Biography
Masur was born in New York City to a high school teacher mother and a pharmacist father. He attended P.S. 28, Walt Whitman Junior High School, and Roosevelt High School in Yonkers. He is the brother of Judith Masur and the husband of Eileen Henry.
Masur studied acting at The Yale School of Drama and appeared on stage before acting in movies and television shows during the 1970s. He had recurring roles in Rhoda from 1974 to 1978; One Day at a Time from 1975 to 1976; Hot L Baltimore in 1975; and the pilot to an NBC sitcom, Bumpers, in 1977. In January 2006, he began appearing as a recurring character on the soap opera All My Children. He has also appeared in guest spots on many TV shows, including M*A*S*H, All in the Family, Hawaii Five-0, Happy Days, Picket Fences, Matlock, Murphy Brown and Law & Order.
Masur played the role of Martin Stone in the off-Broadway play Dust. Masur also played the role of a character modeled after Jewish-American spy Jonathan Pollard in the film Les Patriotes (The Patriots) (1994), by French director Éric Rochant. In 1981, Masur also played the role of a child molestor armed with a camera in the TV film Fallen Angel.
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