Jeffrey Tambor
Biography
Jeffrey Michael Tambor (born July 8, 1944) is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his television roles such as Jeffrey Brooks, the uptight neighbor of Stanley and Helen Roper in the TV sitcom The Ropers (1979–1980), as Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show (1992–1998), George Bluth Sr. and Oscar Bluth on Arrested Development (2003–2006, 2013, 2018–2019) and Maura Pfefferman on Transparent (2014–2017). For his role in the latter, Tambor earned two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series out of three nominations. In 2015, he was also awarded a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Pfefferman.
His film roles include Jay Porter in ...And Justice for All (1979), Jinx Latham in Mr. Mom (1983), Sully in There's Something About Mary (1998), Mayor Augustus Maywho in How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Tom Manning in Hellboy (2004) and its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), Sid Garner in The Hangover trilogy (2009–2013), Francis Silverberg in The Accountant (2016), and Georgy Malenkov in The Death of Stalin (2017).
Tambor has done voice acting for The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004), Monsters vs. Aliens (2009), Tangled (2010), and Trolls (2016). For his voice role in The Lionhearts (1998), he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award. From 2002 to 2003, he was an announcer for Hollywood Squares.
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Full filmography
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) as Lester Cohen
- Law & Order (1990) as Barry Dilwynn
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000) as Jerzy Skaggs
- Medium (2005) as Todd Emory / Allison Dubois
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014) as Self
- Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014) as Self
- The Good Wife (2009) as Judge George Kluger
- The Love Boat (1977) as Lawrence Jurgens
- The Love Boat (1977) as Harold Rogers
- The Love Boat (1977) as Mr. Harold Rogers
- Bob's Burgers (2011) as Captain Flarty (voice)
- Psych (2006) as Lloyd French
- Murder, She Wrote (1984) as Russell Armstrong
- Hill Street Blues (1981)
- Hill Street Blues (1981) as Judge Alan Wachtel
- Hill Street Blues (1981) as Attorney Alan Wachtel
- The Colbert Report (2005) as Self - Guest
- The Orville (2017) as Ben Mercer
- Entourage (2004) as Jeffrey Tambor
- Arrested Development (2003) as George Bluth Sr.
- The Practice (1997) as Sid Herman
- M*A*S*H (1972) as Reddish
- Batman: The Animated Series (1992) as Crocker (voice)
- Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010) as Gill Littlefoot (voice)