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Bryan Cranston

Bryan Cranston

Overview
Bryan Lee Cranston (born March 7, 1956) is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 actor
Actor
An actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

, voice actor, writer
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scenarists or scriptwriters are people in a film crew who write/create the screenplays from which films and television programs are made....

 and director
Film director
A film director, or filmmaker is a person who directs the making or production of a film. Some also consider a film producer to be a filmmaker....

. He is best known for his roles as Hal in the FOX situation comedy
Situation comedy
A situation comedy, usually referred to as a sitcom, is a genre of comedy programs which originated in radio. Today, sitcoms are found almost exclusively on television as one of its dominant narrative forms...

 Malcolm in the Middle
Malcolm in the Middle
Malcolm in the Middle is an American comedy television series created by Linwood Boomer for the Fox Network. The series was first broadcast on January 9, 2000, and ended its six-and-a-half-year run on May 14, 2006, after seven seasons and 151 episodes...

and Walter White in the AMC
AMC (TV network)
AMC is a cable television channel that primarily airs movies. The letters originally stood for American Movie Classics. However, since 2003, the full name has been deemphasized as a result of a major shift in programming...

 drama series Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad is an American television drama series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. The series is produced by Sony Pictures Television and broadcast in the United States and Canada on the cable network AMC. It premiered on January 20, 2008, and completed its first seven-episode season on...

, for which he has won two Emmy Awards. Other notable roles include Dr. Tim Whatley on Seinfeld
Seinfeld
Seinfeld is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in syndication. The eponymous series was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, with the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself...

, Doug Heffernan's neighbor in the The King of Queens
The King of Queens
The King of Queens is an American sitcom that ran for nine seasons, from 1998 to 2007, on CBS.The show was produced by Hanley Productions and CBS Productions , CBS Paramount Television in association with Columbia TriStar Television , and Sony Pictures Television...

, Astronaut Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin is an American mechanical engineer, retired United States Air Force pilot and astronaut who was the Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 11, the first lunar landing...

 in From the Earth to the Moon, Ted Mosby's boss on How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother is an Emmy Award winning American sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005. The show was created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays...

, and other roles in numerous movies and television programs.

Cranston was born in San Fernando Valley
San Fernando, California
San Fernando is a city located in northwestern Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 23,564 at the 2000 census...

, California
California
California is the most populous state in the United States, and the third largest by area. California is the second most populous sub-national entity in the Americas, behind only São Paulo, Brazil...

, the son of Peggy Sell and actor Joe Cranston.
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Bryan Lee Cranston (born March 7, 1956) is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 actor
Actor
An actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

, voice actor, writer
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scenarists or scriptwriters are people in a film crew who write/create the screenplays from which films and television programs are made....

 and director
Film director
A film director, or filmmaker is a person who directs the making or production of a film. Some also consider a film producer to be a filmmaker....

. He is best known for his roles as Hal in the FOX situation comedy
Situation comedy
A situation comedy, usually referred to as a sitcom, is a genre of comedy programs which originated in radio. Today, sitcoms are found almost exclusively on television as one of its dominant narrative forms...

 Malcolm in the Middle
Malcolm in the Middle
Malcolm in the Middle is an American comedy television series created by Linwood Boomer for the Fox Network. The series was first broadcast on January 9, 2000, and ended its six-and-a-half-year run on May 14, 2006, after seven seasons and 151 episodes...

and Walter White in the AMC
AMC (TV network)
AMC is a cable television channel that primarily airs movies. The letters originally stood for American Movie Classics. However, since 2003, the full name has been deemphasized as a result of a major shift in programming...

 drama series Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad is an American television drama series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. The series is produced by Sony Pictures Television and broadcast in the United States and Canada on the cable network AMC. It premiered on January 20, 2008, and completed its first seven-episode season on...

, for which he has won two Emmy Awards. Other notable roles include Dr. Tim Whatley on Seinfeld
Seinfeld
Seinfeld is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in syndication. The eponymous series was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, with the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself...

, Doug Heffernan's neighbor in the The King of Queens
The King of Queens
The King of Queens is an American sitcom that ran for nine seasons, from 1998 to 2007, on CBS.The show was produced by Hanley Productions and CBS Productions , CBS Paramount Television in association with Columbia TriStar Television , and Sony Pictures Television...

, Astronaut Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin is an American mechanical engineer, retired United States Air Force pilot and astronaut who was the Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 11, the first lunar landing...

 in From the Earth to the Moon, Ted Mosby's boss on How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother is an Emmy Award winning American sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005. The show was created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays...

, and other roles in numerous movies and television programs.

Personal life


Cranston was born in San Fernando Valley
San Fernando, California
San Fernando is a city located in northwestern Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 23,564 at the 2000 census...

, California
California
California is the most populous state in the United States, and the third largest by area. California is the second most populous sub-national entity in the Americas, behind only São Paulo, Brazil...

, the son of Peggy Sell and actor Joe Cranston. He grew up in the Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles is the largest city in the state of California and the second largest in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California...

 area, graduating from Canoga Park High School
Canoga Park High School
Canoga Park High School is a public school located in Canoga Park in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California, USA, within the Los Angeles Unified School District. It is located across the street from the Topanga Plaza shopping center...

