Corey Fischer

Corey Fischer [1], born in 1945 in Los Angeles, received a BA in French and Theatre Arts from UCLA. In the mid-sixties he worked in Los Angeles in improvisational theatre, notably with The Committee, and went on to work in film and television. An early film appearance was in the biker cult film Naked Angels and an early television appearance was in The Mod Squad.

Fischer appeared in Robert Altman's first three Hollywood movies: M*A*S*H, Brewster McCloud, and McCabe and Mrs. Miller and many of the best-known TV comedies of the seventies including All in the Family, Sanford and Son and Barney Miller. In 1972-75 he played "Givits" a guitar-playing ex-rabbinical student in Sunshine starting with the groundbreaking TV movie that became the prototype for a number of "Disease-of-the-week" movies that followed. He continued to play Givits in the short-lived spin-off series (13 lost episodes) and, finally, a second TV movie, Sunshine Christmas.

In 1978 he co-founded Traveling Jewish Theatre [2] and, in 1982, relocated with TJT to San Francisco where he continues to act, write and direct with TJT and to work in film and television. He is also a published writer of fiction and non-fiction. SF Chronicle drama critic Robert Hurwitt called him "One of the Bay Area's acting treasures..." His one-man show, Sometimes We Need a Story More Than Food was voted one of the ten best productions of 1993 by the Los Angeles Times and won a Marin County playwriting fellowship.

In 2000, the San Francisco Bay Guardian voted him one of the year's best directors for God's Donkey, an original TJT production. In 2001, his play, See Under: Love was listed as one of the year's ten best plays by the San Francisco Chronicle and was nominated by the Association of American Drama Critics as best play of 2001. In 1999 he received a Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays award for the same play. His short story, The Blessing, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 1995.

External links

• Corey Fischer at the Internet Movie Database

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