Aaron Schwartz (Canadian actor)
{{Short description|Canadian actor, director, photographer and copyright lawyer (born 1948/49)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Aaron Schwartz
| birth_date = {{birth based on age as of date|38|1987|10|31}}
| birth_place = Theodore, Canada
| education = Swarthmore College (BA)
Columbia University (MFA)
York University (LLB)
| occupation = Actor, director, photographer, copyright lawyer
| years_active = 1977–1990
1995–present
| known_for = Suspect, The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick, Murder by Night, White Light (films)
| television = Check It Out! (series)
| website =
}}
Aaron Schwartz (born 1948/1949) is a Canadian actor, director, photographer and copyright lawyer.{{cite news |url=http://jpgmag.com/stories/17200/ |last=Schwartz |first=Aaron |title=Hey, That's Mine!! |work=JPG |date=January 5, 2011 |accessdate=21 February 2013 |quote=Generally, artists worry too much about people stealing their work.… If they stole it for their private use, the artist hasn't lost very much financially.… These pictures [I’ve taken] … [are] available for you to look at and enjoy. And it's the Internet, after all, right? So steal them. }}{{cite web|last=Schwartz |first=Aaron |title=Official website |url=http://aschwartz.zenfolio.com/ |accessdate=21 February 2013 |quote=Schwartz is a copyright lawyer, actor, director and photographer. |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130621234413/http://aschwartz.zenfolio.com/ |archivedate=June 21, 2013 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.martindale.com/Aaron-Schwartz/2254053-lawyer.htm |title=Aaron Schwartz Lawyer Profile |work=Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory |publisher=LexisNexis |accessdate=February 22, 2013 |quote=Practice Areas: Intellectual Property; Communications & Media; Litigation. Swarthmore College, B.A. Osgoode Hall, LL.B. Admitted [to the Bar]: 1995. }}{{cite web |last=Caruana |first=Christopher |title=Trade-Mark Opposition Board Hearings |work=OntarioLegal.com |publisher=Law Office of Christopher Caruana |date=May 15, 2012 |url=http://www.ontariolegal.com/blog/?p=846 |quote=Schwartz, who had done [trademark oppositions, gave me] advice. }}{{cite news |last=Caruso |first=Deborah |title=When Aaron Schwartz praises the waiters at La Fenice... |newspaper=Toronto Star |page=S88 |date=October 31, 1987 |quote=The actor/director/producer/writer did time … waiting on tables. Latter days have been more rewarding for Schwartz, 38. }}
Life and career
Schwartz was born in 1949 in Theodore, Saskatchewan, and grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1970; in 1972 he received an MFA degree in Theater from Columbia University. He earned a law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, Toronto, in 1993, and was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1995.
Schwartz spent his early career in theatre.{{cite news |last=Conlogue |first=Ray |title=Table Settings humor cuts close to the bone |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |location=Toronto |page=16 |date=February 8, 1982 |quote=The cast is strong…. Aaron Schwartz is the paterfamilias, the vision of a successful lawyer slightly gone to seed.}} In 1987, he produced and directed Bat Masterson's Last Regular Job, by Bill Ballantyne, at the Toronto Free Theatre.{{cite book |last1=Ballantyne |first1=Bill |first2=Aaron |last2=Schwartz |title=Bat Masterson's Last Regular Job |publisher=University of Guelph |year=1983 |location=Guelph, Ont. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IG4LcgAACAAJ |quote=Authors: Toronto Free Theatre Archives, Bill Ballantyne, Aaron Schwartz. }} He had previously directed the world premiere of Ballantyne's first play, The Al Cornell Story, at the Theatre Passe Muraille Back Space in Toronto.Ballantyne, Bill,[https://books.google.com/books?id=UFgfAQAAIAAJ&q=Schwartz The Al Cornell Story: A Comedy in Two Acts], Playwrights Union of Canada (1984). {{ISBN|0887543928}}. Schwartz was nominated as best director for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for his production of Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, at the Factory Theatre in Toronto.
Schwartz is known for playing a leading role as grocery cashier Leslie Rappaport in the television situation comedy, Check It Out! (1985–1988).{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w8KztFy6QYwC&pg=PA242 |last1=Brooks |first1=Tim |first2=Earle F.|last2=Marsh |title=The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946–present |edition=9th |publisher=Random House: Ballantine Books |year=2009 |isbn=9780307483201}} He was also featured in two episodes of Street Legal (in 1990) and in the episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents entitled "Killer Takes All" (1988) with Van Johnson and Rory Calhoun.
In film, he is known for playing Henry Glick, the father of the title character in The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick (1988), which won the Best Canadian Feature Film award at the Toronto International Film Festival.{{cite web |title=Aaron Schwartz (I) Filmography |website=IMDb |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0777124/ |accessdate=21 February 2013 }}{{cite web |url= https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/63938/Aaron-Schwartz/filmography |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140220070319/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/63938/Aaron-Schwartz/filmography |url-status= dead |archive-date= 2014-02-20 |department= Movies & TV Dept. |work= The New York Times |date= 2014 |title= Aaron Schwartz filmography }}{{cite news |title=Max tells heartwarming tale |first=Joanna |last=Connors |newspaper=The Plain Dealer |location=Cleveland, Ohio |date=April 27, 1990 }} His other film roles include the Czech Officer in Eleni (1985) starring John Malkovich and the Forensic Pathologist in Suspect (1987) starring Cher and Liam Neeson, both films directed by Academy Award-winning director Peter Yates. Other film credits include the Neurologist in Murder by Night (1989), Dr. Spears in Age-Old Friends (1989) and Aaron Stern in White Light (1991).
In January 2011, Schwartz wrote in an essay about protecting your photographs online:
If the thief ... tried to sell [the infringed work] and couldn't – then the artist might want to take a hard look at how much damage has really been done. Probably got some free advertising....
I recommend not putting anything extremely valuable where someone can steal it. And don't worry too much about what happens to the work that you do display on the Internet, because a "thief" might well be doing you as much good as harm.
Schwartz, in addition to his law and acting careers, is an accomplished photographer. Founder of the photography blog aamora.com, a self-proclaimed "Playland" for photographers, artists and writers around the world, he has developed a reputation for his photographs on JPG and his own online gallery.
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External links
- {{IMDB name|0777124}}
- {{official website|https://web.archive.org/web/20130621234413/http://aschwartz.zenfolio.com:80/}} on Wayback Machine
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Category:Canadian male television actors
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Category:Male actors from Saskatchewan
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Category:Film directors from Saskatchewan