Movie Credits
In Search Of	(2006)
[ Michael Rady ]
Looking for Sunday	(2006)
[ Orlando Jones ]
Mouth to Mouth	(2004)
The Extra Man	(2001)
Down	(2001)
[ Chuck Berry ][ Dan Hedaya ][ Michael Ironside ][ Ron Perlman ][ Edward Herrmann ]
Prisoner of Love	(1999)
Snow Falling on Cedars	(1999)
[ James Cromwell ][ Ethan Hawke ][ Sam Shepard ][ Max von Sydow ][ Bing Crosby ]
Shift	(1999)
[ Christopher Meloni ]
Mixing Nia	(1998)
[ Isaiah Washington ]
The Wedding	(1998)
[ Carl Lumbly ]
Wishful Thinking	(1997)
[ Brad Bartram ][ James LeGros ]
Samson and Delilah	(1996)
[ Alessandro Gassman ][ Dennis Hopper ][ Jonathan Rhys Meyers ][ Michael Gambon ][ Max von Sydow ]
Joe's So Mean to Josephine	(1996)
[ Jason Cadieux ]
The Puppet Masters	(1994)
[ Donald Sutherland ][ Will Patton ][ Andrew Robinson ][ Richard Belzer ][ Dale Dye ]
Six Degrees of Separation	(1993)
[ Bruce Davison ][ Ian McKellen ][ Lou Milione ][ Will Smith ][ Donald Sutherland ]
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag	(1992)
[ Corey Michael Eubanks ][ Frank Welker ][ Stanley Tucci ][ Xander Berkeley ]
A Stranger Among Us	(1992)
[ James Gandolfini ][ Jake Weber ][ Sidney Lumet ][ Jamey Sheridan ]

Born in Niskayuna (Schenectady county), New York 10th August 1965, Eric Thal attended Haverford Preparatory School in Haverford, Pennsylvania in 1983 were he was Student Council President. He then moved on to attend Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania where he majored in engineering. With the encouragement of his acting teacher Richard Bruer he left school after one year to pursue acting. At The Neighbourhood Playhouse Theatre he studied with Richard Pinter and studied classical theatre with Ada Brown Mather.After working in commercials and as a magician in New York City, he auditioned for a small role in Sidney Lumet's film A Stranger Among Us (1992). Lumet was so impressed by the young actor, the director invited back to audition for the leading role. Although he had virtually no professional credits, Thal landed the role of an Hasidic scholar who becomes involved with an undercover police officer (Melanie Griffith).While the film failed to impress critics or the public, Thal's carefully measured intensity and equanimity were praised. He subsequently played a police officer (and the anti-heroine's husband) in the farcical The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (1992) and followed up with a small role in Six Degrees of Separation (1993), as a heterosexual driven to suicide after an intimate encounter with a con artist (Will Smith).Thal later co-starred as Donald Sutherland's disaffected son in The Puppet Masters (1994) and as a man who must face romance after the excitement has worn off in Joe's So Mean to Josephine (1996). He segued to the small screen playing the hirsute strongman in the TNT Biblical epic Samson and Delilah (1996) (TV), opposite Elizabeth Hurley. The following year, Thal was cast as a musician engaged to Halle Berry in the ABC TV-movie The Wedding (1998) (TV).