Educated at Roosevelt University, bearded, booming-voiced Louis Zorich has been a working actor for nearly 50 years. Zorich made his off-Broadway debut in a revival of Pirandello's {+Six Characters in Search of an Author}, and has appeared on Broadway in {+Becket}, {+Moby Dick}, {+Hadrian VII}, and {+Moonchildren}.
He also appeared as Ben in Dustin Hoffman's 1984 staging of {+Death of a Salesman}, repeating this role in the 1985 film version. On television, Zorich has been seen as Jules Berger in Brooklyn Bridge (1991) and as Paul Reiser's father in Mad About You (which ran from 1992 to 1999), and heard in innumerable commercial voice-overs. Louis Zorich is the husband of Oscar-winning actress Olympia Dukakis. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide. 