptation of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel, I Am Legend; as a corrupt gambler in Farewell, My Lovely; as Abner Devereaux in Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park; as villain Milton Krest in the James Bond film Licence to Kill; Rosie in The Turning Point, Admiral Dougherty in Star Trek: Insurrection and Councillor Hamann in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.

Life and career

Zerbe was born in Long Beach, California, the son of Catherine (née Scurlock) and Arthur Lee Van Zerbe. He attended Pomona College in Claremont, California, graduating in 1958. His parents were also alumni of Pomona College.

Zerbe served in the United States Air Force from 1959-61. Zerbe studied at the Stella Adler Studio in New York City. In television, he has played numerous guest roles in television series including Naked City, The Virginian, The Big Valley, Route 66, The Wild Wild West, Twelve O'Clock High, Bonanza, Mission: Impossible, Gunsmoke, Hawaii Five-O, Mannix, It Takes a Thief, The Chisholms, Ironside, The F.B.I., Cannon, The Rookies, Columbo, The Rookies, The Streets of San Francisco, The Rockford Files, The Equalizer, Kung Fu, Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven, Murder, She Wrote, Dynasty, and Frasier. He held a starring role in The Young Riders and co-starred on Harry O in that series' second and final seasons. Zerbe was also seen as Pontius Pilate in the miniseries A.D. and as General Grant in North and South: Book II. His latest appearance is in the criminal comedy-drama American Hustle.

He is the former artistic director of Reflections, A New Plays Festival at the Geva Theatre in Rochester, New York, which is currently touring the United States in Behind the Broken Words, a performance of contemporary poetry, comedy and dramatic works with fellow actor Roscoe Lee Browne. In 1976, Zerbe won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Performance By a Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Lieutenant K.C. Trench in the private detective series Harry O. In 1981, he played eldest brother Benjamin Hubbard in a Broadway revival of The Little Foxes.

TV and filmography

• Naked City (TV series) (1963)
• The Wild Wild West (1967)
• Will Penny (1967)
• Cool Hand Luke (1967)
• The Virginian (1968)
• Gunsmoke (3 episodes, 1968-1973)
• Mission: Impossible: Live Bait (1969)
• They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970)
• The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
• The Molly Maguires (1970)
• The Omega Man (1971)
• The Priest Killer (1971)
• The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
• Snatched (1972)
• The Streets of San Francisco (1972)
• The Strange Vengeance of Rosalie (1972)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972)
• The Laughing Policeman (1973)
• Papillon (1973)
• She Lives! (1973)
• Carola (1973)
• Kung Fu (1973 and 1974)
• The Parallax View (1974)
• The Healers (1974)
• The Animal Within (1974)
• Rooster Cogburn (1975)
• Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
• Secret of the Pond (1975)
• Once an Eagle (1976)
• The Red Hand Gang (1977)
• The Turning Point (1977)
• In the Glitter Palace (1977)
• Child of Glass (1978)
• Who'll Stop the Rain (1978)
• Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park (1978)
• Centennial (1978)
• How the West Was Won (1978-1979)
• Attica (1980)
• The First Deadly Sin (1980)
• The Seduction of Miss Leona (1980)
• A Question of Honor (1981)
• Soggy Bottom, U.S.A. (1981)
• Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1982)
• Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1983, as THRUSH director Justin Sepheran)
• The Dead Zone (1983)
• George Washington (1984)
• A.D. (miniseries) (1985)
• Off Beat (1986)
• Opposing Force (1986)
• One Police Plaza (1986)
• Dream West (1986)
• North and South, Book II (1986)
• Steel Dawn (1987)
• The Equalizer: Memories of Manon (1987)
• P.I. Private Investigations (1987)
• Independence (1987)
• Baja Oklahoma (1988)
• Onassis (1988)
• Listen to Me (1989)
• See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)
• Columbo: Columbo Goes to the Guillotine (1989)
• Licence to Kill (1989)
• The Young Riders (1989–1992)
• To Save a Child (1991)
• Murder, She Wrote: Murder of the Month Club (1994)
• Asteroid (1997)
• Touch (1997)
• Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
• True Crime (1999)
• The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
• The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
• Veritas, Prince of Truth (2007)
• American Hustle (2013)

External links

• Anthony Zerbe at the Internet Movie Database
• Anthony Zerbe at the TCM Movie Database
• Anthony Zerbe at AllMovie