Richard Council

Richard Council was born on Oct 01, 1947 in USA. Richard Council's big-screen debut came with Streetwalkin' directed by Joan Freeman in 1985, strarring Sadistic John. Richard Council is known for You Don't Know Jack directed by Barry Levinson, Al Pacino stars as Dr. Jack Kevorkian and Brenda Vaccaro as Margo Janus. The most recent award Richard Council achieved is Florida Film Critics Circle Awards. The upcoming new movie Richard Council plays is You Don't Know Jack which will be released on Apr 24, 2010.

Richard Council grew up in Ruskin, Florida, the second son of Buford and Louise Council. He graduated from East Bay High School with the class of 1965 and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Florida at Gainesville in 1969. In the summer of 1970 he won a grant to perform at the San Diego Shakespeare Festival. He then studied for a year on scholarship at the American Conservatory Theater, and was made an Equity Journeyman with the ACT Company from 1971-'72. He then moved to New York, and made his Broadway debut in "The Merchant of Venice" at Lincoln Center (1974). Other Broadway credits include "Sherlock Holmes" (1975), "The Royal Family" (1976), "I'm Not Rappaport" (1984), "Conversations With My Father" (1990), "Uncle Vanya" (1992) and "The Little Foxes" (1998). He is married to actress Melissa Hurst, and with their son, Will Council, they live in New York City.