Stefan Gierasch

Stefan Gierasch (February 5, 1926 – September 6, 2014) was an American film and television actor.

Personal

Gierasch was a native of New York and studied at The Actors Studio.

Gierasch was married 33 years to actress Hedy Sontag at the time of his death. The couple have 3 children, Amanda, Elisa and Matthew.

Career

Gierasch made over 100 screen appearances, mostly in American television, beginning in 1951. In the mid-1960s, he performed with the Trinity Square Players in Providence, Rhode Island. He appeared in dozens of films including in The Hustler (1961), The Traveling Executioner (1970), Jeremiah Johnson (1972), What's Up Doc? (1972), High Plains Drifter (1973), Carrie (1976), Silver Streak (1976), Victory at Entebbe (1976), Blue Sunshine (1977), The Champ (1979), Blood Beach (1980) and Perfect (1985).

In 1994 he appeared in the Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito film Junior as Edward Sawyer, and in 1995's Murder in the First as Warden James Humson. Gierasch made many TV appearances, as in Kung Fu, M*A*S*H, Starsky & Hutch, Gunsmoke (1966 S12E6’s “Gunfighter, RIP”), Star Trek: The Next Generation, Barney Miller and ER.

Death

Gierasch died at home from a stroke in 2014 at the age of 88.

Selected filmography

References

External links

• Stefan Gierasch at IMDb
• Stefan Gierasch at the Internet Broadway Database
• Stefan Gierasch at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Stefan Gierasch at the University of Wisconsin's Actors Studio audio collection