Alexander Zale, an Iraqi-born actor who starred on New York stages, died Aug. 28 of complications from Parkinson's disease at his home in Los Angeles, his nephew David Shamoon said.
He was 89. Zale, then known by his birth name, Jamil Zakkai, starred in 1977 in the title role in Agamemnon at Lincoln Center and the Delacorte Theater, then had another title role in a La Mama production of Faust the following year.
Wrote The New York Times in its review: "Jamil Zakkai, last summer's Agamemnon in Central Park, retains his grandeur as Faust.
In his haunted eyes, we can sense the man's dilemma — the amazement and curiosity with which he greets Mephistopheles' machinations, the guilt that he feels when he is forced to kill his love's brother.".
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