Anthony Zerbe

Anthony Zerbe
Born May 20, 1936(1936-05-20) (age 72)
Long Beach, CaliforniaOccupation Film, stage, TV actorSpouse(s) Arnette Jens (1962 – )

Anthony Jared Zerbe (born May 20, 1936) is an American stage, film and television actor. He is perhaps best remembered for his role as the post-apocalyptic cult leader Matthias in The Omega Man, a 1971 film adaptation of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel, I Am Legend.

Zerbe was born in Long Beach, California, the son of Catherine (née Scurlock) and Arthur Lee Van Zerbe.[1] From 1959 to 1961, Zerbe served in the United States Air Force. Zerbe studied at the Stella Adler Theater Studio in New York. He is the former artistic director of Reflections, A New Plays Festival at the Geva Theatre in Rochester, New York, which is currently touring the United States in Behind The Broken Words, a performance of contemporary poetry, comedy and dramatic works with fellow actor Roscoe Lee Browne. Zerbe also continues to perform in a project, Prelude to Lime Creek, with poet and lyricist Joe Henry.

In 1976, Zerbe won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Performance By a Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Lieutenant KC Trench in the private detective series Harry O.

He married Arnette Jens on October 7, 1962.

Filmography

Will Penny (1967)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970)
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
The Molly Maguires (1970)
The Omega Man (1971)
The Priest Killer (1971)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
Snatched (1972)
The Strange Vengeance of Rosalie (1972)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972)
The Laughing Policeman (1973)
Papillon (1973)
She Lives (1973)
Carola (1973)
The Parallax View(1974)
The Healers(1974)
The Animal Within(1974)
Rooster Cogburn (1975)
Farewell, My Lovely (1975 film) (1975)
Secret of the Pond (1975)
The Turning Point (1977 film) (1977)
In the Glitter Palace (1977)
Child of Glass (1978)
Who'll Stop the Rain? (1978)
KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park (1978)
Centennial (1978)
Attica (1980)
The First Deadly Sin (1980)
The Seduction of Miss Leona (1980)
A Question of Honor (1981)
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1982)
Soggy Bottom USA (1983)
The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1983)
The Dead Zone (1983)
Off Beat (1986)
Opposing Force (1986)
One Police Plaza (1986)
Dream West (1986)
North and South, Book II (1986)
Baja Oklahoma (1987)
Steel Dawn (1987)
The Equalizer: Memories of Manon (1987)
P.I. Private Investigations (1987)
Independence (1987)
Onassis (1988)
Listen to Me (1989)
See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)
Columbo: Columbo Goes to the Guillotine (1989)
Licence to Kill (1989)
To Save a Child (1991)
Asteroid (1997)
Touch (1997)
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
True Crime (1999)
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)