A native of Boston and graduate of Syracuse University, George has worked extensively in TV and film since 1972. Notable film work includes the Coen Brothers’ best-picture nominee A Serious Man (2009) as Rabbi Nachtner, Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs (1987) as Colonel Sandurz, and his To Be or Not to Be (1983). Among other dozens of film credits are the classic Fletch (1985) and Fletch Lives (1989), The Devil’s Advocate (1997), and Trouble with the Curve (2012). George has guest starred on over 150 TV shows, and has been a series regular on nine. He is perhaps best known for his six seasons as Deputy D.A. Irwin Bernstein on Hill Street Blues (1981).
George Wyner
Movies
Rockford
James Garner stars as the offbeat Jim Rockford, an ex-con-turned-private-investigator who would rather fish than fight but whose instinct on closed cases is more golden than his classic Pontiac Firebird. From his mobile home in Malibu, this wisecracking private eye takes you on the cases of the lost and the…
Fun Facts
First major title role was in The Odd Couple (1968) in 1971.
Distantly related to Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is also a close friend.
Appeared on The Rockford Files (1974) four times, in four different roles, between 1975 and 1977.
Appeared in the final episodes of All in the Family (1971) and Soap (1977).
Has played rabbis in many movies and TV shows, including The Practice, 'Til Death, ER, A Serious Man, The Kominsky Method, New Amsterdam, and Grace and Frankie.