Ed Schiff(1946-2015)
- Actor
Ed Schiff is a veteran actor, director and producer with over 200
credits in professional theater, in film and on television. Schiff
was recently featured in the movies "War of the Worlds," "Out of the
Fog," "The Warrior Class" and "Everyman." He was John Wolfe, the
corrupt detective, on ABC-TV's "One Life to Live," and Mitchell Morgan,
the TV station manager in the primetime comedy "Grapevine." Recent
regional theater stage roles for Schiff have included title roles
in "Da" and "King Lear"; lead roles as Matthew Harrison Brady in
"Inherit the Wind," Big Daddy in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," Gaston in
"Picasso at the Lapin Agile," Larkin in "Golf with Alan Shephard," Gen.
MacKenzie in "And Then There Were None," Mr. Laurence in "Little Women"
and King Claudius in "Hamlet." His many recent TV commercials include
him as Ernest Hemingway for "Pilot Pen," The Gorton's Fisherman, and as
King Alfonso for "Medieval Times."
