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Dallas, Texas, USA
Peter MacNicol (born April 10, 1954) is an American actor. He received a Theatre World Award for his 1981 Broadway debut in the play Crimes of the Heart. His film roles include Galen in Dragonslayer (1981), Stingo in Sophie's Choice (1982), Janosz Poha in Ghostbusters II (1989), camp counselor Gary Granger in Addams Family Values (1993), and David Langley in Bean (1997).
Known for
- Home Delivery — Howard Evans2026
- Shell — Dr. Thaddeus Brand2025
- All's Fair — Robert DeLancie2025
- The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie — The Invader (voice)2024
- Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story — Psycho Date2023
- All Rise — Albert Campbell2019
- A Series of Unfortunate Events — Ishmael2017
- Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure — Nigel the Advisor (voice)2017
- Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure — Nigel (voice)2017
- CSI: Cyber — Simon Sifter2015
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1954-04-10 ) April 10, 1954 (age 72) , Dallas, Texas , U.S.
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1978–present
- Spouse
- Martha Cumming, ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1986 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Peter
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Dallas
- Occupation
- voice actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- Peter MacNicol.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1954-04-10
- nominated for
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
- name in native language
- Peter MacNicol
- Commons category
- Peter MacNicol
- start of work period
- 1978-00-00
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
Peter MacNicol (born April 10, 1954) is an American actor. He received a Theatre World Award for his 1981 Broadway debut in the play Crimes of the Heart. His film roles include Galen in Dragonslayer (1981), Stingo in Sophie's Choice (1982), Janosz Poha in Ghostbusters II (1989), Gary Granger in Addams Family Values (1993), Renfield in Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995), and David Langley in Bean (1997).
MacNicol won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2001 for his role as the eccentric lawyer John Cage in the FOX comedy-drama Ally McBeal (1997–2002). He is also known for his television roles as attorney Alan Birch in the medical drama Chicago Hope (1994–1998), X the Eliminator on Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law (2000–2007), physicist Dr. Larry Fleinhardt on the CBS crime drama Numbers (2005–2010), Tom Lennox in the sixth season of action-thriller 24 (2007), Doctor Octopus in The Spectacular Spider-Man (2008–09), Dr. Stark on Grey's Anatomy (2010–11), Jeff Kane on the political satire series Veep (2016–2019), and Nigel the Advisor on Tangled: The Series (2017–2020). He also voiced the Mad Hatter in the Batman: Arkham video game series. He also played FBI Deputy Director Simon Sifter during season one of CSI: Cyber (2015–16).
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