Robert X. Modica
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Robert X. Modica was an acting teacher and actor best known for his roles in Love Story and Francis Ford Coppola’s The Rain People.
As an instructor he taught Ali MacGraw, Jennifer Beals, John Turturro, David Duchovny, Bill D’Elia, Louise Lasser and Rachel Ward, as well as Broadway vet Marian Seldes. Modica taught for 75 years, 25 of them alongside Sanford Meisner at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse. Fifty of those years were spent at his own acting studio in Carnegie Hall, which he began in 1966.
While he was primarily an acting teacher, Modica also worked as an actor. He Love Story, which co-starred one of his students, MacGraw, he played Dr. Addison. In Fast Food Fast Women he played Paul, a widower facing old age alone. And in Men of Respect, based on a Shakespeare play, he appeared with another of his students, Turturro.
For television, Modica had small roles on series Kojak, Shrinks, and three episodes of The Equalizer. He also appeared in the miniseries The Fortunate Pilgrim, again with Turturro. And in the crime drama Witness to the Mob, he acted with Turturro's younger brother, Nicholas.
Robert X. Modica was an acting teacher and actor best known for his roles in Love Story and Francis Ford Coppola’s The Rain People.
As an instructor he taught Ali MacGraw, Jennifer Beals, John Turturro, David Duchovny, Bill D’Elia, Louise Lasser and Rachel Ward, as well as Broadway vet Marian Seldes. Modica taught for 75 years, 25 of them alongside Sanford Meisner at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse. Fifty of those years were spent at his own acting studio in Carnegie Hall, which he began in 1966.
While he was primarily an acting teacher, Modica also worked as an actor. He Love Story, which co-starred one of his students, MacGraw, he played Dr. Addison. In Fast Food Fast Women he played Paul, a widower facing old age alone. And in Men of Respect, based on a Shakespeare play, he appeared with another of his students, Turturro.
For television, Modica had small roles on series Kojak, Shrinks, and three episodes of The Equalizer. He also appeared in the miniseries The Fortunate Pilgrim, again with Turturro. And in the crime drama Witness to the Mob, he acted with Turturro's younger brother, Nicholas.
Modica died March 14, 2015, in Manhasset, New York. He was 83.
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