Education
Yale School of Drama.
Yale School of Drama.
He is best known for the role of Elliot Novak on the series Alice having become a regular in the show"s 9th season and the recurring role of Eddie Gregg on Hill Street Blues from 1982 to 1986. He is also known for having played the mohel on "The Bris" episode of Seinfeld and Coco, the gay cook, on the pilot episode of The Golden Girls. His part was dropped in favor of making the character of Sophia Petrillo, played by Estelle Getty, a regular.
(Many of her sassy one-liners were originally written for Coco) He appeared as a guest star on many television shows including Family Ties, Tales from the Darkside, The Twilight Zone, The Facts of Life, Falcon Crest (as Arthur Habermann), Punky Brewster (as Officer Bob), Thirtysomething, Night Court, Los Angeles Law (as Robert Caporale), Designing Women, Murphy Brown, New York City Police Department Blue, and Law & Order.