Jonathan David Korkes (December 4, 1945 – December 31, 2025) was an American film, stage and television actor. He was best known for playing the recurring role of corrections officer Tom Robinson in the American drama television series Oz from 2001 to 2003.
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Life and career
Korkes was born in New York, and was raised in Marblehead, Massachusetts. He attended and graduated from Marblehead High School. He first worked in the theater in Jules Feiffer's Little Murders, directed by Alan Arkin, in 1968. He later began acting in film and television, as his credits include All in the Family (and its spin-off Maude), The Front Page, Dr. Vegas, The Day of the Dolphin, Two-Minute Warning, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Getting Away with Murder, Starsky & Hutch, Riding in Cars with Boys, Catch-22, The Outside Man, The Larry Sanders Show, The Out-of-Towners, Homicide: Life on the Street and The Rookies.
Korkes died in New York on December 31, 2025, at the age of 80.
Filmography
The Out-of-Towners (1970) as Looter
Catch-22 (1970) as Snowden
Little Murders (1971) as Kenny Newquist
The Outside Man (1972) as First Hawk
Cinderella Liberty (1973) as Dental Corpsman
The Day of the Dolphin (1973) as David
The Front Page (1974) as Rudy Keppler
Two-Minute Warning (1976) as Jeffrey
Between the Lines (1977) as Frank
Jaws of Satan (1981) as Dr. Paul Hendricks
Worth Winning (1989) as Sam
Syngenor (1990) as Tim Calhoun
Too Much Sun (1990) as Fuzby Robinson
Getting Away with Murder (1996) as Chemistry Lab Professor
Riding in Cars with Boys (2001) as Counselor
The Double (2013) as Detective