Dan Hedaya

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AKA: Daniel Hedaya
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 07/24/1940
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA

biography

This prolific and extremely versatile character player's expressive and rubbery mug has served him well in a variety of disparate roles and genres on stage, film and TV. Hedaya had substantial theater experience with the New York Shakespeare Festival and has appeared in over 25 features since 1980 but he is most widely known for his extensive TV work. "Cheers" cultists fondly remember him as Nick Tortelli, the unscrupulous and hirsute ex-husband of Rhea Perlman's Carla and the star of a subsequent short-lived spin-off, "The Tortellis" (NBC, 1987). Hedaya is a familiar TV face appearing in Continued

Credits

(TV Show)
2006-2006
Jack Monk
2006
(TV Show)
2006-2006
Father Frank
2006
(TV Show)
2001-2003
Don Ludke
2003
Don Ludke
2002
Don Ludke
2001
(TV Show)
2003-2003
Joey Legs
2003
Joey Legs
2003
Joey Legs
2003
Muster Hansau
2003
Coach Simkins
2002
Vincenzo Castiglianne
2001
Mike 'The Brick' Donatelli
2000
Julian Marty
2000
Jack Roselli
2000
Della Pesca
1999
President Richard Nixon
1999
General Perez
1997
Gabriel
1997
Bob
1997
Frank Kraft
1996
Detective Wallace
1996
Morty Cushman
1996
Joe Maretto
1995
Jeff Rabin
1995
Mel Hamilton
1995
Twitchy
1994
Thomas
1993
Tully Alford
1991
(TV Show)
1984-1987
Nick Tortelli
1987
Nick Tortelli
1986
Nick Tortelli
1985
Nick Tortelli
1984
Nick Tortelli
1984
Arius
1985
Detective Molinari
1984
Howard Terkel
1981
Harvey
Gene Salvatore
Peter Daniels
Lieutenant Allegrezza
Lt McBain
Captain Logan
Sergeant Otis Barnes
Larry 'Fish' Fisher
Anthony Castelo
Actor
Actor

milestones

Year
Milestone
 
Began acting during his undergraduate years at Tufts
 
Stage debut in a small part in a college production of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible"
 
Taught junior high school English and math in NYC for seven years
1973 
Returned to stage full-time with an appearance in a Joseph Papp production of "Macbeth"
1976 
Feature debut (under the name Daniel Hedaya), "The Passover Plot", an Israeli-produced Biblical suspense movie
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