Biography
After wartime naval service, Alan North began his show business career as a stage manager in New York. He first worked on Broadway in "Plain and Fancy", doubling up as understudy for the small part of Isaac Miller. The play had a successful run between 1955 and 1956 (461 performances) and this led to further acting work in diverse productions, ranging from musical comedy to straight dramatic parts, both on and off Broadway. Alan last appeared as a quaint curmudgeonly character in "Lake Hollywood...
Known For
Complete Filmography

I'll Take You There
1999
as Max
Still nursing wounds from a breakup, a woman is forced by her sister into a blind date that turns into a nightmare.

Cafe Society
1997
as Frank Hogan
New York 1952. Mickey Jelke inherits a big sum of money and spends his nights in Manhattan, painting the city red. Night after night, he can be found ...

I'm Not Rappaport
1996
as Grocery Customer
Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still ...

The Long Kiss Goodnight
1996
as Earl
Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach eight years ago. After a car accident and...

The Jerky Boys
1995
as Micky Crump
When two unemployed telephone pranksters decide to use their vocal "talents" to impersonate a Chicago mob boss and curry favor with organized crime in...

Twenty Bucks
1993
as Bruce Adams
A story about the life of a twenty dollar bill as it weaves in and out of the various lives of several people.

Lincoln and the War Within
1992
First few weeks of Lincoln's presidency where crucial for the direction the country would take. He had to bridge the gap between the victorious North ...

Darrow
1991
as Harrison Gray Otis
The life and career of Clarence Darrow, the noted American lawyer and civil libertarian.
Eyes of a Witness
1991
Roy Baxter is concerned for his daughter Christina's safety. She's working as a doctor among the Masai in Kenya. Poaching gangs are slaughtering prote...

Crazy People
1990
as Judge
A bitter ad executive, who has reached his breaking point, finds himself in a mental institution, where his career actually begins to thrive with the ...

Kojak: It's Always Something
1990
as Harvey Schoenbrun
After discovering the connection between a corrupt city commissioner and Colombian killers, Kojak is framed for the murder of a call girl and is prose...

Glory
1989
as Gov. John Albion Andrew
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.

Penn & Teller Get Killed
1989
as Old Cop
The "bad boys of magic" go over the edge in this mind-blowing, role-switching comedy murder mystery set in the dizzying world of Atlantic City casinos...

See No Evil, Hear No Evil
1989
as Braddock
A murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot, ...

Lean On Me
1989
as Mayor Don Bottman
When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined...

Clinton and Nadine
1988
as Detective Rayburn
Eager to find his brother's murderer, Clinton enlists the aid of Nadine, an expensive call girl. Together they get sucked into a plot to smuggle guns ...

Rachel River
1988
as Beske
A divorced mother pursues her career as a radio personality in rural Minnesota.

The Fourth Protocol
1987
as Govershin
Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A cr...

The Christmas Star
1986
as Captain Whittaker
Horace McNickle (Edward Asner) is a two-time felon serving prison time for counterfeiting. On the week before Christmas, he escapes from prison dresse...

Billy Galvin
1986
Conflict arises between a steelworker and his son. The father wants the boy to have a chance to make more of himself than he did, but the son wants to...

Act of Vengeance
1986
as Albert Pass
In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and becomes the target of a murder plot.

Liberty
1986
as Ulysses S. Grant
Drama about how the Statue of Liberty came to be erected in New York Harbor in the early 1880s and the people responsible for its creation.

Highlander
1986
as Lieutenant Frank Moran
He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is C...

Thief of Hearts
1984
as Sweeney
A woman trapped in a boring marriage begins an affair with a handsome man who seems able to read her mind. She doesn't know that he has broken into he...

Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer
1983
as Lieutenant Walter Belden
A New York detective and a victim's colleague hunt a killer who preys on single women.

Muggable Mary: Street Cop
1982
as Mary's Father
Mary is a single mother with a disabled child who makes a living as a undercover cop catching johns, muggers, and rapists.

The Formula
1980
as Nolan
While investigating the death of a friend and fellow cop, Los Angeles police officer Barney Caine stumbles across evidence that Nazis created a synthe...

...And Justice for All
1979
as Deputy Sheriff
An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is forced to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial under the threat o...

The Deadliest Season
1977
as Detective Forscher
Gerry Miller, a professional hockey player, gives in to internal and outside pressures and adopts a more aggressive style on the ice. During one parti...

Serpico
1973
as Brown
New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

Bordellet
1972
as Mormonpræsten
A young country girl moves to Copenhagen for adventure and ends up working in a brothel.

Plaza Suite
1971
as Mr. Eisler
Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role...

Unholy Matrimony
1966
as Mr. M - First Swinging Husband
Sexual indiscretions are used as a basis for blackmail.