EMSERSTRASSE 24
2010-2013

MARESCHSTRASSE 1

2014-2018

A college teacher persuaded him to try acting, and despite his initial reluctance, it became his ticket out of West Virginia – first, to the Catholic University of America, in Washington DC, where he did a master’s in theatre studies, and met his first wife, Susan. Then, via regional theatre, to New York, after a director suggested he audition for an agency. “I needed a scene partner, and so Susan read scenes with me, and we sang a couple of songs, I played the guitar, and they signed us both on the spot. Susan was still in college at this point.”

They married in 1967. He was 24 and she was 20. By the time Dog Day Afternoon came out, though, they had already separated. “We were both really young,” he explains. “I think we had, as everyone does, unreasonable expectations about what life could be like, and nor did we have any idea of what would happen to both of us in terms of our careers and our personal lives.” The separation was not acrimonious, he says. “In fact, we used the same lawyer for our divorce, but her life and my life just diverged.”

BURO BDP 3
2025 -

KOTTBUSSSER DAMM 7