Richard Masur

Richard Masur has been working on stage, film and television for over 40 years. He studied at The Yale School of Drama. Subsequently, he appeared in productions at The Public Theatre, The Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Yale Rep and The Long Wharf Theatre. He first appeared on Broadway in 1973 in the award-winning production of David Storey's The Changing Room. He then moved to Los Angeles and worked primarily in film and television for over 25 years.

Masur has starred in more than 55 feature films, including Risky Business, My Girl, Heaven's Gate, Heartburn and Under Fire, and Who'll Stop the Rain. He has appeared in over 45 television films, three of which—Adam, Fallen Angel and When The Bough Breaks—are among the top-ten rated TV movies of all time, and he received an Emmy nomination for his performance in the TV film The Burning Bed. Other television movie credits include roles in HBO's muchheralded And The Band Played On and Showtime's Hiroshima, and HBO's in 61*. Masur has also starred in numerous popular TV series, including Picket Fences, Rhoda and One Day At A Time, and guest starred on countless TV comedy and drama series - Bored to Death, Girls, Orange is the New Black, and The Good Wife.

Since returning to New York, he has appeared on Broadway in Nora Efron's Lucky Guy, Michael Frayne's Democracy; and Off-Broadway in the Culture Project's production of The Exonerated; MTC's world premiere of Sarah, Sarah, by Daniel Goldfarb; The Public Theatre's production of Rinne Groff's The Ruby Sunrise; Playwrights Horizon's world premiere of a feminine ending by Sarah Treem; the New Group's production of Mike Leigh's 2000 Years; Make Me, by Leslie Ayvazian at the Atlantic, Roger Rosenblatt's The Oldsmobile's at The Flea, Fetch Clay, Make Man by Will Power at the McCarter and The NY Theater Workshop, and Charles Busch's Olive and The Bitter Herbs at Primary Stages.

Masur is a past National President of Screen Actors Guild. First elected to the SAG Board in 1989, he served as Third National Vice President from 1991 to 1995. In 1995 he became Guild President and was re-elected in November of 1997 and served until November 1999. He returned to the union's board in 2007 and served on both the SAG and then SAG-AFTRA National Boards until he retired in 2013. Masur has worked as a director as well. His first project, Love Struck, a 23- minute film that he both wrote and directed, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. His next effort, Torn Between Two Fathers, an Afterschool Special, earned him a nomination for the Directors Guild of America Award. He has directed episodes of TV's The Wonder Years and Picket Fences. And he has directed several productions for LA Theater Works / The Play's the Thing, including: After the Fall, Incident at Vichy, and the Ride Down Mt. Morgan, by Arthur Miller and The Grapes of Wrath.

Masur is a Founding Member of the Motion Picture & Television Fund Corporation and served on the Advisory Board of the Creative Coalition. He also served on the Advisory Council to the California Assembly Select Committee on the Entertainment Industry, and sat for 6 years on the California Film Commission. He serves on the National Film Preservation Board. He is married to actress and former NY Screen Actors Guild President Eileen Henry.

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