Kristoffer Tabori

Kristoffer Tabori (also known as K.T. Donaldson,^[2] born Christopher Donald Siegel; August 4, 1952) is an American actor and television director.

Kristoffer Tabori
Born	Christopher Donald Siegel (1952-08-04) August 4, 1952 (age 72)[1] Malibu, California, U.S.
Other names	K.T. Donaldson, Kris Tabori
Occupation(s)	Actor, television director
Years active	1958–present
Spouse	Judy Geeson ​ ​ (m. 1984; div. 1989)​
Parent(s)	Don Siegel Viveca Lindfors

Early life

Tabori was born in Malibu, California, the son of American film director Don Siegel and Swedish-American actress Viveca Lindfors. He appeared in one of his mother's films, Weddings and Babies, as a young boy.^{[citation needed]} In 1995, they appeared together in Last Summer in the Hamptons.^[3] His parents divorced in 1953 and Lindfors married Hungarian writer and director George Tabori. Kristoffer adopted his stepfather's surname and changed the English spelling of his forename.^[4]

Career

He started his career as a stage actor in his teens in the late 1960s, and during the 1970s he appeared in many films, including John and Mary (1969), Pigeons (1971), Making It (1971), Journey Through Rosebud (1972) and Girlfriends (1978). The majority of his work, however, was in television drama, beginning with a notable role (Bert) in the TV film of Arthur Miller's A Memory of Two Mondays (1971). During the latter two decades, Tabori appeared in dozens of guest roles in many of the medium's most popular network shows, including Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law; Cannon; Marcus Welby, M.D.; The Rookies; The Streets of San Francisco; The Rockford Files; Barnaby Jones; Murder She Wrote; Tour of Duty; and TV miniseries including QB VII, Seventh Avenue, Brave New World and Strong Medicine.

In 1988, he also played the part of Sir Henry Baskerville in a television production of The Hound of the Baskervilles next to Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes and Edward Hardwicke as Dr. Watson.^[5] During the 1990s, Tabori began directing in television and has over forty shows, mostly episode dramas, to his credit. In 2007, Tabori directed the TV film Anna's Storm and episodes of Falcon Beach. In 2008, he directed episodes of The Guard and jPod. He directed the SyFy Channel aliens-Western film High Plains Invaders.^[6]

Tabori also has established a career in voice-only work. In 1989, he played Prof. Peter Plum in the first television series of Cluedo, where he was known for his loud protestations of innocence during the studio-based portions of the program. He also voiced HK-47, the assassin droid and comic relief character in the videogames Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. Tabori voices HK-47, HK-51, and HK-55 again in the 2010 MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic, as well as providing the voices for some characters in other Star Wars related products and in the Battlestar Galactica area.

Tabori was also featured on the radio program CBS Radio Mystery Theatre. On television, Tabori supplied the voice of War Minister and Emissary in Avatar: The Last Airbender and voiced several characters in The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda as well as the home video series The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible. In 2012, he also voiced the main villain character the Lord Regent Hiram Burrows in a popular stealth action adventure video game Dishonored.

He is an Audie Award-winning audiobook narrator and has performed in audio plays for Yuri Rasovsky, as well as performing the audiobook narration for Jeffrey Eugenides' Pulitzer prize winning novel Middlesex.^[7]

Tabori is the voice of the narrator, Miles, in the 1976 audiobook "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" by Jack Finney. His father, Donald Siegel, had directed the 1956 film version of the novel. In 2008, he voiced a major villain, The Vulture, in Spider-Man: Web of Shadows.^[8]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1970	The Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker	Oliver's boyfriend
1971	Dirty Harry	Hippie Guy	Uncredited
1971	Making It	Phil Fuller
1972	The Glass House
1972	Family Flight	David Carlyle	Television film
1972	Journey Through Rosebud	Drifter
1987	G.I. Joe: The Movie	Mercer (voice)	Direct-to-video Credited as Christopher Tabori[1]
1994	Deep Down	Craig
1995	Last Summer in the Hamptons	Nick Mora
1996	Wildly Available	Joe Goodman

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1971	Nichols	Frankie	Episode: "The One-Eyed Mule"
1974	Cannon	Cliff Peril	Episode: "Flashpoint"
1974	The Rookies	Corey Banning	Episode: "Walk a Tightrope"
1977	Seventh Avenue	Al Blackman	6-part NBC miniseries
1979	Rockford Files		Episode: "Only rock 'n roll will never die (part 1 and 2)"
1980	The American Short Story: United States	Giovanni	Episode: “Rappaccini's Daughter”
1980	Brave New World	John the Savage	3-hour television film
1984	The Facts of Life	Sam Hall	Episode: "Taking a Chance on Love"
1984	Murder, She Wrote	Phillip Carlson	Episode: "We're Off to Kill the Wizard
1985	The Twilight Zone	Kevin Drayton	Episode: "Her Pilgrim Soul"
1985	Murder, She Wrote	Ernest Fielding	Episode: "Sing a Song of Murder"
1986	The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible	Young Jonah (voice)	2 Episodes[1]
1986	Blacke's Magic	Garrett Chambers	Episode: "Wax Poetic"
1988	The Hound Of The Baskervilles	Henry Baskerville
1989	Murder, She Wrote	Desmond	Episode: "Truck Stop"
1990	Cluedo	Professor Peter Plum	6 Episodes
1990	Designing Women	Darryl Morton	Episode: "A Blast from the Past"
1994	Murder, She Wrote	Dr. Swope	Episode: "Portrait of Death"
2005	Love On The Air	Director	Hallmark Original Movie / Starring Alison Sweeney & Jonathan Scarfe
2005-2007	Avatar: The Last Airbender	War Minister / Additional Voices Emissary / Qin (voice)	3 Episodes

Video games

Year	Title	Voice role	Notes
2002	New Legends	Roa Khan / Prison Captain / Medic
2003	Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic	HK-47 / Jedi Knight / Republic Negotiator	[1]
	Gladius	Usus	Credited as Kris Tabori
2004	EverQuest II	Makoto Shodo / Braeden Icehammer / Generic Ghost Froglok Enemy / others
	Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords	HK-47 / HK-50 / Geriel	[1]
2005	Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard
2006	Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption	Garm Bel Iblis	Credited as Kris Tabori
2008	Star Wars: The Force Unleashed	Darth Desolous / Garm Bel Iblis / Kleef	[1]
	Spider-Man: Web of Shadows	Vulture	Credited as Kristopher Tabori[1]
	Tom Clancy's EndWar
2010	Alpha Protocol	Grigori	[1]
2011	Star Wars: The Old Republic	HK-47 / HK-51 / Agent Welkins	[1]
2012	Ninja Gaiden 3	Additional V.O.	Credited as Kris Tabori
	Dishonored	Lord Regent Hiram Burrows	[1]

References

1. "Kristoffer Tabori (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors.
2. "Now". ktabori.com. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
3. Last Summer in the Hamptons, mtv.com; accessed April 28, 2017.
4. Canby, Vincent (1971-03-22). "Movie Review - - The Screen: Making It,' the Story of an Adolescent". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-04-28.
5. Barnes, Alan (2011). Sherlock Holmes on Screen. Titan Books. pp. 87–88. ISBN 9780857687760.
6. "The Old West Gets Scary: High Plains Invaders". DreadCentral. 25 July 2012.
7. Eugenides, Jeffrey; Tabori, Kristoffer; Audio, Macmillan. Middlesex. Macmillan Audio.
8. "Vulture". Behind The Voice Actors.

External links

• Kristoffer Tabori at IMDb