A classically-trained actor whose versatility and pliability allow him to play roles running the gamut from weak to menacing, Jeffrey De Munn received his training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in London. Upon his return to the US, he spent two years with the National Shakespeare Company, touring America in productions of "King Lear" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream". De Munn continued to establish himself as a potent stage presence throughout the 1970s and 80s in such plays as Trevor Griffiths' "Comedians" (1976), "A Prayer for My Daughter" (1978), "Modigliani" (1979), "K2" (1982), for