Mordecai Lawner

Mordecai Lawner was an American actor of film and stage who graduated from City College of New York and later taught theater at Carnegie Mellon University and the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City. He was possibly best known for playing Alvy Singer's father in Woody Allen's Annie Hall (1977), appearing in the childhood flashback scenes. His other films included Raw Deal (1986), Ghostbusters II (1989) and A Fish in the Bathtub (1998), and he had a television role in an episode of Law & Order. On stage he worked in Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, playing Stanley in a 1995 Broadway staging of Death of a Salesman for George C. Scott's Circle in the Square, and he kept performing in regional theater into his 80s, including Tuesdays With Morrie in Saratoga Springs, New York. He died in 2014.