Daniel Stern

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Biography

Daniel Stern was born in Bethesda, Maryland, to a social worker father and a day care manager mother. He has been acting professionally since the age of seventeen. Following his high school graduation, he auditioned for the Washington Shakespeare Festival seeking a job as a lighting engineer but ended up as "a strolling player with a lute" in their production of "As You Like It." Shortly thereafter, he made his way to New York where he "took a couple of acting lessons" and began to assemble an impressive portfolio of such off-Broadway credits as "Split," "Frankie and Annie," "The Mandrake," and "The Old Glory." In addition, director Peter Yates cast him as one of the four Indiana teenagers in the highly acclaimed film _Breaking Away .

  • Primary profession
  • Actor·director·writer
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 18 January 1928
  • Place of birth
  • New York City
  • Death date
  • 2007-01-24
  • Death age
  • 78
  • Place of death
  • Geneva
  • Education
  • Columbia University·Albert Einstein College of Medicine·Harvard University·Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School·High School of Music & Art
  • Knows language
  • English language

Movies

TV

Books

Awards

Trivia

Father of Henry Stern.

Played Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof in High School.

Attended Bethesda Chevy Chase High School in Bethesda MD

Daughter Sophie Stern.

Daughter Ella Marie Stern (born January 23rd 1989).

He studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.

Lives in Los Angeles, California.

Brother of actor David M. Stern.

After securing Macaulay Culkin , Joe Pesci and Stern for Home Alone , Chris Columbus felt confident enough to cast actors who were his heroes growing up, like Catherine OHara after seeing her work on "Second City TV" as well as John Heard , and Tim Curry and Rob Schneider on Home Alone 2: Lost in New York because they were all open to the films.

Dan to his friends.

Quotes

The selection process is simple. Hubby exhausts every ploy in his psychological arsenal to filter out the liars, fakes, and undesirables. (If only every husband were so devoted . . . ) Me, I try to prove that I’m not the stereotypical single male. That I’m in the Lifestyle for the right reasons. That I’m courteous and respectful. All of which are true, but the burden of proof is onme. It always is.

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