Michael Sacks

Michael Sacks is an American actor and technology executive. Born in New York City, he studied social relations at Harvard and computer science at Columbia. He became known for playing Billy Pilgrim in George Roy Hill's Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), adapted from Kurt Vonnegut's novel. Sacks appeared as the kidnapped patrolman in Steven Spielberg's The Sugarland Express (1974), as Jeff in The Amityville Horror (1979), and with Harrison Ford in Hanover Street (1979). His later credits include Split Image (1982), the television disaster film Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (1983), and The House of God (1984), after which he retired from the entertainment industry. On Broadway he played Mark, a Vietnam veteran, in Robert Patrick's Kennedy's Children. He later held technology positions on Wall Street, joining MarketAxess in 2004.