Saul Rubinek Biography
Saul Rubinek is a German-born Canadian character actor, director, playwright, and producer of television, theatre, and film. Perhaps he is famously known for his role in the film Against All Odds.
Rubinek is also known for his role as Artie Nielsen in the Syfy series Warehouse 13 and Louis B. Mayer in The Last Tycoon. He has had recurring roles on Frasier, A Nero Wolfe Mystery, and Leverage. He is a five-time Genie Award nominee, winning Best Supporting Actor for Ticket to Heaven (1981), and a two-time Gemini Award nominee.
Early in his career, Rubinek gained the attention of Canadian audiences when he starred as detective Benny Cooperman in two TV films, The Suicide Murders (1985) and Murder Sees the Light (1986).
In 1993, Saul Rubinek co-starred in the Emmy Award-winning American made-for-television docudrama And the Band Played On. In 2005, he directed the independent film, Cruel but Necessary. In the year 2006, he appeared in a supporting role in the 2009 Canadian feature comedy The Trotsky.
He starred in the Syfy series Warehouse 13 as Artie Nielsen. He played a covert agent employed by a secretive council to recover mystical artifacts with his team. His first play, Terrible Advice premiered in September 2011 at the Menier Chocolate Factory Theatre in Southwark, London.
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In 2018, he was cast in a recurring role on the Amazon Prime series The Hunt.
Saul Rubinek Age
Saul Rubinek was born in Föhrenwald, Wolfratshausen, Upper Bavaria, Allied-occupied Germany. He was born on 2nd July, 1948. His current age is 71 years old as of 2019.
Saul Rubinek Height
v is relatively tall. He stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches tall. That is approximately 167.6 centimeters tall. We however do not have any other details about his other body measurements. We will update you immediately we get the actual information.
Saul Rubinek Net Worth
Saul Rubinek has accumulated a sizable amount of net worth from his career as an actor. He is famously known for his role in the film Against All Odds.
Rubinek is also known for his role as Artie Nielsen in the Syfy series Warehouse 13 and Louis B. Mayer in The Last Tycoon. He has had recurring roles on Frasier, A Nero Wolfe Mystery, and Leverage. He is a five-time Genie Award nominee, winning Best Supporting Actor for Ticket to Heaven (1981), and a two-time Gemini Award nominee.
Early in his career, Rubinek gained the attention of Canadian audiences when he starred as detective Benny Cooperman in two TV films, The Suicide Murders (1985) and Murder Sees the Light (1986).
In 1993, he co-starred in the Emmy Award-winning American made-for-television docudrama And the Band Played On. In 2005, he directed the independent film, Cruel but Necessary. In the year 2006, he appeared in a supporting role in the 2009 Canadian feature comedy The Trotsky.
Saul Rubinek has an approximated net worth of $10 million. He has mainly accumulated his net worth from his acting career.
Saul Rubinek Wife
Saul Rubinek is currently married to his wife Elinor Reid. Reid is a film producer. He has however been married two other times before. Details about his first wife are however not known. We will update you more.
Saul Rubinek Movies And Tv Shows | Saul Rubinek Grey’s Anatomy
Saul Rubinek Movies
- 2018 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- 2015 Gridlocked
- 2010 Knucklehead
- 2009 The Trotsky
- 2004 Intern Academy
- 2003 The Singing Detective
- 1994 I Love Trouble
- 1990 The Bonfire of the Vanities
- 1981 Ticket to Heaven
- 1981 By Design
- 1980 Death Ship
- 1968 Slow Run
Saul Rubinek Television Shows
- 2019 The Hunt
- 2018 Grey’s Anatomy
- 2018 The Marvelous as Mrs. Maisel
- 2017 The Last Tycoon
- 2004 Stargate SG-1
- 2001-02 A Nero Wolfe Mystery
- 2001 Laughter on the 23rd Floor
- 2000 The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery
- 1993 And the Band Played On
- 1985-86 The Equalizer
- 1985 The Suicide Murders
Saul Rubinek Awards
Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television
- 1980 Genie Award for Best Actor (Non-Feature): The Wordsmith (nominated)
- 1980 Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor: The Agency (nominated)
- 1982 Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor: Ticket to Heaven (won)
- 1983 Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor: By Design (nominated)
- 1989 Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor: The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick (nominated)
- 1998 Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program: Hiroshima (nominated)
- 1998 Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor: Pale Saints (nominated)
- 2008 Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program:
- The Trojan Horse (nominated)
Broadcast Film Critics Association
- 2001 Alan J. Pakula Award for Artistic Excellence: The Contender (won)
FilmOut LGBT Film Festival
- 2010 Audience Award for Best Supporting Actor: Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!! (nominated)
Sundance Film Festival
- 1998 Grand Jury Prize: Jerry and Tom (nominated)
Saul Rubinek Interview
Q: Well, I just finished watching the pilot for “Warehouse 13,” and it’s really a fun show.
