Keith Szarabajka

Keith Szarabajka, appeared as Viktor Putlova, a Russian arms dealer, in the final two episodes of the past season of the FX hit series “Sons of Anarchy.”

Szarabajka was Detective Stephens, Inspector Gordon’s (Gary Oldman) trusted Gotham PD colleague, in Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film, “The Dark Knight.” Prior to being manhandled by the late Heath Ledger’s Joker, he spent most of the third season of the WB’s popular "Angel" series playing the 18th Century English vampire hunter, Captain Daniel Holtz, who comes to the 21st century to seek justice from Angel. Before that, he played Mickey Kostmayer from 1985 to 1989 on the CBS program “The Equalizer,” starring Edward Woodward. Keith endured six hours of make-up each day in order to become seventy-year old janitor Harlan Williams, who grew younger in “Stephen King’s The Golden Years” on CBS (1991). His Chaz Gracen mentored Adrian Pasdar’s Jim Profit in the short-lived, highly praised “Profit” on Fox (1996). Other TV work includes: “CSI,” “The Eleventh Hour,” “Prison Break,” “E.R.,” “Star Trek Voyager” and “Enterprise,” “X-Files” and “Law and Order.”

Szarabajka’s film work includes Randall Wallace’s “We Were Soldiers;” Tim McCanlies’ “Dancer, Texas;” George M. Miller’s “Andre;” Clint Eastwood’s “A Perfect World;” Costa-Gavras’ “Missing;” Alex Cox’s “Walker;” Roger Donaldson’s “Marie: A True Story;” Herbert Ross’ “Protocol;” John Gray’s “Billy Galvin;” Lee Grant’s “Staying Together” and Marshall Brickman’s “Simon.”

In 1992 Keith appeared on Broadway as Kim Feston in Howard Korder’s “Search and Destroy.” He also worked on Broadway as B.D. in Garry Trudeau’s “Doonesbury” and made his Broadway debut in Stuart Gordon and Bury St. Edmund’s epic sci-fi adventure play “Warp!” in 1973.

Off-Broadway work includes Hollywood Confidential in Peter Parnell’s “Hyde and Hollywood” (1989); Joseph Dougherty’s “Digby” (1985); and John Patrick Shanley’s “Women of Manhattan” (1986) at Manhattan Theater Club; Nigel Williams’ “Class Enemy” (1980) at The Players Theater; Stephen Willem’s “A Perfect Act of Contrition” (1987) at Manhattan Class Company; and “Bleacher Bums” (1978,) which Szarabajka also co-wrote, with The Organic Theater Company of Chicago.

Keith was a member of The Organic Theater of Chicago for six years (1972-1978), whose members included Joe Mantegna, Meshach Taylor, John Heard, Andre De Shields and Dennis Franz under the artistic direction of Stuart Gordon. He also worked at The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Yale Repertory Theatre, The Goodman Theater, Williamstown Theater Festival, The Mickery in Amsterdam, New York’s Second Stage, Cucaracha Theater of New York’s "Underground Soap" and New York Stage and Film at The Powerhouse Theatre/Vassar. He greatly enjoys reading short stories for National Public Radio’s “Selected Shorts” program, taped before live audiences at New York’s Symphony Space and at the Getty in LA. He is a member of the Ensemble Studio Theater–LA Project and appeared as an actor in their new Atwater Village Theatre’s inaugural production of “Mlle. God” by Nick Kazan this last January-March.

He is the voice behind many books on tape, including Tom Robbins’ Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (which received the Audie Award for Best Unabridged Fiction in 2001,) Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon and Rising Sun Michael Crichton, among 20 or so other titles.

Szarabajka plays a regular or recurring character on “Wild Thornberries,” “Godzilla” and “Heavy Gear.” His voice is also heard on numerous games, including Dead Space and Dead Space II (which also entailed motion capture as Dr. Terence Kyne,) Mass Effect I, II and III, Lord of the Rings, Final Fantasy XIII, Bio Shock I and II, Rainbow VI, Splinter Cell: Double Agent, Darksiders (and the upcoming Darksiders 2) and the recently released La Noir: Hard-Boiled to name but a few.

Keith attended the University of Chicago in his home town of Chicago, Illinois and Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He resides in Los Angeles with his sixteen-year-old son, Jack, and twelve-year-old son, Caleb, spending most of his time coaching them in baseball (though now Jack and soon Caleb are approaching that point where they are beyond him). Other interests include: scuba diving (advanced open water certified), softball, hiking, mountain biking, cooking and playwriting.

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