Richard K. Lublin
American actor
Richard K. Lublin (born October 15, 1939) is an American lawyer and actor.
Early life
Richard K. Lublin was born in Hartford, Connecticut. He received his B.A. from Duke University in 1961, and graduated from Cornell Law School with a Juris Doctor degree in 1964.
Acting
Richard Lublin began his acting career in 1995 after retiring from 32 years of active law practice. His legal and acting careers merged in 1998 when he first landed roles as an attorney in The Practice and Ally McBeal. In the late 1990s, he played featured roles as a judge on Law & Order. Richard also had roles on highly popular television shows like Chicago Hope, Frasier, Rescue Me, Married with Children and the HBO series, Luck.
In his first movie role, Richard was cast in the Sidney Lumet film Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, which movie critic Roger Ebert reviewed as “a superb crime melodrama.” In the film, Lublin plays “Mourner #4” and has dialog scenes with noted actors Albert Finney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Ethan Hawke.
In 2017, Richard performed in a feature film The Land of Steady Habits, written and directed by Nicole Holofcener. Set in Connecticut, the film focuses on the journey of Anders Hill, played by Ben Mendelsohn, a man in his mid-fifties who has just retired.
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