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- Birth nameJonathan David Korkes
- Jon Korkes was born on December 4, 1945 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Catch-22 (1970), The Front Page (1974) and The Double (2013). He died on December 31, 2025 in New York, United States.
- ParentsJacob KorkesHelen Gushen
- Gave private acting lessons in New York City, while living in Greenwich Village area.
- Alumnus of Stella Adler Studio of Acting.
- He first worked in the theater in Jules Feiffer's Little Murders, directed by Alan Arkin, in 1968.
- Jon Korkes was best known for playing the recurring role of corrections officer Tom Robinson in the American drama television series Oz from 2001 to 2003.
- He attended and graduated from Marblehead High School.
- [on George C. Scott]: I don't think he got that broken nose playing chess.
- I remember Buck [Henry] saying something like they knew which critics would like it and which critics would not like "Catch-22", because they knew which ones liked Mike [Nichols] and which were waiting for him to fail.
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