Raye Birk
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- 27 mai 1943 · Flint, Michigan, USA
Biographie
Raye Birk (born May 27, 1943, Flint, Michigan) is an American film and television actor best known for playing the role of Pahpshmir in the first and last of the Naked Gun movies. He was the main villain in Naked Gun 331⁄3: The Final Insult. He has also starred in Due South as the terrorist Francis Bolt in the Episodes "All the Queens Horses", "Red, White and Blue", "Call of the Wild Part One" and "Call of the Wild Part Two". He also had roles in the X-Files and Babylon 5. His other film credits include roles in Best Defense (1984), Amazon Women on the Moon (1987), Throw Momma from the Train (1987), Doc Hollywood (1991) and Star Trek: Insurrection (1998). In addition to these roles, he had a frequently occurring role as the assistant principal on The Wonder Years; starting with the pilot episode, when he had a conference with Kevin Arnold's parents for throwing food in the cafeteria. While generally antagonist, a more sympathetic role on the show was seen in the award winning episode "Goodbye" where he confides in Kevin that he is Kevin's new math teacher as Kevin's hardnosed algebra teacher has just died. He was also on a pair of Home Improvement episodes as one of Tim's poker buddies. Raye appeared in several episodes on the TV series Night Court. He appeared twice on The Golden Girls, both times playing a wedding caterer. Furthermore, in 1985, 1986 and 1992, he appeared on three episodes of Cheers as Walt Twitchell, a mailman who got into minor altercations with Cliff Clavin. Birk reprised the role of Twitchell in a 2002 episode of the Cheers spinoff series, Frasier, in which the title character (played by Kelsey Grammer) returned to Boston and re-acquainted himself with old friends from the bar. He played a recurring role on Coach as university band director Riley Pringle from 1989 to 1993. He also appeared in an episode of Mr. Belvedere as an accordion player. In 2004–2008, he played Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Raye has been married to his wife Candace Barrett for 41 years. They have one son, Joshua, who is a professor of medieval history.
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Filmographie
- New Neighbors
- A Serious Man · Dr. Shapiro
- Sweet Land · Postal Clerk
- Factotum · Heathercliff
- L'Affaire Josey Aimes · Tom Motel Clerk
- Black Scorpion · Dr. Phineas Phoenix
- Star Trek : Insurrection · Son'a Doctor
- After Jimmy · John Davies
- The Big Squeeze · Contractor
- Troisième planète après le Soleil · Jeweler
- Caroline in the City · Danny
- Illegal in Blue · Gary Dedmarch
- L'Homme de nulle part · Tobe Alder
- My Brother's Keeper · Dr. Roth
- Cries from the Heart
- Un tandem de choc · Francis Bolt
- Les Anges du bonheur · Mr. McFarlane
- Urgences · Mr. Hartley
- Y a-t-il un flic pour sauver Hollywood ? · Papshmir
- Babylon 5 · William
- Frasier · Walt Twitchell
- Saved by the Bell: The New Class · Superintendent Stoneman
- X-Files : Aux frontières du réel · Dr. Jeff Eckerle
- Brisco County · Prosecuting Attorney
- Caught in the Act · Sterling
- Les requins de la finance · Travis Gaines
- Class Act · Principal Kratz
- Les Dessous de Palm Beach · Atticus Dunn
- Papa bricole · Fred
- Doc Hollywood · Simon Tidwell, First Patient
- Aftermath: A Test of Love · Dr. Frenzel
- Under Cover · Grimbach
- Under Cover · Grimbach
- Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again · Judge Brown
- Wings · Prince Restivon
- Working Girl · Mr. Dixon
- Challenger · Joseph Kilminster
- La Guerre des Rose · Auctioneer (uncredited)
- Snoops · Mr. Nelson
- Seinfeld · Mr. Pless
- Coach · Riley Pringle
- Perry Mason : Meurtre en circuit fermé · Sam Morgan
- Y a-t-il un flic pour sauver la reine ? · Pahpshmir
- Murphy Brown · Barney
- Empty Nest · Judge Talmadge, Albert
- Dear John · Dr. Hendricks
- Eisenhower and Lutz · Bjorn
- Les Années coup de cœur · Mr. Diperna
- Balance maman hors du train · Pinsky
- Star Trek : La Nouvelle Génération · Wrenn
- J.J. Starbuck
- La Belle et la Bête · Edmonton
- The Popcorn Kid · Leonard Brown
- La Pie Voleuse · The Jogger
- Les enfants de Stepford · George Larson
- Fresno · Mr. Loats
- Alf · Officer Griswald, Lenny Scott
- La Loi de Los Angeles · Judge Steven Lang
- Matlock · Simon Le Simple
- La Cinquième Dimension · Time-Traveller (segment "Lost and Found")
- Les Craquantes · Caterer
- Deadly Messages · Harding
- Une défense canon · Sonny
- Mister Roberts · Dowdy
- Tonnerre de feu · Martin C. Sharp
- Night Court · Dworkin, God #1
- St. Elsewhere · Irish Patient
- Newhart · Whitley McVeigh, Dean Dackman
- Cheers · Walt Twitchell
- A Christmas Carol · Marley's Ghost
- The Taming of the Shrew · Gremio
- Columbo · Howard Seltzer
- Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It. · Mort Catafalque
- Hawaï police d'État · Parole Officer
- Seed of Doubt · Dr. Bill Larson