- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- January 22, 1945
- Place of Birth
- North Trenton, New Jersey, USA
Michael Cristofer
Michael Ivan Cristofer is an American playwright, filmmaker and actor. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play for The Shadow Box in 1977. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and an Antoinette Perry “Tony” Award for the Broadway production of his play, The Shadow Box. Subsequent to New York, the play was produced in every major American city and worldwide from Europe to the Far East. Other plays include Breaking Up at Primary Stages; Ice at Manhattan Theatre Club; Black Angel at Circle Repertory Company; The Lady and the Clarinet starring Stockard Channing, produced by the Mark Taper Forum, Long Wharf Theater, Off-Broadway and on the London Fringe, and Amazing Grace starring Marsha Mason which received the American Theater Critics Award as the best play produced in the United States during the 1996-97 season. His film work includes the screenplays for The …
Filmography
movieThe Great Lillian Hall
2024 · Executive Producer, Director
tvFallout
2024 · Elder Cleric Quintus
movieThe Metropolitan Opera: Champion
2023 · Screenplay
movieThe Night Clerk
2020 · Writer, Director
movieLast Supper
2018 · Raymond
movieChuck
2017 · Writer
movieYear by the Sea
2016 · Robin
movieThe Adderall Diaries
2016 · Paul Hora
movieChronic
2015 · John
tvMr. Robot
2015 · Phillip Price (voice)
movieThe Girl in the Book
2015 · Dad
movieEmoticon
2014 · Walter Nevins
movie5 Flights Up
2014 · Larry
tvRay Donovan
2013 · Danny O'Connor, Priest
tvElementary
2012 · Isaac Pike
tvSmash
2012 · Jerry Rand
tvAmerican Horror Story
2011 · Harrison Renard
tvSuits
2011 · Paul
movieThe Other Woman
2010 · Sheldon Greenleaf
tvRubicon
2010 · Truxton Spangler
tvEastwick
2009 · Screenplay
movieGeorgia O'Keeffe
2009 · Writer
movieCasanova
2005 · Story
movieOriginal Sin
2001 · Director, Screenplay
movieBody Shots
1999 · Director
movieGia
1998 · Director, Writer
movieBreaking Up
1997 · Screenplay
movieDie Hard: With a Vengeance
1995 · Jarvis
movieMr. Jones
1993 · Screenplay
The Witches of Eastwick
movieThe Witches of Eastwick
1992 · Original Film Writer
movieThe Bonfire of the Vanities
1990 · Screenplay
movieThe Witches of Eastwick
1987 · Screenplay
movieFalling in Love
1984 · Writer
movieThe Little Drummer Girl
1984 · Tayeh
movieCandida
1982 · Director
movieThe Shadow Box
1980 · Screenplay
movieAn Enemy of the People
1978 · Hovstad
tvThe Andros Targets
1977 · Ron Comack
movieThe Last of Mrs. Lincoln
1976 · Robert Lincoln
movieThe Entertainer
1976 · Frank Rice
tvDoctors' Hospital
1975 · Dr. Taback
movieKnuckle
1975 · Curley Delafield
movieCrime Club
1975 · Frank Swoboda
movieThe Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
1974 · Alessini (as Michael Ivan Cristofer)
tvLincoln
1974 · John Nicolay
tvKojak
1973 · Michael Viggers Jr.
tvThe Magician
1973 · Dave Webster
tvThe Rookies
1972 · Charlie Phillips
tvGunsmoke
1955 · Ben Shindrow