Aryeh Cherner

**Aryeh Cherner** (born March 6, 1957) is an Israeli theater, film and television actor and speaker.

## Biography

Cherner was born in Ramla. He served in the IDF as a combat medic. After his release from the army, he studied acting at Beit Zvi.

### Career in theater

Most of his duties were in the theater. Upon graduating from Beit Zvi in ​​1981, Cherner joined the Khan Theater, where he played for two years in a series of plays, including "Illuminitus," "Gimpeltham," and "Abba Obo." In 1983, Cherner moved to play as part of the Beer Sheva Theater in "Legends of Vienna's Forests" and "Summer Night's Dream." In 1987, Cherner returned to the Khan Theater, where he plays to this day. During his years at the Khan Theater, Cherner played dozens of characters in a series of plays, including "Antigone," "Spring Wakes," "Happiness," "The Successful," "The Gull," "The Return to the Desert," "The Miser," "The Illusion," " Skeptic antics, "eaters," "dragon lover," "New Jerusalem," and "Jaffa Gypsies." In 2007, he played Othello in the "Othello" play at the Khan Theater.

In 2010, Cherner played the lead role in the play "End of Game" by Samuel Beckett, and participated in the play "Cherry Garden" by Chekhov at the Khan Theater, directed by Mickey Gurevich. In 2012, he played Harpoon in Molier's "stingy" performance at the Khan Theater. In 2014, he portrayed Venya in the play "Uncle Venya". In 2015, he portrays the character of Rev. Evans in the play "Shakespeare's Merry Windsor Wives".

In March 2016, he began playing the play "Crows" by playwright Henri Beck, translated by Doron Tabori and directed by Oded Kotler. The play came up in the Khan Theater. Also plays in the play "An Old, Far Away Song" by and directed by Gurevich Khan.

### Career in television and film

In 1985 he participated in Naftali Alter's film "Irit Irit". In 1986, he played Shlomo in Naftali Alter's movie "The Big Crazy". In 1987, he played Ringo in Yankol Goldwasser's movie "Stolen Dad." In 1990, a patient in a crazy house played Sam Furstenberg's film "Kiss in the Army." Of Felix Grechikov's "CCCP Children", and began to play Albert Schipotnik in the TV series "Pajamas."

He played in the good company as Maor and Natalie's father from 2005 to 2007, playing Yair Noam in the TV series "The Eight". In 2008, he played amusement in Renan Shore's film The Lonesome. In 2009, a doctor in the television series "Danny Hollywood" played, and played Cornelia in the film of Shmulik Maoz "Lebanon." In 2010, he played Pinsker in Haim Buzaglo's film "Honor," and played Yitzhaki in the TV series starring Il Kitzis and Tal Friedman "House arrest." In 2010, he played the commander of Dana Klein (Yael Eitan) in the TV series "Abducted". In 2012, he played the movies "Son of God" in the role of Kretsner, "Operation Sunflower" in the role of Amiram. On television that year, he played "Mama and Abaz" in the role of Mia Dagan's father, in "Sabri Marnan", "Cherry and Filch", "Pajamas" 8 and "Tushuhi".

In 2013, he participated in the fourth season of "The Eight", wounded at the top in the role of Shimon, in New York 2 in the role of Amram, and "Enigma" in the holy role.

In 2014 he participated in the films: "The Laps", directed by Lee Gilat in the role of Yossi and Akinin and in the film "Wedding from Paper", directed by Nitzan Giladi, in the role of Aryeh. That year, he played 70 million reasons for happiness in the first episode of the series and participated in the role of seller in the antique shop in the Breaking Bad series

In 2016, he played in my father's movie "The Sins." In 2019 he played in Lior Heifetz's film "Adventure in Games". In 2019 he starred in Yuval Adler's movie "The English Teacher."

### Dubbing career

Among other things, in 2000 various characters starred in the octopus and the announcer in "Little Ethan", in 2003 participated in the successful Japanese film dubbing The Wonderful Journey. He starred Robus Hagrid in films: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2010). In 2005, he starred Buck Little, Chicken Little's father, in Chicken Little. In 2005, a salesman debuted in the Charlie movie shop in the Chocolate Kingdom.

In 2006, Sharif starred in the movie "Cars," and Caesar in the Jungle City movie. In 2007, Gusto starred in the Ratatouille movie, Lou Dube in the Hive movie, and Doris in the Shrek III movie. In 2008, Vachier starred in the Kung Fu Panda movie, Lion Zuba in the Madagascar 2 movie, and participated in the Bolt and Wool-E film debuts. In 2010, he starred Big Daddy La Boff in the Princess and the Frog movie, the Billiard Hammer in the Alice in Wonderland movie, President Stone in the Astro Boy movie, the Broad Stoic in my first dragon movie, Doris and Gracet in the movie Forever and Mega Brain in the movie Mega Brain, in 2011, participated in the Kung Fu Panda 2, Rango, and Cars 2 movie debuts. In 2019 he co-starred in Moffasa in the movie "The Lion King."

## Awards

In 2007, Cherner received the Klachkin Award for Theater. The jury's reasons for the award say, among other things, "Actor Aryeh Cherner has been through an extraordinary development path that lasted for many years. A great deal of leading roles in the best of the classic repertoire, with added humor and soul, strength and pain. For over 15 years at the Jerusalem Khan Theater, four artistic directors have made a point of investing in the human lion and actor Cherner to enjoy the magic fruits of his work. "

In 2009, Cherner won the Israeli Theater Award for Actor of the Year for the role of King Boniface Victor Felix in the play "American Princess" by playwright Nissim Aloni at the Khan Theater. Speaking at the award ceremony, Cherner said, among other things: "For me, after 24 years in Khan, winning the lead actor award is kind of closing the circle."

Since 2012, he has served as a director on the Israeli Film Board.

Cherner lives in Rishon Lezion, is married to Tali, a producer, and a father of three.

## Involvement in *Duluth*

In the Hebrew dub of *Duluth*, he voices John J. Boland.