Jeffrey DeMunn Biography
Jeffrey DeMunn is an American stage, film and television actor. He is well known for playing Captain Esteridge in The Hitcher (1986). He was also featured in the 1988 film The Blob playing the role of Sheriff Herb Geller. He has as well been featured in the 1995 film Citizen X as Andrei Chikatilo.
In 1999, he was featured in The Green Mile as Harry Terwilliger. Between 2012 and 2016, he played a key role in the film Walking Dead, playing the role of Dale Horvath. He later played the role of Chuck Rhoades in Sr. in Billions. In the film Sr. in Billions, he has been casting his role since 2016 to date.
Jeffrey DeMunn Age
The American actor was born on 25 April 1947 in Buffalo, New York, United States. As of 2019, he is 72 years old.
Jeffrey DeMunn Height
Jeffrey has a standing height of 5 feet 8 inches tall which is equivalent to 1.72 meters. He also weighs around 78 kilograms which is equivalent to 171 lbs.
Jeffrey DeMunn Family
DeMunn is the son to James DeMunn, his father and Violet Palus, his mother. There is no provided information about his siblings. This information will soon be updated.
Jeffrey DeMunn Wife
In 1974, Jeffrey wedded Ann Sekjaer but they later got divorced in 1995. He later re-married. In 2001, he got married to Kerry Leah. He is a father to Kevin DeMunn, his son and Heather DeMunn his daughter.
Jeffrey DeMunn Actor
Theater Roles
He moved to Britain in the early 1970s, receiving theatrical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. When he returned to the USA in 1972, he performed in a Royal Shakespeare Company National Tour’s production of King Lear and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. After this, he starred in several off-Broadway productions, including Bent, Modigliani, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. DeMunn also participated in productions of developing plays at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. In 1983 he starred in a production of K2, which earned him a Tony Award nomination. He most recently starred in Death of a Salesman at San Diego’s Old Globe Theater in 2012 and A Family For All Occasions at the Bank Street Theatre in 2013.
Film Roles
DeMunn is known for his collaborations with director Frank Darabont, who has cast him in films such as The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Majestic, and The Mist. He also appeared in the 1988 remake of The Blob, which Darabont co-wrote.[4] He also narrated the audiobooks for Dreamcatcher and The Colorado Kid. In 1995, he won a CableACE Award as Best Supporting Actor in a Movie or Miniseries for his portrayal of serial killer Andrei Chikatilo in the HBO film Citizen X and received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie nomination.
Television Roles
DeMunn has made several guest appearances on series television. His extensive TV résumé includes shows such as Kojak, Moonlighting, LA Law and The West Wing. He appeared in the recurring role of Norman Rothenberg in Law & Order, and Trial by Jury. He appeared in the television miniseries Storm of the Century. He portrayed Dale Horvath in Frank Darabont’s television adaptation of the comic book series The Walking Dead, for two seasons from 2010 to 2012. Upon his departure, he was cast as Hal Morrison in the 2013 television series Mob City, which was also created by Darabont.
He also has a starring role on the Showtime series Billions as Chuck Rhoades, Sr.
Jeffrey DeMunn Movies And Tv Shows
In 1980, he was featured in the following movies:
Resurrection as Joe
The First Deadly Sin as Sergeant Fernandez Correll
I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can as Dr. Roberts
Christmas Evil as Philip Stadling
In 1981, he was featured in:
Ragtime Harry as Houdini
World of Honor as District Attorney Burke
In 1982, he was featured in the film Frances playing the role of Clifford Odets while in 1983 he played the role of Jeff Hamil in The Face of Range. In 1984, he played the role of Bobby in the film Wind City. In 1985, he was featured in the film Warning Sign, playing the role of Dr. Dan Fairchild. In 1986, he was featured in The Hitcher as Captain Esteridge.
In 1988, he played roles in:
The Blob as Sheriff Herb Geller
Betrayed as Bobby Flynn
In 1989, he plated the role of Eldon Tuck in the film Blaze.
