Michael Margotta

{{infobox person

| name = Michael Margotta

| birth_place = Pearl River, New York, U.S.

| birth_date = {{birth_date and age|September 1, 1946}}

| occupation = Actor

}}

Michael Margotta (born September 1, 1946) is an American actor.

Career

Margotta appeared in the film that was Jack Nicholson's directorial debut, Drive, He Said (1971). In the year of its release, the film caused a stir because of Margotta appearing fully nude in a mental breakdown scene. Censors at the time attempted to give the film an X rating.{{citation needed|date=February 2016}}

On television, Margotta appeared in the 1968 I Dream of Jeannie episode "The Guru" as a strung-out hippie named Harold.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0959695/?ref_=tt_ep_nx|title=Drop Out on Death Valley Days|publisher=Internet Movie Database|date=April 25, 1969|accessdate=July 15, 2015}}

Margotta was nominated for an Emmy for his appearance on Kojak in 1976.{{citation needed|date=February 2016}} In the same year, he acted in the Canadian thriller film Partners."Partners: much ado about nothing". The Globe and Mail, October 30, 1976.

Filmography

= Film =

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

1968

|Maryjane

|Jerry Blackburn

1968

|Wild in the Streets

|Jimmy Fergus

1970

|The Strawberry Statement

|Swatch

1970

|Cover Me Babe

|Steve Winston

1971

|Drive, He Said

|Gabriel

1976

|Partners

|Paul Howard

1977

|I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

|Hallucinated Character

1980

|Times Square

|JoJo

1983

|Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?

|Larry

1986

|9½ Weeks

|Michael

1999

|18 Shades of Dust

|Petey

2013

|Third Person

|Daniel

= Television =

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

1968

|The Outcasts

|Matt

|Episode: "The Heroes"

1968

|Shadow on the Land

|Timothy Willing

|Television film

1968

|I Dream of Jeannie

|Harold

|Episode: "Jeannie, My Guru"

1969

|Judd, for the Defense

|Paul Miller

|Episode: "Between the Dark and the Daylight"

1969–1970

|Death Valley Days

|Various roles

|3 episodes

1969, 1970

|The Mod Squad

|Fred Dawson / Jerry Kane

|2 episodes

1972

|Hawaii Five-O

|Niki

|Episode: "Death Wish on Tantalus Mountain"

1972

|The Streets of San Francisco

|Thanos Kampacalas

|Episode: "Bitter Wine"

1972

|Young Dr. Kildare

|Matt

|Episode: "No More Than a Bad Cold"

1973

|She Lives!

|Al Reed

|Television film

1973

|Needles and Pins

|Jeff

|Episode: "Do Your Own Thing"

1973

|Toma

|Paul Ziegler

|Episode: "The Cain Connection"

1973

|Kojak

|Jack Donnelly

|Episode: "Requiem for a Cop"

1974

|Sorority Kill

|Jackie

|Television film

1974

|Police Story

|Cateman

|Episode: "Chief"

1974

|The Last Angry Man

|Frankie Parelli

|Television film

1975

|The Blue Knight

|Frank Zugarelli

|Episode: "Pilot"

1976

|Cannon

|Allen Behr

|Episode: "Snapshot"

1976

|Serpico

|Jerry

|Episode: "Dawn of the Furies"

1977

|Starsky & Hutch

|Miller

|Episode: "A Body Worth Guarding"

1978

|Sam

|Suspect

|Episode #1.1

1985

|Search for Tomorrow

|Hardy

|5 episodes

1985

|Miami Vice

|Tony Rivers

|Episode: "Phil the Shill"

1986

|Another World

|Rolfe

|2 episodes

1986

|The Equalizer

| Norrell

| Episode: "Heartstrings"

1987, 1988

|Max Headroom

|Sully

|3 episodes

1989

|Something Is Out There

|Jimmy

|Episode: "A Hearse of Another Color"

1995

|Law & Order

|Mitchell

|Episode: "Rebels"

2017

|The Comedians

|Giampaolo, Acting Coach

|Episode #1.3

References

External links

{{IMDb name|0546834}}
[http://www.fandango.com/michaelmargotta/filmography/p45424 Profile], Fandango.com
[http://www.michaelmargotta.com/ Official site]

Category:1946 births

Category:Living people

Category:American male film actors

Category:American male television actors

Category:People from Rockland County, New York

Category:Male actors from New York (state)