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David Emmanuel Paymer (born August 30, 1954) is an American actor and television director. He has been in films such as Mr. Saturday Night, Quiz Show, Searching for Bobby Fischer, City Slickers, Crazy People, State and Main, Payback, Get Shorty, Carpool, The American President, The Hurricane, Ocean's Thirteen, and Drag Me to Hell. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in 1992's Mr. Saturday Night.
Early life
Paymer was born on August 30, 1954, in Oceanside, New York, the son of Sylvia, a travel agent, and Marvin Paymer, a pianist and musical director who originally worked in the scrap metal business. They divorced in 1973. Paymer is Jewish; his mother was born in Belgium and left for the United States to escape the Nazi occupation.
Paymer has a brother, Steve, and graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Arts in theater and psychology. He is married to Liz Georges; they have two children.
Career
Paymer's acting career began in 1979 with the film The In-Laws. He has appeared in over 90 films in his career. He has also appeared in many popular television shows, including Taxi, Happy Days, L.A. Law, Cheers, Ghost Whisperer, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Entourage , Diff'rent Strokes, The Good Wife, and Family Ties. He has had recurring roles on Cheers, Murphy Brown, and The Larry Sanders Show. He has also appeared in such films as Amistad, City Hall, RFK, and Into the West. He received an Academy Award nomination for Mr. Saturday Night. His voice-over work includes Sheldon in the Kids' WB cartoon series Channel Umptee-3, and neurotic Welsh Terrier Mel in Balto 3: Wings of Change.
Paymer has directed episodes of several popular television series, including Gilmore Girls, Grey's Anatomy, One Tree Hill, Melrose Place, Everwood, Brothers & Sisters, and Bunheads.
Theater
He has appeared on the stage. In 2022 Paymer reprised his Mr. Saturday Night role thirty years later, appearing in the musical adaptation.
Filmography
= Film
== Television
=Director
References
External links
David Paymer at IMDb
David Paymer at the Internet Broadway Database
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- City Hall (film)
- The Sunlit Night
- The Burial Society
- Screen Actors Guild Awards ke-4
- Quiz Show (film)
- Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
- Lemon (film 2017)
- Kelompok Pemeran Terbaik (Online Film Critics Society Award)
- Get Shorty (film 1995)
- Kelompok Pemeran Terbaik (National Board of Review Award)
- David Paymer
- Drag Me to Hell
- Payback (1999 film)
- Quiz Show (film)
- Mr. Saturday Night
- Twixt (film)
- The American President
- State and Main
- Heart and Souls
- Mighty Joe Young (1998 film)
