Chip Zien

Chip Zien

Nascimento : 1947-03-20, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

História

Chip Zien is an American stage and screen actor. He is a graduate from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was the president of "Mask & Wig", the nation's oldest all-male collegiate musical comedy troupe.

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Chip Zien
Chip Zien
Chip Zien
Chip Zien

Filmes

Simchas and Sorrows
Mortimer
The plot centers on an atheist actress' conversion to Judaism.
Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration
Performer
To celebrate the 90th birthday of Broadway songwriting great Stephen Sondheim, an A-list group of performers sing songs of inspiration from his songbook in a concert event filmed in their homes. Hosted and co-produced by Raúl Esparza, the acclaimed one-night-only event was created as a benefit for ASTEP (Artists Striving to End Poverty).
Pequeno Demônio
Stepdad Therapist
Gary (Adam Scott) é um homem que consegue se casar com a mulher de seus sonhos. Ainda por cima, ele tem a sorte de se tornar padrasto de um adorável menino de seis anos (Owen Atlas). O problema é que Gary descobre que o filho de Samantha (Evangeline Lily) pode ser o anticristo.
Approaching a Breakthrough
Dr. Zeitland
As Norman and his girlfriend storm into Central Park, bickering, Norman is cornered by a string of characters from his past, appearing from all sides of the park — from two of his former therapists to his Mormon ex-girlfriend. Despite his best efforts to run away from his problems, Norman, who has recently returned from LA, can’t seem to escape them.
Sondheim! The Birthday Concert
Himself
Join us for a rousing celebration of the life and works of one of Broadway's greatest legends — the one and only Stephen Sondheim. For the master composer and lyricist's 80th birthday, many of musical theater's brightest stars gathered in March of 2010 to perform more than two dozen sensational numbers from Sondheim's illustrious career, and several of these enduring songs are performed by the original Broadway cast members. David Hyde Pierce hosts this magical event with Stephen Sondheim's longtime collaborator Paul Gemignani conducting the New York Philharmonic. Originally broadcast as an episode of the PBS series "Great Performances" (season 38, episode 2).
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead
Julian Marsh is an out of work ladies' man who lands a job directing a bizarre adaptation of Hamlet. After casting his best friend and his ex-girlfriend in the show, Julian finds himself in the middle of a two thousand year old conspiracy that explains the connection between Shakespeare, the Holy Grail and some seriously sexy vampires. It turns out that the play was actually written by a master vampire name Theo Horace and it's up to Julian to recover the Grail in order to reverse the vampire's curse...If only being undead wasn't so much God-damned fun!
Vôo United 93
Mark Rothenberg
Em 11 de setembro de 2001 o vôo 93 da United Airlines é sequestrado por terroristas, que têm por objetivo abatê-lo junto a algum símbolo norte-americano. Durante 90 minutos o avião permanece no ar, sendo que neste período os passageiros decidem reagir para evitar que os planos terroristas sejam concluídos.
À Beira da Loucura
Andy Wojeckowzski
Em uma cidade fictícia no meio do oeste norte-americano. Dwayne Hoover é um rico dono de uma concessionária de carros que está perdendo contato com a realidade, e a beira do suicídio.
Nova York Sitiada
Chief of Staff
Após o sequestro de um líder religioso islâmico, a cidade Nova York vira o lavo de ataques terroristas. O agente do FBI Anthony Hubbard, a oficial da CIA Elise Kraft e o general William Devereaux unem forças para capturar um perigoso grupo de terroristas que plantam bombas em diversos lugares de Nova York, levando a cidade ao caos.
Olhos de Serpente
Mickey Alter
O detetive Rick Santoro nunca age por meios próprios. Quando ele vai a uma luta de boxe com seu amigo o Comandante da Marinha Kevin Dunne e também com o Secretário de Defesa Kirkland, ele testemunha um terrorista assassinando Kirkland. Determinado a solucionar o crime, Rick dá inicio a uma intensa investigação.
Cagney & Lacey: True Convictions
Assistant District Attorney Trayne
Detectives Cagney and Lacey come face-to-face with their true feelings about capital punishment when they're assigned to the city's first capital murder case in 10 years.
Cagney & Lacey: The View Through the Glass Ceiling
Assistant DA Douglas Trayne
Cagney and Lacey work a case involving police corruption and document forgery. Chris seeks a prestigious promotion, while Mary Beth has to deal with the return of her sickly, aged father.
Aaron's Magic Village
Treitel / The Donkey (voice)
When God distributed wiseness and foolishness through a newly created world, one of the cherubs accidentally dropped all the foolishness on a tiny village called Chelm. So everyone in the village is very dumb. Recently orphaned boy Aaron and his friendly goat Zlateh live there with Aaron's uncle Shlemiel. When an evil sorcerer and his monster attack the village, Aaron and Zlateh have to defend it themselves.
Anyone Can Whistle: Live at Carnegie Hall
Treasurer Cooley