. Cranston studied police science
Police science
Police science is often an ambiguous term that denotes the studies and research which directly or indirectly deal with police work. Studies and research in criminology, forensic science, psychology, jurisprudence, community policing, criminal justice, correctional administration and penology all...

 in college. Cranston is married to Robin Dearden, whom he met on the set of the show Airwolf
Airwolf
Airwolf is an American television series that ran from 1984 through 1987. The program concerned a high-tech military helicopter, code named Airwolf, and her crew as they undertook various missions, many involving espionage, with a Cold War theme....

(1984). He was playing the villain of the week, and she was his hostage (held at gunpoint). They have a daughter, Taylor Dearden Cranston (born February 12, 1993). Cranston was previously married to Mickey Middleton, a writer.

Career


He began his acting career after college in local and regional theatres, getting his start at the Granada Theatre in the San Fernando Valley, California. Cranston has worked regularly since the late 1980s, mostly in minor roles. His advertising work includes commercials for Lay's potato chips, Excedrin
Excedrin
Excedrin is an over-the-counter headache pain reliever, typically in the form of tablets or caplets. It contains acetaminophen, aspirin, and caffeine. Until late 2005 it was manufactured by Bristol-Myers Squibb, but in July 2005 it was purchased by Novartis, along with other products from BMS's...

, Honda Accord
Honda Accord
The Honda Accord is the series of mid-size automobiles manufactured by Honda since 1976, and sold in most automotive markets throughout the world. The Accord became the first Japanese car to be produced in the U.S in 1982, when production commenced in Marysville, Ohio at Honda's Marysville Auto Plant...

, and Coffee-Mate
Coffee-Mate
Coffee-Mate is a powdered non-dairy creamer manufactured by Nestlé. It was introduced in 1961. Since the product isn't dairy , it can be left unrefrigerated without spoiling. The product reached its peak of popularity in the 1980s...

. His voice acting includes English dubbing of Japanese anime
Anime
is animation originating in Japan. The world outside Japan regards anime as "Japanese animation". Anime originated about 1917.Anime, like manga , has a large audience in Japan and high recognition throughout the world...

, under the name "Lee Stone". He was an original cast member of the ABC soap opera Loving
Loving (TV series)
Loving is an American television soap opera which aired on ABC's daytime lineup from June 26, 1983 to November 10, 1995 for 3,169 episodes. The serial was co-created by Agnes Nixon and former actor Douglas Marland...

, where he played Douglas (Doug) Donovan from 1983 to 1985. Cranston also starred in the short-lived series Raising Miranda
Raising Miranda
Raising Miranda was a television series aired on CBS in 1988 as part of its fall lineup.Raising Miranda was the story of Donald Marshack , a Racine, Wisconsin contractor who suddenly found himself a single parent when his wife Bonnie had abandoned him and their 15 year old daughter, Miranda , in...

in 1988.

His largest role prior to Malcolm in The Middle was as astronaut
Astronaut
An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft....

 Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin is an American mechanical engineer, retired United States Air Force pilot and astronaut who was the Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 11, the first lunar landing...

 in the HBO series From the Earth to the Moon. Cranston has also played astronaut Gus Grissom
Gus Grissom
Virgil Ivan Grissom, more widely known as Gus Grissom, was one of the original NASA Project Mercury astronauts and a United States Air Force pilot. He was the second American to fly in space...

 in the film That Thing You Do!
That Thing You Do!
That Thing You Do! is a 1996 film written and directed by Tom Hanks. Set in the summer of 1964, the movie tells the story of a one-hit wonder rock band, called The Wonders, following their whirlwind rise to the top of the pop charts, and just as quickly, their dissolution...

, and appeared as Nick Wrigley, the irresponsible uncle who steals Santa's sleigh to have a crazy ride to practically destroy Christmas in 'Twas the Night
'Twas the Night
'Twas the Night is a Disney Channel Original Movie that was released in the winter of 2001. The film was released in December to correspond with the Christmas holiday...

, a Disney Channel
Disney Channel
Disney Channel is a cable television channel specializing in television programming for children through original series and movies as well as third party programming. It is marketed to mostly children; however, in recent years the diversity of viewers has increased with an older audience,...

 Original Movie that was released in the winter of 2001. He also appeared in Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. In a career of over four decades, Spielberg's films have touched on many themes and genres. Spielberg's early sci-fi and adventure films, sometimes centering on children, were seen as an archetype of modern...

's Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American war film set during the invasion of Normandy in World War II. It was directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat. The film is notable for the intensity of its opening 25 minutes, which depict the Omaha beachhead assault of June 6, 1944. Afterward,...

as a one-armed military officer.

His recurring role as Dr. Tim Whatley, Jerry's dentist on Seinfeld
Seinfeld
Seinfeld is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in syndication. The eponymous series was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, with the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself...

, earned him fans. Several episodes focused upon his relationship with Jerry and his paranoia about the dentist, in bizarre situations such as when he becomes obsessed with the notion that Tim and his female assistant were molesting him while he was unconscious during dental surgery, or when Whatley converts to Judaism
Judaism
Judaism is a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible , as later further explored and explained in the Talmud and other texts...

 and starts telling Jewish jokes while retaining the right to tell Catholic jokes as well (according to Jerry, Tim is attaining "total joke-telling immunity").

