Anthony Heald

American actor

Robin Herskowitz

(m. 1985)

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Anthony Heald is an American character actor known for portraying Hannibal Lecter's jailer, Dr. Frederick Chilton, in The Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon, and for playing vice principal Scott Guber in David E. Kelley's Boston Public. Heald also had a recurring role as Judge Cooper on Kelley's The Practice and Boston Legal.^{[note 1]} He had a prominent role as a troubled psychic in The X-Files episode "Closure".

Early life and education

Heald was born in New Rochelle, New York, the son of an editor. He graduated from Michigan State University in 1971.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Heald has worked extensively on Broadway and has been twice nominated for the Tony Award for his work as Lord Evelyn Oakleigh in Anything Goes (1988) and Terrence McNally's Love! Valour! Compassion! (1995). He also appeared in McNally's The Lisbon Traviata (1989), Inherit the Wind (1998), Deep Rising (1998), and Lips Together, Teeth Apart (1991).

Heald recorded over 60 audio books/books on tape, including works as varied as Where the Red Fern Grows, The New York Times bestsellers such as The Pelican Brief (in the film adaptation of which he also played a villainous lawyer), Jurassic Park and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Moby-Dick, several works by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, as well as a sizable number of titles in the Star Wars audio book library.

He made brief appearances in Miami Vice ("The Prodigal Son"), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006 film), and the Cheers series finale "One for the Road". He later appeared on the Cheers spin-off Frasier in a recurring role. He appeared in Unaccompanied Minors as a distressed, Christmas-hating airport employee.

Personal life

Heald lives in Ashland, Oregon, with his wife Robin (daughter of violist Karen Tuttle^[2]) and children Zoe and Dylan. He has converted to Judaism, his wife's faith. He regularly performs in productions of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. During the 2010 season of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Heald played Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.^[3]

Partial filmography

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1983 Silkwood as 2nd Doctor At Union Meeting
1984 Teachers as Narc
1984 The Beniker Gang as Mr. Uldrich
1986 Fresno as Kevin Kensington
1986 Tales from the Darkside episode "Comet Watch" (2/13) as Englebert Ames
1987 Outrageous Fortune as Agent Weldon
1987 Happy New Year as Dinner Guest
1987 Orphans as Man In Park
1990 Postcards from the Edge as George Lazan
1991 The Silence of the Lambs as Dr. Frederick Chilton
1991 The Super as Ron Nessim
1992 Whispers in the Dark as Paul
1993 Searching for Bobby Fischer as Fighting Parent
1993 The Ballad of Little Jo as Henry Grey
1993 The Pelican Brief as Marty Velmano
1994 The Client as FBI Agent Larry Trumann
1995 Kiss of Death as Attorney Jack Gold
1995 Bushwhacked as Reinhart Bragdon
1996 A Time to Kill as Dr. Wilbert Rodeheaver
1998 Deep Rising as Simon Canton
1999 8mm as Daniel Longdale
2000 Proof of Life as Ted Fellner
2002 Red Dragon as Dr. Frederick Chilton
2006 X-Men: The Last Stand as FBI Mystique Interrogator
2006 Accepted as Dean Richard Van Horne
2014 Sam & Cat (TV Series) as Dr. Slarm
2020 Alone as Robert

Notes

^ The character was named "Wallace Cooper" on The Practice but "Harvey Cooper" on Boston Legal.

References

^ Davis, Jim (April 3, 1999). "All the world's a stage, but this one is home". Mail Tribune. Medford, Oregon. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
^ Fox, Margalit (December 27, 2010). "Karen Tuttle, Spirited Violist and Teacher, Dies at 90". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved January 2, 2012.
^ Hughley, Marty (June 5, 2010). "Seasoned by Broadway and Hollywood, actor Anthony Heald reaches new peaks at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival". The Oregonian. Retrieved June 15, 2017.