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John Rubinstein is an actor who portrayed Linwood Murrow on the Angel television series.

Career[]

Rubinstein made his Broadway acting debut in 1972, and received a Theater World Award for creating the title role in the musical Pippin. In 1980, he won the Tony, Drama Desk, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, and Drama-Logue Awards for his portrayal of James Leeds in Children of a Lesser God. Other Broadway appearances were in Fools, Hurlyburly, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, M. Butterfly, Getting Away with Murder, and Ragtime. In 2014, Rubinstein joined the Broadway cast of the hit revival of Pippin, this time playing Pippin's father. In 2017, he originated the role of Grandpa Joe in the Broadway musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Rubinstein received an Emmy Award nomination for his portrayal of Jeff Maitland III in the ABC series Family, a role he played for five years. He has played recurring parts on This Is Us, The Fosters, Perception, The Mentalist, Desperate Housewives, Parenthood, No Ordinary Family, Greek, The Wizards of Waverly Place, Dirty Sexy Money, Day Break, Angel, The Guardian, The Practice, Star Trek: Enterprise, Girlfriends, Robocop: the Series, The Young and the Restless, and Barbershop.

He spent six years as host for the radio program "Carnegie Hall Tonight", broadcast on l80 stations in the United States and Canada, and two years as the keyboard player for the jazz-rock group Funzone. He has recorded over 100 audio books.

Buffyverse credits[]

Rubinstein guest-starred as the Wolfram & Hart lawyer Linwood Murrow in six episodes of Angel:

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