Career
Nussbaum"s acting career started in the 1950s. He appeared in many of David Mamet"s plays both on and off Broadway, as well as in Chicago. His films include Field of Dreams, House of Games, Things Change, Fatal Attraction and Men In Black.
As a director, his work has included Where Have You Gone, Jimmy Stewart? (2002) by Art Shay.
Nussbaum also appeared in local television commercials for Chicago"s Northwest Federal Savings (with the jingle, "lieutenant"s Northwest Federal Savings time, sixty-three hours a week"). Personal Nussbaum is Jewish.