Stephen is a Canadian/American actor, known primarily for his role of Detective Freddie Carson on the CBS television series “Night Heat”, and in the AMC series “Mad Men” in which he played the recurring role of Holocaust survivor Morris Ginsberg. Among his many voice and narration work is the role of Splinter in the Fox television version of “The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.”

Mendel was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada to American parents, Leonard, a businessman and Pearl, a homemaker. He grew up in the suburb of Cote St. Luc and attended Wagar High School, where he acted in the annual school productions. He then attended Vanier College where he took all the theater and music courses available. He graduated from Bishop’s University in Lennoxville, Quebec with a BA in Drama. He began acting professionally in 1976. After working for several years in Canada on stage, in film, television, and commercials he departed Canada for Los Angeles.

In 1999, Stephen was accepted into the graduate theater program at California State University, Long Beach and graduated magna cum laude with a Master of Fine Arts in Performance.A master of accents and dialects, he performs voice work in animation, narration, video games, audio books, radio and television commercials.Early in his adult life, after graduation from college, Mendel played acoustic folk music at various venues in Montreal as well as Edmonton, Alberta. He began playing acoustic folk music again in California in the 2000’s and recently recorded an albumen titled “Sing Me A Story” which may be found on Spotify, ITunes, Google Music/Youtube Music and other streaming sites.

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