Richard Portnow

ACTOR, PRODUCER, MISCELLANEOUS

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29th May 2022 | FlixCatalog Staff

A veteran of stage, film and television with a variety of characters to his credit, Richard Portnow was named one of the "Actors We Love" by the actors' trade newspaper Back Stage West. "Portnow knows exactly how to hook an audience with every character." This Brooklyn native has worked steadily for 30 years and has built a solid list of credits, appearing in some of the most highly regarded and successful films and television shows of the past three decades.His entire family hails from Brooklyn. His folks, Al and Flo, are gone, but he has a brother (Jay), a sister (Gayle), two nephews (John and Sam) and three nieces (Samara, Ilana and Maia). He graduated with a BA degree as a speech and theater major from Brooklyn College. He did not shine while in college, and was discouraged from continuing as an actor with the critique that he was "hopeless and without any ability or talent" (he continues to wonder if the faculty was right). He has been a bartender, an antique dealer, a boxer, an international drug trafficker, a fifth-grade teacher in the NYC public school system, a competitive body builder, a truck driver, a bouncer, a bagel maker, a short-order cook, a marathon runner, a designer, a competitive gymnast, a background extra, a disco dancer at the famed "Arthur" discotheque, and a confused and aimless layabout. Richard is 6'0", weighs in at a trim 180 lb. and continues to box. He has excellent defensive skills and his ability to stop punches with his face has made him a local favorite.Portnow assayed the role of attorney Hal "Mel" Melvoin on the Emmy-winning HBO series Les Soprano (1999), the lawyer for Uncle Junior, whom he singlehandedly kept out of prison and managed to get placed under house arrest instead. His rates for defending Corrado Soprano (Uncle Juniors's full name) are astronomical, but as Uncle June has said, "Mel, you're worth every penny". He has held this role since the show's inception in 1999.Richard began his professional career at the famed Cafe La Mama in New York City, appearing in plays by Tom Eyen, Leonard Melfi, Jeff Weiss, Megan Terry, Tom O'Horgan and Lanford Wilson. He won "The Best Newcomer of the Year" award from Show Business Magazine as a result of his early work off-off-Broadway. He continued his stage career with starring roles on Broadway in "The House of Blue Leaves" and "A Month of Sundays". He was in the original cast of "Moonchildren" at the prestigious Royal Court Theatre in London. He has also worked extensively at some of the most highly regarded regional theaters in the country, including The Long Wharf Theater, The Berkshire Theatre Festival for the brilliant director Josephine Abady, The Philadelphia Drama Guild, The Lowell Regional Theater and the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Neil Simon's "Oscar and Felix" at The Geffen Playhouse marked Richard's Los Angeles stage debut. His has also appeared in Woody Allen's "Writer's Block", which was directed by Allen at The Atlantic Theater Company in New York.Richard has been fortunate and privileged to work with some of the best directors in film today. Among those who have had a profound influence on him are Barry Levinson, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, David Fincher, Woody Allen, Sydney Pollack, James Foley, Jim Jarmusch, Heywood Gould, Cameron Crowe and Sidney Lumet. He has also appeared as a regular on the critically acclaimed series EZ Streets (1996) and on the police drama Ryan Caulfield: Year One (1999). He has had guest-starring appearances on ""Elementary" (2016), "The Good Wife"(2015), "Grimm"(2015), "Parks and Recreation" (2014), "Suits (2014), "Castle" (2014), "CSI New York" (2012), "Hawaii Five-0" (2012), "Nip/Tuck." (2009), "Cold Case" (2008), "Boston Legal" (2006), Seinfeld (1989), Dingue de toi (1992), On the Road Again (2001), Spin City (1996), New York Police Blues (1993), The Shield (2002), Le monde de Dave (1993), Guerres privées (1991), Homefront (1991), Double Rush (1995), JAG (1995), Lois & Clark: Les nouvelles aventures de Superman (1993), Une nounou d'enfer (1993), Middle Ages (1992), L'as de la crime (1991) Un flic dans la mafia (1987) and Walker, Texas Ranger (1993).Richard has also starred in numerous movies of the week and mini series, most notably Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor (2001), Double Bang (2001), Les charmes de la vengeance (1997), A Deadly Silence (1989), Original Sin (1997), Peter Gunn (1989) and Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995).Richard shares his home with an unpredictable Chow/Shiba Inu named "Sweetie" and a feisty English Cocker Spaniel named "Jackpot" Richard is an avid collector of Americana from the 1940s and 1950s, with special focus on the original oil paintings created for the "pulp magazine" covers of the 1930s and 1940s. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Richard Portnow and Management

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Releases by Year

Richard Portnow on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1989 to 2021. See the full graphs of the number of Richard Portnow movies released per year from 2005 till 2021.

Top Genres

Richard Portnow works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Crime Genre flixes. 29% of Richard Portnow movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Richard Portnow worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Richard Portnow has worked on is 6.2.

6.2 / 10

Richard Portnow's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Crime,Drama,Thriller
This Last Lonely Place (2014)

On his last night on the job, an unsuspecting Los Angeles cab driver gets roped into helping a wealthy investment banker cover up a brutal crime.

7.7/1085 min

Available in 6 platform(s).

A former Supreme Court Justice starts his own law firm.

6.2/1060 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Holly runs from the ghosts of her past, but this holiday they come back to find her.

6.1/1077 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

Drama,Family,Sport
Underdogs (2013)

Set in rural Ohio, the birthplace of football, a small-town high school football team rises to play their cross-town rival, a perennial powerhouse, while standing up for an entire community.

5.8/10102 min

Available in 7 platform(s).

Crime,Mystery,Thriller
Perfect Stranger (2007)

A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her childhood friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.

5.7/10109 min

Available in 12 platform(s).

The father of three children was killed when he left his house. This provokes a lot of sentimental emotions in the neighbourhood because the people know nothing about his dark past.

5.6/1091 min

Available in 4 platform(s).

Comedy,Horror,Sci-Fi
Meet the Hollowheads (1989)

The Hollowheads, a slightly darker and more satirical 80s take on Familjen Jetson (1962), have their hands full when the head of the family's sleazy and abusive boss invites himself to their family dinner.

5.3/1086 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

A young private investigator in LA tows the line between danger and heartbreak as he tries to help a woman to commit fraud in order to get the money he needs to help his sick mother.

4.2/1090 min

Available in 4 platform(s).