Saul Rubinek: Oh, I’m so glad to hear you say that. I adore it. I adore the show, and it’s a pleasure to be able to talk about it. I’ve had so many times in my life where I’ve had to sell a show, you know, and do my due diligence as an actor and try desperately to look for something positive to say. Here I am in a kind of heaven, I have to tell you, Will. I mean, I’ve been doing this a long, long time. Connecting with a character like that…it’s been many, many years since I’ve had that. I loved playing that character.
Q: I was talking to my wife about the series, and I said that, at first, the temptation is to call the main characters Mulder and Scully, but they’re actually more like Bones and Booth from “Bones.”
Saul Rubinek: They’re not Mulder and Scully. I know there’s some similarity, but we don’t take ourselves as seriously as “X-Files” did.
Q: Yeah.
Saul Rubinek: I did a couple of those episodes. I did one episode in particular, their 100th episode, which was actually written by the guy who is a show writer for “Sanctuary” now. Sam Egan wrote about his dad, who was in Auschwitz. My parents are Holocaust survivors. Sam wrote an episode of “Outer Limits” where somebody goes back in time to Auschwitz. I was very nervous about doing a science fiction show that might in s0me ways diminish or belittle, you know? That whole thing. It turned out to be one of the things I am most proud of. And I know that Mark Stern was working with Trilogy, I think, who were the producers and the writers of that show. At the time, I did at least… I think I did a double episode of “Stargate SG-1”; I did an episode of “Psych” for USA, for NBC Universal. I did an episode of, I think, the first season of “Eureka”.
Q: You did, indeed.
Saul Rubinek: And so, in a way, I was primed for this, even though they weren’t originally looking for someone like me for this role. So by the time that Mark suggested me and I came in I met David Simkins, our wonderful, brilliant writer of our pilot…you know that he and Jack Kenny are running the show together right now. But at that time, David Simkins was wide open when I came in, and I had ideas. In changing stuff, sometimes you insult the people who have been working for years and years on development.
Q: I have a three-year-old daughter, so I know what you mean.
Saul Rubinek: You know what I’m talking about. So, yes, I have to pay the bills, but leaving the family for four months or more a year…even though it’s off and on, it would have to be great. They were so collaborative and so inclusive. It’s such a great concept and the people are so wonderful. It just turned out to be, so far, a job sent directly from Heaven. I feel very grateful and incredibly lucky that I’m in the midst of this great group of people. These are really great writers. And, you know, this is the thing.
Q: In addition to the show itself, you’ve definitely got a very interesting character with a lot of intrigue around him, one who starts kind of light when he first appears and then gets progressively darker. I mean, there’s definitely some baggage to be had there.
Saul Rubinek: (Laughs) That’s the genius of David Simkins, I can’t take credit for it. And there’s a wonderful line in there also where somebody says, “I guess the metaphor for the warehouse is that it’s Pandora’s Box,” and I say, “No, actually, Pandora’s Box is in aisle 33, section G.” And I say, “As you can tell from the state of the world, thebox is empty.” The thing that’s most fun is that they figured out a way to walk a tightrope between suspense and humor.
Q: So had you worked with anyone on the cast before? Eddie McClintck, CCH Pounder…
Saul Rubinek: No, I hadn’t met any of them. We’ve crossed paths through friends, and it’s been really a brand new family. It’s really interesting, because one of the things that I’ve said to Jack Kenny and to David, I think I even said it to Mark Stern when he visits our set, is, “I know you guys are dealing with the struggle of any first year show and trying to figure out what a ‘Warehouse 13’ episode is.”
