Allan Arbus

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox person Allan Franklin Arbus (February 15, 1918 – April 19, 2013)<ref name="BBC obit">Template:Cite news</ref> was an American actor and photographer. He was the former husband of photographer Diane Arbus. He is known for his role as psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Freedman on the CBS television series M*A*S*H.

Early life

Arbus was born in New York City, to a Jewish family,<ref name="Arbus">Template:Cite news</ref> the son of fur retailer Harry Arbus and his wife Rose (Template:Née).<ref name="fr">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, where he first developed an interest in acting while appearing in a student play.<ref name="Boehm">Template:Cite news</ref>

Also a music lover, before becoming an actor, he was reportedly so taken by Benny Goodman's recordings that he took up playing the clarinet.<ref name="Boehm" />

Photography career

During the 1940s, Arbus became a photographer for the United States Army. In 1946, after he completed his military service, he and his first wife, photographer Diane Arbus (née Nemerov, whom he had married in 1941), started a photographic advertising business in Manhattan. Arbus was primarily known for advertising photography that appeared in Glamour, Seventeen, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and other magazines, as well as the weekly newspaper advertising photography for Russeks, a Fifth Avenue department store in Manhattan co-founded by Diane's grandfather, Frank Russek.<ref name=Lubow>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

Edward Steichen's noted photo exhibition The Family of Man includes a photograph credited to the couple.<ref>Template:Citation MoMA PDF document</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The Arbuses' professional partnership ended in 1956, when Diane quit the business; the couple formally separated three years later. Allan Arbus continued on as a solo photographer, but had given up the business to pursue an acting career by the time the couple divorced in 1969.<ref name="guard obit">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Acting career

After the breakup of his first marriage and the dissolution of his business, Arbus moved to California in 1969 to pursue a new career in acting.<ref name="LAT">Template:Cite news</ref> His new career took off after he landed the lead role in Robert Downey Sr.'s 1972 cult film, Greaser's Palace, in which he appears with Robert Downey, Jr., who would go on to star as Diane Arbus's muse in Fur. The 2006 Fur is a fictional account of the end of the Arbuses' marriage. Arbus also starred opposite Bette Davis in Scream, Pretty Peggy (1973), and was featured as Gregory LaCava in W.C. Fields and Me (1976).<ref name="toms bio">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

These roles led to his casting as Maj. Sidney Freedman on M*A*S*H. His work on M*A*S*H helped his career as a character actor, and he eventually appeared in more than seventy TV shows and movies. He appeared briefly in the 1973 film Cinderella Liberty as a drunken sailor; another 1973 film, Coffy (starring Pam Grier), featured Arbus as a drug dealer with strange sexual needs; in Damien - Omen II (1978), he played Pasarian, one of Damien's many victims in The Omen trilogy. In 1979, he portrayed a dance choreographer in The Electric Horseman.<ref name="afi cat">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Arbus is far better known for his television work, which includes over forty-five titles, with works as recent as Curb Your Enthusiasm in 2000. Among Arbus's non-M*A*S*H work for television are guest and recurring roles in such television series as Law & Order, In the Heat of the Night, L.A. Law, Matlock, Starsky and Hutch, and Judging Amy.<ref name="toms bio"/>

Personal life

Allan and Diane Arbus had two daughters, photographer Amy Arbus, and writer and art director Doon Arbus. The couple separated in 1959 and divorced in 1969, two years before Diane Arbus's suicide in 1971.<ref name="LAT"/><ref name="guard obit"/>

Arbus married actress Mariclare Costello in 1977. The couple had one daughter, Arin Arbus, who is the associate artistic director at Theatre for a New Audience.<ref name="LAT"/>

Death

Arbus died of congestive heart failure on April 19, 2013, in Los Angeles. He was 95.<ref name="BBC obit" /> He was cremated and his ashes given to his family.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Selected TV and filmography

