Michael Sarrazin

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BIRTHDAY

May 22, 1940

Quebec, Ontario, Canada

RECENT CREDITS

The Christmas Choir (TV) Dec. 6, 2008

Tripping Wire (TV) Nov. 6, 2005

feardotcom (FILM) Aug. 30, 2002

The Second Arrival (TV) Nov. 6, 1998

Earthquake in New York (TV) Oct. 11, 1998

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BIOGRAPHY

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While his career seems to have not lived up to its early promise, this charismatic lead of the late 1960s and early 70s has made the transition to character player since the late 80s. Sarrazin began making appearance on his native Canadian television while still a teenager. He made an inauspicious American feature debut in "Gunfight in Abilene" but won acclaim in as George C Scott's traveling companion in "The Flim-Flam Man" (both 1967). Sydney Pollack's Depression-era drama "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" (1969) afford the handsome actor one of his best-remembered screen roles. As a drifter who becomes Jane Fonda's marathon dance partner with tragic results, Sarrazin was quite effective. He was even better in the underrated "Sometimes a Great Notion" (1971) as a petulant, self-indulgent youth who matures into a responsible logger. Among his other better-known roles are as The Creature in the NBC miniseries "Frankenstein: The True Story" (1973), as Barbra Streisand's taxi driving husband in the pallid "For Pete's Sake" (1973) and as a man possessed by a murder victim in "The Reincarnation of Peter Proud" (1975). As he has aged, Sarrazin has begun to move into character roles like his prisoner-of-war in Paul Almond's "Captive Hearts" (1987) and his appearances on such TV shows as "Murder, She Wrote" and "The Outer Limits".

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