He has also had a recurring role on the CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American television network, one of television's original "big three", which also include NBC and ABC. Like NBC, CBS started out as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System...

 sitcom The King of Queens
The King of Queens
The King of Queens is an American sitcom that ran for nine seasons, from 1998 to 2007, on CBS.The show was produced by Hanley Productions and CBS Productions , CBS Paramount Television in association with Columbia TriStar Television , and Sony Pictures Television...

as Doug Heffernan
Doug Heffernan
Douglas Steven "Doug" Heffernan is a fictional character in the American situation comedy The King of Queens. The character has also appeared in Everybody Loves Raymond, Becker, and Cosby....

's annoying neighbor, Tim Sacksky. He works as a water purifier salesman and in one episode he recruits Doug to sell them as well.

Cranston directed several episodes of Malcolm in the Middle and received three Emmy
Emmy Award
The Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards , Grammy Awards and Tony Awards .They are presented in various...

 nominations for his performance on the show. In a March 2009 interview on Anytime with Bob Kushell
Anytime with Bob Kushell
Anytime with Bob Kushell is a five-minute talk show produced for Sony Pictures Television and their online portal "". The show consists of a single monologue joke, a field-piece/desk bit, and a celebrity interview...

, Cranston discussed the episode "Jessica Stays Over" where he was covered in bees. Cranston stated that he was stung twice. Cranston reprised his role in a cutaway gag in the Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy is an American animated television sitcom, created by Seth MacFarlane, for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a dysfunctional family which consists of Peter, Lois, Meg, Chris, Stewie, and their pet dog Brian...

 episode I Take Thee Quagmire
I Take Thee Quagmire
"I Take Thee Quagmire" is the twenty-first episode of season four of Family Guy, originally broadcast on March 12, 2006. Peter wins free maid service for a week, where he intentionally creates extra work for her. Quagmire meets her and instantly falls in love with her, leading him to propose to her...

, killing Lois with a refrigerator door because of her incessant babbling, thus "freeing" himself and the kids. Cranston also wrote and directed the 1999
1999 in film
The year 1999 in film involved some significant events and was arguably the most successful year for films released in the 1990s. Several new feature films, including Star Wars Episode I, The Sixth Sense, The Green Mile, new sequel Toy Story 2, first of The Matrix, Disney's animated Tarzan,...

 movie Last Chance. He appeared in Little Miss Sunshine
Little Miss Sunshine
Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 American comedy-drama film, and the directorial film debut of the husband-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. The screenplay was written by first-time writer Michael Arndt. It stars Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, and...

as a business colleague of Greg Kinnear
Greg Kinnear
Greg Kinnear is an American actor and television personality, who first rose to stardom as the first host of E!'s Talk Soup. He has appeared in a number of motion pictures...

. He also had a guest role in late 2006 on the CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American television network, one of television's original "big three", which also include NBC and ABC. Like NBC, CBS started out as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System...

 sitcom How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother is an Emmy Award winning American sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005. The show was created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays...

, playing main character Ted's obnoxious co-worker and former boss Hammond Druthers. He recently had a role as Lucifer
Lucifer
Lucifer is a Latin word, literally meaning "light-bearer", that was used as a name for the "day star" or "Morning Star" that precedes the rising of the sun. The name is frequently given to the Devil in Christian convention...

 in the ABC Family
ABC Family
ABC Family is an American cable television network currently owned by ABC Family Worldwide Inc., a division of The Walt Disney Company. ABC Family offers contemporary and inclusive programming, including series, movies, events, and enhanced ABC encore presentations...

 miniseries, Fallen
Fallen (ABC Family film)
Fallen is a 2006 ABC Family miniseries based on the novel series The Fallen, broken into three parts. The first part was originally advertised as an "ABC Family Original Movie", but nearly a year later, it was followed up with two other parts of equal length over the course of a weekend...

.

He has done voice acting for English dubbed anime series, including Royal Space Force - The Wings of Honneamise, Macross Plus
Macross Plus
is a four-episode anime OVA and theatrical movie in the Macross series. It was the first sequel to the original Macross television series that took place in the official timeline...

, and Armitage III Polymatrix
Armitage III
is a 1994 cyberpunk anime series based around Naomi Armitage, a highly advanced "Type-III" android.The series began with the 4-part Original video animation Armitage III and spawned two movies. The first film is a shortened version of the OVA entitled Armitage III: Poly-Matrix, redubbed in English...

.


