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New York - James Rebhorn, the prolific character actor whose credits included Homeland, Scent of a Woman and My Cousin Vinny, has died. He was 65.
Rebhorn's agent, Dianne Busch, said on Sunday that the actor died on Friday at his home in South Orange, New Jersey, after a long battle with skin cancer.
Busch said Rebhorn was diagnosed with melanoma in 1992 but managed to work until the last month.
In five decades of television and film work, Rebhorn amassed more than 100 credits, ranging from a shipping magnate in the Matt Damon film The Talented Mr. Ripley to the prosecutor in the series finale of the TV comedy Seinfeld, in which he famously sent the group to jail.
The lanky but piercing Rebhorn, raised a Lutheran in Indiana, often played astringent authorities, like the headmaster in Scent of a Woman or the Secretary of Defense in Independence Day.
On Showtime's Homeland, he played the father of Claire Danes' CIA officer Carrie Mathison. He also had a recurring role on the USA Network series White Collar playing the head of an FBI white-collar crime unit.
He is survived by his wife, Rebecca Linn, and two daughters.
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