Year	Title	Role	Type	Notes
1961	Hey, Let's Twist!	The doctor	Film	(Uncredited)<ref name="afi cat"/>
1969	Putney Swope	Mr. Bad News	Film	<ref name="afi cat"/>
1971	The Christian Licorice Store	Monroe (Smith)	Film	<ref name="afi cat"/>
1972	Cisco Pike	Sim Valensi	Film	<ref name="afi cat"/>
1972	Greaser's Palace	Jessy	Film	<ref name="afi cat"/>
1973	The Young Nurses	Krebs	Film	<ref name="afi cat"/>
1973	Coffy	Arturo Vitroni	Film	<ref name="afi cat"/>
1973	Scream, Pretty Peggy	Dr. Saks	TV movie	(ABC)<ref name="fr"/>
1973	Cinderella Liberty	Drunken sailor	Film	<ref name="afi cat"/>
1974	The Odd Couple	Ernie Ferguson (Hypnotist)	TV	Season 4, episode 15: "Cleanliness Is Next To Impossible"
1974	Law and Disorder	Dr. Richter
1976	Hawaii Five-O	Vince Maynard	TV	Season 8
1976	W.C. Fields and Me	Gregory LaCava	Film	<ref name="afi cat"/>
1977	Raid on Entebbe	Eli Melnick	TV movie	(NBC)<ref name="fr"/>
1978	Damien - Omen II	Pasarian
1978	Taxi	Jerry Martin	TV	Episode: "One-Punch Banta"
1978	The Rockford Files	Myron Katzin	TV	Episode: "Black Mirror"
1978	Wonder Woman	Bleaker	TV	Episode: "The Girl from Ilandia"
1979	Americathon	Moishe Weitzman, the 2nd Hebrab	Film	<ref name="afi cat"/>
1979	The Electric Horseman	Danny	Film	<ref name="afi cat"/>
1980	The Last Married Couple in America	Al Squib	Film	<ref name="afi cat"/>
1981	Gangster Wars	Goodman	TV movie	Also, as a TV miniseries, known as The Gangster Chronicles
1982	Quincy, M.E.	Dr. Ellerick	TV	Episode: "For Love of Joshua"
1973–1983	M*A*S*H	Major Sidney Freedman	TV	12 Episodes
1984	The World of Don Camillo	Christ (voice)	Film	In Italian and English
1985	Cagney & Lacey	Arthur Stacey	TV	Episode: "Violation"
1985	Volunteers	Albert Bardenaro	Film	<ref name="afi cat"/>
1985	Hardcastle and McCormick	Dr. Friedman	TV	Episode: "Do Not Go Gentle"
1986	Crossroads	Dr. Santis	Film	<ref name="afi cat"/>
1986	Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (anthology)	Dr. Andreas Hellman	TV movie	A Fighting Choice
1987	From the Hip	Phil Ames	Film	<ref name="afi cat"/>
1987	Spies	Jano	TV	Episode: "Baby"
1987	Daniel and the Towers	Simon 'Sam' Rodia	Template:Nowrap	(Wonder Works, PBS)<ref name="fr"/>
1987	Ohara	Sol Rostoff	TV	Episode: "The Intruders"
1987	Duet	Mr. Coleman	TV	Episode: "Born, Bred and Buttered in Brooklyn"
1987	Matlock	Peter Leoni	TV	Episode: "The Chef"
1989	L.A. Law	Lawrence Stone	TV	Episode: I'm in the Nude for Love
1989	Matlock	Aaron Mitchell	TV	Episode: "The Star"
1989	When He's Not a Stranger	Judge Thomas J. Gray	TV movie
1990	Hunter	Norman Tate	TV	Episode: "Unfinished Business"
1991	Stat	Hesh Cooper	TV	Episodes: "Safe Smuggling" & "Fantasy"
1991–1992	Brooklyn Bridge	Dr. Schulman	TV	3 episodes
1993	Law & Order	Dominique Keith	TV	Episode: "Animal Instinct"
1993	Josh and S.A.M.	Businessman on plane	Film	<ref name="afi cat"/>
1992–1993	In The Heat of the Night	Dr. Atwill	TV	Episodes: "Discovery" & "Little Girl Lost"
1994	Mad About You	Albert	TV	Episode: "The Last Scampi"
1997	In Dark Places	Dory
1998	L.A. Doctors	Mr. Mitski	TV	Episode: "A Prayer for the living"
1999	NYPD Blue	Seymore Epstein	TV	Episode: "Don't Meth with Me"
1999	Judging Amy	Judge Fowler	TV	3 episodes
2000	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Uncle Nathan	TV	Episode: "The Group"
2016	Chief Zabu	George Dankworth	Film	(In production from 1986, completed and released 2016<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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