Cranston has guest-starred in many television series, including The Flash
The Flash (TV series)
The Flash is a 1990 American television series that starred John Wesley Shipp as the superhero, The Flash, and co-starred Amanda Pays. The series was developed from the DC Comics characters by the writing team of Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo, who called their company Pet Fly Productions...

where he plays a white-collar criminal searching for his estranged wife and daughter; Sabrina the Teenage Witch in which he was a lawyer attempting to free Sabrina from a contract; the sixth season episode of The X-Files, "Drive", playing a bigoted man who is being driven insane by high-pitched sonar
Sonar
Sonar is a technique that uses sound propagation to navigate, communicate with or detect other vessels. There are two kinds of sonar: active and passive. Sonar may be used as a means of acoustic location and of measurement of the echo characteristics of "targets" in the water...

 waves; and Babylon 5
Babylon 5
Babylon 5 is an American science fiction television series created, produced and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. The show centers on the Babylon 5 space station: a focal point for politics, diplomacy, and conflict during the years 2257–2262...

as Ericsson, the captain of a White Star vessel ordered into a suicide mission to plant misinformation
Misinformation
Misinformation is false or inaccurate information that is spread unintentionally. It is distinguished from disinformation by motive in that misinformation is simply erroneous, while disinformation, in contrast, is intended to mislead....

 within the enemy ranks.

In September 2008, Cranston narrated a pre-teen adventure/fantasy audiobook called Adventures with Kazmir the Flying Camel.

Currently, Cranston has the starring role on AMC's original series Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad is an American television drama series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. The series is produced by Sony Pictures Television and broadcast in the United States and Canada on the cable network AMC. It premiered on January 20, 2008, and completed its first seven-episode season on...

in which he plays a high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with terminal
Terminal illness
Terminal illness is a medical term popularized in the 20th century to describe an active and malignant disease that cannot be cured or adequately treated and that is reasonably expected to result in the death of the patient. This term is more commonly used for progressive diseases such as cancer...

 lung cancer
Lung cancer
Lung cancer is a disease of uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. This growth may lead to metastasis, which is the invasion of adjacent tissue and infiltration beyond the lungs. The vast majority of primary lung cancers are carcinomas of the lung, derived from epithelial cells...

. He teams up with a former student to manufacture methamphetamine
Methamphetamine
Methamphetamine also known as metamfetamine , dextromethamphetamine, methylamphetamine, N-methylamphetamine, and desoxyephedrine) is a psychostimulant and sympathomimetic drug. Methamphetamine enters the brain and triggers a cascading release of dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine...

. On September 21, 2008, Cranston won the Emmy for Best Actor in a Drama Series for Breaking Bad. He won this same award for a second time on September 20, 2009.

He was cast in George Lucas "Red Tails," a fictional story inspired by the historic and heroic exploits of America's first all black aerial combat unit.

Film

Year Film Role Notes
1987 Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise
Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise
is the first feature-length anime movie produced by Gainax in 1987. It is directed by Hiroyuki Yamaga. The movie would ultimately be a critically acclaimed Gainax classic, but it was poorly received and sold only modestly domestically and overseas...

Matti Tohn English dub of Japanese film
Amazon Women on the Moon
Amazon Women on the Moon
Amazon Women on the Moon is an American satirical comedy film that parodies the experience of watching low-budget movies on late-night television...

Paramedic #1
1988 The Big Turnaround Unknown
1990 Corporate Affairs Darren
1991 Dead Space
Dead Space (film)
Dead Space is a 1991 science-fiction film involving the actions of the crew members of a space station on Saturn when they are confronted with a killer virus....

Darden
1994 Erotique Dr. Robert Stern
Clean Slate
Clean Slate
Clean Slate is a 1994 American comedy film, directed by Mick Jackson. The film stars Dana Carvey as a private investigator who is the key witness in a murder case. After suffering a head injury however, he has developed a rare form of amnesia that causes him to forget anything that's happened to...

Club official
Macross Plus
Macross Plus
is a four-episode anime OVA and theatrical movie in the Macross series. It was the first sequel to the original Macross television series that took place in the official timeline...

Isamu Alva Dyson
Isamu Alva Dyson
Isamu Alva Dyson is a fictional character in the Macross universe. He is a leading character in the anime show Macross Plus, where he is the test pilot of the Shinsei Industries' YF-19 in the Project Super Nova...

English dub of Japanese film; released direct to video
Credited as "Lee Stone"
The Companion Alan Direct to video release
1996 Time Under Fire Braddock
That Thing You Do!
That Thing You Do!
That Thing You Do! is a 1996 film written and directed by Tom Hanks. Set in the summer of 1964, the movie tells the story of a one-hit wonder rock band, called The Wonders, following their whirlwind rise to the top of the pop charts, and just as quickly, their dissolution...

Virgil 'Gus' Grissom
Street Corner Justice Father Brophy
1997 Strategic Command
Strategic Command (film)
Strategic Command is a 1997 air hijack movie starring Michael Dudikoff and Richard Norton. The film was orginaly titled Executive command, but was renamed Strategic Command. -->...

Phil Hertzberg
Armitage III: Poly-Matrix Eddie Borrows English dub of Japanese film; direct to video release
1998 Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American war film set during the invasion of Normandy in World War II. It was directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat. The film is notable for the intensity of its opening 25 minutes, which depict the Omaha beachhead assault of June 6, 1944. Afterward,...

War Department Colonel
1999 Last Chance Lance Also writer, director and producer
2000 The Big Thing Roberto Montalban
Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama Ram English dub of Indo-Japanese film
Terror Tract
Terror Tract
Terror Tract is a 2000 movie, featuring John Ritter as a real-estate agent trying to sell a variety of houses a young couple; each with a horror story associated with it...

