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Allan Arbus
Allan Arbus
Born	Allan Franklin Arbus; February 15, 1918; New York City, U.S.
Died	April 19, 2013 (aged 95); Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Actor, photographer
Years active	1961–2000
Spouses	Diane Nemerov (m. 1941; div. 1969); Mariclare Costello (m. 1977);
Children	3, including Doon and Amy Arbus

Allan Franklin Arbus (February 15, 1918 – April 19, 2013)^[1] was an American actor and photographer. He was the former husband of photographer Diane Arbus. He is known for his role as psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Freedman on the CBS television series M*A*S*H.

Early life

Arbus was born in New York City, to a Jewish family,^[2] the son of fur retailer Harry Arbus and his wife Rose (née Goldberg).^[3] He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, where he first developed an interest in acting while appearing in a student play.^[4]

Also a music lover, before becoming an actor, he was reportedly so taken by Benny Goodman's recordings that he took up playing the clarinet.^[4]

Photography career

During the 1940s, Arbus became a photographer for the United States Army. In 1946, after he completed his military service, he and his first wife, photographer Diane Arbus (née Nemerov, whom he had married in 1941), started a photographic advertising business in Manhattan. Arbus was primarily known for advertising photography that appeared in Glamour, Seventeen, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and other magazines, as well as the weekly newspaper advertising photography for Russeks, a Fifth Avenue department store owned by Diane's grandfather.^[5]

Edward Steichen's noted photo exhibition The Family of Man includes a photograph credited to the couple.^[6]^[7] The Arbuses' professional partnership ended in 1956, when Diane quit the business; the couple formally separated three years later. Allan Arbus continued on as a solo photographer, but had given up the business to pursue an acting career by the time the couple divorced in 1969.^[8]^[9]

Acting career

After the breakup of his first marriage and the dissolution of his business, Arbus moved to California in 1969 to pursue a new career in acting.^[10] His new career took off after he landed the lead role in Robert Downey Sr.'s 1972 cult film, Greaser's Palace, in which he appears with Robert Downey, Jr., who would go on to star as Diane Arbus's muse in Fur. The 2006 Fur is a fictional account of the end of the Arbuses' marriage. Arbus also starred opposite Bette Davis in Scream, Pretty Peggy (1973), and was featured as Gregory LaCava in W.C. Fields and Me (1976).^[11]

These roles led to his casting as Maj. Sidney Freedman on M*A*S*H. His work on M*A*S*H helped his career as a character actor, and he eventually appeared in more than seventy TV shows and movies. He appeared briefly in the 1973 film Cinderella Liberty as a drunken sailor; another 1973 film, Coffy (starring Pam Grier), featured Arbus as a drug dealer with strange sexual needs; in Damien - Omen II (1978), he played Pasarian, one of Damien's many victims in The Omen trilogy. In 1979, he portrayed a dance choreographer in The Electric Horseman.^[12]

Arbus is far better known for his television work, which includes over forty-five titles, with works as recent as Curb Your Enthusiasm in 2000. Among Arbus's non-M*A*S*H work for television are guest and recurring roles in such television series as Law & Order, In the Heat of the Night, L.A. Law, Matlock, Starsky and Hutch, and Judging Amy.^[11]

Personal life

Allan and Diane Arbus had two daughters, photographer Amy Arbus, and writer and art director Doon Arbus. The couple separated in 1959 and divorced in 1969, two years before Diane Arbus's suicide in 1971.^[10]^[8]

Arbus married actress Mariclare Costello in 1977. The couple had one daughter, Arin Arbus, who is the associate artistic director at Theatre for a New Audience.^[10]

Death

Arbus died of congestive heart failure on April 19, 2013, in Los Angeles. He was 95.^[1] He was cremated and his ashes given to his family.^[13]

