Michael Sacks

As Billy Pilgrim in the classic adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), Michael Sacks left a mark on his brief career as an actor. Right with his first on-screen performance he received a Golden Globe nomination as the Most Promising Newcomer in the Male category - losing out to Edward Albert. Through the 1970's he had an extensive body of work with films such as The Sugarland Express (1974), where he plays a kidnapped trooper; as Melvin Purvis in The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977), Hanover Street (1979) and the horror classic The Amityville Horror (1979). He worked under the direction of Steven Spielberg, George Roy Hill, Stuart Rosenberg and Peter Hyams. He's a Bachelor of Arts in Social Relations from Harvard College. In the 1980's he made a few TV movies and his two theatrical roles were in Split Image (1982) alongside James Woods and Peter Fonda; and The House of God (1984), which marked his retirement from acting. After the movies, he had a long and successful career as a technology industry executive with positions on Morgan Stanley, Salomon Brothers, Inc. and IBM (Research Division), thanks to his knowledge on Computer Science from Columbia University.