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Rod Colbin

{{short description|American actor}}

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| name = Rod Colbin

| image = Rod Colbin.png

| image_upright = 1.3

| caption = Colbin in The Optimist, 1983

| birthname = Irving Herbert Lichtenstein

| birth_date = {{birth date|1923|11|23|mf=y}}

| birth_place = New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2007|2|4|1923|11|23|mf=y}}

| death_place = Denver, Colorado, U.S.

| occupation = Actor, Fencing Instructor/Fight Director

| yearsactive = 1952–1986

| spouse =

| children = 2

}}

Rod Colbin (born Irving Herbert Lichtenstein: December 23, 1923 – February 4, 2007) was an American character actor whose career spanned four decades. He was also a fencing instructor who, at one time, served as Katharine Hepburn's personal masseur. He was born to Jewish parents in New Haven, CT, the son of Samuel (made gravestones) and Bess (Silverdollar) Lichtenstein.

Marriages and family

Rod married Annemarie Polonyi on September 16, 1965; they divorced in 1978. They had three daughters: Johanna, who died at age 4, Shana Rebecca, and Kaila Johanna.{{Citation needed|date=July 2021}}

Death

Colbin died in February 2007 in Denver, Colorado after a series of strokes. He was 83. Colbin was survived by two daughters, two grandchildren and two sisters.[http://www.playbill.com/news/article/113813-In-Memoriam-Playbillcom-Remembers-Those-We-Lost-in-2007 In Memoriam: Playbill.com Remembers Those We Lost in 2007, by Zachary Pincus-Roth, Playbill.com, Dec 29, 2007, accessed December 26, 2012.]{{cite web|url=https://www.variety.com/article/VR1117959447/?refCatId=25|title=Fencing master Colbin dies at 83|author=Variety Staff|date=14 February 2007|publisher=|accessdate=29 June 2016}}

Filmography

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References

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External links

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  • {{Playbill person|rod-colbin-vault-0000000540}} ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160218054846/http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/540/Rod-Colbin archive])

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Category:1923 births

Category:2007 deaths

Category:American male film actors

Category:American male television actors

Category:American male stage actors

Category:Jewish American male actors

Category:Male actors from New Haven, Connecticut

Category:20th-century American male actors

Category:20th-century American Jews

Category:21st-century American Jews