Anecdotes

His parents, Frania and Israel Rubinek, were survivors of the Holocaust. They were hidden by Polish farmers during World War II. His father was a factory worker, theatre company manager, Yiddish Theatre actor, and Talmudic scholar.

Was an emergency replacement for David Rappaport on the Star Trek: La nouvelle génération (1987) episode, The Most Toys (1990), after Rappaport's attempted suicide three days into filming the episode in 1990.

Saul Rubinek plays a knife-wielding subway mugger (uncredited) in the original 1974 Death Wish. Twenty years later, Rubinek plays a completely new character; a prosecutor, in the fifth and final installment of "Death Wish" which stars Charles Bronson - "Death Wish V: The Face of Death.".

Co-produced the movie Jerry et Tom (1998), which became an official entry at Sundance in 1998, with wife Elinor Reid. They have two children: Hannah (born 1991) and Sam (born 1995).

Was good friends with the late Maury Chaykin. The two acted in many movies together.

Starring as "Artie Neilsen" on the Syfy Channel's original action/mystery/science fiction television series, Warehouse 13 (2009). (juillet 2009)

Father with Elinor Reid of actress Hannah Reid Rubinek.

He & Michael Dorn co-starred in Star Trek: La nouvelle génération (1987) and also in different episodes of Au-delà du réel - l'aventure continue (1995).

Lives in California, currently working on more movies. (septembre 2004)