Kristoffer Tabori
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| Kristoffer Tabori | |
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| Born | Christopher Donald Siegel August 4, 1952 Malibu, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor, Director |
| Spouse(s) | Judy Geeson (1984-1989)(divorced) |
Kristoffer Tabori (b. 4 August 1952, Malibu, California) is an American actor and director.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Born as Christopher Donald Siegel, he is the son of director Don Siegel and Swedish-American actress Viveca Lindfors.
Kristoffer Tabori appeared in one of his mother's films, Weddings and Babies, as a young boy. His parents divorced in 1953 and Lindfors married Hungarian writer and director George Tabori. He adopted his stepfather's surname and changed the English spelling of his forename.
[edit] Career
He started his career as a stage actor in his teens in the late 1960s, and during the 1970s and 1980s he appeared in many films, including Arthur Miller's A Memory of Two Mondays. In 1988 he played the part of Sir Henry Baskerville in The Hound of the Baskervilles next to Jeremy Brett (Sherlock Holmes) and Edward Hardwicke (Dr. Watson). In 1989, he played Prof. Peter Plum in the first television series of Cluedo, where he was known for his loud protestations of innocence during the studio-based portions of the program.
During the 1990s, Tabori directed some TV series. He is also known for having voiced HK-47, the heartless assassin droid and comic relief character seen in the videogames Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, as well as for providing the voices for some characters in other Star Wars related products and in the Battlestar Galactica area. Tabori was also featured on the radio in the CBS Radio Mystery Theatre.
He is an Audie Award-winning audiobook narrator and has performed in notable audio plays for Yuri Rasovsky.
In 2007, Tabori directed the TV film Anna's Storm and episodes of Falcon Beach, and in 2008 has directed episodes of The Guard and jPod.
