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Mike Starr (born July 29, 1950) is an American actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
. Known for his large size, he has typically been typecast as playing thugs or henchmen.

Starr was born in Flushing, Queens
Flushing, Queens

Flushing, founded in 1645, is a neighborhood in the north central part of the City of New York City borough of Queens , ten miles east of Manhattan....
, New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
 to a retail employee mother and a meatpacker father. His older brother Beau Starr
Beau Starr

Beau Starr is an American actor who has starred in movies and on television. He is known for his film role as Sheriff Ben Meeker in the 1988 hit horror movie Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers; he reprised his role in the 1989 sequel Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers....
 is also an actor. Mike Starr is a graduate of Hofstra University
Hofstra University

Hofstra University is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational institution of higher learning located in the Village of Hempstead , New York, and the hamlet of Uniondale on Long Island, New York ....
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Mike Starr (born July 29, 1950) is an American actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
. Known for his large size, he has typically been typecast as playing thugs or henchmen.

Starr was born in Flushing, Queens
Flushing, Queens

Flushing, founded in 1645, is a neighborhood in the north central part of the City of New York City borough of Queens , ten miles east of Manhattan....
, New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
 to a retail employee mother and a meatpacker father. His older brother Beau Starr
Beau Starr

Beau Starr is an American actor who has starred in movies and on television. He is known for his film role as Sheriff Ben Meeker in the 1988 hit horror movie Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers; he reprised his role in the 1989 sequel Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers....
 is also an actor. Mike Starr is a graduate of Hofstra University
Hofstra University

Hofstra University is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational institution of higher learning located in the Village of Hempstead , New York, and the hamlet of Uniondale on Long Island, New York ....
.

Career


Filmography

  • Chicago Overcoat
    Chicago Overcoat

    Chicago Overcoat is an upcoming crime/gangster film. Brian Caunter wrote the film alongside John Bosher, Andrew Alex Dowd, and Josh Staman. Caunter is also directing the film....
     (2009)
  • Lonely Street
    Lonely Street (film)

    Lonely Street is an American comedy film-thriller film directed by Peter Ettinger and starring Jay Mohr, Robert Patrick, Nikki Cox, Joe Mantegna and Katt Williams....
     (2008)
  • The Black Dahlia
    The Black Dahlia (film)

    'The Black Dahlia' is a 2006 in film crime film directed by Brian De Palma, director of Scarface and The Untouchables . It is based on the The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy, writer of L.A....
     (2006)
  • The Ice Harvest
    The Ice Harvest

    The Ice Harvest is a 2005 in film neo-noir/comedy-drama film directed by Harold Ramis and written by Richard Russo and Robert Benton, based on the The Ice Harvest by Scott Phillips ....
     (2005)
  • Mickey
    Mickey (film)

    Mickey is a 2004 in film Cinema of the United States List of sports films#Baseball drama film directed by Hugh Wilson , and written by John Grisham....
     (2004)
  • Jersey Girl
    Jersey Girl (2004 film)

    Jersey Girl is a 2004 in film Cinema of the United States comedy-drama film written and directed by Kevin Smith. It stars Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler and George Carlin....
     (2004)
  • Knockaround Guys
    Knockaround Guys

    Knockaround Guys is a 2001 gangster movie starring Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, John Malkovich and Dennis Hopper...
     (2001)
  • Tempted (2001)
  • The Cactus Kid
    The Cactus Kid

    The Cactus Kid is a 1921 in film short subject Western directed by Lee Kohlmar and featuring Hoot Gibson....
     (2000)
  • Summer of Sam
    Summer of Sam

    Summer of Sam is a 1999 in film crime film-drama film based around the Son of Sam serial murders. It was directed and produced by Spike Lee....
     (1999)
  • Snake Eyes
    Snake Eyes (film)

    Snake Eyes is a crime Thriller film directed by Brian De Palma, one featuring his trademark use of long tracking shots and split screens. Released in 1998, the film was written by David Koepp and De Palma, and rated R when released to theaters on August 7 of 1998....
     (1998)
  • The Deli (1997)
  • James and the Giant Peach
    James and the Giant Peach

    James and the Giant Peach is a popular children's novel by England author Roald Dahl. Originally titled James and the Giant Cherry, Dahl changed it to James and the Giant Peach becaus a peach is "prettier, bigger and squishier", and a peach is a drupe....
     (1996)
  • A Pyromaniac's Love Story
    A Pyromaniac's Love Story

    A Pyromaniac's Love Story is a 1995 in film United States romantic comedy film directed by Joshua Brand. The original screenplay is by Morgan Ward....
     (1995)
  • Dumb & Dumber
    Dumb & Dumber

    Dumb and Dumber is a 1994 American comedy film starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels. It was written and directed by the Farrelly brothers, featuring slapstick comedy and Gross-out film....
     (1994)
  • On Deadly Ground
    On Deadly Ground

    On Deadly Ground is a 1994 in film environmental action-adventure film, co-produced, directed by and starring Steven Seagal, and co-starring, Michael Caine, Joan Chen, John C....
     (1994)
  • Ed Wood
    Ed Wood (film)

    Ed Wood is a 1994 comedy-drama biographical film directed by Tim Burton, and starring Johnny Depp as cult filmmaker Edward D. Wood, Jr. The film concerns the period in Wood's life when he made his best-known films as well as his relationship with actor B?la Lugosi, played by Martin Landau....
     (1994)
  • Mad Dog and Glory
    Mad Dog and Glory

