Dan Ziskie, the familiar character actor who portrayed lots of government officials during his long career and the New Orleans construction magnate CJ Liquori on HBO\u2019s Treme, has died. He was 80.<\/p>\n
Ziskie died July 21 in New York of arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease, his family announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n More from The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cDan was a man of remarkable talent and a keen observer of life,\u201d they wrote. \u201cHe was as vibrant and multifaceted as the characters he portrayed on stage and screen.\u201d<\/p>\n The Detroit native played NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue in Peter Landesman\u2019s Concussion (2015), and his big-screen r\u00e9sum\u00e9 also included Robert Altman\u2019s O.C. and Stiggs (1985), Chris Columbus\u2019 Adventures in Babysitting (1987), Roger Donaldson\u2019s Thirteen Days (2000) and Charlie Kaufman\u2019s Synecdoche, New York (2008).<\/p>\n As government types, Ziskie recurred as Vice President Jim Mathews on Netflix\u2019s House of Cards from 2013-17, as U.S. senators on CBS\u2019 Person of Interest in 2012 and NBC\u2019s The Blacklist in 2014 and as the U.S. attorney general who orders President Logan (Gregory Itzin<\/a>) to be dismissed on the fifth-season finale of Fox\u2019s 24 in 2006.<\/p>\n Ziskie played Liquori, who did lots of wheeling and dealing alongside property developer Nelson Hidalgo\u00a0(Jon Seda), during the last three seasons of Treme from 2011-13.<\/p>\n And fans of Chappelle\u2019s Show know him for his 2004 turn as the dad named Frank Niggar in a 1950s-set black-and-white sketch<\/a> that featured Dave Chappelle as the neighborhood milkman.<\/p>\n Born in Detroit on Aug. 13, 1944, Ziskie excelled in track and football in high school and lettered in relay races at the University of Michigan, where he received his bachelor\u2019s degree in English.<\/p>\n After serving as a crewman on a Great Lakes freighter, Ziskie came to Chicago and worked briefly as a journalist before he switched gears and joined the Second City comedy troupe<\/a>, working alongside the likes of John Belushi, Joe Flaherty<\/span> and Brian Doyle-Murray in the early 1970s.<\/p>\n In 1980, he served as an understudy in the Broadway revival of Paul Osborn\u2019s Morning\u2019s at Seven, then was a replacement actor in the original production of Herb Gardner\u2019s 1985-88 comedy I\u2019m Not Rappaport. He would make it to Broadway a third time with the 2004 revival of Arthur Miller\u2019s After the Fall.<\/p>\n Ziskie started banking TV roles in the mid-1980s, finding work on Remington Steele, The Equalizer, Newhart, Hunter, St. Elsewhere, Murphy Brown, L.A. Law and Quantum Leap, among other shows.<\/p>\n Later, he was a regular on the 2013 ABC conspiracy series Zero Hour, which starred Anthony Edwards and lasted just 13 episodes.<\/p>\n Ziskie also showed up on ER, The Practice, Sex and the City, NYPD Blue, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Ugly Betty, Louie, Gossip Girl, The Good Wife, Gotham, Elementary, Blue Bloods, Madam Secretary and Bull and in such films as Zebrahead (1992), The Jackal (1997), Bad Company (2002), Eight Below (2006), Last Holiday (2006) and Mercy (2016).<\/p>\n His eclectic collection of New York street photography<\/a>, titled Cloud Chamber, was published in October 2017.<\/p>\n \u201cI am drawn to take photos of people more than anything else,\u201d he said<\/span>. \u201cYou cannot walk the streets, especially here in New York City, without having faces and lives almost force you to pay attention to them.\u201d<\/p>\n He also enjoyed traveling and exploring \u201ccomplex topics such as the nature of the cosmos and quantum physics,\u201d his family noted.<\/p>\n Survivors include his brother, David; his sister-in-law, Cynthia; and his nephews, Jesse, Brett, and Austin, and their six children.<\/p>\n Best of The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for THR’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dan Ziskie, the familiar character actor who portrayed lots of government officials during his long career and the New Orleans construction magnate CJ Liquori on HBO\u2019s Treme, has died. He was 80. Ziskie died July 21 in New York of arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease, his family announced. 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