Steven Berkoff

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Leslie Steven Berkoff (born Berks; born 3 August 1937) is an English actor, writer, playwright, actor, and theatre director.

He is best known for his appearances in gruesome roles, such as Lt.

Col Podovsky in Rambo: First Blood Part II, General Orlov of the James Bond film Octopussy, Victor Maitland in Beverly Hills Cop and Adolf Hitler in the TV mini-series War and Remembrance.

Early life

Leslie Steven Berkoff, a tailor, and a housewife in Stepney in London's East End, was born Leslie Steven Berkoff. Beryl, his older sister, died before 2010 (before 2010). He comes from a Jewish family; his paternal grandparents from Romania; and his maternal grandparents from Russia. The family's name was originally Berkowitz, but Steven's father anglicized it to Berks in order to support the family's assimilation into British culture. Leslie (who had been known as Leslie growing up) later changed his surname to Berkoff and went by his middle name.

Berkoff, his sister, and their mother were evacuated to Luton, Bedfordshire, 1942, during World War II. He and his family immigrated to the United States in 1947, sailing from Southampton aboard the Queen Elizabeth to live with relatives of Berkoff's mother in Nyack, New York. Berkoff's father, on the other hand, struggled to find jobs, and the family moved to England after a few months. Berkoff attended Raine's Foundation Grammar School (1948–50) and Hackney Downs School (1950-1955).

He was jailed in 1952 for stealing a bicycle and was sentenced to three months in borstal. He studied drama at the University Literary Institute (1957-58), trained in physical theatre and mime at L'Ecole de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq (1958–59), graduating in 1965.

Personal life

Berkoff married Alison Minto in 1970 and Shelley Lee in 1976; both marriages ended in divorce. Clara Fischer, a German pianist, lived in Limehouse, east London, until her death. He had previously lived in Portsmouth. In his film Decadence, Fischer appeared onscreen with Berkoff. Mylea and Sarah, his two children from previous relationships, have two daughters.

Berkoff was a winner in Berkoff vs. Burchill, a libel civil action brought against Sunday Times reporter Julie Burchill after she said she was "hideously ugly." Berkoff's actions "held him to ridicule and contempt," the judge found for him.

Berkoff has spoken and written about how he feels Jews and Israel should be considered in Britain. He spoke to The Jewish Chronicle in January 2009, in which he addressed anti-Israel sentiments in the aftermath of the Gaza War.

Berkoff was also keen to state that right-wing Israeli politicians, such as Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu, were "wretched," according to interviewer Simon Round. "They very much like diversity and will tolerate you as long as you act a bit Gentile and don't throw your chicken soup around too much." You are perfectly entitled to speak with Shakespeare, the British culture's greatest prophet, as long as you maintain your Jewishness well maintained." "It was the latest 'Gaza' war and Israel's appalling insult, which prompted me to look into ancient Jewish values," Berkoff wrote about Gaza as a factor in writing Biblical Tales.

Berkoff wrote about the Bible in May 2010, but "it inspires the Jews to produce Samsons and heroes and have pride." "We are so fortunate to have the Talmud to have a way of reinterpreting the Torah as Jews," Berkoff continued. As a result, we no longer cut off hands, slay animals, and stone women."

Melanie Phillips' book How Britain Is Creating a Terror State Within, written while visiting Israel in 2007, was "quite overwhelming in terms of its study and common sense." Throughout the journey, it grips me."

Berkoff, with others, wrote in favor of Israel's national theatre, Habima, which was on display in London in 2012.

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Career

Berkoff began his theatre training at Her Majesty's Theatre in Barrow-in-Furness, about two months ago, in June and July 1962.

Berkoff, as well as an actor, is a well-known playwright and theatre producer. Franz Kafka's plays in the Penal Colony (1969) and The Trial (1971). He wrote a series of verse plays, including East (1975), Greek (1980), and Decadence (1981), followed by West (1983) (later adapted and broadcast at Limehouse Studios in 1983) sunk the Belgrano. (1986), Massage (1997)), Ophelia's Private Lives, 2001).

Berkoff described Sink the Belgrano!

"And by my modest means, one of the finest things I've ever done"

Berkoff's dramatic style is described as "In-yer-face theatre," according to drama critic Aleks Sierz.

Berkoff produced an interpretation of Salome by Oscar Wilde in 1988, but it was in slow motion at the Gate Theatre in Dublin. Berkoff revived the performance at the Lyttelton Auditorium in November 1989 for his first directorial work at the Royal National Theatre in the United Kingdom. Shakespeare's Villains premiered at London's Haymarket Theatre in 1998 and was nominated for the Society of London Theatre Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment.