    Mad Dog and Glory is a 1993 in film written by Richard Price and directed by John McNaughton. It stars Robert De Niro as a Chicago, Illinois Forensics , Uma Thurman as bartender "Glory" , and Bill Murray as Glory's boss, who identifies himself as both an "expediter of dreams" and a member of Cosa Nostra....
     (1993)
  • The Bodyguard
    The Bodyguard

    The Bodyguard is a 1992 in film romance film-thriller film starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. In the film, Costner stars as a former Secret Service Agent turned bodyguard who is hired to protect Houston's character, a music star, from an unknown stalker....
     (1992)
  • Billy Bathgate
    Billy Bathgate

    Billy Bathgate is a 1989 novel by author E. L. Doctorow that won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle award for fiction for 1990 and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was the runner up for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize ....
     (1991)
  • Miller's Crossing
    Miller's Crossing

    Miller's Crossing is a film directed by Coen brothers and starring Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden, and John Turturro. The plot concerns a power struggle between two rival gangs and how the protagonist plays both sides off each other....
     (1990)
  • Goodfellas
    Goodfellas

    Goodfellas is a crime film drama film film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is based on the non-fiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, who also co-wrote the screenplay for the film with Scorsese....
     (1990)
  • Uncle Buck
    Uncle Buck

    Uncle Buck is a 1989 in film comedy-drama starring John Candy, Amy Madigan, Jean Louisa Kelly and Gaby Hoffmann, and co-stars Macaulay Culkin, Jay Underwood and Laurie Metcalf....
     (1989)
  • Lean on Me
    Lean on Me (film)

    Lean on Me is a 1989 in film biographical-drama film written by Michael Schiffer, directed by John G. Avildsen and starring Morgan Freeman. Lean on Me is loosely based on the story of Joe Louis Clark, a real life inner city high school principal in Paterson, New Jersey, whose school is at risk of being overtaken by the New Jersey stat...
     (1989)
  • Funny Farm
    Funny Farm (film)

    Funny Farm is a 1988 film directed by George Roy Hill, starring Chevy Chase and Madolyn Smith Osborne. The film was Film adaptation from a 1985 Funny Farm by Jay Cronley....
     (1988)
  • Radio Days
    Radio Days

    Radio Days is an Academy Award-nominated 1987 in film film directed by Woody Allen. The film looks back on American family life during the Golden Age of Old-time radio....
     (1987)
  • Cat's Eye (1985)
  • The Last Dragon
    The Last Dragon

    For the mockumentary of the same name, see The Last Dragon Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon is a 1985 in film martial arts film, produced by Rupert Hitzig for Berry Gordy and directed by Michael Schultz....
     (1984)
  • The Natural
    The Natural

    The Natural is a 1952 novel about baseball written by Bernard Malamud. The book follows Roy Hobbs, a baseball prodigy whose career is sidetracked when he is shot by a crazed serial killer....
     (1984)
  • Cruising
    Cruising (film)

    Cruising is a 1980 film directed by William Friedkin and starring Al Pacino. The film is loosely based on the novel Cruising by New York Times reporter Gerald Walker, about a New York City serial killer targeting gay men in the 1970s....
     (1980)


Television appearances

  • 3rd Rock From the Sun
    3rd Rock from the Sun

    3rd Rock from the Sun is an Emmy Award-winning American situation comedy that aired from 1996 in television until 2001 in television on NBC....
  • Ed (TV series)
    Ed (TV series)

    Ed is an NBC television program produced by David Letterman's Worldwide Pants Incorporated that aired from 2000 to 2004.The hour-long comedy-drama starred Tom Cavanagh as Edward Jeremy Stevens, the protagonist, Julie Bowen as his love interest Carol Phyllis Vessey, Josh Randall as his friend Dr....
  • Frasier
    Frasier

    Frasier is an American situation comedy broadcast on National Broadcasting Company for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993 to May 13, 2004....
  • Home Improvement
    Home Improvement

    Home Improvement is an situation comedy starring Tim Allen, which aired 1991 to 1999. The show was created by Matt Williams , Carmen Finestra and David MacFadzean....
  • House M.D.
  • Joan of Arcadia
    Joan of Arcadia

    Joan of Arcadia is an Emmy-nominated American television fantasy/family drama, which originally aired on Fridays, 8-9 p.m. ET/PT on CBS from September 26, 2003 until April 22, 2005....
  • Law & Order
    Law & Order

    Law & Order is an United States police procedural and legal drama Television program created by Dick Wolf. It has been broadcast on NBC since its debut on September 13, 1990....
  • Law & Order: Criminal Intent
    Law & Order: Criminal Intent

    Law & Order: Criminal Intent is an United States television program set in New York City. Criminal Intent premiered on September 30 2001....
  • Scrubs
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
    Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

    Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is a science fiction television program that premiered in 1993 and ran for seven seasons, ending in 1999. Rooted in Gene Roddenberry?s Star Trek universe, it was created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller, at the request of Brandon Tartikoff, and produced by CBS Paramount Television....
  • The West Wing
  • Without a Trace
    Without a Trace

    Without a Trace is an United States television program set in New York City. The show is about a fictitious full-time Federal Bureau of Investigation missing persons unit....


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