Hart Bochner

{{Short description|Canadian actor, film director, screenwriter and producer}}

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| birth_name = Hart Matthew Bochner

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1956|10|3}}

| birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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| years_active = 1977–present

| parents = Lloyd Bochner (father)

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Hart Matthew Bochner (born October 3, 1956) is a Canadian TV, film and voice actor, film director, screenwriter and producer. He has appeared in films such as Breaking Away (1979), Terror Train (1980), Rich and Famous (1981), The Wild Life (1984), Making Mr. Right (1987), Die Hard (1988), Apartment Zero (1988), Mr. Destiny (1990), Mad at the Moon (1992), Break Up (1998), Liberty Stands Still (2002) and Spread (2009). On television, he has starred in War and Remembrance (1988–89), Children of the Dust (1995), Baby for Sale (2004), The Starter Wife (2008) and Scandal (2015).

Early life

Bochner was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Ruth (née Roher), a concert pianist, and actor Lloyd Bochner.{{cite news| title=On The Air| page=4| newspaper=Drummondville Spokesman |date=March 24, 1950 |url=https://news.google.ca/newspapers?id=04swAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OEMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3435,595408&dq=un-me-air&hl=en|access-date=August 29, 2010}} His family is Jewish.{{cite news| title=Births| page=11| newspaper=Canadian Jewish Review| date=August 6, 1954|url=https://news.google.ca/newspapers?id=mVcfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=P9IEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4012,6212863&dq=boulevard-on-july-at-women's-college&hl=en| access-date=August 29, 2010}} Bochner is a board member of the Environmental Media Awards. His grand-uncle was journalist, lawyer and philanthropist Isaiah L. Kenen.{{cite web| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HcpZAAAAMAAJ&q=Bochner+Kenen| title=All my causes: an 80-year life span in many lands and for many causes, some we won and some we lost but we never gave up| first=Isaiah L.| last=Kenen| date=30 October 1985| publisher=Near East Research| via=Google Books}}

Career

Bochner appeared in such films as Islands in the Stream (1977), Breaking Away (1979), Terror Train (1980), Rich and Famous (1981), Supergirl (1984), Apartment Zero (1988), Die Hard (1988), Mr. Destiny and Fellow Traveller (1989). In the late 1990s, Bochner had a voice role in Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993) and starred opposite Susan Sarandon in Anywhere But Here (1999). He also appeared in the films Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000), and Say Nothing (2001). Bochner had an uncredited role in the 2013 remake of Carrie.

On television, Bochner had a key role as Byron Henry in the 1988 ABC miniseries War and Remembrance. More recently, he starred as Zach, the boyfriend of Molly Kagan (Debra Messing), on USA Network's short-lived series The Starter Wife (2008).

Among the films he has directed are PCU (1994), High School High (1996), and Just Add Water (2008).

Filmography

=Film=

class="wikitable sortable"

! Year

! Title

! Role

! Notes

1977

| Islands in the Stream

| Tom Hudson

1979

| Breaking Away

| Rodney "Rod"

1980

| Terror Train

| "Doc" Manley

1981

| Rich and Famous

| Chris Adams

rowspan="2"|1984

| Supergirl

| Ethan

data-sort-value="Wild Life, The" | The Wild Life

| David Curtiss

1987

| Making Mr. Right

| Don

rowspan="2"|1988

| Die Hard

| Harry Ellis

Apartment Zero

| Jack Carney

1989

| Fellow Traveller

| Clifford Byrne

1990

| Mr. Destiny

| Niles Pender

1992

| Mad at the Moon

| Miller Brown

rowspan="2" | 1993

| data-sort-value="Innocent, The" | The Innocent

| Russell

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

| Arthur Reeves

| Voice

rowspan="2"|1998

| Bulworth

| Hugh Waldron, Bulworth's Political Opponent

| Uncredited

Break Up

| Frankie Dade

1999

| Anywhere But Here

| Josh Spritzer

2000

| Urban Legends: Final Cut

| Professor Solomon

rowspan="2"|2001

| Speaking of Sex

| Felix

Say Nothing

| Matt

rowspan="2"|2002

| Liberty Stands Still

| Captain Hank Wilford

Project Redlight

| Narrator

| Short film

rowspan="2"|2009

| Spread

| Will

| Uncredited

Company Retreat

| Lonny

2013

| Carrie

| Mr. Hargensen

| Uncredited{{cite news| url=https://ew.com/article/2013/10/19/carrie-ellis-die-hard-hart-bochner-cameo/| title='Carrie' remake includes great 'Die Hard' cameo| magazine=Entertainment Weekly| first=Darren| last=Franich| date=October 29, 2013| access-date=2022-10-31}}

2016

| Rules Don't Apply

| Colonel Willis