David Ury
- Recitazione
- 30 settembre 1973
Biografia
David Brian Ury (born September 30, 1973) is an American actor, stand-up comedian, YouTuber, and Japanese translation specialist. Ury was born and raised in Sonoma, California. He graduated from Sonoma Valley High School, where he acted in theatre productions. He earned a bachelor's degree in linguistics at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and studied abroad in Japan, where he became fluent in Japanese. Ury is a descendant of German Jewish impressionist painter Lesser Ury. Since studying abroad in Tokyo, Ury and has worked as a translator in film, television, and manga and currently (As of May 2011) translates and writes English adaptations for manga. Ury moved to Los Angeles in August 2001 where he began performing stand-up comedy. Cartoonist Keith Knight, a neighbor of his, described Ury's acting career as "Spooge man" and "a cavalcade of reprobates, sleazeballs, derelicts, & weirdos." Ury has made several film and television appearances, including an episode of Tim Kring's Crossing Jordan and in Shoot 'Em Up. He also appeared in Heroes, Malcolm in the Middle, Life, Without a Trace, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Zeke and Luther, and The Librarians. In March 2015, Ury was cast for Rob Zombie's slasher film 31 as Schizo-Head. A character actor, Ury has died on screen in almost every role he has portrayed. Ury also has several YouTube channels/accounts/personalities and alter-egos, which include Karaoke Steve and Ken Tanaka, the fictional adopted twin brother of David Ury. Tanaka is described as an Ashkenazi Jewish man adopted as an infant by Japanese parents Hideo and Mari Tanaka, and raised in Shimane Prefecture of Japan; he returns to Los Angeles to find his birth parents Jonathan and Linda Smith.
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Filmografia
- The Hawk · Drifter
- Time of Death · Meeks
- Violent Ends · Lou Byers
- A Blind Bargain · Reggie
- Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage · Barry
- Junk · Petey
- Do Not Watch
- Babylon · Fan (Autograph)
- 1-800-Hot-Nite · Bill
- The Rookie: Feds · Frank Patterson
- Faith Based · Gerry
- Kajillionaire - La truffa è di famiglia · Minimart Cashier
- Woke · Al Durian (aka Trench Coat)
- Outer Banks · Scooter Grubbs
- Birds of Prey e la fantasmagorica rinascita di Harley Quinn · Sleazy Breeder
- 3 from Hell · Travis O'Rourke
- To Hell and Back: The Making of 3 From Hell · In persona
- Loners · Larry Bressert
- Tacoma FD · Buffalo Phil
- Magnum P.I. · Sam
- Loggia 49 · Champ
- 31 · Schizo-Head
- Cinderella Story - Se la scarpetta calza · Freddie Marks
- Rush Hour · Trucker
- Little Boy · Sir Pent
- Powers · Dr. Death
- Better Call Saul · Spooge
- Fresh Off the Boat · Homeless Man
- The Librarians · William Shakespeare
- Lake Los Angeles · Dan Dan
- Masters of Sex
- Mom · Randy
- I fantasmi di casa Hathaway · The Green Ghoul
- Coffee Town · Homeless Guy
- What Kind of Asian Are You? · Produzione, Writers' Assistant
- Pearblossom Hwy · Garr Booth
- Hollywood Heights · Gas Station Attendant
- Touch · Rizzi
- Grimm · Hofmann
- Aiutami Hope! · Easter Joe
- Rizzoli & Isles · Sandy Grotty
- 41 anni vergine · Yes Man
- Justified · Hiram
- Community · Rick
- The Revenant · ATM Robber
- Lie to Me · Witness
- Il gioco della vedova nera · Bixler
- The Mentalist · Col. James Harris
- Breaking Bad · Spooge
- Il mistero delle pagine perdute · Barkeeper
- Life · Hard Case #1
- Private Practice · Hank
- Shoot 'Em Up - Spara o muori! · Diner Holdup Leader
- Dark Ride · Attendant #1
- Heroes · Super, Landlord
- Dark Mind · Pony Tail Man
- Close to Home - Giustizia ad ogni costo · Rooster
- Bones · Larry Wolfram
- C'è sempre il sole a Philadelphia · Spa Worker
- Scatto mortale - Paparazzi · Fan
- Able Edwards · Franklin Wallace
- Senza traccia · Gil
- Crossing Jordan · Arthur Hay
- CSI: Scena del crimine · Jayson Walt
- Malcolm · Mechanic
- Streghe · Shapeshifter