Q: When they called you up and invited you to appear on “Frasier,” did you just pinch yourself? Because it seems like it was a great gig.
Saul Rubinek: Oh, man, and it only got greater. I was only called to do three episodes, and the ratings went up because of the relationship, partly because I drove such a wedge between Niles and the love of his life, so that story arc continued for two years. Yes, I had to pinch myself. That was one of the most amazing times I have ever had, where you feel like you are doing this little one act play, no interference from anyone, anywhere. We’re just doing this little one act play, and then 23 million people showed up. It was an extraordinary group of people. I was very fortunate to be a part of it.
Q: I thought it was particularly great when they brought you back for the episode when Niles and Daphne were eloping.
Saul Rubinek: (Laughs) I know. Yeah, that’s a great episode. That’s a brilliant show, and my son, who is now 14, is just now watching them all religiously. He’s just old enough to appreciate the brilliance of the writing of that show, and the acting.
Q: Were you surprised that “Blind Justice” only lasted seven episodes?
Saul Rubinek: I’m never surprised at decisions of networks. I’ve learned not to be surprised. I worked with Steven Bochco once without meeting him. I did a guest star role in a “Hill Street Blues” episode back in the early 80’s, and I think I did the very last episode of “L.A. Law.” But I don’t know. All I know is I’m terrified of liking shows. I really liked “The Unit,” I really liked “Eli Stone,” I really liked “The Sarah Connor Chronicles.” So I’m afraid of liking anything, because they get cancelled. What I’m hoping is that, since we’re on such a fast growing cable network, it won’t be the same pressures and they will give our show a chance to grow.
Q: Well, it reminds me quite a bit of “Eureka,” just as far as a general kind of feel to it, so I’m hoping that the audience embraces the same way that they did that show.
Saul Rubinek: I hope so. And I hope that we are also able to expand and get…I think that they are very interested in getting a larger women audience, and I think that the show deserves it, you know?
Q: I was looking back over your IMDb page, and I was just wondering: do you have any recollection of working on “Death Ship”?
Saul Rubinek: I have a very good recollection of working on “Death Ship”. We called it “Death Shit.” I was glad I was killed off quickly. But you’ve got to remember that it was my second movie. I think I had done one movie before that. I was thrilled, you know, no mortgage, no kids. I was just thrilled to travel down to, I guess, Mississippi. No, Alabama. We were in Southern Alabama.
Q: Are there any roles that people come up to you and cite as being their favorites that leave you just thinking, “Wow, that’s what you remember me for?”
Saul Rubinek: Rarely.
Q: Really?
Saul Rubinek: Yeah. Mostly it’s a combination of either “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” where I played a character who kidnapped Data in an episode called “The Most Toys.” Which I loved doing because it was my old friend Brent Spiner, who I had done theater with in New York. That, “Frasier,” ‘True Romance,” or “Unforgiven.” Or “The Family Man,” actually. I guess those are the ones that I’m most recognized for. But I’m proud of them all, so what can I say?
Q: You definitely had a very iconic look in “Unforgiven.” I remember you and your hat in that film.
Saul Rubinek: Well, that’s one of the ones where I would have paid them to let me be in the movie.
Q: With “Jerry and Tom,” every time I look at the cast of that film, I am just flabbergasted. It’s really remarkable. (Writer’s note: the cast includes Joe Mantegna, Sam Rockwell, Ted Danson, William H. Macy, Charles Durning, Peter Riegert, Sarah Polley, and Maury Chaykin.)
Saul Rubinek: Thank you! Now there’s a movie that I wish had gotten a bit more recognition. I wish Miramax had not unreleased it. They bought it at Sundance, got cold feet, and just sold it to Showtime. But, look, that gave me the opportunity to direct two Showtime movies! Well, I am going to go catch my plane now…
Q: Well, Saul, it has been a pleasure talking to you. Like I said, I’m really psyched for the show. I hope it does well for you.
Saul Rubinek: I’m glad you like it. I’m thrilled that you like it. And thanks for this interview. I really appreciate it!
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