Biography
George Bartenieff was an American stage and screen actor. Born in Berlin in 1933, he made his Broadway debut at the age of 14 in the 1947 production The Whole World Over. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and appeared in nine Broadway shows and numerous Off-Broadway productions over a career spanning more than seven decades.
Bartenieff was a co-founder of the experimental Theatre for the New City in 1971 and received two Obie Awards and a Drama Desk Award. His film and television credits include Hercules in New York (1970), See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989), Julie & Julia (2009) as Chef Max Bugnard, The Dictator (2012) and multiple appearances on Law & Order. He died in Brooklyn in 2022.
