Stephen Macht
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1942-05-01 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Stephen Macht
Biography
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.
Known For
Acting
(2023)
(2018)
Wolfman's Got Nards
as Self
(2012)
Atlas Shrugged: Part II
as Clem Weatherby
(2008)
The Legend of Bloody Mary
as Magistrate
(2003)
DC 9/11: Time of Crisis
as Paul Wolfowitz
(2002)
Outside the Law
as Dick Dawson
(2000)
Agent Red
as General Stillwell
(1999)
Final Voyage
as Captain Doyle
(1999)
(1998)
Watchers Reborn
as Lem Johnson
(1998)
One Hot Summer Night
as Abel Ganz
(1997)
Touch Me
as Robert
(1997)
Galgameth
as El El
(1995)
Siringo
as Wade Lewis
(1994)
Trancers 5: Sudden Deth
as Harris
(1994)
Trancers 4: Jack of Swords
as Harris
(1994)
A Mother's Deception
as Harry McGill
(1993)
Moment of Truth: A Child Too Many
as Bill Davis
(1992)
Amityville 1992: It's About Time
as Jacob Sterling
(1992)
Trancers 3: Deth Lives
as Harris
(1990)
Graveyard Shift
as Warwick
(1989)
Fear Stalk
as Tom
(1989)
Blind Witness
as Gordon Kemlich
(1989)
My Boyfriend's Back
as Joseph
(1988)
A Friendship in Vienna
as Franz Dournenvald
(1988)
No Blame
as Carl
(1987)
The Monster Squad
as Del
(1987)
Strange Voices
as Dave Glover
(1986)
The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
as FBI Agent Frank Walker
(1984)
Samson and Delilah
as Maluck
(1984)
Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac
as Joe Stiley
(1984)
The Last Winter
as Eddie
(1984)
Contract for Life: The S.A.D.D. Story
as Bob Anastas
(1983)
A Caribbean Mystery
as Greg Dyson
(1981)
Killjoy
as Dr. Max Heller
(1981)
American Dream
as Danny Novak
(1980)
Galaxina
as Sgt. Thor
(1980)
The Mountain Men
as Heavy Eagle
(1980)
Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
as Maj. William 'Bud' Uanna
(1979)
Nightwing
as Walker Chee
(1978)
The Immigrants
as Daniel Lavetta
(1978)
Loose Change
as Peter Lane
(1978)
Ring of Passion
as Max Schmeling
(1978)
Hunters of the Reef
as La Salle
(1977)
The Choirboys
as Spencer Van Moot
(1976)
Raid on Entebbe
as Lt. Col. 'Yonni' Netanyahu
(1976)
Amelia Earhart
as Paul Mantz
(1976)
The Tenth Level
as Dahlquist
(1974)
The Super Cops
as Detective Finley (uncredited)
(1973)
The Deadly Visitor
as Mulvaney