Kristoffer Tabori

Kristoffer Tabori, born Christopher Donald Siegel on August 4, 1952, in Malibu, California, is an American actor and television director also known professionally as K.T. Donaldson. He is the son of American film director Don Siegel and Swedish-American actress Viveca Lindfors, who divorced in 1953. Lindfors subsequently married Hungarian writer and director George Tabori, whose surname Kristoffer adopted, also changing the English spelling of his given name. As a young child, Tabori appeared in one of his mother's films, Weddings and Babies, and decades later the two shared the screen again in Last Summer in the Hamptons (1995).

Tabori launched his stage career as a teenager in the late 1960s, establishing himself on Broadway between 1968 and 1975. His Broadway credits include A Cry of Players, The Penny Wars, the play King Henry V, and Habeas Corpus. His stage work during this period earned him a Theatre World Award in 1970.

Alongside his Broadway work, Tabori built a substantial screen career during the 1970s. His film appearances included John and Mary (1969), Pigeons (1971), Making It (1971), Journey Through Rosebud (1972), and Girlfriends (1978). Television drama became a central part of his output, beginning with a notable role as Bert in the TV film adaptation of Arthur Miller's A Memory of Two Mondays (1971). He went on to appear as a guest performer in numerous network series, among them Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law, Cannon, Marcus Welby M.D., The Rookies, The Streets of San Francisco, The Rockford Files, Barnaby Jones, and Murder She Wrote, as well as miniseries including QB VII, Seventh Avenue, Brave New World, and Strong Medicine. He was also featured on the radio program CBS Radio Mystery Theatre.

Tabori continued to pursue stage work beyond Broadway. In 1978, he took on the title role in a production of Hamlet directed by Liviu Ciulei at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., which Washington Post drama critic Richard L. Coe described as one of the finest Hamlets he had seen. In 1988, Tabori played Sir Henry Baskerville in a television production of The Hound of the Baskervilles, appearing alongside Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes and Edward Hardwicke as Dr. Watson.

Beginning in the 1990s, Tabori transitioned into television directing, accumulating credits on more than forty productions, predominantly episodic dramas. His directing work includes the 2007 TV film Anna's Storm, episodes of Falcon Beach, and the SyFy Channel film High Plains Invaders. In 2008 he directed episodes of both The Guard and jPod.

Voice performance became another significant dimension of Tabori's career. In 1989 he played Professor Peter Plum in the first television series of Cluedo. He supplied the voices of War Minister and Emissary in Avatar: The Last Airbender and voiced characters in The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda and the home video series The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible. In 2008 he voiced the villain The Vulture in Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, and in 2012 he voiced the Lord Regent Hiram Burrows in the video game Dishonored. Tabori is also recognized for voicing the assassin droid HK-47 in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and its sequel, The Sith Lords, reprising the roles of HK-47, HK-51, and HK-55 in the 2010 MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic, and contributing voices to additional Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica productions. He is the narrator of the 1976 audiobook Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney, a novel his father Donald Siegel had adapted as a film in 1956. An Audie Award-winning audiobook narrator, Tabori has performed in audio plays for Yuri Rasovsky and narrated the audiobook of Jeffrey Eugenides' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Middlesex.