Ron Gatley
2004 Seeing Other People
Seeing Other People
Seeing Other People is a comedy film about a couple that decide to see other people two months before their wedding. It was released in 2004, and is rated R.-Main cast:*Jay Mohr as Ed*Julianne Nicholson as Alice*Lauren Graham as Claire...

Peter
Illusion
Illusion (film)
Illusion is an independent feature film released in the year 2004. It was directed by Michael Goorjian and features Kirk Douglas.-Plot:Legendary film director Donald Baines lies dying alone in his private screening room, watching the films he has devoted his life to creating. Having isolated...

David
2005 Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D is a 2005 IMAX 3D documentary film about the first humans on the Moon, the twelve astronauts in the Apollo program....

Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin is an American mechanical engineer, retired United States Air Force pilot and astronaut who was the Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 11, the first lunar landing...

2006 Little Miss Sunshine
Little Miss Sunshine
Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 American comedy-drama film, and the directorial film debut of the husband-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. The screenplay was written by first-time writer Michael Arndt. It stars Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, and...

Stan Grossman
Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property (film)
Intellectual Property is a 2006 film starring Christopher Masterson and Lyndsy Fonseca. It was written, produced and directed by Nicholas Peterson.-Plot:...

CSE Radio Host
2007 Hard Four Bryce Baxter
2009 Love Ranch TBA In production
Red Tails Major William Mortamus In production

Television

Year Series Role Notes
1982 CHiPs
CHiPs
CHiPs is an American television drama series produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios that originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1977 to June 17, 1983. CHiPs followed the lives of two motorcycle police officers of the California Highway Patrol...

Billy Joe Episode 6.9: "Return to Death's Door"
1983-1985 Loving
Loving (TV series)
Loving is an American television soap opera which aired on ABC's daytime lineup from June 26, 1983 to November 10, 1995 for 3,169 episodes. The serial was co-created by Agnes Nixon and former actor Douglas Marland...

Douglas "Doug" Donovan Main cast member
1985 Cover Up Frank Lawler/Tommy Maynard Episode 1.17: "Who's Trying to Kill Miss Globe?"
One Life to Live
One Life to Live
One Life to Live is an American soap opera which has been broadcast on the ABC television network since July 15, 1968. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...

Dean Stella
1986 Airwolf
Airwolf
Airwolf is an American television series that ran from 1984 through 1987. The program concerned a high-tech military helicopter, code named Airwolf, and her crew as they undertook various missions, many involving espionage, with a Cold War theme....

Robert Hollis Episode 3.17: "Desperate Monday"
North and South: Book II Colonel Austin Episode 1.6
1986
1990
1996
Murder, She Wrote
Murder, She Wrote
Murder, She Wrote was an American television mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. The series aired for twelve seasons from 1984 to 1996 on the CBS network. It was followed by four TV films and a spin-off series, The Law & Harry McGraw...

Brian East
Jerry Wilber
Parker Foreman
Episode 2.20: "Menace, Anyone?"
Episode 6.12: "Good-Bye Charlie"
Episode 12.17: "Something Foul in Flappieville"
1987 Hill Street Blues
Hill Street Blues
Hill Street Blues is a serial police drama that was first aired on NBC in 1981 and ran for 146 episodes on primetime into 1987. Reruns are currently being aired on AmericanLife TV Network on weekday nights in the United States, and on weekday afternoons on digital network More 4 in the United Kingdom...

Unknown Episode 7.21: "A Pound of Flesh"
The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman Dr. Shepherd TV film
1987
1991
Matlock
Matlock (TV series)
Matlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of Ben Matlock. The show originally aired from September 23, 1986, to May 8, 1992 on NBC, where it replaced The A-Team, then from November 5, 1992 until May 7, 1995 on ABC.The format of the show was similar to...

Brian Emerson
Dr. Harding Fletcher
Episode 2.11: "The Gift"
Episode 6.4: "The Marriage Counselor"
1988 Raising Miranda
Raising Miranda
Raising Miranda was a television series aired on CBS in 1988 as part of its fall lineup.Raising Miranda was the story of Donald Marshack , a Racine, Wisconsin contractor who suddenly found himself a single parent when his wife Bonnie had abandoned him and their 15 year old daughter, Miranda , in...

Uncle Russell Appeared in nine episodes
1989 Falcon Crest
Falcon Crest
Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990...

Martin Randall Episode 8.18: "Enquiring Minds"
I Know My First Name Is Steven Officer Dickenson TV mini-series
Baywatch
Baywatch
Baywatch is an American television series about the Los Angeles County Lifeguards who patrol the beaches of Los Angeles County, California starring David Hasselhoff. The show ran from 1989 to 1999...

Tom Logan Episode 1.8: "Cruise Ship"
1990 Hull High
Hull High
Hull High is an American musical teen drama series which aired on the NBC television network in 1990. The series was created and executive produced by Gil Grant.-Synopsis:...

Mr. McConnell Episode 1.8
Jake and the Fatman
Jake and the Fatman
Jake and the Fatman is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor J. L. "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigator Jake Styles. The series ran on CBS for five seasons from 1987 to 1992...