Berkoff said in a 2010 interview with guest presenter Emily Maitlis on The Andrew Marr Show that he found it "flattering" to portray evil characters, emphasizing that the best actors in all roles were in villainous roles. Berkoff revived a previously performed one-man performance at Hammersmith Riverside Studios titled One Man. It consisted of two monologues; the first was an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe's second book titled Dog, which was a parody of a loud-mouthed football fan and his dog. Berkoff's first verse performance since Decadence in 1981 was produced at the Sinden Theatre in Tenterden, Kent. Harvey Weinstein's latest one-act play tells the tale of him.

Berkoff has portrayed villains such as Soviet General Orlov in the James Bond film Octopussy (1983), the corrupt art dealer Victor Maitland of Beverly Hills Cop (1984), and gangster George Cornell in The Krays (1990). Berkoff has said that he accepts Hollywood only to pay his theater company, and that he dislikes several of the films in which he has appeared as lacking artistic merit.

Berkoff played both a police officer and a gambler aristocrat in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971) and Barry Lyndon (1975). Joseph Andrews (1979), Prehistoric Women (1967), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), Prehistoric Women (1977), Outland (1981), Prince of Rio (1985), Empire of War (1990), and Legionnaire (1999).

Berkoff was the main character voice in Expelling the Demon (1999), a short animation with music by Nick Cave. At the KROK International Animated Film Festival, it was named Best Debut at the Best Debut category. In the 2008 film The Cottage, he appears as the comedian. Berkoff appeared in the 2010 British gangster film "The MC" and in the same year, portrayed the villain in The Tourist. In David Fincher's 2011 version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Berkoff portrayed Dirch Frode, prosecutor to Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer). Moving Target, another 2011 award. He appeared in Decline of an Empire (2014) as Liberius.

He appeared in and directed the film version of his verse play Decadence in 1994. Joan Collins, a co-star on this film in Luxembourg, co-stars.

Berkoff appeared in episodes of The Avengers and UFO episodes "The Cat with Ten Lives" and "Destruction" in 1970. Hagath appears in the episode "Business as Usual" of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Children of Dune; Stilgar's Mr. Wiltshire appears in one episode of Hotel Babylon; and Adolf Hitler in "By the Pricking of My Thumbs," an episode of Agatha Christie's Marple; and Adolf Hitler in the mini-series War and Remembrance. In 1998, he made a guest appearance in La Femme Nikita (in the episode "In Between"). In the New Tricks episode "Bank Robbery," he played celebrity/criminal Ray Cook in 2006.

In 2010, Berkoff portrayed former Granada Television chairman Sidney Bernstein in BBC Four's drama, The Road to Coronation Street. Girolamo Savonarola, a legendary Florentine preacher, has appeared in two separate television productions: the 1990 TV film A Season of Giants and the 2011 film The Borgias. Berkoff appears as himself in the "Science" segment of the British current affairs magazine "1996), warning of the dangers of the fictional environmental disaster "Heavy Electricity." Berkoff appeared in "The Power of Three" by Doctor Who in September 2012.

Berkoff appeared in the second season of Lifetime's 'Bees of East End as King Nikolaus, the patriarch of the Beauchamp family.

Mr. Klackov, a "terrifying" caretaker with a Eastern European accent "who makes reporting Dan's mistakes even more difficult" as his work as a schoolteacher is in jeopardy in 2016.

Berkoff appeared in a BBC Radio 2 concert version of Kander and Ebb's Cabaret in 1996. He was the voice-over on the N-Trance album "The Mind of the Machine," which took first place at No. 113. In August 1997, he ranked 15 in the UK Singles Chart. He appeared in the first sequence of Sky Sports' coverage of the 2007 Heineken Cup Final, modeled on a Al Pacino speech in the film Any Given Sunday (1999).

In Killzone, Berkoff portrays General Lente, the Helghan Third Army's commander. As a General Flying Fox, he does motion capture and voice for the PlayStation 3 game Heavenly Sword.

"A sort of Philip Roth-like romp through a libidinous actor's sex life" in Sod the Bitches, Berkoff's 2015 book Sod the Bitches has been described as "a sort of Philip Roth-like romp through a sex romp."

His 2014 memoir Bad Guy!

A Hollywood turkey's journal chronicles his time as a blockbuster at a Hollywood blockbuster.

In August 2008, Berkoff appeared in the British Heart Foundation's two-minute public service advertisement Watch Your Own Heart Attack, which was broadcast on ITV. "To Infinity and Beyond" (2010) and "The Power of the Placebo" (2014) were two episodes of BBC Two Horizon's "To Infinity and Beyond" (2010).

He is a patron of Brighton's Nightingale Theatre, a fringe theatre venue.

"Steven Berkoff, one of Britain's finest contemporary dramatists and the ensuing media attention, is a phenomenon in his own right," Annette Pankratz's 2005 Modern Drama review of Steven Berkoff and the Theatre of Self-Performance by Robert Cross. Pankratz further claims that Cross "focuses on Berkoff's theatre of self-performance, i.e. the intersections between Berkoff, the public domain, and Berkoff, the artist.

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