Biography
René Assa was an actor born on 15 November 1944 in Cairo, Egypt. He moved to the United States as a teenager and began his career in theatre, appearing in productions at the Padua Hills Playwrights Festival and the Mark Taper Forum’s New Works Festival, as well as several Los Angeles plays by Murray Mednick.
His screen credits include the role of Guzman in the 1992 film Deep Cover, the Passport Official in Postcards from the Edge (1990) and appearances in Walker (1987). On television he had guest roles in series including Baywatch, Knight Rider, The A-Team, Quantum Leap and The Flash.
Assa died on 10 March 2002 in Los Angeles, California, of lung cancer.
