Trivia

Retired from acting in 2011. He's since directed several stage plays including "Doubt" and "I Am My Own Wife" for local theatre groups.

His father was Polish and his mother was Ukrainian. They had been forced into factory labor by the Nazis.

LeftLaw & Order (1990)over a dispute about scheduling and script quality. During the first season, Dzundza's wife was pregnant and he had to divide his time between his home and New York. The producers threatened to sue Dzundza if he held up shooting to be with his wife when she gave birth.

Last name is pronounced "ZUHN-zuh".

Has appeared in three network series where he was written out after the first season:Law & Order (1990),Jesse (1998),andHack (2002).

Attended private Catholic Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx, New York City, whose fellow alumni includedMartin Scorsese,George Carlin,Regis Philbin,Jamal MashburnandDon DeLillo.

Alumnus ofStella AdlerStudio of Acting.

Portrays Daskal, a Russian tank commander, in the film, The Beast; and Lieutenant Platko, in the TV series, The Beast.

Studied speech and theatre at St. John's University, Jamaica, in New York. Subsequently trained with Stella Adler and Harold Clurman.

His Ukrainian father, Roman Dzundza, was originally from Kalush, Poland (now a city of Ukraine). His Polish mother, Maria Humenecka, hailed originally from Lviv, Poland (another city now part of Ukraine).

Made his professional stage debut in a 1973 New York Shakespeare Festival production of King Lear.