Anyone Can Whistle is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Described by theater historian Ken Mandelbaum as "a satire on conformity and the insanity of the so-called sane," the show tells a story of an economically-depressed town whose corrupt Mayoress, in an attempt to draw tourists, decides to create a fake "miracle" - which draws the attention of Fay Apple, an emotionally inhibited nurse, a crowd of inmates from a local asylum called "The Cookie Jar," and a "doctor" with secrets of his own.
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Franklin P. Adams
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
Falsettos
Mendel
The original 1992 Broadway production of Falsettos. The story centers on Marvin, who has left his wife to be with a male lover, Whizzer, and struggles to keep his family together. Much of the first act explores the impact his relationship with Whizzer has had on his family. The second act explores family dynamics that evolve as he and his wife plan his son's bar mitzvah.
Quiet Killer
Dr. Lionel Katz
On her way home in a plane to New York, the teenage Sarah gets very ill. She realizes too late that it's more than a cold and with her parents still on vacation, she breaks down in the middle of the street and dies shortly after in a hospital -- by the plague, as the terrified coroners find out. While trying to keep this from the public to avoid a panic, epidemic commissioner Dr. Nora Hart has to investigate Sarah's identity and find everyone who had contact with her. If she misses a single person, the plague could kill half the city in a few days!
Into the Woods
Baker
A collection of fairy tale characters head into the woods, and soon learn that fairy tales don't end at "happily ever after." This rendition of Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning musical was recorded on the stage with its original all-star Broadway cast. Originally broadcast as part of "American Playhouse" on PBS (season ten, episode one).
Falsettoland
Mendel
Following In Trousers and March of the Falsettos, it is the third in a trio of one-act musicals centering on Marvin, his wife Trina, his psychiatrist Mendel, his son Jason, and his gay lover Whizzer Brown. In this chapter of Marvin's life, Jason is preparing for his bar mitzvah and Whizzer is suffering from a mysterious, life-threatening, as yet undefined illness.
Está Sobrando Uma Mulher
Reporter #4
Comédia que vale mesmo pela presença da talentosa Shelley Long de "Um Dia a Casa Cai". Faz uma perfeita dona de casa que um dia morre em um trágico acidente, deixando seu marido livre. Mas através de bruxarias de sua irmã, volta à vida e encontra seu marido com uma ex-amiga.
Howard, o Super-Herói
Howard T. Duck (voice)
Howard é um simpático pato de temperamento sarcástico que chega à Terra por meio de um estranho experimento científico. Além de estar em um planeta desconhecido, terá de enfrentar outra criatura alienígena, que pegou carona no mesmo experimento e é bem menos amigável que ele. Embora cercado de problemas, algumas pessoas tentam afastá-lo de cientistas maldosos, oferecendo ajuda para ele voltar ao seu planeta.
Um Jogo de Vida e Morte
Dr. Herman
Grace Quigley is nearing the end of her life, living alone in her New York apartment. On the day she's being evicted, she witnesses a murder being committed by a top hit-man, Seymour Flint. She proposes to blackmail him into killing her, however, she has one or two friends she wants him to get rid of first.
The House of God
Eat-My-Dust-Eddie
Comedy about a couple of interns in a hospital named 'The House of God'.
Oh, Boy! Babies!
Jake
Boys learn to take care of babies.
March of the Falsettos
Mendel
A one-act musical which tells the story of Marvin, a gay man, and his "tight-knit family"; his ex-wife, his son, his male lover, and his psychiatrist. It follows Marvin's journey in search of self-understanding, inner peace, and a life with a 'happily ever after' ending.
A Rosa
Reporter
Bette Midler interpreta Rose, uma estrela do rock autodestrutiva muito semelhante à Janis Joplin. O filme segue a carreira de Rose durante sua última turnê, e como ela está determinada a voltar para sua cidade natal na Florida. Embora um sucesso, ela está exausta e solitária, mas continuou trabalhando por seu empresário rude e ganancioso. Entre graves e agudos Rose é uma usuária de drogas e ex-alcoólatra insegura que parece implorar pela aprovação em sua vida. Ela começa um romance com um motorista de limusine, que na verdade é um sargento desertor do exército. Seu estilo de vida de drogas a qualquer hora, sexo e rock and roll e constantes turnês a levam a um colapso inevitável. A trágica vida de uma estrela do rock autodestrutiva que se esforça para lidar com as pressões constantes de sua carreira e as demandas de seu gerente de negócios impiedoso.
In Trousers
Marvin
First of William Finn's Marvin Trilogy. Performed at Playwright Horizons in 1979 and Trinity College in 1992.
A New Brain
Mr. Bungee
Gordon Schwinn, a writer and composer for Mr. Bungee's children TV show, is diagnosed with arteriovenous malfunction and must go through a risky craniotomy. Before the operation, he faces his fear of dying and not leaving a meaningful artistic legacy, accompanied by his sailor boyfriend Roger, his unstable mother Mimi, his friend and agent Rhoda and nurse Richard, all while having hallucinations of his tyrannical frog boss, homeless ladies and sailing.