- Born
- Birth nameSaul Hersh Rubinek
- Height1.68 m
- Saul Rubinek was born in a refugee camp in Germany, where his father ran a Yiddish Repertory Theatre company. Saul started his professional career as a child actor in theater and radio in Canada. By the time he was 20, he was a member of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival company in Stratford, Ontario and, later, was a co-founder, actor and director of Theatre Le Hibou, Theatre Passe-Muraille and Toronto Free Theatre. He got his early training in film and television as an actor for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Saul started working in the United States as an actor at the Public Theater in New York. Rubinek's work on U.S. and Canadian television, film and theater spans four decades. In 1997, Rubinek directed his first feature for Lionsgate, based on the play he previously directed, Jerry et Tom (1998). He also was producer on the film in partnership with his wife, Elinor Reid. The film was an official entry in competition at Sundance in 1998. He also directed the features _Club Land (2001) (TV)_ and _Bleacher Bums (2001) (TV)_ for Showtime/Paramount. Rubinek directed, and his wife and partner Elinor Reid produced the award-winning indie film Cruel But Necessary (2005). Penguin Books published (1987) Rubinek's non-fiction book, "So Many Miracles", an account of his parents' survival growing up in Poland during World War II. He wrote and produced an award-winning documentary (1988) of the same title, So Many Miracles (1987), for CBC and PBS which chronicles his parents' reunion with the people who saved their lives during the Holocaust. The DVD of the documentary is available from The National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University. Rubinek wrote the play "Terrible Advice", which was produced in 2011 in London by The Chocolate Factory, starring Scott Bakula, Andy Nyman, Caroline Quentin, Sharon Horgan, and directed by Frank Oz.- IMDb mini biography by: Saul Rubinek
- SpousesElinor Reid(September 16, 1990 - present) (2 children)Kate Lynch(1973 - 1987) (divorced)
- Children
- ParentsFrania RubinekIsrael Rubinek
- Known for playing "anti-hero" characters, with ambiguous resolutions
- Talks out of the side of his mouth
- 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.
- Well, a bunch of movies paid the bills. But I always had a good time. I mean, I didn't work on a movie that paid the bills any differently than I would've worked on a movie directed by Eastwood [Clint Eastwood]. I worked on them all as if they were A-class material. If the dialogue was really bad, I'd ask permission to change it. But I never had contempt.
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