David Sabin

David Sabin, born April 24, 1937, in Washington, D.C., is an American actor whose career in Broadway theatre, television, and regional stage spanned more than five decades before his retirement in late 2017. A native of the nation's capital, Sabin maintained a long association with the Shakespeare Theatre Company, where he took on numerous Shakespearean roles throughout his career.

Sabin's Broadway work began in 1965 and continued through 2011, encompassing productions that included The Ambassador, Jimmy Shine, Othello, and The Suicide. He appeared in the original cast of The Water Engine as Morton Gross, and his final Broadway credit came with the 2011 staging of Follies, in which he played Dimitri Wiesmann. An earlier Broadway production of Follies also appears among his verified credits.

His regional and off-Broadway work was equally extensive. At the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Sabin performed a range of Shakespearean parts, among them Stephan in The Tempest and Bottom in Mark Lamos's 2003 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. He played Falstaff in two separate stagings of The Merry Wives of Windsor — first in Michael Kahn's 1994 adaptation and again in Daniel Fish's 1998 version. Additional stage credits include the 1991 Chicago production of Lend Me a Tenor, in which he played Saunders, and the 1998 stage adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth.

Sabin received multiple award nominations recognizing his regional theatre work, including three nominations for The James MacArthur Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play, in 1995, 2003, and 2005, as well as a nomination for The Robert Prosky Award for Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play, in 2004.

On television, Sabin accumulated credits across several decades. He played Crawford in the 1975 Kojak episode "Secret Snow Deadly Snow," appeared as General Carter in the miniseries Kennedy, and had roles on The Rockford Files, St. Elsewhere, and Highway to Heaven. He is perhaps best known to television audiences for playing Little John in the Mel Brooks-produced series When Things Were Rotten, which aired in 1975.