| ROD STEIGER (Judge Sarokin)
made his motion picture debut in Teresa and went on to star
opposite Marlon Brando in On The Waterfront, a role which garnered him his first Academy
Award‘ nomination. Steiger has appeared in such landmark films as The Pawnbroker,
Doctor Zhivago, The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell and The Harder They Fall. In 1967,
Steiger won his first Academy Award‘ for Best Actor, for his role in Norman Jewison’s In The
Heat of the Night, opposite Sidney Poitier.
Steiger continues to work regularly, most recently starring opposite Melanie Griffith in Anto-nio
Banderas’ directorial debut, Crazy in Alabama, and opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in
Peter Hyams’ End of Days. He can also be heard as the voice of Captain Ahab in HBO’s
animated film Moby Dick.
He is set to make his directorial debut with Thanksgiving, for Zeta Entertainment and Cutting
Edge Entertainment.
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