Selected TV and filmography

Year	Title	Role	Type	Notes
1961	Hey, Let's Twist!	The doctor	Film	(Uncredited)^[12]
1969	Putney Swope	Mr. Bad News	Film	^[12]
1971	The Christian Licorice Store	Monroe (Smith)	Film	^[12]
1972	Cisco Pike	Sim Valensi	Film	^[12]
1972	Greaser's Palace	Jessy	Film	^[12]
1973	The Young Nurses	Krebs	Film	^[12]
1973	Coffy	Arturo Vitroni	Film	^[12]
1973	Scream, Pretty Peggy	Dr. Saks	TV movie	(ABC)^[3]
1973	Cinderella Liberty	Drunken sailor	Film	^[12]
1974	The Odd Couple	Ernie Ferguson (Hypnotist)	TV	Season 4, episode 15: "Cleanliness Is Next To Impossible"
1974	Law and Disorder	Dr. Richter
1976	Hawaii Five-O	Vince Maynard	TV	Season 8
1976	W.C. Fields and Me	Gregory LaCava	Film	^[12]
1977	Raid on Entebbe	Eli Melnick	TV movie	(NBC)^[3]
1978	Damien - Omen II	Pasarian
1978	Taxi	Jerry Martin	TV	Episode: "One-Punch Banta"
1978	The Rockford Files	Myron Katzin	TV	Episode: "Black Mirror"
1978	Wonder Woman	Bleaker	TV	Episode: "The Girl from Ilandia"
1979	Americathon	Moishe Weitzman, the 2nd Hebrab	Film	^[12]
1979	The Electric Horseman	Danny	Film	^[12]
1980	The Last Married Couple in America	Al Squib	Film	^[12]
1981	Gangster Wars	Goodman	TV movie	Also, as a TV miniseries, known as The Gangster Chronicles
1982	Quincy, M.E.	Dr. Ellerick	TV	Episode: "For Love of Joshua"
1973–1983	MASH*	Major Sidney Freedman	TV	12 Episodes
1984	The World of Don Camillo	Christ (voice)	Film	In Italian and English
1985	Cagney & Lacey	Arthur Stacey	TV	Episode: "Violation"
1985	Volunteers	Albert Bardenaro	Film	^[12]
1985	Hardcastle and McCormick	Dr. Friedman	TV	Episode: "Do Not Go Gentle"
1986	Crossroads	Dr. Santis	Film	^[12]
1986	Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (anthology)	Dr. Andreas Hellman	TV movie	A Fighting Choice
1987	From the Hip	Phil Ames	Film	^[12]
1987	Spies	Jano	TV	Episode: "Baby"
1987	Daniel and the Towers	Simon 'Sam' Rodia	TV movie	(Wonder Works, PBS)^[3]
1987	Ohara	Sol Rostoff	TV	Episode: "The Intruders"
1987	Duet	Mr. Coleman	TV	Episode: "Born, Bred and Buttered in Brooklyn"
1987	Matlock	Peter Leoni	TV	Episode: "The Chef"
1989	L.A. Law	Lawrence Stone	TV	Episode: I'm in the Nude for Love
1989	Matlock	Aaron Mitchell	TV	Episode: "The Star"
1989	When He's Not a Stranger	Judge Thomas J. Gray	TV movie
1990	Hunter	Norman Tate	TV	Episode: "Unfinished Business"
1991	Stat	Hesh Cooper	TV	Episodes: "Safe Smuggling" & "Fantasy"
1991–1992	Brooklyn Bridge	Dr. Schulman	TV	3 episodes
1993	Law & Order	Dominique Keith	TV	Episode: "Animal Instinct"
1993	Josh and S.A.M.	Businessman on plane	Film	^[12]
1992–1993	In The Heat of the Night	Dr. Atwill	TV	Episodes: "Discovery" & "Little Girl Lost"
1994	Mad About You	Albert	TV	Episode: "The Last Scampi"
1997	In Dark Places	Dory
1998	L.A. Doctors	Mr. Mitski	TV	Episode: "A Prayer for the living"
1999	NYPD Blue	Seymore Epstein	TV	Episode: "Don't Meth with Me"
1999	Judging Amy	Judge Fowler	TV	3 episodes
2000	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Uncle Nathan	TV	Episode: "The Group"
2016	Chief Zabu	George Dankworth	Film	(In production from 1986, completed and released 2016^[14])^[15]

References

^ ^a ^b "MASH actor Allan Arbus dies at 95". BBC News. April 25, 2013. Retrieved April 25, 2013.
^ Bloom, Nate (May 5, 2005). "Celebrity Jews". The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California. Retrieved December 13, 2006.
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^ ^a ^b Boehm, Mike (December 3, 2000). "Theater: Lured Back for One Last Great Role; Veteran actor Allan Arbus leaves a fulfilling retirement to take on an Arthur Miller part he found he couldn't resist". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on March 29, 2013. Retrieved September 14, 2009. Arbus says he yearned to be an actor from his early teens, when he had a moment of special clarity while playing in a student production at DeWitt Clinton High School.
^ Lubow, Arthur (September 14, 2003). "Arbus Reconsidered". The New York Times Magazine. [Diane Arbus feature article]. Archived from the original on June 6, 2022. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
^ The Museum of Modern Art (May 3, 1955), "The Family of Man 1955-1956", MoMA Exhibition Master Checklist, p. 7, [Exhibition 0569], retrieved August 28, 2022 MoMA PDF document
^ Marshall, Peter. "Diane Arbus: Key Facts". About.com. Archived from the original on February 18, 2007. Retrieved December 22, 2006.
^ ^a ^b Carlson, Michael (April 25, 2013). "Allan Arbus obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
^ Lubow, Arthur (May 26, 2016). "How Diane Arbus Became 'Arbus'". The New York Times. Archived from the original on August 11, 2022. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c Trounson, Rebecca (April 23, 2013). "Allan Arbus dies at 95; played psychiatrist on 'MASH'". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on August 12, 2022. Retrieved April 24, 2013.
^ ^a ^b "Allan Arbus". Rotten Tomatoes.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q American Film Institute. "Allan Arbus:16 Titles in Filmography (Cast)". AFI Catalog. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
^ Wilson, Scott (August 19, 2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). p. 25. ISBN 9781476625997.
^ Kenny, Glenn (August 16, 2017). "Once a 'Mystery Science Theater' In-Joke, Now Playing Comedy Clubs". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 31, 2021. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
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