Biography
David Margulies was born on February 19, 1937 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II (1989) and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994). He was previously married to Carol Grant. He died on January 11, 2016 in New York City, New York, USA.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Adam Bloom
2020
as Harris Sutton
An aspiring photographer balances responsibilities of caring for an ailing grandmother and an internship with an aging photo artist.

Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
2020
as Self
The documentary that tells us the full story from where it all started through to the future of the "Ghostbusters" franchise.

Curmudgeons
2016
as Ralph
The best part of getting old is no longer caring what anybody thinks. Eighty years-old and in assisted living, Ralph Pajovic is involved in a relation...

A Most Violent Year
2014
as Saul Lefkowitz
A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the live...

The Girl on the Train
2014
as Morris Herzman
When documentary filmmaker Danny Hart boards a train at Grand Central Station he has no reason to expect anything more than a pleasant ride to upstate...

A Case of You
2013
as Henry
Young writer Sam has a crush on Birdie, the cute and quirky barista at his local coffee shop. When his conventional attempts to woo her crash and burn...

Fading Gigolo
2013
Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his "man...

Roadie
2012
as Don Miller
After 20 years on the road with Blue Oyster Cult, Jimmy Testagros returns to his hometown to life with his ailing mother. Complications arise when he ...

Skin Deep
2011
as Lou
A woman repays a loan she borrowed long ago from an unscrupulous lender.

All Good Things
2010
as Mayor
Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murd...
Gareeb Nawaz's Taxi
2010
A Bangladeshi Cab Driver in New York City embarks on his own journey of self-discovery when a drag queen hails his cab.

Ira & Abby
2006
as Dr. Arnold Friedman
A neurotic, young psychology student, with low self-esteem, has a chance encounter with a free-spirited, extremely gregarious woman who works at the P...
Whiskey School
2005
as Rex Michaels
Leopold De Angeli is a talented playwright, but like many scribes he fancies the drink a little too much. In the hopes of saving Leopold's life, his t...

Invitation to a Suicide
2005
as Roman Malek
Raised in an insular Polish immigrant neighborhood in Brooklyn where he's destined to become a poor baker like his father, Kaz Malek attempts to steal...

A Jersey Tale
2004
as Kutty Nazarian
Jersey City teen Ray Ray Morales is wasting time in a low paying job until a local loan shark offers him a job — making sure that Ray Ray's friend, an...

Judy Garland: By Myself
2004
as Joseph L. Mankiewicz (voice)
As Hollywood biographies go, Judy Garland's story is one of the saddest success stories you'll ever hear. The sanitized studio version of her life pre...

Looking for an Echo
2000
as Dr. Ludwig
The lead singer of an oldies group reminisces about the good ol' days and a potential comeback.

Man of the Century
1999
as Mr. Meyerscholtz
If ever a man seems lost in time, it would be Johnny Twennies, a newspaper writer who talks, walks and fights like he stepped out of the Jazz Age. Whe...

Celebrity
1998
as Counselor Adelman
The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment j...

Hudson River Blues
1997
Hoping to help their marriage, a Manhattan lawyer (Rya Kihlstedt) brings her burned-out husband (Robert Stanton) to her mother's home upstate.

Lifebreath
1997
as Abe Gross
A man plans a perfect murder to get a lung transplant for his dying wife.

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies
1994
as Carl Laemmle
While working for a Hollywood movie studio, Indy finds that he is no match for the wily megalomaniacal director Erich von Stroheim when the two lock h...

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1994
as Doctor
He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to e...

Out on a Limb
1992
as Mr. Buchenwald
While heading to the town where his sister, Marci, lives, big-city banker Bill Campbell is robbed by a woman who takes everything he has, including hi...

A Stranger Among Us
1992
as Lt. Oliver
Detective Emily Eden is a tough New York City cop forced to go undercover to solve a puzzling murder. Her search for the truth takes her into a secret...

Never Forget
1991
as Rabbi Hier
Mel and Jane Mermelstein are a true-life California couple, thrown into the spotlight of judicial history in the 1980s. Mel is a Hungarian-born Jew, s...

Funny About Love
1990
as Dr. Benjamin
As political cartoonist Duffy and his bride Meg fail to conceive, he and sorority girl Daphne succeed.
Largo Desolato
1990
as 1st Visitor
A fictionalized autobiographical play written by Czechoslovakian playwright-turned-president Vaclav Havel in 1984 upon his release from a four-and-one...

Kojak: Ariana
1989
as Papas the Chef
One of Kojak's old enemies uses Ariana, a young Greek girl, as bait to trap the legendary New York detective. Meanwhile, Kojak finds himself a brash y...

Perfect Witness
1989
as Rudnick
An innocent man is thrust into a political power struggle in this drama. After witnessing a mob killing, New York restaurant owner Sam Paxton (Aidan Q...

Ghostbusters II
1989
as Mayor Lenny
The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.

Running on Empty
1988
as Dr. Jonah Reiff
The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effo...

Candy Mountain
1988
as Lawyer
A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker

Magic Sticks
1987
as Goldfarb
Felix is a down-and-out young drummer who obtains a pair of magic drumsticks from a street vendor. He soon finds out the sticks are able to make nativ...

Ishtar
1987
as Mr. Clarke
Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the ...
Divorced Kids' Blues
1987
as Justin
A 15-year-old struggles through the politics of divorce as his parents split up.

Brighton Beach Memoirs
1986
as Mr. Farber
Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his ...

Nine 1/2 Weeks
1986
as Harvey
An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life,...

Ghostbusters
1984
as Mayor
After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who...

A Doctor's Story
1984
as Russell
A physician frustrates his family in his fight to prove that an elderly man is not senile.

Daniel
1983
as Dr. Duberstein
The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New...

Times Square
1980
as Dr. Zymansky
When a 13-year-old girl befriends a defiant antisocial child of the streets, the mismatched runaways set off to the Big Apple to find their own advent...

Dressed to Kill
1980
as Dr. Levy
After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police t...

Hide in Plain Sight
1980
as Detective Reilly
True story of a man in search of his children after his ex-wife enters the Witness Protection Program.

All That Jazz
1979
as Larry Goldie
Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly col...

My Old Man
1979
as Chubby
An unlucky horse trainer, Frank Butler, wins big at the track and buys his 16-year old daughter a horse to salvage their relationship. When Frank is h...

Last Embrace
1979
as Rabbi Josh Drexel
Secret agent Harry Hannan suffers a mental breakdown when a botched mission in Mexico results in the death of his wife. He is sent to a mental asylum,...

Night-Flowers
1979
as Psychiatrist
Two Vietnam vets, Tom and Nordi, live sad lives in a crumbling New Jersey city. Sharing a one room apartment, they talk about their inability to hold ...

The Front
1976
as Phelps
A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.

Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers
1972
as Walter Mitty
An aspiring actress from Kansas comes to New York and meets a host of zany characters.