Stephen Macht

Stephen Robert Macht[1] (born May 1, 1942) is an American television and film actor. He is also father of actor Gabriel Macht. Together with his son Gabriel, they both have acted in the US legal drama Suits, where Stephen is a Ethics Law Professor at Harvard University.

Stephen Macht
Macht in 1981.
Born	Stephen Robert Macht (1942-05-01) May 1, 1942 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1974-present
Spouse(s)	Suzanne Victoria Pulier (m. 1964)
Children	4, including Gabriel Macht

Early life

Macht was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to a Jewish family.[2] He was raised in Brooklyn Heights, New York until, at age nine, his father died and he moved with his mother, Janette, and older brother, to live with his maternal grandfather, a haberdasher, in Mystic, Connecticut.[3]

Career

Spotted by a Universal Studios talent scout while starring at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada in 1975, Macht was signed to a contract and by the mid 1970s had left teaching and was making frequent appearances in TV episodes and movies.

In Raid on Entebbe (1977), he portrayed Yoni Netanyahu, the Israeli officer killed in the rescue of hostages in Uganda. In 1978, he had a lead role in The Immigrants a syndicated miniseries about the rise of the son of Italian immigrants in turn-of-the-century San Francisco.

The successful television movie American Dream (ABC, 1981) led to a critically acclaimed short-lived series which cast Macht in the role of a family man who chucks the suburban life to set up home in the inner city of Chicago. The following season, he landed the role of Joe Cooper, brother of Karen MacKenzie (Michele Lee), on Knots Landing (CBS, 1982–83). Other notable roles included playing Nancy McKeon's father in Strange Voices (NBC, 1987). He was Benedict Arnold in the miniseries George Washington (1984) and played one of the survivors of an air crash in Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac (NBC, 1984). He spent three seasons (1985–88) as David Keeler, love interest to Cagney (Sharon Gless), on Cagney & Lacey (CBS). During his run on the show, he moved behind the cameras to make his directorial debut. In 1993, Macht played Krim Aldos in "The Siege", an early Season 2 episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.[4] Macht had been Gene Roddenberry's first choice to play Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, but the role eventually went to Patrick Stewart in 1986.

More recent credits have included playing an Austrian Jew who must be baptized along with his wife and daughter in order to escape the Nazis in A Friendship in Vienna (1988 The Disney Channel); a doctor helping Jane Seymour in the syndicated miniseries Sidney Sheldon's Memories of Midnight (1991), and as cult member Joan Van Ark's suffering husband in Moment of Truth: A Mother's Deception (1994 NBC). Macht appeared in the 1995 third season Babylon 5 episode "A Day in the Strife" as the character 'Na'Far'.[5] Na'Far was the new official Narn representative, replacing G'Kar, after the Centauri's invasion of the Narn homeworld.[6] In 1996 he did a six-month stint on the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live as Elliot Durban. From August 24, 2007 to February 13, 2009 he portrayed Trevor Lansing, attorney of organized crime boss Anthony Zacchara and father of attorney Ric Lansing, in the soap opera General Hospital for which Soap Opera Digest nominated him Best Villain of 2007. In 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2019, Macht guest starred opposite his son, actor Gabriel Macht, in Suits.

Macht's work in feature films has been more sporadic, beginning with a turn as one of The Choirboys (1977). He also had roles in Nightwing (1979), The Mountain Men (1980), Galaxina (1980), The Last Winter (1984), The Monster Squad (1987), Stephen King's Graveyard Shift (1990), Amityville: It's About Time (1992), The Legend of Galgameth (1996), and Watchers Reborn (1998). Macht has also played Dr. Harris in three instalments of the Trancers series of films.

Personal life

Macht has been married to archivist/museum curator Suzanne Victoria Pulier since 1964.[2] He has four children: Julie, Ari Serbin, actor Gabriel Macht and musician Jesse Macht.[2] Macht is also an ordained chaplain; and his book Moral Change: a Tragedy or a Return?: How Aristotle’s Tragic Reversal Illuminates Maimonides’ Teshuva was published on Amazon.com in October 2016.[7]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1974	The Super Cops	Detective Finley	Uncredited
1977	The Choirboys	Spencer Van Moot
1979	Nightwing	Walker Chee
1980	The Mountain Men	Heavy Eagle
1980	Galaxina	Sgt. Thor
1984	The Last Winter	Eddie
1985	Scarecrow and Mrs. King	Paul Barnes	Episode: "We're Off to See the Wizard"
1987	The Monster Squad	Del
1989	Columbo	David Kincaid	Episode: "Sex and the Married Detective"
1990	Graveyard Shift	Warwick
1992	Highlander:The Series	Alexei Voshin	Episode: "The Sea Witch"
1996	Galgameth	El El
1997	Touch Me	Robert
1998	Watchers Reborn	Lem Johnson
1999	Swallows	Hank
1999	Final Voyage	Captain Doyle
2000	Agent Red	General Stillwell
2002	Outside the Law	Dick Dawson
2008	The Legend of Bloody Mary	Magistrate
2012	Atlas Shrugged: Part II	Clem Weatherby

References

1. Macht, Stephen Robert (1972). "The development of acting training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art from 1861-1969". Open Library. Retrieved 2010-09-06.
2. "Stephen Macht Biography (1942-)". www.filmreference.com.
3. "Macht will be speaker at Fitch graduation". The Day. New London, Connecticut. June 5, 1982.
4. DS9 Chronicles at ds9encyclopedia.com. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
5. "A Day in the Strife" on IMDb Retrieved June 3, 2015.
6. • Stephen Macht at The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5
7. Morris Buckley, Patricia (May 2005). "Return of the King". San Diego Jewish Journal. No. May 2005. Archived from the original on May 11, 2009.

External links

• Stephen Macht on IMDb