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Elim Garak

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Andrew Robinson
Andrew Jordt Robinson
14 February 1942 -

Elim Garak
[guest appearance]

About the character:
Elim Garak is the only remaining cardassian on Deep Space Nine after Cardassia has left the space station to Bajor. He has his own clothes shop, where he also functions as a tailor.

About the actor:
Andrew Robinson is born in the state New York in the city New York in USA and has studied on the University of New Hampshire and gets his B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) in english from New School for Social Research in New York City. When he graduates he go to England for a year to attend the London Academy for Music and Dramatic Arts on a Fulbright scholarship.

Returned back to the USA Andrew Robinson appeares in varies theatre productions throughout the 1960s and the 1970s. It is in 1971, that he gets his big chance as a vicious murderer in the movie "Dirty Harry", that has Clint Eastwood playing the leading part. Already the year after he guest appeares in the TV series "Bonanza", that runs its season 14. From now on his talent is used in many known TV series for instance "The Streets of San Francisco", "The A-Team", and "The X-Files". But he has also appeared in many TV movies and a few movies.

His most known character is as the cardassian Elim Garak in the TV series "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", in which he from the beginning presents himself as a friend before the chief medical officer Bashir ("Past Prologue" (3)). But the truth is that you never really know, who he takes side with, or what he thinks, where irony and a cunning attitude lurkes behind his façade.

From the very first he tried the character as Odo, which he was close getting, but instead it went to Rene Auberjonois.

The actors daughter, Rachel, has guest appeared "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" in the episode "The Visitor" (75), and was one of the possible choices to the character as Ezri Dax for season 7 of the TV series. That part went instead to Nicole de Boer.

Has directed the following episodes:
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
"Looking for Par'mach in All the Wrong Places" (101)
[credited as Andrew J. Robinson]

Star Trek: Voyager
"Blood Fever" (58)
[credited as Andrew Robinson]
"Unforgettable" (90)
[credited as Andrew J. Robinson]


Has appeared:
1971:           "Dirty Harry" - movie

1972:           "Bonanza" - tv series
                      episode "Forever" (Part 1) (416)

1972:           "Bonanza" - tv series
                      episode "Forever" (Part 2) (417)

1975:           "The Streets of San Francisco" - tv series
                      episode "Spooks for Sale" (85)

1975:           "Kojak" - tv series
                      episode "I want to Report a Dream" (47)

1977:           "The Streets of San Francisco" - tv series
                      episode "The Cannibals" (108)

1978:           "Kojak" - tv series
                      episode "Photo must Credit Joe Paxton" (114)

1983:           "The A-Team" - tv series
                      episode "The Beast from the Belly of a Boeing" (13)

1983:           "The A-Team" - tv series
                      episode "The White Ballot" (26)

1986:           "Cobra" - movie

1989:           "Moonlighting" - tv series
                      episode "Plastic Fantastic Lovers" (58)

1990:           "Matlock" - tv series
                      episode "The Broker" (105)

1991:           "L.A. Law" - tv series
                      episode "He's a Crowd" (95)

1991:           "Matlock" - tv series
                      episode "The Defense" (124)

1993 - 1999: "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      [1. - 7. sæson]
                      [1. - 4. sæson] [credited as Andrew Robinson]
                      [5. - 7. sæson] [credited as Andrew J. Robinson]

1993:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "Past Prologue" (3)

1993:           "Walker, Texas Ranger" - tv series
                      episode "A Shadow in the Night" (3)

1993:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "Cardassians" (25)

1993:           "Murder, She Wrote" - tv series
                      episode "A Killing in Cork" (205)

1994:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "Profit and Loss" (38)

1994:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "The Wire" (42)

1994:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "Crossover" (43)

1994:           "Murder, She Wrote" - tv series
                      episode "An Egg to Die for" (230)

1995:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "The Way of the Warrior" (Part 1) (73)

1995:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "The Way of the Warrior" (Part 2) (74)

1996:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "Shattered Mirror" (92)

1996:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "For the Cause" (94)

1996:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "Body Parts" (97)

1996:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "Broken Link" (98)

1996:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "Things Past" (106)

1997:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "In Purgatory's Shadow" (Part 1) (112)

1997:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "By Inferno's Light" (Part 2) (113)

1997:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "Empok Nor" (122)

1997:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "Call to Arms" (Part 1) (124)

1997:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "A Time to Stand" (Part 2) (125)

1997:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "Rocks and Shoals" (Part 3) (126)

1997:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "Favor the Bold" (Part 1) (129)

1997:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "Sacrifice of Angels" (Part 2) (130)

1998:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "In the Pale Moonlight" (143)

1998:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "Tears of the Prophets" (Part 1) (150)

1998:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "Afterimage" (153)

1999:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "The Emperor's New Cloak" (162)

1999:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" (166)

1999:           "The X-Files" - tv series
                      episode "Alpha" (133)

1999:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "When It Rains... " (171)

1999:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "Tacking into the Wind" (172)

1999:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "Extreme Measures" (173)

1999:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "The Dogs of War" (174)

1999:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "What You Leave Behind" (Part 1) (175)

1999:           "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" - tv series
                      episode "What You Leave Behind" (Part 2) (176)

1999:           "JAG" - tv series
                      episode "Rogue" (92)

2004:           "JAG" - tv series
                      episode "Whole New Ball Game" (209)

 

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