Daniel Benzali
Acting • Born 1946-01-20
Biography
Daniel Benzali (born January 20, 1946) is a Brazilian-American stage, television and film actor. Benzali was a theatre actor before making guest-starring roles on television series such as Star Trek: The Next Generation, The X-Files, NYPD Blue and L.A. Law. L.A. Law creator Steven Bochco was so impressed with Benzali's performance that he cast him in the lead role of his 1995 series Murder One, playing attorney Ted Hoffman. For this role he was nominated for a Golden Globe award. More recently, Benzali starred on the series The Agency, and in films such as By Dawn's Early Light (1990), Murder at 1600 (1997) and The Grey Zone (2001). He also appeared in the post-apocalyptic CBS series Jericho as the enigmatic former Department of Homeland Security director Thomas Valente. Most recently he starred in the FX television series Nip/Tuck as the main character's psychotherapist and later patient, Dr. Griffin. Another of his roles was that of Reggie, a money hungry sales manager/drug smuggler at a car dealership in the 1999 cult-classic "Suckers." Benzali has also played musical theater. He portrayed Juan Peron in the London cast of Evita, and played faded film director Max von Mayerling, alongside Patti LuPone, in the original cast (1993) of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard. Benzali had previously appeared on Broadway in Fiddler on the Roof, and other smaller productions. Benzali was also formerly engaged to actress Kim Cattrall. In December 2010, Benzali joined ABC's General Hospital.[2]Benzali plays a character named Theodore Hoffman, a reference to his role on the mid-1990s television series Murder One. Benzali's character is also known as "The Balkan", an international crime lord. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Benzali , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
57 credits
Insignificance
Movie • 1985
First Theatrical Agent
Dead Heat
Movie • 2002
Frank Finnegan
Murder at 1600
Movie • 1997
Agent Nick Spikings
Messenger of Death
Movie • 1988
Barney Doyle
Suckers
Movie • 1999
Reggie
The Grey Zone
Movie • 2001
Simon Schlermer
The End of Violence
Movie • 1997
Phelps
All the Little Animals
Movie • 1999
Bernard 'The Fat' De Winter
Screwed
Movie • 2000
Detective Tom Dewey
Her Married Lover
Movie • 1999
Det. Joe Lansing
Afterburn
Movie • 1992
Col. John Patterson
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Movie • 1987
Charles Ross
By Dawn's Early Light
Movie • 1990
Bascombe
A View to a Kill
Movie • 1985
Howe
A Day in October
Movie • 1991
Solomon Kublitz
Roe vs. Wade
Movie • 1989
White Nights
Movie • 1985
Dr. Asher
Strong Medicine
Movie • 1986
Seth
The Last of His Tribe
Movie • 1992
Mr. Whitney
Heist
Movie • 1999
Big Fats
Pack of Lies
Movie • 1987
Peter Schafer
Boss of Bosses
Movie • 2001
Bruce Mouw
Vegas, City of Dreams
Movie • 2001
Dr. Sigmund Stein
The Last Days of Patton
Movie • 1986
Col. Glen Spurling
Citizen Cohn
Movie • 1992
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman
The Distinguished Gentleman
Movie • 1992
'Skeeter' Warburton
Believers
Movie • 2007
Whoops Apocalypse
Movie • 1986
William Kubert (US Defence Secretary)
A Child's Cry for Help
Movie • 1994
Dr. Everett Morris
If I Had Known I Was a Genius
Movie • 2007
Walter
The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A.
Movie • 1994
Dr. Ezo
Falcon Crest
TV • 1981
Judge Robbins
Eli Stone
TV • 2008
Judge Emmet Bortz
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Medical Examiner
The District
TV • 2000
Robert Quinn
Star Trek: The Next Generation
TV • 1987
Surgeon
L.A. Law
TV • 1986
Judge Donald Phillips
The Agency
TV • 2001
Robert Quinn
Beauty and the Beast
TV • 1987
Murder One
TV • 1995
Theodore 'Ted' Hoffman
UC: Undercover
TV • 2001
The X-Files
TV • 1993
Colonel Wharton
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Peter Schaefer
Lie to Me
TV • 2009
Joseph Hollin
The Outer Limits
TV • 1995
Graham Highfield
Jericho
TV • 2006
Thomas Valente
One West Waikiki
TV • 1994
Californication
TV • 2007
Larry
NYPD Blue
TV • 1993
James Sinclair
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Wade Bookman
The Murder of Mary Phagan
TV • 1988
Coroner
Strong Medicine
TV • 1986
Seth
Remember WENN
TV • 1996
Rex Noble
Nip/Tuck
TV • 2003
Dr. Griffin
Star Cops
TV • 1987
Commander Griffin
Matlock
TV • 1986
Henry Mayfield
Crossbow
TV • 1987