By Annie Walker
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Myron G. Nussbaum (December 29, 1923 – December 23, 2023) was an American actor and director.
He married soon after he returned to Chicago following military service during World War II. His Army assignments included being chief of the message centre for General Dwight D. Eisenhower, in which role he dispatched the official notification of Germany’s surrender.
Nussbaum’s acting career started in community theatre in the 1950s. In the 1960s, he was active in a developing professional theatrical community in Chicago, meeting a young David Mamet in the process. He appeared in many of Mamet’s plays both on and off Broadway, as well as in Chicago. His films include Field of Dreams, House of Games, Things Change, Fatal Attraction and Men In Black.
As a director, his work has included Where Have You Gone, Jimmy Stewart? (2002) by Art Shay.
Nussbaum also appeared in local TV commercials for Chicago’s Northwest Federal Savings (with the jingle, “It’s Northwest Federal Savings time, sixty-three hours a week”). He also did national commercials for United Airlines and Scope mouthwash.
Nussbaum continued to act through his 90s, and he was still working on theatre projects up until his death of old age at his Chicago home on Saturday, December 23.
The family says a private funeral service is planned. A public memorial service will be held next year.
