- Aron Tager
Aron Tager (born 1934 in
Brooklyn , New York) is an actor and artist.Background
As an artist, Tager has had numerous exhibitions of his work and has sculptures installed at the following locations: Mount Anthony Union High School, Bennington, VT; Shaftsbury Elementary School, VT; Delaware County Community College, Media, PA; and the Indianapolis Jewish Center, Battery Park, Burlington, VT.
He has earned a number of accolades for his work, including the Gold Key at the National Scholastic Art Competition in 1950, the 1975 Award and Medal at the Norwich University Art Show for "Best Sculpture" and "Most Popular Work in Show," and the Award and Medal, Boston Festival of the Arts, 1985.
Trained as an actor, Tager took a 25-year hiatus to focus solely on art, particularly painting and sculpture, before returning to acting in the early 1990s. His greatest popularity has been as a character actor. Lauded for his 'chameleon-like' ability to adopt the persona of often complex characters, Tager has appeared in a variety of theatrical, television and film productions, and has had parts in the movies "X-Men,
Marciano ,Serendipity ,Murder at 1600 , 10,000 Black Men Named George",A Holiday Romance , and "The Salem Witch Trials". A member of the repertory cast of the A&E TV series "A Nero Wolfe Mystery " (2001-2002), he has also appeared on the television shows "Are You Afraid of the Dark , Monk, Wild Card" and "Billable Hours . A long-time resident ofToronto ,Canada , Tager is also a popular actor in television commercials and has performed voices for characters in animated children's shows like "Donkey Kong Country".External links
* [http://www.arontager.com/ Aron Tager website]
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