<Tr> <Th> Awards </Th> <Td> Total Theatre Lifetime Achievement Award (1997) LA Weekly Theater Award for Solo Performance (2000) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.stevenberkoff.com </Td> </Tr> <P> Leslie Steven Berkoff (né Berks, born 3 August 1937) is an English character actor, author, playwright and theatre director . As an actor, he is best known for his performances in villainous roles, such as Lt. Col Podovsky in Rambo: First Blood Part II, General Orlov in the James Bond film Octopussy, Victor Maitland in Beverly Hills Cop and Adolf Hitler in the TV mini-series War and Remembrance . </P> <P> Berkoff was born Leslie Steven Berks on 3 August 1937, in Stepney in the East End of London . He is the son of Pauline (née Hyman), a housewife, and Alfred Berks (né Berkoff), a tailor . His family was Jewish (originally from Romania and Russia). Berkoff's father had anglicised his family surname to "Berks" in order to aid the family's assimilation into Britain . Berkoff later removed the "s" from and added back the "off" to his own name, and went by his middle name . </P>

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