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name: "Kristoffer Tabori"
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roles: ["Director"]
born: "4 August 1952"
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# Kristoffer Tabori

Director. Born 4 August 1952 in Malibu, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 4 August 1952, Malibu, California, USA
- **Also known as:** Christopher Donald Siegel, K. T. Donaldson, Kristoffer Siegel-Tabori, Christopher Tabori, Kris Tabori, Kristofer Tabori, Kristopher Tabori
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3199820, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0846070/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/115178

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*Law & Order*](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md) (72)

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## Biography

Kristoffer Tabori, also credited as Christopher Donald Siegel, K. T. Donaldson and Kristoffer Siegel-Tabori, is an American actor and television director. He was born on 4 August 1952 in Malibu, California, the son of director Don Siegel and actress Viveca Lindfors, and stepson of playwright George Tabori.

Tabori began his career as a stage actor in the late 1960s, appearing on Broadway and off-Broadway, and later took guest roles in numerous television series and films including *Coogan's Bluff* (1968), *Dirty Harry* (1971) and *Murder, She Wrote* (1984). In the 1990s he turned to directing, helming episodes of series such as *Law & Order* (1991), *Picket Fences*, *Chicago Hope*, *Providence* and *Judging Amy*, as well as numerous television films.

As a director he won a Daytime Emmy Award for the ABC Afterschool Special *The Perfect Date* (1990) and received a Directors Guild of America nomination. He has also worked extensively in voice acting, including roles in *Avatar: The Last Airbender* (2005) and video games.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, ktabori.com, lawandorder.fandom.com, tviv.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Law & Order* (1990), Fi1m 72, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)

## Also known for

- *Avatar: The Last Airbender* (2005), War Minister Qin (voice)
- *Dirty Harry* (1971), Hippie Guy (uncredited)
- *Quantum Leap* (1989), Byron
- *Sliders* (1995), Dr. Whelan
- *Murder, She Wrote* (1984), Ernest Fielding, Desmond, Dr. Swope, Phillip Carlson
- *Coogan's Bluff* (1968), Elevator Passenger (uncredited)
- *Sherlock Holmes* (1984), Sir Henry Baskerville
- *The Twilight Zone* (1985), Kevin Drayton (segment "Her Pilgrim Soul")

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