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Daniel von Bargen Born June 5, 1950
Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.Occupation Actor Years active 1974–present Daniel von Bargen (born June 5, 1950) is an American film, stage, and television actor.
Best-known as Commandant Edwin Spangler in the TV comedy Malcolm in the Middle, Von Bargen's film credits include RoboCop 3, Basic Instinct, Broken Arrow, Universal Soldier: The Return, Truman, Philadelphia, A Civil Action, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Snow Falling on Cedars, and Super Troopers. He played the maniacal sorcerer Nix in Clive Barker's Lord of Illusions, and the Sheriff in The Postman. He played a terrorist in a season 5 episode of the X-Files.
His distinguished stage career includes a long residency with Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island; he appeared in the premiere of Larry Gelbart's Mastergate and other plays at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and made his Broadway debut when the show went to New York.
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Categories:- 1950 births
- Actors from Cincinnati, Ohio
- American film actors
- American television actors
- American stage actors
- Living people
- American screen actor, 1950s birth stubs
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