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Acting

Lawrence Dobkin

Career: Active from 1950 to 2008, with a break from 1991 to 2007, busiest in 1965 with 8 main titles.

Average score: 64/100

Highest rated: The Fugitive
84/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 133 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Lawrence Dobkin Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Psychological
3.8, average 5.5
Melancholy
3.0, average 4.7
Uncanny
1.1, average 2.5
Coming of Age
1.6, average 3.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Episodic Mystery 10
Classic Police Procedural 6
Character-Driven 6
Iconic Theme Music 5
Nostalgic Americana 5
Gritty Realism 5
Nostalgic Comfort Watch 5
Ensemble Cast Chemistry 4
Classic Detective Procedural 4
Comfort Viewing 4
Classic Sitcom 4
Iconic Theme Song 4

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

154

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2000s

1 title · average score 78

The Munsters: Family Portrait

78

Director

1990s

10 titles · average score 63

Judging Amy

76

TV show · as Clyde Palmer

Popular

69

TV show · as Judge

The Practice

76

TV show · as Judge M. Gersh

Profiler

47

TV show · as Professor Bello

Roswell

59

as General

NYPD Blue

82

TV show · as John Gilbert

Melrose Place

53

TV show · as Judge Stanley Pittman

The Rape of Doctor Willis

60

as Striker

Curiosity Kills

53

as Harry

Rock Hudson

55

as Raoul Walsh

1980s

11 titles · average score 68

Star Trek: The Next Generation

79

TV show · as Ambassador Kell

The Charmings

61

TV show

L.A. Law

77

TV show · as Judge Saul Edelstein

Matlock

54

TV show · as Marvin Shea

MacGyver

77

TV show · as Alexander Karsoff / Professor Julian Ryman

Night Court

74

TV show · as Justice Welch

Cover Up

73

TV show

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

46

TV show

Knight Rider

76

TV show · as Col. Alvin B. Kincaid

Bret Maverick

68

TV show · as U.S. Marshal Philip Mondragon

Hotwire

as Bodine

1970s

11 titles · average score 65

Brenda Starr, Reporter

Director

In Search of Historic Jesus

as Pontius Pilate

Space Academy

59

TV show

Territorial Men

Director

The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams

69

Writer

The Midnight Man

60

as Waldo Mason

The Waltons

65

TV show · Director

Sixteen

44

Director

The Streets of San Francisco

72

as Gregory Praxas

Underground

as Boule

Patton

85

as Colonel Gaston Bell

1960s

23 titles · average score 64

Hawaii Five-O

48

TV show · as General Oban

Felony Squad

69

TV show · Director

Johnny Yuma

52

as Linus Jerome Carradine

Mission: Impossible

79

TV show · as Colonel Alex Kohler

The Big Valley

69

TV show · as Ben Dawes

The F.B.I.

65

TV show · as Horrigan

Steel and America

as Narrator (voice)

The Restless Sea

as Narrator

Sam Benedict

TV show · as Judge Ryan

Geronimo

65

as General George A. Crook

The Cabinet of Caligari

50

as Dr. Frank David

A Fire Called Jeremiah

as Narrator

1950s

93 titles · average score 65

The Detectives

71

TV show · Director

North by Northwest

91

as U.S. Intelligence Agency Official (uncredited)

Tokyo After Dark

as Maj. Bradley

The Rifleman

77

TV show · as Juan Argentez

The Donna Reed Show

46

TV show · Director

77 Sunset Strip

74

TV show · as Sergei Ruchev

Naked City

69

TV show · as Narrator (voice)

Trackdown

73

TV show · as Walter Trump / Joel Paine

Mr. Adams and Eve

TV show

Perry Mason

82

TV show · as Gregory Dunkirk

Have Gun, Will Travel

78

TV show · as Haskell Sommers / Col. Oliver Lacey

I Love Lucy

81

TV show · as Counterman / Maitre D'

1940s

5 titles · average score 77

Twelve O'Clock High

87

as Captain Twombley, group chaplain

D.O.A.

80

as Dr. Schaefer

Not Wanted

68

as Asst. District Attorney

Studio One

65

TV show · as Porter

The Best Years of Our Lives

89

as Bank Customer with Hat (uncredited)