After gaining wide experience in regional theater, this tall, bald character player broke into TV and films playing officious, obsequious or generally uptight and fussy types. After completing graduate studies in theater and teaching acting, Jeffrey Tambor spent a busy 15 years with companies including the Seattle, Milwaukee and South Coast Repertory Theatres, the Old Globe in San Diego, the Actors Theatre in Louisville and Harvard's Loeb Drama Center. He was in his mid-thirties when he made his film debut in the Al Pacino courtroom vehicle, "...And Justice for All" (1979), as an attorney