Salem Ludwig

Salem Ludwig was an American actor who worked largely in character roles and also taught acting. A Brooklyn, New York, native, he built a long career in film and television and kept performing after his 90th birthday until his death in 2007 at 91. His screen work included America, America (1963), where he played Odysseus Topouzoglou, and I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968), in which he was Mr Fine. He later appeared as Leo in Fast Food, Fast Women (2000). On television he played the lawyer Solomon Rabinowitz in an early All in the Family episode, advising Archie Bunker against a whiplash case. He took two parts on the daytime serial The Doctors, as Dr. Roth in 1967 and George Watson in 1975, and in 1985 he was the dry cleaner Jules Rosenfeld on Kate & Allie. Carol Schaye made a biographical film about him, An Actor's Life.