Jon Korkes, 1945 – 2026

Character actor Jon Korkes, 80, died on Jan. 3. Korkes got his start Off-Broadway in Jules Feiffer’s Little Murders, and appeared on the Main Stem in Unlikely Heroes, Conversations with My Father, and The Penny Wars. He was ubiquitous on the big and small screens, in All in the Family, Maude, The Front Page, The Day of the Dolphin, Two-Minute Warning, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Getting Away with Murder, Starsky & Hutch, Riding in Cars with Boys, Catch-22, The Larry Sanders Show, The Out-of-Towners, Homicide: Life on the Street, and The Rookies; he also had a continuing role in Oz, as Officer Robinson. Korkes also worked as an acting teacher (at the Stella Adler Center for the Arts), director, and voice-over.