Saul Rubinek was born in a refugee camp in Germany, where his father ran a Yiddish Repertory Theatre company. Saul started his professional career as a child actor in theater and radio in Canada. By the time he was 20, he was a member of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival company in Stratford, Ontario and, later, was a co-founder, actor and director of Theatre Le Hibou, Theatre Passe-Muraille and Toronto Free Theatre. He got his early training in film and television as an actor for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Saul started working in the United States as an actor at the Public Theater in New York. Rubinek's work on U.S. and Canadian television, film and theater spans four decades. In 1997, Rubinek directed his first feature for Lionsgate, based on the play he previously directed,_Jerry and Tom , for CBC and PBS which chronicles his parents' reunion with the people who saved their lives during the Holocaust. The DVD of the documentary is available from The National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University. Rubinek wrote the play "Terrible Advice", which was produced in 2011 in London by The Chocolate Factory, starring _Scott Bakula_, _Andy Nyman_, _Caroline Quentin_, _Sharon Horgan_, and directed by _Frank Oz_.
Co-produced the movie Jerry and Tom , which became an official entry at Sundance in 1998, with wife Elinor Reid. They have two children: Hannah and Sam (born 1995).
Was good friends with the late Maury Chaykin. The two acted in many movies together.
Was an emergency replacement for David Rappaport on the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode, "Star Trek: The Next Generation" {The Most Toys (#3.22)} , after Rappaports suicide in 1990.
His parents were survivors of the Holocaust.
(September 2004) Lives in California, currently working on more movies.
(July 2009) Starring as "Artie Neilsen" on the Syfy Channels original action/mystery/science fiction television series. "Warehouse 13" .
Saul Rubinek plays a knife-wielding subway mugger in the original 1974 Death Wish. Twenty years later, Rubinek plays a completely new character; a prosecutor, in the fifth and final installment of "Death Wish" which stars Charles Bronson - "Death Wish V: The Face of Death.".
