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Ian Abercrombie
11 September 1936
Ian Abercrombie played in 10 movies in the Action, Adventure, Comedy, Music, Drama, Romance, Thriller, Horror, Fantasy, Family, Mystery, Crime genres.
Ian Abercrombie got succeed with average imdb rating 5.7.
Ian Abercrombie has been most successfully known since the mid-'90s for his work in character roles, above all stuffy wealthy-crust types, including Mr. Pitt, Elaine's employer on Seinfeld, Alfred the butler in the series Birds of Go after, and the staid auctioneer in the climactic chain of Mouse Hunt. Abercrombie was born in 1936 to a working-class English family, and he showed a straight enlist in performing from an early age, taking up tap dancing as a varlet.
At 17, he port
... side in regard to Advanced York and pursued the beginnings of a speed on stage -- among his early engagements, he appeared in a 1955 in of Stalag 17 starring Jason Robards Jr., and he understudied Roddy McDowall in a stock end result of Bell, Book and Candle that also starred Maria Riva, the daughter of Marlene Dietrich. He did a slight stint in the army, in Special Services, where he directed plays as obviously as acting in them. A trip to California conducive to a development of a play thither W.C. Fields that never materialized ended up putting Abercrombie into movies, and over the next insufficient years he played small roles in pictures like Von Ryan's Clear-cut, They Execute Horses, Don't They?, The Molly Maguires, and Puerile Frankenstein, as obviously as prime parts in theatrical productions of The Vortex and Crucifer of Blood. Abercrombie was working steadily for most of the 1980s and beyond, appearing in such movies as Army of Darkness, The Wild Wild West, and The Lost Have. It was with his portrayal on Seinfeld of Mr. Pitt -- lovably eccentric and just sufficiently full of himself to put Julia Louis-Dreyfuss' Elaine on the defensive -- that Abercrombie became an actor whose appellation and mush were remembered by the worldwide public. He remained active on prime ease television portraying Alfred the butler in the Warner Bros. television series Birds of Intimidate, while also doing a huge amount of voice-over and tranny work, as adeptly as a -handcuff conduct entitled Jean Cocteau -- A Mirror Image. Back on the big screen, Ambercrombie could be spotted in both the family comedy Garfield: A Recital of Two Kitties and David Lynch's Inland Empire in 2006.Read more Less
