Biography
Bern Cohen (New York City, 1949) is an American actor and educator. He spent many years in the New York City education system before returning to acting in 2005. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bern Cohen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Floaters
2025
as The Mashgiach
Struggling musician Nomi accepts a last-resort job from her overachiever best friend Mara: mentoring misfit campers, the “Floaters,” at their childhoo...
Who Are You to Judge?
2024
as The Cantor
A high holiday service descends into a screaming match when a young man becomes entangled in a feud with an embittered congregation leader.
The Six Triple Eight
2024
as Rabbi
During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 mill...
Snakeeater
2024
as Alon
Against the backdrop of a decaying cityscape, Rick Miner, an off-the-books insurance investigator, is tasked with examining the suspicious death of an...
Tango Shalom
2021
as Rabbi Menahem
When a Tango dancer asks a Rabbi to enter a dance competition, there’s one big problem—due to his Orthodox beliefs, he’s not allowed to touch her! But...
Either Side of Midnight
2021
as Rabbi
A lyrical snapshot and celebration of the manic, intoxicating diversity of New York. Four stories collide over one Friday night in Manhattan.
A Double Take
2020
as Daniel Kirilov
A Forty-seven-year-old wife is suddenly, unexpectedly pregnant soon after her husband and father-in-law each separately meet a twenty-four-year-old si...
Algorithm: BLISS
2020
as Chester
Vic Beckett, a brilliant researcher, creates the ultimate App that taps into the pleasure center of the brain and transmits a feeling of nirvana to th...
After Class
2019
as Dr. Peterson
An NYC Professor spends the week reconnecting with his family while defending his reputation over controversial behavior at his college. Meanwhile, hi...
Paradise City
2019
as Alon Shtel
The worlds of a young cop with a checkered past, an ex-con turned devout Muslim, and a junkie with affluent roots collide in a plot to justify New Yor...
To Dust
2019
as Reb Goshen
Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York and distraught at the untimely death of his wife, struggles to find religious solace, while secretly obse...
Norman Pinski Come Home
2017
as Gabe
Finding oneself can take a lifetime. For Norman Pinski it's gonna take a little longer.
Shooting Clerks
2016
as Thomas Burke
The biopic of how Kevin Smith bankrolled his $27,000 first film with maxed-out credit cards and became the darling of the Sundance Film Festival when ...
The Last Leatherman of the Vale of Cashmere
2016
as The Leatherman
An aging leatherman makes a weekly pilgrimage the cruising destination of his youth.
Brooklyn Tide
2016
as Mr. Blake
Two FBI agents pursue members of a radical hacker collective after they steal a powerful cyber-weapon.
Frank vs. God
2014
as Rabbi Grossman
Frank is a man who thinks he has lost everything, until his house is destroyed by a tornado. Then when he goes to the insurance company, he’s told the...
The Devil You Know
2013
as Humphrey Smith
Kathryn Vale is a reclusive ex-movie star with a dark secret and a daughter hoping to follow in her mother's movie-star footsteps. When Kathryn attemp...
Doctor Bello
2013
as Doctor Bernstein
Cancer specialist Dr. Michael Durant forms an unlikely bond with seven year old Sam and becomes desperate, willing to risk anything to save the child’...
The Trial of Barnaby Finch
2013
as St. Peter
To swat or not to swat? That is the question an errant fly poses to our hapless hero, Barnaby Finch, at the penultimate moment of his job interview. F...
Identical
2011
as Rabbi
Identical twins are born, one is good and one is evil. They need each-other to exist, but they deeply resent the others existence. They both fall in l...
This Must Be the Place
2011
as Rabbi
A bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father's tormentor, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the U.S.
Project Nim
2011
as Dr. William Lemmon
From the team behind Man on Wire comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show...
Holy Rollers
2010
as Rebbe Horowitz
Inspired by actual events in the late nineties when Hasidic Jews were recruited as mules to smuggle ecstasy from Europe into the United States.
Goyband
2009
as Jeremiah the Gambler
Once front man of the 90s mega-hit boy band Eye Candy, Bobby Starr's solo career is definitely so low! Eight years later, headlining kids' birthday pa...
27 Dresses
2008
as Rabbi
Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores.
Homeland
2008
as The Sheikh
Upon completing his service in the Israel Defense Forces, Kobi Zucker needed to get away from the pressures of the Middle East. With memories of his t...
The Minority
2006
as National Ent. boss
A young African American, Jake Jackson, is a happy, honest, law-abiding citizen who through many unfortunate events, experiences a full array of preju...
Game 6
2006
as Hasidic Rabbi (uncredited)
Combining real and fictional events, this movie centers around the historic 1986 World Series, and a day in the life of a playwright who skips opening...
My Brother
2006
as Harvey Mitnick
"My Brother" is an inner city story of two impoverished boys, Isaiah and James. James is developmentally disabled. Their mother, L'Tisha, finds hersel...