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Allan Franklin Arbus (February 15, 1918 – April 19, 2013) was an American actor and photographer. He was the former husband of photographer . He is known for his role as psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Freedman on the television series M*A*S*H.


Early life
Arbus was born in New York City, to a Jewish family, the son of fur retailer Harry Arbus and his wife Rose (). He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in , where he first developed an interest in acting while appearing in a student play.

Also a music lover, before becoming an actor, he was reportedly so taken by 's recordings that he took up playing the .


Photography career
During the 1940s, Arbus became a photographer for the United States Army. In 1946, after he completed his military service, he and his first wife, photographer (née Nemerov, whom he had married in 1941), started a photographic advertising business in Manhattan. Arbus was primarily known for advertising photography that appeared in Glamour, Seventeen, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and other magazines, as well as the weekly newspaper advertising photography for , a Fifth Avenue department store in co-founded by Diane's grandfather, .

's noted photo exhibition The Family of Man includes a photograph credited to the couple. MoMA PDF document The Arbuses' professional partnership ended in 1956, when Diane quit the business; the couple formally separated three years later. Allan Arbus continued on as a solo photographer, but had given up the business to pursue an acting career by the time the couple divorced in 1969.


Acting career
After the breakup of his first marriage and the dissolution of his business, Arbus moved to California in 1969 to pursue a new career in acting. His new career took off after he landed the lead role in Robert Downey Sr.'s 1972 , Greaser's Palace, in which he appears with Robert Downey, Jr., who would go on to star as Diane Arbus's muse in Fur. The 2006 Fur is a fictional account of the end of the Arbuses' marriage. Arbus also starred opposite in Scream, Pretty Peggy (1973), and was featured as in W.C. Fields and Me (1976).

These roles led to his casting as Maj. on M*A*S*H. His work on M*A*S*H helped his career as a character actor, and he eventually appeared in more than seventy TV shows and movies. He appeared briefly in the 1973 film Cinderella Liberty as a drunken sailor; another 1973 film, (starring ), featured Arbus as a drug dealer with strange sexual needs; in Damien - Omen II (1978), he played Pasarian, one of Damien's many victims in trilogy. In 1979, he portrayed a dance choreographer in The Electric Horseman.

Arbus is far better known for his television work, which includes over forty-five titles, with works as recent as Curb Your Enthusiasm in 2000. Among Arbus's non- M*A*S*H work for television are guest and recurring roles in such television series as Law & Order, In the Heat of the Night, L.A. Law, Matlock, Starsky and Hutch, and .


Personal life
Allan and had two daughters, photographer , and writer and art director . The couple separated in 1959 and divorced in 1969, two years before Diane Arbus's suicide in 1971.

Arbus married actress Mariclare Costello in 1977. The couple had one daughter, Arin Arbus, who is the associate artistic director at Theatre for a New Audience.


Death
Arbus died of congestive heart failure on April 19, 2013, in Los Angeles. He was 95. He was cremated and his ashes given to his family.
(2016). 9781476625997, McFarland. .


Selected TV and filmography
1961Hey, Let's Twist!The doctorFilm(Uncredited)
1969Mr. Bad NewsFilm
1971The Christian Licorice StoreMonroe (Smith)Film
1972Sim ValensiFilm
1972Greaser's PalaceJessyFilm
1973The Young NursesKrebsFilm
1973Arturo VitroniFilm
1973Scream, Pretty PeggyDr. SaksTV movie(ABC)
1973Cinderella LibertyDrunken sailorFilm
1974The Odd CoupleErnie Ferguson (Hypnotist) / Mr. Lennox (Director)TVEpisodes: "Cleanliness Is Next To Impossible", "The Hollywood Story"
1974Law and DisorderDr. Richter
1976Hawaii Five-OVince MaynardTVSeason 8
1976W.C. Fields and MeFilm
1977Raid on EntebbeEli MelnickTV movie(NBC)
1978Damien - Omen IIPasarian
1978TaxiJerry MartinTVEpisode: "One-Punch Banta"
1978The Rockford FilesMyron KatzinTVEpisode: "Black Mirror"
1978Wonder WomanBleakerTVEpisode: "The Girl from Ilandia"
1979Moishe Weitzman, the 2nd HebrabFilm
1979The Electric HorsemanDannyFilm
1980The Last Married Couple in AmericaAl SquibFilm
1981GoodmanTV movieAlso, as a TV miniseries, known as The Gangster Chronicles
1982Quincy, M.E.Dr. EllerickTVEpisode: "For Love of Joshua"
1973–1983M*A*S*HMajor Sidney FreedmanTV12 Episodes
1984The World of Don CamilloChrist (voice)FilmIn Italian and English
1985Cagney & LaceyArthur StaceyTVEpisode: "Violation"
1985VolunteersAlbert BardenaroFilm
1985Hardcastle and McCormickDr. FriedmanTVEpisode: "Do Not Go Gentle"
1986CrossroadsDr. SantisFilm
1986Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (anthology)Dr. Andreas HellmanTV movieA Fighting Choice
1987From the HipPhil AmesFilm
1987SpiesJanoTVEpisode: "Baby"
1987Daniel and the TowersSimon 'Sam' Rodia (Wonder Works, PBS)
1987OharaSol RostoffTVEpisode: "The Intruders"
1987DuetMr. ColemanTVEpisode: "Born, Bred and Buttered in Brooklyn"
1987MatlockPeter LeoniTVEpisode: "The Chef"
1989L.A. LawLawrence StoneTVEpisode: I'm in the Nude for Love
1989MatlockAaron MitchellTVEpisode: "The Star"
1989When He's Not a StrangerJudge Thomas J. GrayTV movie
1990HunterNorman TateTVEpisode: "Unfinished Business"
1991StatHesh CooperTVEpisodes: "Safe Smuggling" & "Fantasy"
1991–1992Brooklyn BridgeDr. SchulmanTV3 episodes
1993Law & OrderDominique KeithTVEpisode: "Animal Instinct"
1993Josh and S.A.M.Businessman on planeFilm
1992–1993In The Heat of the NightDr. AtwillTVEpisodes: "Discovery" & "Little Girl Lost"
1994Mad About YouAlbertTVEpisode: "The Last Scampi"
1997In Dark PlacesDory
1998L.A. DoctorsMr. MitskiTVEpisode: "A Prayer for the living"
1999Seymore EpsteinTVEpisode: "Don't Meth with Me"
1999Judge FowlerTV3 episodes
2000Curb Your EnthusiasmUncle NathanTVEpisode: "The Group"
2016George DankworthFilm(In production from 1986, completed and released 2016)


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