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Matthew Cowles
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Miami Vice Characters
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Man on Phone ("The Dutch Oven")
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Born
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September 28, 1944, New York City, New York
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Died
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May 22, 2014, Los Angeles, California (age 69, congestive heart failure)
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Active
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1969-2014
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Spouse/Children
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Christine Baranski (1983-2014, his death), two children
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Matthew Cowles (September 28, 1944 - May 22, 2014) was an American actor, who appeared in the show Miami Vice as an unnamed man on a payphone who ripped off Tubbs' drug deal, then was shot by Trudy Joplin after a car chase in the episode "The Dutch Oven".
Career[]
Cowles was born in New York City, New York. He began his career on Broadway, appearing in the play Malcolm in 1966. He made his film debut on the TV series NYPD in 1969, and his movie debut that same year in Me, Natalie (with Bob Balaban, also the film debut for Al Pacino).
Some of his other roles include:
- The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973, with Jack Kehoe and Joe Santos)
- The Happy Hooker (1975, with Vincent Schiavelli)
- Slap Shot (1977, with Christopher Murney and Brad Sullivan)
- All My Children (1978-81, 1984-90, 2013, won Daytime Emmy for Best Actor in 1978 and Best Supporting Actor in 1981, 2013 was final TV appearance)
- The World According to Garp (1982, with Amanda Plummer)
- Eddie Macon's Run (1983, with J.C. Quinn and Jay O. Sanders)
- The Money Pit (1986)
- Lonesome Dove (1989, with Steve Buscemi)
- Homicide: Life on the Street (1993, with Richard Belzer, Melissa Leo and Jon Polito)
- The Cowboy Way (1994, with Luis Guzman)
- Oz (2003, with Tom Mardirosian)
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2008, with Richard Belzer)
- Life on Mars (2009, with Kevin Conway)
- Veronika Decides to Die (2009, with Melissa Leo)
- Shutter Island (2010)
- Family on Board (2014, with Tony Sirico, final movie appearance)
Personal Life/Death[]
Cowles was married to actress Christine Baranski from 1983 until his death from congestive heart failure on May 22, 2014, in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 69. The couple had two children: Lily (born 1984) and Isabelle (born 1987).