Richard Portnow

Birth Name:

Richard Portnow

Birth Place:

New York City, New York, United States

Profession

Actor, Producer

His early off-off-Broadway work earned him the Best Newcomer of the Year award from Show Business Magazine
The actors' trade newspaper "Back Stage West" named him one of its "Actors We Love․"
Earned his B․A․ in speech and theater at Brooklyn College
After being discouraged from acting by the faculty at his college, he worked as a bartender, an antique dealer, a boxer, a fifth-grade teacher, a body builder, a truck driver, a bouncer and a cook
Quote: "It's interesting watching a film that was made 25 years ago; you look like a kid․"
His stage credits include Broadway productions of "The House of Blue Leaves" and "A Month of Sundays․"
Appeared in a television commercial for Buffalo Wild Wings restaurants
Collects Americana from the 1940s and 1950s, especially oil paintings created for pulp magazine covers
Joined the by-invitation-only group of entertainment industry professionals known as Fête
When watching "Good Morning, Vietnam" years after it was filmed, he couldn't remember doing the little dance that his character performs in one of the scenes

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