David Rasche
David Rasche was born in St. Louis, Missouri, United States on August 7th, 1944 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 79, David Rasche biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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David Rasche (born August 7, 1944) is an American theater, film, and television actor best known for his portrayal of the title character in the 1980s satirical police sitcom Sledge Hammer. Since then, he has often played characters in positions of authority, both formal and comical.
Early life
Rasche was born in Belleville, Illinois (less than 20 miles (32 km) from St. Louis, Missouri). His father was a minister and a farmer.
Rasche graduated from Elmhurst College in 1966, and his grandfather was also an alumnus. He came from "a long line of Evangelical and United Church of Christ ministers" and left the University of Chicago Divinity School for two years before resigning. He did, however, earn a graduate degree in English from the University of Chicago.
Rasche studied under Sanford Meisner.
Personal life
After moving to New York City in 1976, Rasche met his future wife Heather Lupton. She has taught acting at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Lupton appeared in Sledge Hammer as a guest. Susanne Morie, Hammer's ex-wife, is on the scene. They have three children. Rasche owns a house in Santa Barbara, California.
Career
He worked as a writer and instructor, as well as teaching English at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota. Since attending college, he spent two years in Chicago's Second City improvisation group, and he later helped found Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, investing $1,000.
He appeared in David Mamet's Sexual Perversity, the Organic Theater's 1974 production in Chicago, which established the playwright's characteristic mix of earthy, sometimes brutal dialogue.
He first appeared in television and films in 1977, making his film debut in 1980 in An Unmarried Women, directed by Paul Mazursky. He appeared in Woody Allen's Manhattan for a brief period of time.
In the 1983 television film Special Bulletin, he appeared as a terrorist. He appeared on the Miami Vice episode "Bushido" (first broadcast on November 22, 1985) as a KGB agent trying to capture a former Lt. Castillo employee (Edward James Olmos). During his subsequent acting appearance on Sledge Hammer, Dennis Quentin appeared. Vice Vice Mayor Robert deFranks made a sarcastic remark about him.
In a production of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew directed by Zoe Caldwell at the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut in the mid-1980s, Rasche played Petruchio to Frances Conroy's Kate.
Rasche is best known for his portrayal of the title character in the satirical television sitcom Sledge Hammer!, which ran from 1986 to 1988. The performance was a parody of police dramas and shocked Sledge Hammer, a violent and chauvinistic police inspector with a preference for large and powerful weapons.
In the film Cobra, Rasche played a minor role as a photographer alongside Brigitte Nielsen.
Shortly after Sledge Hammer!
He died in the Broadway production of Mamet's Speed-the-Plow, and he appeared in a Mamet's Edmond revival.In the 1990 biker comedy Masters of Menace, Rasche was lead actor Buddy Wheeler. In the 1989 Tom Selleck crime drama, An Innocent Man, Parnelli was one of two corrupt drug police officers.
In the 1993 made-for-television film Barbarians at the Gate, Rasche played Ted Forstmann, and RJR Nabisco's leveraged buyout (LBO) of RJR Nabisco was involved. In the 1997 Columbo story "A Trace of Murder," Rasche was a leading part.
In addition to his film work, Rasche can also be seen as Captain Piett in The Empire Strikes Back's NPR radio version.
In Paul Greengrass' 2006 9/11 film United Airlines Flight 93, Rasche portrayed Donald Greene, one of United Airlines Flight 93's passengers. He appeared in the 2009 comedy In the Loop as a US official calling for an invasion of an unspecified Middle Eastern country.
He appeared George Antrobus in Theatre for a New Audience production of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, opposite Kecia Lewis as Maggie Antrobus beginning February 14, 2017.