Norbert Weisser

Norbert Weisser, born in Neu-Isenburg, Germany, moved to Los Angeles in the late 1960s and began acting in the experimental theatre scene of the 1960s and 1970s. He became a founding member of the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, the ProVisional Theatre, and the Padua Hills Playwrights' Festival, where he originated the role of Trickster in Murray Mednick's seven-hour epic "Coyote Cycle." Among his theatre roles are Rode in Ronald Harwood's "Taking Sides" at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Broadway, Mack the Knife in "The Three Penny Opera," and Eddy in "Mary Barnes" at the Odyssey Theatre L.A. (for which he received a Drama Logue Award), Fredric in "The Ramp" at the South Coast Repertory Theatre, Vershinin in "The Three Sisters" at the Dallas Theatre Center in Texas, Neigel in "See Under Love" at the ATJT in San Francisco, Oscar in John O'Keefe's "Times Like These" in San Francisco, Albany, New York, and Los Angeles, where he received an Ovation Award, an LA Weekly Award, and an LA Drama Critics Circle nomination for best actor in a leading role. Most recently, he played Biedermann in *The Arsonist* at the Odyssey Theatre L.A. He directed plays at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco and at the Los Angeles Mark Taper Forum's New Works Festival. His motion picture credits include *Midnight Express* (1978), *Heaven's Gate* (1980), *The Thing* (1982), ¡*Three Amigos!* (1986), *Chaplin* (1992), *Schindler's List* (1993), *Pollock* (2000), and *Angels & Demons* (2009). Some of his television credits are *The Incident* (1990), *Seeds of Tragedy* (1991), *Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight* (1994), *My Antonia* (1995), *Riders of the Purple Sage* (1996), *From the Earth to the Moon* (1998), *Alias* (2001), *ER* (1994), *Ghost Whisperer* (2005), and *NCIS* (2003). He has written screenplays with Thomas Morris and Don Keith Opper and produced two Albert Pyun films: *Infection* (2005) and *Cool Air* (2006). Weisser is represented by SDB Partners in Los Angeles. He lives with his wife in Venice, California. They have a son, Morgan Weisser, who is also an actor.