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Stephen Robert Macht is an American television and film actor. 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, 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 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, on Knots Landing. Other notable roles included playing Nancy McKeon’s father in Strange Voices. He was Benedict Arnold in the miniseries George Washington and played one of the survivors of an air crash in Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac. He spent three seasons on Cagney & Lacey. 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. 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 A Friendship in Vienna; Memories of Midnight, and in Moment of Truth: A Mother’s Deception. Macht appeared in Babylon 5, One Life to Live, General Hospital, and Suits.
Macht’s work in feature films has been more sporadic, beginning with a turn as one of The Choirboys. He also had roles in Nightwing, The Mountain Men, Galaxina, The Last Winter, The Monster Squad, Stephen King’s Graveyard Shift, Amityville: It’s About Time, The Legend of Galgameth, and Watchers Reborn. Macht has also played Dr. Harris in three instalments of the Trancers series of films.
Stephen Macht Biography / Wiki
| Name | Stephen Macht |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Philadelphia – Pennsylvania – USA |
| Date of Birth | 1942-05-01 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 80 |
| Deathday |
Stephen Macht Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Amityville 1992: It’s About Time | Jacob Sterling | 1992-07-16 | When an old clock arrives at home as a gift, strange things begin to happen. The family that proudly assigned a privileged place to the clock in the l… |
| The Immigrants | Daniel Lavetta | 1978-11-20 | A young Italian immigrant who loses everything in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake starts over again and builds up a shipping empire, but doesn’t fin… |
| American Dream | Danny | 1981-04-26 | Needing a bigger house, a Chicago suburbanite has to move his family into the inner city…. |
| Swallows | 1999-07-23 | In this warm hearted farce, local boy Eddie returns to the small California town where he grew up, setting in motion a comedy of Eros. Eddie spots and… | |
| Galaxina | Sgt. Thor | 1980-06-06 | Galaxina is a lifelike, voluptuous android who is assigned to oversee the operations of an intergalactic Space Police cruiser captained by incompetent… |
| Galgameth | El El | 1997-08-05 | The kingdom of Donnegold is being subverted from within, and young prince Davin must defend against the traitors with the help of a legendary, metal-e… |
| A Mother’s Deception | Harry McGill | 1994-10-17 | Nora McGill has great pain. Desperatly searching for help she finds Dr. Allen. He reduces her pain, but she has to pay a high price for it …… |
| Fear Stalk | Tom | 1989-12-17 | A producer from Beverly Hills is shocked when someone steals all of her belongings out of her purse. The thief begins to make threatening phone calls … |
| Ring of Passion | 1978-02-04 | The championship battles between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling in 1936 and 1938 were legendary, as they pummeled each other in their efforts to attain t… | |
| The Monster Squad | Del | 1987-08-14 | Count Dracula adjourns to Earth, accompanied by Frankenstein’s Monster, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and the Gillman. The uglies are in search of a powerfu… |
| Graveyard Shift | Warwick | 1990-10-26 | John Hall is a drifter who wanders into a small town in Maine. He needs a job and decides to seek employment at the community’s top business: a large … |
| Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac | Joe Stiley | 1984-04-01 | Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac is a true story based on the crash of Air Florida flight 90 on January 13, 1982 in Washington D.C. This movie follo… |
| Blind Witness | Gordon Kemlich | 1989-11-26 | Woman is trapped in her home with her husband’s killers…. |
| A Friendship in Vienna | Franz Dournenvald | 1988-08-27 | Inge Dournenvald and Lise Mueller are best friends in pre-WW2 Austria, despite the fact that Inge is Jewish and Lise is the daughter of a Nazi sympath… |
| Amelia Earhart | Paul Mantz | 1976-10-25 | Biography follows the life of famed woman pilot Amelia Earhart, including her marriage to a famous publisher and her disappearance during a flight in … |
| Moment of Truth: A Child Too Many | 1993-10-11 | Patty Nowakowski already has three children, but decides to be a surrogate mother. Fully confident of being able to give up her baby, she is nonethele… | |
| Killjoy | Dr. Max Heller | 1981-08-24 | Story of a young woman’s murder and the people who become involved with it…. |
| Watchers Reborn | Lem Johnson | 1998-01-01 | An extra-smart dog and detective team up to stop a DNA enhanced killer…. |
| One Hot Summer Night | Abel Ganz | 1998-03-12 | When a wealthy businessman is murdered by a hired assassin, suspicion falls on the victim’s abused wife and her lover…. |
