Stephen Linetsky

Stephen Linetsky was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1944. He attended Brooklyn College where he majored in speech and theater and television production and got his BA in those subjects in 1971. Later he got his MS in television production at Brooklyn College. While an undergrad, Stephen caught the acting bug, which led to his first acting experience in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum as Pseudolus. The production occurred in Berlin, Germany shortly after Stephen left the United States to be stationed in Berlin with the US Army. He went on to play many more characters in stage productions including Marcelles Washburn in the Music Man, Nicely Nicely Johnson in Guys and Dolls, King Herrod in Jesus Christ Superstar, and Oscar Madison in the Odd Couple. After the performance of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, a German film director, approached Stephen and offered him a part in a movie starring Dennis Hopper called White Star. After White Star, Stephen did three more German made-for-television movies: Kiez, Epitaph for Othello, and His First Case. He also had a cameo appearance in a German sitcom entitled Three Women of the Grille. He appeared as a butcher in a 1988 commercial for New Jersey's Public Service Electric & Gas (PSE&G). Stephen moved around Germany (Fulda, Schweinfort, Berlin) as well as lived in California (Monterey) and Texas (San Angelo) being stationed in various locations in the US Army. In the summer of 1986, he was honorably discharged from the US Army and returned to New York and started working with the Board of Education as a Junior High School teacher. He is currently retired and living in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, Muriel (55), and two sons, Jason (27) and Brandon (21).