Lyle Wicks/Miller Episode 4.3: "Exactly Like You"
1991 The Flash
The Flash (TV series)
The Flash is a 1990 American television series that starred John Wesley Shipp as the superhero, The Flash, and co-starred Amanda Pays. The series was developed from the DC Comics characters by the writing team of Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo, who called their company Pet Fly Productions...

Philip 'Mark' Moses Episode 1.13: "Be My Baby"
Dead Silence Professor Harris TV film
1992 L.A. Law
L.A. Law
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama that ran from 1986 to 1994. L.A. Law reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s and many of the cases on the show dealt with hot topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and...

Unknown Episode 6.11: "All About Sleaze"
1993 Moldiver
Moldiver
is a 6-episode 1993 OVA anime series. It is a parody of magical girl and superhero anime series.-Plot:The plot focuses on a young girl by the name of Mirai Ozora, living in Tokyo in the year 2045...

Launch Control Center Technician
Additional voices
English dub of Japanese series; released direct to video
The Disappearance of Nora Unknown TV film
Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story Unknown TV film
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is an American live-action television series, created for the American market, based on the 16th installment of the Japanese Super Sentai franchise, Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger. Both the show and its related merchandise saw unbridled overnight success, catapulting into pop...

Voice of Snizard
Voice of Twinman
Episode 1.14: "Foul Play in the Sky"
Episode 1.38: "A Bad Reflection on You"
Super Dimension Century Orguss 02 Imperial Officer English dub of Japanese series; released direct to video
1994 Armitage III
Armitage III
is a 1994 cyberpunk anime series based around Naomi Armitage, a highly advanced "Type-III" android.The series began with the 4-part Original video animation Armitage III and spawned two movies. The first film is a shortened version of the OVA entitled Armitage III: Poly-Matrix, redubbed in English...

Eddie Borrows English dub of Japanese series; direct to video release
Men Who Hate Women & the Women Who Love Them David TV film
Days Like This Benny TV film
Tekkaman Blade
Tekkaman Blade
is an anime series, released in 1992. The series was intended to be a reboot of the original Tekkaman: The Space Knight anime, though these shows ultimately shared little in common besides the "armoured hero" concept and a few common character names...

Sgt. Miles O'Rourke English dub of Japanese series
Viper
Viper (TV series)
Viper is an action-adventure TV series about a special task force set up by the federal government to fight crime in the fictional city of Metro City, California that is perpetually under siege from one crime wave after another. The weapon used by this task force is an assault vehicle that...

Garrett Berlin Episode 1.9: "Wheels of Fire"
Walker, Texas Ranger
Walker, Texas Ranger
Walker, Texas Ranger is an American television police drama/Action, created by Lesie Grief and Paul Haggis. It aired on CBS with three pilot episodes followed by eight full seasons, from April 21, 1993 to May 19, 2001, was broadcast in over 100 countries, and has since spawned at least one...

Hank Episode 2.18: "Deadly Vision"
1994-1997 Seinfeld
Seinfeld
Seinfeld is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in syndication. The eponymous series was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, with the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself...

Dr. Tim Whatley Appeared in five episodes
1995 Extreme Blue Ned Landry TV film
Kissing Miranda Special Agent Falsey TV film
Touched by an Angel
Touched by an Angel
Touched by an Angel is an American Fantasy drama television series that chronicles the missions of a group of angels sent by God. Created by John Masius and produced by Martha Williamson , it ran on CBS for nine seasons, from September 21, 1994 to April 27, 2003, and aired in many countries all...

Dr. Tom Bryant Episode 1.11: "The Hero"
Brotherly Love Russell Winslow Episode 1.2: "Such a Bargain"
Land's End Matt McCulla Episodes 1.1 and 1.2: "Land's End" Parts 1 and 2
Nowhere Man
Nowhere Man (TV series)
Nowhere Man is an American television series that aired from 1995 to 1996 starring Bruce Greenwood. Created by Lawrence Hertzog, the series aired Monday nights on UPN. Despite critical acclaim, including TV Guides label of "The season's coolest hit," the show was cancelled after only one season...

Sheriff Norman Wade Episode 1.8: "The Alpha Spike"
1996 Eagle Riders Joe Thax Dub of Japanese series
The Louie Show Curt Sincic Episode 1.1: "Take Two Donuts and Call Me in the Morning"
The Rockford Files: Punishment and Crime
The Rockford Files
The Rockford Files is an American detective television drama originally aired on the NBC television network between September 13, 1974 and January 10, 1980; it has remained in constant syndication to the present day. The show is notable for the quality of its writing, largely from Stephen J...

Patrick Dougherty TV film
1996
1998
Diagnosis Murder
Diagnosis Murder
Diagnosis Murder is a mystery/medical/crime drama television series starring Dick Van Dyke as Dr. Mark Sloan, a medical doctor who solves crimes with the help of his son, a homicide detective played by his real-life son Barry Van Dyke. The series began as a spin-off of Jake and the Fatman...

