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TürkçeAndreas Katsulas (Andrew C. Katsulas)
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Biography
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Andreas was a cross between apple pie and baklava, coming from a working-class Greek-American family. Attracted from early childhood to being on stage when at 4 his mother took him to see a community theater performance, he took theatre as an extra-curricular activity in high school. He then majored in it at St. Louis University, where he worked his way through school doing things like waiting on tables. Next, after earning a drama fellowship, Katsulas received a Master's Degree in Theater Arts from one of the nation's top schools for the genre, Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Read more...
With never a doubt or hesitation, Andreas jumped right into the professional theater world, performing in plays in his native St. Louis with the Loretto-Hilton Repertory Theater. This was followed by work with the Theatre Company of Boston. After that, Katsulas moved to New York to some challenging off-off-Broadway theater at La Mama. This was followed by a fifteen-year heart and soul involvement with Peter Brook's International Theatre Company in Paris, performing around the world with a challenging combination of improvisational theater in every imaginable circumstance and space, and "prepared" theater pieces in traditional, as well as unconventional, theatrical spaces. Katsulas trod the boards from Lincoln Center in New York and The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., to the "mean streets" of Brooklyn and marketplaces in remote African Villages. There were performances from elite Theater Festivals in Iran, Avignon and Belgrade: in prisons & mental institutions; at rock quarries in Australia; on barrios in Venezuela; in sewage plants in Switzerland; winding through the streets of Venice, Italy; in the fields with farm workers in California, near the lakes of Minnesota with Native Americans, in sometimes extreme conditions like snow, rain, and intensive heat.
During a hiatus from the stage, a part in Michael Cimino's The Sicilian (1987) brought Andreas to Los Angeles, after which he was immediately cast as Joey Venza in Ridley Scott's Someone to Watch Over Me (1987), then as Arthur, the chauffeur, in Blake Edwards's Sunset (1988).
In early 2005, Andreas was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer; he passed away a year later, in Los Angeles. He had lived there since 1986, and had hoped to return to working in the theater before his far-too-early death, just over three months shy of his 60th birthday.
With never a doubt or hesitation, Andreas jumped right into the professional theater world, performing in plays in his native St. Louis with the Loretto-Hilton Repertory Theater. This was followed by work with the Theatre Company of Boston. After that, Katsulas moved to New York to some challenging off-off-Broadway theater at La Mama. This was followed by a fifteen-year heart and soul involvement with Peter Brook's International Theatre Company in Paris, performing around the world with a challenging combination of improvisational theater in every imaginable circumstance and space, and "prepared" theater pieces in traditional, as well as unconventional, theatrical spaces. Katsulas trod the boards from Lincoln Center in New York and The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., to the "mean streets" of Brooklyn and marketplaces in remote African Villages. There were performances from elite Theater Festivals in Iran, Avignon and Belgrade: in prisons & mental institutions; at rock quarries in Australia; on barrios in Venezuela; in sewage plants in Switzerland; winding through the streets of Venice, Italy; in the fields with farm workers in California, near the lakes of Minnesota with Native Americans, in sometimes extreme conditions like snow, rain, and intensive heat.
During a hiatus from the stage, a part in Michael Cimino's The Sicilian (1987) brought Andreas to Los Angeles, after which he was immediately cast as Joey Venza in Ridley Scott's Someone to Watch Over Me (1987), then as Arthur, the chauffeur, in Blake Edwards's Sunset (1988).
In early 2005, Andreas was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer; he passed away a year later, in Los Angeles. He had lived there since 1986, and had hoped to return to working in the theater before his far-too-early death, just over three months shy of his 60th birthday.
Actor
Character:
Policeman #3
Ragtime 1981
1
Character:
Citizen G'Kar
Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers: To Live and Die in Starlight 2002
0
Character:
Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman
Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing. 1997
11
Character:
El Sayed Jaffa
Executive Decision 1996
38
Character:
Sykes
The Fugitive 1993
13
Character:
Rufshaad
Hot Shots! Part Deux 1993
23
Character:
G'Kar
Babylon 5: The Gathering 1993
0
Character:
Ferrara
New York Undercover Cop 1993
7
Character:
Franco Vitalli
Painted Desert 1993
0
Character:
Scarpa
Blame It on the Bellboy 1992
2
Character:
Anthony
True Identity 1991
13
Character:
Chambliss
Write to Kill 1991
0
Character:
Kasha
The Death of the Incredible Hulk 1990
1
Character:
Marco Volatile
Murder Times Seven 1990
0
Character:
John Isabella
Next of Kin 1989
14
Character:
Alex
Communion 1989
1
Character:
Arthur
Sunset 1988
1
Character:
Joey Venza
Someone to Watch Over Me 1987
17
6
Character:
Narducci
Jane Austen's Mafia! 1998
1
Character:
G'Kar
Babylon 5: In the Beginning 1998
0
Character:
Giuseppe Tredici
A Piece of Eden 2000
0
Character:
G'Kar
Babylon 5: The Lost Tales 2007
0
Character:
Commander Tomalak
Star Trek: The Next Generation 1987
0
Character:
Warren Briggs
The Equalizer 1985
0
Character:
Everett Ashford
Jake and the Fatman 1987
0
Character:
Colonel Gemayel
Steal the Sky 1988
0
Character:
Koulak
Alien Nation 1989
0
Character:
Vissian Captain Drennik
Cogenitor 0
2