RICHARD MASUR has starred in more than 55 feature films, including Who\u2019ll Stop the Rain, Risky Business, My Girl, Heaven\u2019s Gate, Forget Paris, Heartburn, Under Fire, and most recently Tumbledown and Don\u2019t Think Twice.<\/p>\n
He has appeared in over 45 television films, three of which\u2014Adam, Fallen Angel and The Burning Bed (Emmy Nomination)\u2014are among the top-ten rated TV movies of all time, Other television movie credits include roles in HBO\u2019s much-heralded And The Band Played On, Showtime\u2019s Hiroshima, and HBO\u2019s 61*. Masur has also starred in numerous popular TV series, including The Hot l Baltimore, One Day at a Time, Rhoda, Empire, Picket Fences, and guest starred on countless TV comedy and drama series over 4 decades, including HBO\u2019s Bored To Death, and Girls, and most recently has been recurring on CBS\u2019 The Good Wife, TV Land\u2019s Younger, Netflix\u2019 Orange is the New Black, and Amazon\u2019s Red Oaks and Transparent.
\nHe has appeared on Broadway in the Tony nominated productions of David Storey\u2019s The Changing Room, Nora Ephron\u2019s Lucky Guy, and Michael Frayne\u2019s Democracy; some of his Off-Broadway credits include: The Exonerated; MTC\u2019s world premiere of Sarah, Sarah, by Daniel Goldfarb; The Public Theatre\u2019s production of The Ruby Sunrise; Playwrights Horizon\u2019s world premiere of a feminine ending by Sarah Treem; the New Group\u2019s production of Mike Leigh\u2019s 2000 Years; Make Me, by Leslie Ayvazian at the Atlantic; Roger Rosenblatt\u2019s The Oldsmobile\u2019s at The Flea; Charles Busch\u2019s Olive and The Bitter Herbs at Primary Stages; and Fetch Clay, Make Man by Will Power at the McCarter and the NY Theater Workshop.<\/p>\n
He is also a Directors Guild and Academy Award nominated director.
\nMasur served as National President, VP and Board member of Screen Actors Guild and was also a Board member of SAG-AFTRA. He is a Trustee on the SAG Pension Plan and the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan and has been a member of the National Film Preservation Board for 20 years.<\/p>\n
He is married to Eileen Henry.<\/p>\n
Verisimilitude vs Truth in acting<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Masur \u2013 OH 1 \u2013 14:46 \u201cThere was a moment onstage\u2026\u201d \u2013 19:21 \u201c\u2026and hunting that.\u201d<\/p>\n Richard discusses how elusive the idea of truth is in acting and how frustrating it can be spending your career chasing the perfect embodiment of a character.<\/p>\n Learning to act and creating a character<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Masur \u2013 OH 2 \u2013 19:14 \u201cFor several months, I taught this class\u2026\u201d \u2013 22:11 \u201c\u2026to what\u2019s actually there.\u201d<\/p>\n Richard discusses his \u201ctwo rules\u201d while teaching acting.<\/p>\n Competing for roles<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Masur \u2013 OH 3 \u2013 41:11 \u201cYears ago\u2026\u201d \u2013 44:38 \u201c\u2026unheard of at that point.\u201d<\/p>\n Richard reflects on his audition for a role on Six Feet Under and being in the running alongside a star-studded list of who\u2019s who in Hollywood for a supporting role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [aesop_audio title=”Part 1″ src=”https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/wp-content\/oral-histories\/RM1.mp3″ loop=”off” viewstart=”off” viewend=”off” hidden=”off”] [aesop_audio title=”Part 2″ src=”https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/wp-content\/oral-histories\/RM2.mp3″ loop=”off” viewstart=”off” viewend=”off” hidden=”off”] [aesop_audio title=”Part 3″ src=”https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/wp-content\/oral-histories\/RM3.mp3″ loop=”off” viewstart=”off” viewend=”off” hidden=”off”] RICHARD MASUR has starred in more than 55 feature films, including Who\u2019ll Stop the Rain, Risky Business, My Girl, Heaven\u2019s Gate, Forget Paris, Heartburn, Under Fire, and most recently Tumbledown and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"metadata":{"_edit_last":["1"],"_edit_lock":["1504742487:1"],"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_wpac_members_redirect_to":[""],"_wpac_show_in_search":["0"],"_wpac_show_excerpt_in_search":["0"],"_wpac_nonmembers_redirect_to":[""],"ase_map_component_start_point":["a:2:{s:3:\"lat\";d:29.760000000000001563194018672220408916473388671875;s:3:\"lng\";d:-95.3799999999999954525264911353588104248046875;}"]},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/masur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/masur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/masur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/masur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/masur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/masur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/masur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}