Tucker was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and is a graduate of the Baltimore City College High School in Baltimore and Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he befriended Steven Bochco, executive-producer of National Broadcasting Company television"s Los Angeles
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Law. Tucker"s acting experience includes early appearances with Joseph Papp and a major stint at the Arena Theatre, in Washington, District of Columbia He also has worked with Lina Wertmüller, Woody Allen, and Barry Levinson. Tucker co-starred in Los Angeles Both he and Eikenberry are active in fund-raising for breast cancer research and treatment. He has written three books, including Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy, which describes his buying a house in a small Italian village and mastering the fine art of Italian cooking.
He is the author of Notes From A Culinary Wasteland, a blog about food, travel and the good life.
After meeting artist Emile Norman, Eikenberry and Tucker purchased land from him to become his neighbors in Big Sur, California. In 2006, they produced a Public Broadcasting Service documentary entitled Emile Norman: By His Own Design.
In March, 2015 Tucker co-starred with Eikenbery in The M Spot, a play written by Tucker and presented at the New Jersey Repertory Company. 1971: They"ve Killed President Lincoln
1978: An Unmarried Woman - as Fred
1978: Eyes of Laura Mars - as Bert
1979: Vampire - as Christopher Bell
1982: Diner - as Bagel
1985: The Purple Rose of Cairo - as Gil"s Agent
1986-1994: Los Angeles Law - as Stuart Markowitz
1987: Assault and Matrimony - as Edgar
1987: Radio Days - as father
1987: Tin Men - as Bagel
1988: Mickey"s 60th Birthday - Stuart Markowitz
1989: Day One - as Leo Szilard
1990: Too Young to Die? - as Buddy Thornton
1990: The Secret Life of Archie"s Wife
1991: In the Nick of Time - as Ben Talbot
1992: A Town Torn Apart - as Dennis "Doc" Littky
1993: Foreign Love or Money - as Harry Wegman
1994: D2: The Mighty Ducks - as Don Tibbles
1997: "Til There Was You - as Saul Moss
2000: Growing Up Brady - as Sherwood Schwartz
2002: Los Angeles Law: The Movie - as Stuart Markowitz
2006: Emile Norman: By His Own Design - Public Broadcasting Service documentary produced with wife Jill Eikenberry.