In 1992, he did:
Treacherous Crossing as Dr. Johnston
Eyes of an Angel as George
Newsies as Mayor Jacobs
In 1994, he participated in:
The Shawshank Redemption as Prosecutor
Safe Passage as Doctor
In 1995, he played the role of Andrei Chikatilo in Citizen X
In 1996 he participated in
Killer: A Journal Of Murder as Sam Lesser
Phenomenon as Professor John Ringold
In 1997, he did:
Turbulence as Brooks
RocketMan as Paul Wick
In 1998, he was featured in:
Harvest as Jake Yates
The X-Files as Dr. Ben Bronschweig
He played the role of Harry Terwilliger in The Green Mile, which was released in 1999. He was later featured in the 2001 film, The Majestic playing the role of Ernie Cole. In 2002, he was featured in Swimming Upstream, playing the role of Dr. Henry Berkson. He was also featured in the 2003 film The Lucky Ones playing the role of Simon.
In 2006, he was featured in:
Hollywoodland as Art Weissman
Covert One: The Hades Factor as Steven Haldane
In 2007, he was featured in The Mist playing the role of Dan Miller. He took the role of Cosmetic Surgeon in the 2008 film Burn After Reading. In 2009, he took the role of Rodgers Bowman in Cayman Went.
In 2010, he was featured in:
Shelter as Dr. Harding
6 Souls as Paul Richards
In 2011 he played the role of Lee BingBing in the film Another Happy Day. He later played the role of Bill in Adult Beginners and the role of Walt in Halfway. In 2017, he played the role of Dr. Sayer in the film Marshall.
He was featured in the following television series:
1978
The Last Tenant
Mourning Becomes Electra
1979
Sanctuary of Fear
1980
King Crab
1982
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
1983
O’Malley
I Married Wyatt Earp
Sessions
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
1984
When She Says No
1985
Hill Street Blues
The Twilight Zone
A Time to Live
1986
Spenser: For Hire
Moonlighting
American Masters
Who Is Julia?
1987
Kojak: The Price of Justice
Young Harry Houdini
1988–1990
American Playhouse
1988
Windmills of the Gods
Doubletake
Lincoln
1989
CBS Summer Playhouse
Dear John
Settle the Score
1990
By Dawn’s Early Light
L.A. Law
Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501
1991
The Haunted
1992
Treacherous Crossing
Jonathan: The Boy Nobody Wanted
1993–2008
Law & Order
1993
Barbarians at The Gate
TriBeCa
1994
Betrayal of Trust
1995
Citizen X
Hiroshima
Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story
Down Came a Blackbird
Ebbie
1997
Cracker Henry Farner
Night Sins
A Christmas Memory
Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing
1998
The Outer Limits
Black Cat Run
1999
Storm of the Century
2000
Noriega: God’s Favorite Nunico
D.C.
The Fugitive
2000–2001
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
2001
Gideon’s Crossing
The Practice
2002
E.R.
2003
Hack
Our Town
2004
The West Wing
2005
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Empire Falls
2008
Cashmere Mafia
2010
God in America
2010–2012
The Walking Dead
2012
Chicago Fire
2013
The Good Wife
Mob City
2014
The Affair
2015
The Blacklist
2016–present
Billions
2016
Divorce
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Jeffrey DeMunn Net Worth
DeMunn has an estimated net worth of a whopping $1.6 million. According to the sources, Jeffrey DeMunn earns thousands of dollar per annum for his performances.
Jeffrey DeMunn Billions
An aggressive New York attorney deals exclusively with obnoxious hedge fund billionaires.
First episode date: 17 January 2016
Production location: New York
Networks: Showtime, Sky One
Program creators: Andrew Ross Sorkin, Brian Koppelman, David Levien
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Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison for the murders of his wife and her lover and is sentenced to a tough prison. However, only Andy knows he didn’t commit the crimes. While there, he forms a friendship with Red (Morgan Freeman), experiences brutality of prison life, adapts, helps the warden, etc., all in 19 years.
Initial release: 22 September 1994 (Beverly Hills)
Director: Frank Darabont
Featured song: If I Didn’t Care
Awards: Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Foreign Language Film
Screenplay: Stephen King, Frank Darabont
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Jeffrey DeMunn Death
Jeffrey is alive and kicking and there is no provided information about him being sick or diagnosed with any chronic disease. This information will soon be updated.
Jeffrey DeMunn The Mist
After a powerful storm damages their Maine home, David Drayton (Thomas Jane) and his young son head into town to gather food and supplies. Soon afterward, a thick fog rolls in and engulfs the town, trapping the Draytons and others in the grocery store. Terror mounts as deadly creatures reveal themselves outside, but that may be nothing compared to the threat within, where a zealot (Marcia Gay Harden) calls for a sacrifice.
