- His parents, Frania and Israel Rubinek, were survivors of the Holocaust. They were hidden by Polish farmers during World War II. His father was a factory worker, theatre company manager, Yiddish Theatre actor, and Talmudic scholar.
- Was an emergency replacement for David Rappaport on the Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) episode, The Most Toys (1990), after Rappaport's attempted suicide three days into filming the episode in 1990.
- Was good friends with the late Maury Chaykin. The two acted in many movies together.
- Saul Rubinek plays a knife-wielding subway mugger (uncredited) 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.".
- Co-produced the movie Jerry and Tom (1998), which became an official entry at Sundance in 1998, with wife Elinor Reid. They have two children: Hannah (born 1991) and Sam (born 1995).
- Starring as "Artie Neilsen" on the Syfy Channel's original action/mystery/science fiction television series, Warehouse 13 (2009). (July 2009)
- Father with Elinor Reid of actress Hannah Reid Rubinek.
- He & Michael Dorn co-starred in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) and also in different episodes of The Outer Limits (1995).
- Lives in California, currently working on more movies. (September 2004)
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