Stephen Macht

Known for ActingBorn 1942-05-01 (age 84)Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Stephen Robert Macht is an American television and film actor. Spotted by a Universal Studios talent scout while starring at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada in 1975, Macht was signed to a contract and by the mid 1970s had left teaching and was making frequent appearances in TV episodes and movies. In Raid on Entebbe, he portrayed Yoni Netanyahu, the Israeli officer killed in the rescue of hostages in Uganda. In 1978, he had a lead role in The Immigrants a syndicated miniseries about the rise of the son of Italian immigrants in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. The successful television movie American Dream led to a critically acclaimed short-lived series which cast Macht in the role of a family man who chucks the suburban life to set up home in the inner city of Chicago. The following season, he landed the role of Joe Cooper, on Knots Landing. Other notable roles included playing Nancy McKeon's father in Strange Voices. He was Benedict Arnold in the miniseries George Washington and played one of the survivors of an air crash in Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac. He spent three seasons on Cagney & Lacey. During his run on the show, he moved behind the cameras to make his directorial debut. In 1993, Macht played Krim Aldos in "The Siege", an early Season 2 episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Macht had been Gene Roddenberry's first choice to play Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, but the role eventually went to Patrick Stewart in 1986. More recent credits have included A Friendship in Vienna; Memories of Midnight, and in Moment of Truth: A Mother's Deception. Macht appeared in Babylon 5, One Life to Live, General Hospital, and Suits. Macht's work in feature films has been more sporadic, beginning with a turn as one of The Choirboys. He also had roles in Nightwing, The Mountain Men, Galaxina, The Last Winter, The Monster Squad, Stephen King's Graveyard Shift, Amityville: It's About Time, The Legend of Galgameth, and Watchers Reborn. Macht has also played Dr. Harris in three instalments of the Trancers series of films.Read more

Movies & web series

Loose Change

American Dream

Charlton Heston: Radical to Right Wing

The Mentalist

Suits

Castle

Babylon 5

No Blame

Wolfman's Got Nards

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Columbo

Killjoy

Millennium

The Practice

Boston Public

A Mother's Deception

Jack & Jill

Sliders

George Washington

Hill Street Blues

Murder, She Wrote

Gideon's Crossing

Highlander: The Series

Quincy, M.E.

JAG

A Friendship in Vienna

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The Wedding Bells

The Six Million Dollar Man

Swallows

Walker, Texas Ranger

Kojak

Blind Witness

Fear Stalk

Cagney & Lacey

Ring of Passion

Kingston: Confidential

Strange Voices

Knots Landing

My Boyfriend's Back

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues

Hotel

DC 9/11: Time of Crisis

Blacke's Magic

The Monster Squad

Boomtown

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Femme Fatales