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Andrew Rubin, a veteran actor whose credits include the features Police Academy and Casey’s Shadow and TV’s Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, has died. He was 69. His manager Joan Sittenfield told Deadline that Rubin died October 5 of lung cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.




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A native of New Bedford, MA, Rubin graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. He moved to California after landing a commercial campaign and began doing guest roles on such hit TV series as Ironside, Cannon, The Streets Of San Francisco, The Odd Couple, S.W.A.T. and The Jeffersons. In 1976, he recurred on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, the popular faux soap opera starring Louise Lasser.

CaseyHis first major film role was as Walter Matthau’s oldest son in the 1978 horse racing drama Casey’s Shadow. In 1981, Rubin landed his first series-regular gig in the CBS drama Jessica Novak, which only lasted four episodes. Three years later, he scored a role in the hit comedy feature Police Academy playing cadet George Martin, who pretends to be a Latin Lothario to get women.




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I met Andy in New Mexico in 1976 when I was the Unit Publicist for "Casey's Shadow",...





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TOO YOUNG TO HAVE PASSED.


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His role in police academy was a classic! Rip



Rubin then landed another regular TV role, playing a rock star with an unhappy personal life in CBS’ Hometown. The Big Chill-like dramedy starring Jane Kaczmarek ran for 10 episodes in 1985. The following season, Rubin co-starred in the ABC dramedy series Joe Bash, playing the enthusiastic young partner of a veteran NYPD cop (Peter Boyle) trying to cruise to his pension. It lasted for six episodes. Rubin continued to work in TV, film and theater and in 1998 appeared in Tom Hanks’ sprawling HBO miniseries From The Earth To The Moon. He played Jules Bergman, the ABC Newsman who reported on deaths of three Apollo 1 astronauts in 1967.

After that, Rubin took nearly 15 years off from acting while running several nonprofit humanitarian organizations. He is survived by his wife, Lauren, and brother Richard

RIP! I thought he was great on The Jeffersons. He made George respect him.

Andrew was good in his Cannon episode appearance "Cain's Mark".

RIP! I thought he was great on The Jeffersons. He made George respect him.


After finding out this news I had to watch that episode

He appeared in two Walter Matthau films and was on such TV shows as 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman' and 'The Odd Couple.'

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Andrew Rubin, who played cadet and ladies man George Martin in the first Police Academy movie, died Oct. 5 of lung cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his manager, Joan Sittenfield, said. He was 69.

Rubin also starred opposite Walter Matthau in Casey’s Shadow (1978) and Little Miss Marker (1980) and portrayed Jesus Jarerra, a reporter for the Fernwood television station, on the 1970s Norman Lear syndicated hit Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

In the 1980s, Rubin played a Manhattan cop on the beat and partner of Peter Boyle on the ABC series Joe Bash, created by Danny Arnold (Barney Miller), and was a regular on two other short-lived network shows, Jessica Novak and Hometown.


In Police Academy (1984), Rubin’s character Martin is wearing a shower cap and caught sneaking into the women’s bunk room by Sgt. Debbie Callahan (Leslie Easterbrook), and they have sex. He later admits that he’s not the ladies man he’s cracked up to be and that his Spanish accent is fake.

Born in New Bedford, Mass., Rubin graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and made his TV debut on an episode of Bracken’s World in 1970. He later appeared on such shows as Ironside, The Odd Couple, The Streets of San Francisco, The Jeffersons and Lou Grant and, as ABC’s science editor Jules Bergman, in the 1998 HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon.

Sittenfield said that Rubin took almost 15 years off from acting and was involved with running several nonprofit, humanitarian organizations before returning to show business five years ago.

Survivors include his wife Lauren and brother Richard.

R.I.P. To the only good Alan Willis. I always wish he would have came back as Alan Willis instead of the other guy!

R.I.P. To the only good Alan Willis. I always wish he would have came back as Alan Willis instead of the other guy!

I hate looking at the 2nd alan