Walter Mason
Martin Rutgers
Episode 3.10: "Living on the Streets Can Be Murder"
Episode 6.5: "Blood Will Out"
1997 Moloney Unknown Episode 1.12: "Clarity Begins at Home"
Babylon 5
Babylon 5
Babylon 5 is an American science fiction television series created, produced and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. The show centers on the Babylon 5 space station: a focal point for politics, diplomacy, and conflict during the years 2257–2262...

Ericsson Episode 4.5: "The Long Night"
Dogs Unknown Pilot
Goode Behavior
Goode Behavior
Goode Behavior is an American sitcom that premiered August 26, 1996 on UPN. The series was cancelled after its first season, airing its last episode on May 19, 1997, for a total of 23 episodes.-Synopsis:...

Record executive Episode 1.20: "Goode Music"
Sabrina the Teenage Witch Witch Lawyer Episode 1.24: "Troll Bride"
Pearl
Pearl (TV series)
This article is about the television series. For other uses, see Pearl .Pearl is an American situation comedy, which was broadcast by CBS as part of its 1996-97 lineup.-Plot:...

Isaac Perlow Episode 1.21: "My So-Called Real Life"
Total Security Jason Nichols Episode 1.10: "Wet Side Story"
Alright Already Robert Episode 1.3: "Again with the Pilot"
1998 Brooklyn South
Brooklyn South
Brooklyn South is a short-lived American ensemble police drama series that aired on CBS for only one season during the 1997-98 television season. One of the show's producers was Steven Bochco, creator of many well-known police dramas such as Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue...

IAB Lt. Gordon Denton Episodes 1.11: "Gay Avec" and 1.15: "Fisticuffs"
From the Earth to the Moon Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin is an American mechanical engineer, retired United States Air Force pilot and astronaut who was the Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 11, the first lunar landing...

TV mini-series
V.I.P.
V.I.P. (TV series)
V.I.P. is an American syndicated television series created by J. F...

Colt Arrow Episode 1.1: "Beats Working at a Hot Dog Stand"
The X-Files
The X-Files
The X-Files is an American cult science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. It first aired in September 1993 and ended in May 2002...

Patrick Crump Episode 6.2: "Drive"
Chicago Hope
Chicago Hope
Chicago Hope is an American medical drama series created by David E. Kelley that ran from September 18, 1994 to May 5, 2000. It takes place in a fictional private charity hospital.-Premise:...

Jesus Episode 5.9: "Tantric Turkey"
Working
Working (TV series)
Working is an American situation comedy that aired on NBC from 1997 to 1999. The series was created and executive produced by Michael Davidoff and Bill Rosenthal.-Synopsis:...

Larry Prince Episode 2.8: "The Consultant"
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show is an American syndicated television show based on the 1989 film, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. It expands upon the original film's concept of a shrinking experiment gone wrong to include myriad experiments gone awry...

Ronald 'Cheesy' Meezy Episode 2.11: "Honey, I'm the Sorcerer's Apprentice"
1999 3rd Rock from the Sun
3rd Rock from the Sun
3rd Rock from the Sun is an American sitcom that aired from 1996 until 2001 on NBC. The show is about a group of extraterrestrials on an expedition of what they consider to be the least important planet, Earth , while posing as a human family of four, to observe human beings.- Basic premise :"As...

Neil Diamond
Neil Diamond
Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter. Diamond is one of pop music's most enduring and successful singer-songwriters. As a successful pop music performer, Diamond scored a number of hits worldwide in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s...

 impersonator
Episode 4.14: "Paranoid Dick"
The Pretender
The Pretender (TV series)
The Pretender is an American television series that aired on NBC from 1996 to 2000. The series starred Michael T. Weiss as Jarod, a genius and former child prodigy with "the ability to become anyone he wants to be," i.e., to flawlessly impersonate anyone in virtually any line of work...

Neil Roberts Episode 3.16: "PTB"
1999-2001 The King of Queens
The King of Queens
The King of Queens is an American sitcom that ran for nine seasons, from 1998 to 2007, on CBS.The show was produced by Hanley Productions and CBS Productions , CBS Paramount Television in association with Columbia TriStar Television , and Sony Pictures Television...

Tim Appeared in four episodes
2000-2001 Clerks: The Animated Series
Clerks: The Animated Series
Clerks is an American animated television series based on Kevin Smith's film of the same name. It was developed for television by Smith, Smith's producer Scott Mosier and former Seinfeld writer David Mandel with character designs by Stephen Silver.- Overview :The main characters, Dante Hicks,...

Additional voices Appeared in three episodes
2000-2006 Malcolm in the Middle
Malcolm in the Middle
Malcolm in the Middle is an American comedy television series created by Linwood Boomer for the Fox Network. The series was first broadcast on January 9, 2000, and ended its six-and-a-half-year run on May 14, 2006, after seven seasons and 151 episodes...

Hal Main cast member; appeared in all 151 episodes
Also directed seven episodes
2001 'Twas the Night
'Twas the Night
'Twas the Night is a Disney Channel Original Movie that was released in the winter of 2001. The film was released in December to correspond with the Christmas holiday...

Nick Wrigley TV film
The Santa Claus Brothers Santa Claus
Santa Claus
Santa Claus is a folklore figure in various cultures who distributes gifts to children, normally on Christmas Eve. Each name is a variation of Saint Nicholas, but refers to Santa Claus...