Initial release: 21 November 2007 (USA)
Director: Frank Darabont
Featured song: Host of Seraphim (special film version)
Story by: Stephen King
Screenplay: Stephen King, Frank Darabont
Jeffrey DeMunn Citizen X
In the 1980s, serial killer Andrei Chikatilo (Jeffrey DeMunn) embarks on an eight-year killing spree, murdering 52 people. Lt. Viktor Burakov (Stephen Rea) wants to put a stop to the killings, but the Soviet bureaucracy obstructs him at every turn, insisting a Communist Party member could not be the killer. Burakov is determined to catch Chikatilo, aided only by his cynical superior (Donald Sutherland) and a frightened but determined psychiatrist (Max von Sydow) in this true story.
Initial release: 25 February 1995
Director: Chris Gerolmo
Adapted from: Citizen X
Screenplay: Chris Gerolmo
Awards: Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries, or Motion Picture Made for Television
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Jeffrey DeMunn talks ‘Billions,’ ‘Walking Dead’ and ‘Shawshank Redemption’
The name may not be instantly recognizable, but you probably know his work.
Perhaps you’ve seen Jeffrey DeMunn as the prosecutor in the opening of “The Shawshank Redemption,” as Dale Horvath in the early seasons of “The Walking Dead,” as serial killer Andrei Chikatilo in the acclaimed cable movie “Citizen X,” as well-connected power player Chuck Rhoades Sr. on Showtime’s “Billions.”
DeMunn, who grew up in Buffalo, New York, has established a reputation as one of Hollywood’s most versatile and reliable team players. And, after being a featured player on “Billions” for two seasons, he becomes a full-fledged member of the team for the show’s third season, which begins at 10 p.m. Sunday, March 25. With this episode, he is promoted to series regular.
“It’s an amazing company,” DeMunn said during a telephone interview. “I tell you, during the table reads for this show, I just sit there taking it in. We have a table read with each new script, and I just look at all that talent sitting around that table and think about how fortunate I am.”
That’s not false modesty. That’s the response of a working actor grateful for good work. That’s a team player.
“That’s why I love acting,” DeMunn said. “I had no desire to be the center of anyone’s attention. When I went to college, I was picturing being part of a group of people trying to do the impossible. I really didn’t find that in education, but when I discovered the theater, there it was. It was a group of people working toward a common goal, trying to do the impossible. I said, ‘I’m home. This is it.’ ”
And, right now, “Billions” sure feels like home. The New York drama puts the focus on the intense, often-ruthless rivalry between U.S. Attorney Charles “Chuck” Rhoades Jr. (Paul Giamatti) and billionaire hedge fund manager Robert “Bobby Axe” Axelrod (Damian Lewis). Each is determined to destroy the other.
It’s never easy to know who the good guys are in “Billions,” a high-stakes Manhattan chess match played on a board shaded with ambiguity. The relationships are difficult, to say the least, and that goes for the father-son dynamics navigated by Chuck Rhoades Sr. and Jr.
“I just love working with Paul,” DeMunn said. “I think we had done a reading for a play many years ago, but we didn’t know each other. We really met on this and it was love at first sight. We get the scripts, look around, and both pinch ourselves.”
Also in the regular cast are Maggie Siff, Malin Ackerman, Toby Leonard Moore, and David Costabile. Joining the show as a guest player is DeMunn’s “Shawshank” co-star Clancy Brown, who plays new Attorney General Waylon “Jock” Jeffcoat. Executive producers Brian Koppelman and David Levien return as showrunners.
“When I went in and met Brian and David, I immediately got them,” DeMunn said. “In the process of that audition, it kind of clicked. It felt right. It felt good.
“I’m not terribly good at reading a script and immediately responding to what’s in it, but I am good at reading people. And that’s what I responded to. Now I’m responding to the writing, avidly reading each script. It’s such muscular, strong writing, and it feels like everything has fallen in place this season.”
Trust has meant a lot to DeMunn, 70, throughout his career. It led to a long, continuing association with writer-director Frank Darabont. That started with the 1988 remake of “The Blob.”
