Sunday, March 26, 2023

Ron Faber obit

Ron Faber, Busy New York Stage Actor, Dies at 90

He worked on Broadway with Henry Fonda and Irene Papas, appeared in Wallace Shawn’s crowded 'The Hotel Play' and won plaudits for 'And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers.'

 

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Ron Faber, who appeared on Broadway in the 1970s alongside Henry Fonda in First Monday in October and with Irene Papas in Medea, died March 26 in New York after a two-month battle with lung cancer, a publicist announced. He was 90.

Faber shaved his head and received Obie and Drama Desk awards in 1972 for his turn as a political prisoner in And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers, Fernando Arrabal’s harrowing drama about the Spanish Civil War.

In 1981, he was featured in Wallace Shawn’s The Hotel Play at the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, which had a cast of 70 and was called “unassailable as a mad theatrical stunt” by Frank Rich in The New York Times.

Faber’s stage credits also included off-Broadway roles in Hamlet, Mary Stuart, Scenes From Everyday Life and Woyzeck at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre; Happy Days at the Cherry Lane Theatre; Troilus and Cressida at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre; Lucky Stiff at Playwrights Horizons; and Stonewall Jackson’s House, Times and Appetites of Toulouse Lautrec, The Beauty Part and Tunnel Fever at the American Place Theater.

Faber was born in Milwaukee , Wisconsin on Feb. 16, 1933. While attending Marquette University as a business student, he landed a job doing children’s shows on the radio.

He joined the Marquette Players and later the Van Buren Players, where a show that he directed was seen by Eva Le Gallienne. The famed actress and producer got him a scholarship to direct at the Lucille Lortel White Barn Theater in Westport, Connecticut, where he began his professional career.

Faber’s onscreen résumé included the films The Exorcist (1973), The Guernica Tree (1975), The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977), Soup for One (1982), Calling Bobcat (2000) and Navy Seals (1990), and episodes of Law & Order, Kojak and The Edge of Night.

Survivors include his wife, Kathleen, and children Hart, Raymond and Elise.

Actor

 

Back to Me

 

    Vlad

 

    Short

 

    2008

 

Faith Ford and Kelly Ripa in Hope & Faith (2003)

Hope & Faith

 

    Butler

 

    TV Series

 

    2004

 

Michael Beach, Eddie Cibrian, Kim Raver, Jason Wiles, Coby Bell, Amy Carlson, Molly Price, Anthony Ruivivar, and Skipp Sudduth in Third Watch (1999)

Third Watch

 

    Horse Owner

 

    TV Series

 

    2000

 

Calling Bobcat (2000)

Calling Bobcat

 

    Bat Man

 

    2000

 

Ice-T, Sam Waterston, Mariska Hargitay, Camryn Manheim, Christopher Meloni, Jeffrey Donovan, Mehcad Brooks, Kelli Giddish, and Danielle Moné Truitt in Law & Order (1990)

Law & Order

 

    PepitoneSantmyer

 

    TV Series

 

    1991–1998

 

Gary Oldman, Juliette Lewis, Lena Olin, and Annabella Sciorra in Romeo Is Bleeding (1993)

Romeo Is Bleeding

 

    Hotel Manager (uncredited)

 

    1993

 

Charlie Sheen, Michael Biehn, Rick Rossovich, Paul Sanchez, and Cyril O'Reilly in Navy Seals (1990)

Navy Seals

 

    General Mateen

 

    1990

 

Sharon Gabet and Larkin Malloy in The Edge of Night (1956)

The Edge of Night

 

    Larry Hooten

 

    TV Series

 

    1983

 

Running Out (1983)

Running Out

 

    Hal

 

    TV Movie

 

    1983

 

Soup for One (1982)

Soup for One

 

    Man with Video Tapes

 

    1982

 

Bill (1981)

Bill

 

    Jenkins

 

    TV Movie

 

    1981

 

Hardhat and Legs (1980)

Hardhat and Legs

 

    Edelstein

 

    TV Movie

 

    1980

 

On the Yard (1978)

On the Yard

 

    Manning

 

    1978

 

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

 

    Hijacker

 

    1977

 

Kojak (1973)

Kojak

 

    Priest

 

    TV Series

 

    1977

 

The American Parade (1974)

The American Parade

 

    George Whitman

 

    TV Mini Series

 

    1976

 

L'arbre de Guernica (1975)

L'arbre de Guernica

 

    Goya

 

    1975

 

The Exorcist (1973)

The Exorcist

 

    Chuck - Assistant DirectorDemonic Voice

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