Richard Libertini

Richard Libertini was born on May 21, 1933 in USA. Richard Libertini's big-screen debut came with The Night They Raided Minsky's directed by William Friedkin in 1968, strarring Pockets (as Dick Libertini). Richard Libertini is known for Awakenings directed by Penny Marshall, Robert De Niro stars as Leonard Lowe and Robin Williams as Dr. Malcolm Sayer. The upcoming new movie Richard Libertini plays is Dolphin Tale which will be released on Sep 23, 2011.

Richard Libertini was born in E. Cambridge, Massachusetts, to parents who had come to America from southern Italy. Having grown up in a household where both Italian and English were spoken, he developed an ear for foreign accents. A facility he would later use to advantage on stage and in films.He graduated from Emerson College in Boston, and for a while earned a living as a trumpet player in the Boston area. Later, he moved to New York, where he teamed up with two former college classmates, MacIntyre Dixon and Lynda Segal, to create an off-Broadway revue called "Stewed Prunes." (This was during the coffee house revolution in the 1960s. Bob Dylan was playing around the corner.) The show was quite successful and after running a year in New York they took it on the road. While playing Chicago, he was asked to join the renowned Second City Improvisational Theatre Group, an association which continues to the present.After a number of years doing stage work in New York (Woody Allen's Don't Drink the Water (1969) and Paul Sills' Story Theatre (1971) among many others) he eventually moved to L.A. where he began doing films. Three of his most memorable characters are the Spanish-American dictator in Ne tirez pas sur le dentiste (1979) with Alan Arkin and Peter Falk, the Tibetan Mystic in Solo pour deux (1984) with Steve Martin, and Lily Tomlin and the justice of the peace in Les meilleurs amis (1982) with Goldie Hawn and Burt Reynolds. Other films include Fletch aux trousses (1985) with Chevy Chase and Popeye (1980) with Robin Williams.