| Siringo | Wade Lewis | 1995-05-16 | The Deputy Marshall tracks down an escaped convict along with a young deputy and the help of a former prostitute…. |
| Deadly Visitor | Mulvaney | 1973-07-03 | The operator of a turn-of-the-century boarding house is haunted by a vicious female entity. The ghost drives all visitors away except for a young wri… |
| Strange Voices | Dave Glover | 1987-10-19 | A family begins to fall apart when their eldest daughter is diagnosed with schizophrenia…. |
| The Last Winter | Eddie | 1984-01-01 | Tells the story of two women seeking leads to their missing husbands after the end of the Yom Kippur War (1973). A relationship builds between them wh… |
| Nightwing | Walker Chee | 1979-06-22 | Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in Arizona…. |
| The Mountain Men | Heavy Eagle | 1980-06-01 | The story concerns two grizzled mountain men — Bill Tyler and Henry Frapp — during the dying days of the fur-trapping era. The plot begins when Runn… |
| The Choirboys | Spencer Van Moot | 1977-12-23 | A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery…. |
| My Boyfriend’s Back | Joseph | 1989-09-24 | A female singing group from the ’60s reunites for a TV special…. |
| A Caribbean Mystery | Greg Dyson | 1983-10-22 | Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Marple that one of the guests at a luxurious Caribbean resort they… |
| Final Voyage | Captain Doyle | 2000-06-20 | This is the story of a modern day pirate mad man and his crew of eight, searching for fortune on a cruise ship but a small group of passengers fight b… |
| DC 9/11: Time of Crisis | Paul Wolfowitz | 2003-09-07 | This is the story of the days directly after 9/11, and the president’s whereabouts. Scheduled to air shortly before the second anniversary of the Sept… |
| Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb | Wiiliam “Bud” Uanna | 1980-11-23 | Well-intentioned history lesson; the decision to drop the atom bomb, the secrecy surrounding the mission, and the men who flew it…. |
| Wolfman’s Got Nards | 2018-08-01 | A documentary that explores the power of cult film told through the lens of the Monster Squad and the impact it has on fans, cast and crew and the ind… | |
| Hunters of the Reef | La Salle | 1978-05-20 | A beautiful marine biologist. A deep-sea diver. Trapped while searching for treasure in shark-infested waters!… |
| Outside the Law | Dick Dawson | 2002-06-25 | Secret agent Julie Cosgrove is walking into her most dangerous mission yet…. |
| The Legend of Bloody Mary | Magistrate | 2008-12-09 | Ryan has been plagued with nightmares since the night his sister Amy went missing 8 years earlier after playing the game “Bloody Mary.” Amy had stumbl… |
| Trancers 3: Deth Lives | Harris | 1992-10-14 | A time traveling cop, Jack Deth, from the future is taken back to the past to be given the task of destroying the Trancer program before it has a chan… |
| Trancers 5: Sudden Deth | Harris | 1994-11-04 | Jack Deth is back for one more round with the trancers. Jack must attempt to find his way home from the other-dimensional world of Orpheus, where magi… |
| Loose Change | Peter Lane | 1978-02-26 | Three girlfriends — an author, an artist, and a political activist — mature and change during the turbulent 1960s…. |
| Trancers 4: Jack of Swords | Harris | 1994-02-02 | Jack is now back in the future. He had since lost Lena, and finds out that he’s lost his other wife Alice to none other than Harris. While heading out… |
| The Return of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer | FBI Agent Frank Walker | 1986-04-18 | After two attempts to kidnap a little girl Mike Hammer is hired to protect her…. |
| The Tenth Level | Dahlquist | 1976-08-26 | Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research, this TV movie chronicles a psychology professor’s study to determine why people, such as the Nazis… |
| Touch Me | Robert | 1997-09-05 | Bridgette is an aspiring actress who teaches aerobics at a local gym that’s run by the womanizing Adam. After a tryst with Adam, Bridgette scores a ro… |
| Samson and Delilah | Maluck | 1984-03-31 | Samson and Delilah tv movie… |
| Agent Red | General Stillwell | 2000-09-13 | Matt Hendricks is the US Navy’s top Marine Special Operations Commander and is facing his toughest challenge yet – escorting the deadliest viral weapo… |
| Raid on Entebbe | Lt. Col. ‘Yonni’ Netanyahu | 1976-12-26 | Based on a true Military operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the PFLP. The plane has about 100 Jewish passengers. The … |
| The Super Cops | Detective Finley (uncredited) | 1974-03-20 | The true story of two New York City cops. Greenberg & Hantz fought the system, became detectives and were known on the streets as “Batman & Ro… |
Stephen Macht Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Director | Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) mesh to … | ||
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