Won a Tony for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for "Frost/Nixon" in 2007.

Shares two roles with Lane Smith: President Richard Nixon and Daily Planet Editor Perry White.

Requested to be uncredited for the role of Minister Jaro on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine because he did the show for his children not exposure or money.

Studied acting at Syracuse University with Larry Hankin and Carl Gottlieb

Italian-American.

Along with Christopher Lee and Richard Roxburgh, one of the few actors to play both Dracula and Sherlock Holmes.

Has twice won Broadway`s Tony Award: as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic), in 1975 for Edward Albee`s "Seascape," and as Best Actor (Featured Role - Play), in 2002 for "Fortune`s Fool." He was also nominted for the Tony two other times as Best Actor (Play): in 1978 for "Dracula," a role he recreated with a different script in the film, Dracula (1979), and in 2004 for "Match."

Was one of the last actors cast for Masters of the Universe (1987).

Won both Tony and Drama Desk awards as best featured actor in a Broadway play, in "Fortune`s Fool," May/June 2002.

He won a supporting Tony in 1975 for "Seascape".

He won an Obie Award in 1965 for "The Old Glory".

Lived with actress/comedian Whoopi Goldberg (separated in March 2001).