“That came out of the left field,” DeMunn said. “Frank was a writer on ‘The Blob.’ They suddenly needed to replace someone, and I really needed a job. I got there, had a blast and thought, ‘Well, that’s that!’ Then, a few years later, I got a call out of the blue to do ‘Shawshank.’ ”
DeMunn has the first actual lines of dialogue in “The Shawshank Redemption,” based on a Stephen King story and filmed in Mansfield in 1993. He plays the prosecutor who spells out the murder case against banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins).
“We filmed in an actual Ohio courthouse, and I think we did it in a day,” DeMunn said. “We toured the old prison that was used in the movie. And we toured the new prison, which gave me religion. I resolved at that moment not to even roll through a stop sign.”
Darabont also used DeMunn in his film versions of King’s “The Green Mile” and “The Mist,” as well as the Jim Carrey comedy “The Majestic.”
“I immediately took to Frank and liked him and trusted him,” DeMunn said. “And I think he trusted me.”
In 2010, DeMunn got a call from Darabont, who was the executive producer in charge of an AMC horror series called “The Walking Dead”: “I was doing a play down in Texas and Frank called and said, ‘Hey, you want to come to Atlanta and kill zombies?’ I didn’t have to think about it. It was from Frank. I knew it was going to be quality.
“The writing, in the beginning, was just amazing, as was that original cast. You can’t talk about ‘The Walking Dead’ without talking about the extreme heat. I was always grateful for Dale’s hat, by the way. It was serious heat and we were working all day. The heat had a way of uniting us all, cast and crew. You kept an eye on your friends under those conditions.”
DeMunn’s enthusiasm for “The Walking Dead” died the day in July 2011 that AMC fired Darabont as showrunner.
“Dale’s death was my decision,” DeMunn said. “I was furious about how Frank was pushed out of the show. I spent a week not being able to take a full breath. And then I realized, ‘Oh, I can quit.’ So I called them and said, ‘It’s a zombie show. Kill me. I don’t want to do this anymore.’ It was an immense relief to me.”
Not long after “The Shawshank Redemption” was released in 1994, viewers saw DeMunn in a totally different role, as Chikatilo, the Russian serial killer known as the Butcher of Rostov. His performance in “Citizen X” earned him an Emmy nomination.
“That was quite an experience,” DeMunn said. “We filmed in Budapest, and it was horrible living with that character. That character lingered with me for weeks after it was over. It took me about a month to draw a full breath again. It was a long time getting over.”
The breathing is easier on “Billions,” but it did take a couple of scenes for DeMunn to find the right character for Chuck Rhoades Sr.
“I felt like I was wearing someone else’s clothes at first,” he said. “I felt like I was pretending. But during the pilot, we were shooting this little scene, and Brian and David made it clear there was something they wanted and I wasn’t giving them. And finally, they saw it. And that’s when the lightbulb went off for me. Something clicked on that take, and I’ve been holding on to that for dear life ever since.
“I don’t know what he’d do in absolutely every situation, but I believe have a certain amount of knowledge about him and understanding of him. And that’s fun to play — great fun.”
Source: Cleve Land
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The Walking Dead actor Jeffrey DeMunn demanded he be killed off the show
Dale Horvath was the first of the original six characters to appear in The Walking Dead premiere to die. Fans will remember that in season two, Dale was disemboweled by a walker then finished off by Daryl- not the best way to go, in the grand scheme of things. But it turns out it was actor Jeffrey DeMunn’s decision to be killed off the show. DeMunn was outraged after executive producer Frank Darabont was fired as The Walking Dead’s showrunner in 2011, and demanded that he be killed off the show. Speaking to Cleveland.com, the 70-year-old explained: ‘Dale’s death was my decision,. I was furious about how Frank was pushed out of the show. I spent a week not being able to take a full breath. And then I realized, “Oh, I can quit.”
‘So I called them and said, “It’s a zombie show. Kill me. I don’t want to do this anymore.” It was an immense relief to me.’ Dale’s death originally came a lot later in the comics, so took viewers by surprise. DeMunn worked with Darabont on many occasions over the years, including on The Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption, and Darabont cast the actor on The Walking Dead – so we commend his sense of loyalty.
Darabont is still locked in a legal battle with AMC, which began in 2013 after his sacking. While Dale was the first major character to be killed off the show, pretty much everyone has followed suit, including Glenn, Shane, Lori and Carl. Pretty much everyone except Rick, basically. There are three episodes remaining in season eight, with season nine expected to premiere in late 2018.
Source: Metro