Emmy-winning actor Mandy Patinkin (The Princess Bride, Homeland) has joined the forged of NBC’s medical drama, Good Minds, often known as the title Dr. Wolf. The collection, which stars Zachary Quinto (Heroes, Star Trek), has forged Patinkin in a recurring function, in addition to Steve Howey and André De Shields as visitor stars, showrunner Michael Grassi introduced on Sunday on the Tv Critics Assn. press tour in Pasadena.
Each Howey and Patinkin will star in two episodes.
Patinkin will play an esteemed household physician who joins the workers of Bronx Normal Hospital and brings his personal “unconventional strategies to the office.
His affinity for home calls and long-standing affected person relationships wins the respect of our lead, Dr. Wolf, and fosters a mentor-like relationship between the 2 males.” In line with Grassi, he “actually shakes up our world.”
Howey portrays a “rugged motorbike mechanic” who involves Dr. Wolf in search of assist with a gunshot wound and is “pressured to make a heartbreaking choice.” De Shields performs “an Alzheimer’s affected person in an end-of-life care facility,” who Dr. Wolf helps to reconnect along with his household.
The present follows the work of Dr. Oliver Wolf, a larger-than-life neurologist. The lead character is impressed by Dr. Oliver Wolf Sacks, the British neurologist and naturalist; a lot of his research have been chronicled in his non-fiction books, The Man Who Mistook His Spouse for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars.
The perfect-known adaptation of Dr. Sacks’ novels was Awakenings, the Oscar-nominated movie that starred Robin Williams as Dr. Malcolm Sayer.
Good Minds additionally stars Tamberla Perry, Ashleigh LaThrop, Alex MacNicoll, Aury Krebs, Spence Moore II, Teddy Sears and Donna Murphy, and it’s set to premiere on Monday, September 23 at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
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