| Judd Hirsch | ||
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| ...as Judah Platner | ||
| Characters Judah Platner Ben Elkins Joseph Edelman | ||
| Date of birth March 15, 1935 | ||
| Place of birth The Bronx, New York City, New York | ||
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| ...as Joseph Edelman | ||
| IMDb profile |
Judd Seymore Hirsch is an actor who played three different characters in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
He is best known for his roles on TV shows such as Taxi (with Carol Kane and Christopher Lloyd), Dear John, and Numb3rs (which also starred Sophina Brown, David Krumholtz, Sabrina Lloyd, Rob Morrow, and Diane Farr). He also starred on the show Forever (with Alana De La Garza, Donnie Keshawarz, and Lorraine Toussaint) and had a guest role on The Big Bang Theory (with Christine Baranski playing his ex-wife).
He also appears as Julius Levinson, the father of Jeff Goldblum's character David Levinson in Independence Day (with Harry Connick, Jr., Vivica A. Fox, Bill Pullman, Mae Whitman, Margaret Colin, Adam Baldwin, James Rebhorn, and Brent Spiner) and its sequel Independence Day: Resurgence.
Appearances[]
Law & Order: SVU
- "Mercy" (2003) as Dr. Judah Platner
- "Alta Kockers" (2018) as Joseph Edelman
Law & Order: CI
- "Pravda" (2003) as Ben Elkins