Jack Axelrod

Jack Axelrod was an American actor and acting teacher who first trained as an architect, studying at the University of California, Berkeley and earning his license in 1966 before moving toward a full-time acting career the same year. In New York he studied with Uta Hagen. His stage work took in regional theater and plays such as Uncle Vanya and The Miser, and he appeared on Broadway in Gandhi in 1970 and Herzl in 1976. Woody Allen's Bananas (1971) gave him his first screen part, Lieutenant Arroyo, and he played Victor Jerome on the ABC soap opera General Hospital from 1987 to 1989. He also had guest roles on My Name Is Earl and Grey's Anatomy. Among his later films were Hancock (2008), Little Fockers (2010), Super 8 (2011) and The Lone Ranger (2013). He taught acting at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay.