Born in London, England, and a 1963 graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, Paul Hecht received a Tony nomination for his Broadway debut in 1968 in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He has continued to act on the stage throughout his diverse career, including on Broadway in The Invention of Love, 1776, and Noises Off, among others, and in numerous Shakespearean plays around the world. Mr. Hecht won an Obie Award for his title-role performance in the 1989 Off Broadway production of Pirandello’s Enrico IV. He has done literary events with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Allentown Symphony as well as for the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center’s Poets’ Theatre, where, in 2007, he also directed a staged reading of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s dramatic poem Conversation at Midnight. His theatrical training and experience surely were a great aid for all the voice work he has accumulated on his resumé, beginning as a narrator for National Film Board of Canada documentaries, then as a regular performer on Himan Brown’s CBS Radio Mystery Theater in the mid-1970s, through to dozens of audio recordings of books by authors varying from Ray Bradbury and Gore Vidal to Alexander McCall Smith and E. Annie Proulx. A jack of all media, Mr. Hecht has also appeared in a variety of supporting film roles, starting with his feature-film debut as a rabbi in the “caper comedy” Only God Knows (1974), and even more roles in television movies, specials, and series. These latter television credits include recurring parts as Allie’s ex-husband on the sitcom Kate & Allie and Alexander Cabot on the soap opera As the World Turns, guest spots on Remington Steele, Miami Vice and Starsky and Hutch, and frequent cameos as unsavory characters on Law & Order.