Lee Wilkof
Biography
Lee Wilkof was born in Canton, Ohio in 1951. Upon graduation from the University of Cincinnati in 1973 he moved to New York City to pursue his career. Over the course of 40 plus years he has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in regional theater, on television, and in films playing a wide range of characters, both serious and comic. In 2014 he directed his first feature film No Pay, Nudity. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, the painter Connie Grappo. Their daughter Perrie is a baker living in Columbus, Ohio.
75years old
Turns 76 on June 25in 249 days
- Born Canton
- Star sign: CancerThe sign runs June 21 to July 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 15
- Career span
- 31 years1983 to 2014
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Big break
Wilkof got his big break in 1982, taking the leading part of Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors in its original Off-Broadway production.
First role
Wilkof helped write and appeared in The Present Tense, a comedy revue staged at New York City's Park Royal Theatre in 1977, after he finished college.
Early training
Wilkof studied acting in New York City with Austin Pendleton after earning his degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1972.
Behind the camera
No Pay, Nudity was a film directed by Wilkof, and its cast featured Nathan Lane, Gabriel Byrne, and Frances Conroy.
Beyond film
Wilkof sings and plays the banjo in the musical quartet Twenty Mule Team Weiner Train, a group he performs with.
Lee Wilkof movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Worked with
Lee Wilkof shares two films with Richard Portnow, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Richard Portnow's page
Terry O'Quinn's page
Robert De Niro's page
Christopher Walken's page
Susan Sarandon's page
Whoopi Goldberg's page
All films by Sidney Lumet
Michael Caton-JonesDirector, 1 film, 1993
All films by Michael Caton-Jones
All films by Betty Thomas
Box office
What Lee Wilkof's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$119 million
9 of the 15 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 15 films: 9 worldwide figure; 2 us gross only; 2 never in cinemas; 2 figure not found.
- 9Worldwide figure
- 2US gross only
- 2Never in cinemas
- 2Figure not found
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$41M34.5% of the total
- 2$35M29.0% of the total
- 3$25M20.9% of the total
- 4$13M10.7% of the total
- 5$4.1M3.4% of the total
- 6$1.0M0.9% of the total
- 7$259K0.2% of the total
- 8$214K0.2% of the total
$166,228from the other 1 film with a worldwide figure, 0% of the total
Online
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