Arnon Zadok is an actor, screenwriter, and director. A graduate of the Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts, Zadok took his first steps in the business appearing in a string of plays at the Orna Porat Children’s Theatre, and the Haifa and Beit Lessin theatres.
Zadok’s eminent film career includes, amongst other things, appearing in six of director Uri Barbash’s films, including Beyond the Walls (1984) which earned him an Oscar nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film Category. In the film, Zadok played the lead, Uri – a part that won him a Best Actor Award from the Israeli Film Academy. He would reprise the role eight years later in the sequel, Beyond the Walls II (Uri Barbash, 1992).
Highlights of his other film credits include Morning Star (Akiva Barkin, 1980), Not for Airing (‘lo l’shidur’) (Yeud Levanon, 1981), Stigma (Uri Barbash, 1982), Once we were Dreamers (Uri Barbash, 1987), One of Us (Uri Barbash, 1989), Doomsday (aka Freedom: The Voice of Ein Harod) (Doron Eran, 1990), Cold Feet (Doron Eran, 2006), Marriage Agreement (Menahem Golan, 2008), Restless (Amos Kollek, 2008), Melting Away (Doron Eran, 2011), and The Ballad of the Weeping Spring (Benny Toraty, 2012).
Highlights of his television credits include Late Night Stories, The Saturday Morning Murder, Asfur, Chill, and the sitcom The Azzany’s – which he also directed.
In the second half of the 1990s, Zadok started branching out into film directing, usually collaborating with producer, Doron Eran. Highlights of his directorial credits include White Night (1995) that won a Youth Award as part of the C.annes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight section, Ingil (2001), To Be a Star (2003), Wild Dogs (2007), Nika (2011), and The Red Hood Setup (2014).
