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- Ed Schiff is a veteran actor, director and producer with over 200 credits in professional theater, in film and on television. Schiff was recently featured in the movies "War of the Worlds," "Out of the Fog," "The Warrior Class" and "Everyman." He was John Wolfe, the corrupt detective, on ABC-TV's "One Life to Live," and Mitchell Morgan, the TV station manager in the primetime comedy "Grapevine." Recent regional theater stage roles for Schiff have included title roles in "Da" and "King Lear"; lead roles as Matthew Harrison Brady in "Inherit the Wind," Big Daddy in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," Gaston in "Picasso at the Lapin Agile," Larkin in "Golf with Alan Shephard," Gen. MacKenzie in "And Then There Were None," Mr. Laurence in "Little Women" and King Claudius in "Hamlet." His many recent TV commercials include him as Ernest Hemingway for "Pilot Pen," The Gorton's Fisherman, and as King Alfonso for "Medieval Times."
- IMDb mini biography by: Ed Schiff
- Ed was a newscaster and journalist before becoming an actor. In fact, the Freedom of Speech case Schiff v. Williams is about Ed and he won his case all the way to the United States Supreme Court.
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