Served in the U.S. Armed Forces.
In 1977 he married a fellow aspiring stage actress, Charlotte Bova. For fourteen years until 1991 they lived together with their two young children in a small three-room apartment in little Italy of Manhattan's Lower East side. For eleven years he and his family lived in Park Slope, Brooklyn. In 2002, he and his family moved to South Orange, New Jersey, where he currently resides.
He played the father to both Jake Gyllenhaal and his sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal, in the films, "Brokeback Mountain" and "World Trade Center", respectively.
He immigrated to the U.S. as a child in the early 1950s, and settled in Milford, Connecticut. In 1965 he graduated Yale University as a drama major and attended one year of graduate school at Tulsa University while serving basic training in the Army. He would have been drafted into Vietnam, if not for medical file conflict.
In 1969 he moved to New York City to pursue an acting career, but was unable to find work. He supported himself as an advertiser throughout the early 1970s, and actually pitched the original idea for the "Jell-O Pudding Cup". By the summer of 1975 he had found stage work with 'John Astin' (qv) and 'Patty Duke' (qv) in California. However, he moved back to the East Coast after the production ended.
Has appeared on "Law & Order" and all four of its spin-offs.
Played the father of Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain and Maggie Gyllenhaal in World Trade Center.
Son (Oliver Mcrobbie) born August 12th, 1984. Currently resides in Millburn, New Jersey.

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