Claire Danes TV Dad Dies

James Rebhorn, the actor best known for playing opposite Al Pacino in Scent Of A Woman, has died. He was 65. Rebhorn appeared in countless Hollywood movies and TV shows, notably playing the TV father of Claire Danes in Homeland.

Here are a few James Rebhorn trivia facts:

Graduated from Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio

Graduated from Madison Heights High School in Anderson, Indiana

Columbia University, MFA, 1972.

Tall, gangly American character actor adept at play clever villains, domineering dads and corrupt politicos; best known as the weaselly Secretary of Defence in Independence Day(1996).

Member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre.

In 1992, he appeared in the climactic scenes of both My Cousin Vinny (1992) and Scent of a Woman (1992), meaning that he worked opposite both Marisa Tomei and Al Pacino in their Oscar-winning roles that year.

Invited to join to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences [2007].

One of 115 people invited to join AMPAS in 2007.

He and his wife, Rebecca Linn, have two daughters, Emma Rebecca Rebhorn Feldman(born in 1984) and Hannah Rebhorn. Father-in-law of Benjamin Ian Feldman (born in 1984).

South Orange, New Jersey [April 2008]

Our thoughts and prayer go out to James’ family and friends at this somber time.