TV film
2003 National Lampoon's Thanksgiving Family Reunion Woodrow Snider TV film
Lilo & Stitch: The Series
Lilo & Stitch: The Series
Lilo & Stitch: The Series is the animated television spinoff of the feature film, Lilo & Stitch and the follow up to Stitch! The Movie.-Plot:...

Mr. Jameson Episode 1.25: "Nosy: Experiment #199"
2005 American Dad!
American Dad!
American Dad! is a satirical American animated series owned by Underdog Productions and Fuzzy Door Productions and produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television....

Publisher Episode 1.15: "Star Trek
Star Trek (American Dad!)
"Star Trek" is an episode of the animated series American Dad!. The title is the same as that of the popular science fiction franchise, Star Trek. The plot of the episode has nothing to do with the franchise, although it does reference two characters from the show...

"
2006 Special Unit N/A Director
Big Day
Big Day
Big Day is an American situation comedy that first aired on ABC from November 28, 2006 to January 30, 2007. The series was co-produced by Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa and directed by Michael Spiller for Sony Pictures Television...

N/A Directed episode 1.5: "Stolen Vows"
2006-2007 How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother is an Emmy Award winning American sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005. The show was created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays...

Hammond Druthers Episodes 2.6: "Aldrin Justice" and 2.13: "Columns"
2007 Fallen Lucifer
Lucifer
Lucifer is a Latin word, literally meaning "light-bearer", that was used as a name for the "day star" or "Morning Star" that precedes the rising of the sun. The name is frequently given to the Devil in Christian convention...


The Light Bringer
TV mini-series
2008 Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy is an American animated television sitcom, created by Seth MacFarlane, for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a dysfunctional family which consists of Peter, Lois, Meg, Chris, Stewie, and their pet dog Brian...

Himself/Hal Episode 4.21: "I Take Thee Quagmire
I Take Thee Quagmire
"I Take Thee Quagmire" is the twenty-first episode of season four of Family Guy, originally broadcast on March 12, 2006. Peter wins free maid service for a week, where he intentionally creates extra work for her. Quagmire meets her and instantly falls in love with her, leading him to propose to her...

"
2008- Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad is an American television drama series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. The series is produced by Sony Pictures Television and broadcast in the United States and Canada on the cable network AMC. It premiered on January 20, 2008, and completed its first seven-episode season on...

Walter H. White Directed episode 2.1: "Seven Thirty-Seven"

Awards and nominations

  • 2002 Emmy Award
    Emmy Award
    The Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards , Grammy Awards and Tony Awards .They are presented in various...

     Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series - Malcolm in the Middle
    Malcolm in the Middle
    Malcolm in the Middle is an American comedy television series created by Linwood Boomer for the Fox Network. The series was first broadcast on January 9, 2000, and ended its six-and-a-half-year run on May 14, 2006, after seven seasons and 151 episodes...

    (nominated)
  • 2003 Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television - Malcolm in the Middle
    Malcolm in the Middle
    Malcolm in the Middle is an American comedy television series created by Linwood Boomer for the Fox Network. The series was first broadcast on January 9, 2000, and ended its six-and-a-half-year run on May 14, 2006, after seven seasons and 151 episodes...

    (nominated)
  • 2003 Emmy Award
    Emmy Award
    The Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards , Grammy Awards and Tony Awards .They are presented in various...

     Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series - Malcolm in the Middle
    Malcolm in the Middle
    Malcolm in the Middle is an American comedy television series created by Linwood Boomer for the Fox Network. The series was first broadcast on January 9, 2000, and ended its six-and-a-half-year run on May 14, 2006, after seven seasons and 151 episodes...

    (nominated)
  • 2006 Emmy Award
    Emmy Award
    The Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards , Grammy Awards and Tony Awards .They are presented in various...

     Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series - Malcolm in the Middle
    Malcolm in the Middle
    Malcolm in the Middle is an American comedy television series created by Linwood Boomer for the Fox Network. The series was first broadcast on January 9, 2000, and ended its six-and-a-half-year run on May 14, 2006, after seven seasons and 151 episodes...

    (nominated)
  • 2008 Emmy Award
    Emmy Award
    The Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards , Grammy Awards and Tony Awards .They are presented in various...

     Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series - Breaking Bad
    Breaking Bad
    Breaking Bad is an American television drama series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. The series is produced by Sony Pictures Television and broadcast in the United States and Canada on the cable network AMC. It premiered on January 20, 2008, and completed its first seven-episode season on...

    (won)
  • 2009 TCA Award Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series - Breaking Bad
    Breaking Bad
    Breaking Bad is an American television drama series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. The series is produced by Sony Pictures Television and broadcast in the United States and Canada on the cable network AMC. It premiered on January 20, 2008, and completed its first seven-episode season on...

    (won)
  • 2009 Emmy Award
    Emmy Award
    The Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards , Grammy Awards and Tony Awards .They are presented in various...

     Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series - Breaking Bad
    Breaking Bad
    Breaking Bad is an American television drama series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. The series is produced by Sony Pictures Television and broadcast in the United States and Canada on the cable network AMC. It premiered on January 20, 2008, and completed its first seven-episode season on...

    (won)

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