actor, personal manager, theater & Film producer
Bring Michael to your program to share his 7 decades of experience in Show Business.
a lifetime of show business experience
Michael has been in the entertainment industry since age five. As a young child, Michael entered the business as a model which led him to become one of the pioneers in live television where he worked with celebrities such as Milton Berle, Ernie Kovacs, Ed Sullivan, Jimmy Durante, Perry Como, Sid Caesar, Ed Wynn, and Danny Thomas . He has appeared in over 300 live dramatic and comedy productions and in numerous Broadway and off-Broadway productions with such talents as Betty Davis, David Burns, Gwen Verdon, Jean Stapleton, Eva Gabor, Elliott Gould, Liza Minnelli, Jose Ferrer, and Theodore Bikel.
After serving in the U.S. Navy, he returned to the industry in 1963 where he continued to act and produce for the theater in New York. In 1975, Michael moved to Los Angeles and continued his acting career and worked with such actors as Carroll O’Connor, Billy Crystal, Rob Reiner, Penny Marshall, Burt Reynolds, Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Judd Hirsch, and Danny Devito. In 1978, he formed Michael Mann Management, a theatrical management company representing Actors, Writers, Directors, Production Designers, and Directors of Photography. He also produced:
Come Blow Your Horn In Los Angeles starring Elliott Gould at the Huntington Hartford Theater.
Boychik at Theatre 55
Innocent Flesh at The Actors Temple Theatre
Some notable clients over the last 40 years:
WOMEN
Penny Marshall (Big , League of their Own, Awakenings)
Susan Anspach (5 Easy Pieces, Blume in Love)
Kristin Davis (Sex and The City)
Joan Collins (Dynasty)
Rachel Dratch (Saturday Night Live)
Leslie Easterbrook (Laverne & Shirley, The Police Academy films)
Carole Lynley (The Poseidon Adventure,)
Gloria Reuben (ER ,Lincoln)
Molly Shannon (Saturday Night Live)
Helen Shaver((Desert Hearts,The Color of Money)
Beverly Todd (The Bucket List, Crash, Lean on Me)
Brooke Adams (Days of Heaven,The Dead Zone)
Alison La Placa(Duet,Open house Stat)
MEN
Louis Gossett Jr (Officer and a Gentleman, Roots, The Deep)
Christopher Atkins (The Blue Lagoon)
Warren Berlinger (The World According to Garp,Cannonball Run,The Long Goodbye)
Don Calfa(Putney Swope., 10,Return of the Living Dead)
David Carradine (Kung Fu, Kill Bill)
Bud Cort (Harold and Maude)
Judd Hirsch (Taxi, Independence Day)
Ernie Hudson (Ghostbusters)
Martin Kove (The Karate Kid, Rambo 2 Cobra Kai)
Richard Lewis (Curb Your Enthusiasm)
Rex Linn (CSI, Miami, Tin Cup),
Navid Neghaban(Homeland, The Stoning of Soraya M)
Robert Pine(CH.I.P.S,Lakeview Terrace)
Don Most (Happy Days)
Thomas Ian Nicholas (American Pie, Rookie of the Year)
Wes Studi (Last of The Mohicans, Heat, Geronimo, Avatar)
Eric Stonestreet(Modern Family)
Michael relocated to Atlanta to be one of the producers of a feature film entitled On Smoother Dirt about the Chicago Cubs icon Ernie Banks. He is currently packaging his original screenplay PURPOSE. Other projects include the development and packaging of Freed, , Exposure, The Four, Flames of Freedom and One Man Show, and a limited series about the creation of Hollywood's most famous Bistro , MA MAISON
Television
All in the Family
All in the Family
All in the Family
Michael playing a doctor with Rob Reiner who is about to perform a vasectomy
All in the Family
All in the Family
All in the Family
Michael as Rabbi Jacobs making Archie an honorary member of Temple Beth Shalom
All in the Family
All in the Family
All in the Family
Michael playing a Reverend marrying Billy Crystal on New Year's Eve
I REMEMBER MAMA
The Perry Como Show
All in the Family
MICHAEL AS TJ'S BEST FRIEND
M.A.S.H.
The Perry Como Show
The Perry Como Show
Major Topper episode with Alan Alda and Mike Farrell
The Perry Como Show
The Perry Como Show
The Perry Como Show
Michael in a recurring role as Perry's son David
ALL IN THE FAMILY
Laverne and Shirley episode
The Ed Sullivan Show
RABBI JACOBS AT STEPHANIE'S BAT MITZVAH
The Ed Sullivan Show
Laverne and Shirley episode
The Ed Sullivan Show
Michael with David Burns and George S. Irving
Laverne and Shirley episode
Laverne and Shirley episode
Laverne and Shirley episode
ME AND SEVERN DARDEN CITIZEN KRANE
TAXI
CHEERS SEASON 1
Laverne and Shirley episode
WITH CHRISTOPHER LLOYD
TAXI
CHEERS SEASON 1
CHEERS SEASON 1
TAXI SEASON 1 EP 4
BOBBY'S ACTING CAREER
CHEERS SEASON 1
CHEERS SEASON 1
CHEERS SEASON 1
SAM AT ELEVEN
FILMS
The China Syndrome
Smokey and the Bandit
The China Syndrome
Michael playing the producer who brings Jane Fonda to the local market.i
The China Syndrome
Smokey and the Bandit
The China Syndrome
Michael playing the producer who brings Jane Fonda to the local market.i
Smokey and the Bandit
Smokey and the Bandit
Smokey and the Bandit
Michael playing Sheriff Branford's Deputy
Smokey and the Bandit
Smokey and the Bandit
Smokey and the Bandit
Michael playing Sheriff Branford's Deputy
Smokey and the Bandit
EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE
Friends and Colleagues
MARTIN KOVE
LOUIS GOSSETT,JR
ELLIOTT GOULD
Christopher Walken
Marvin Hamlisch-Lorin Hollander
wolfgang puck