Trivia

Retired from acting in 2011. He's since directed several stage plays including "Doubt" and "I Am My Own Wife" for local theatre groups.

His father was Polish and his mother was Ukrainian. They had been forced into factory labor by the Nazis.

Left New York - Police judiciaire (1990) over a dispute about scheduling and script quality. During the first season, Dzundza's wife was pregnant and he had to divide his time between his home and New York. The producers threatened to sue Dzundza if he held up shooting to be with his wife when she gave birth.

Attended private Catholic Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx, New York City, whose fellow alumni included Martin Scorsese, George Carlin, Regis Philbin, Jamal Mashburn and Don DeLillo.

Last name is pronounced "ZUHN-zuh".

Has appeared in three network series where he was written out after the first season: New York - Police judiciaire (1990), Jesse (1998), and Le justicier de l'ombre (2002).

Alumnus of Stella Adler Studio of Acting.

Portrays Daskal, a Russian tank commander, in the film, The Beast; and Lieutenant Platko, in the TV series, The Beast.

His Ukrainian father, Roman Dzundza, was originally from Kalush, Poland (now a city of Ukraine). His Polish mother, Maria Humenecka, hailed originally from Lviv, Poland (another city now part of Ukraine).

Made his professional stage debut in a 1973 New York Shakespeare Festival production of King Lear.

Studied speech and theatre at St. John's University, Jamaica, in New York. Subsequently trained with Stella Adler and Harold Clurman.