Stephen Tobolowsky

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Stephen Tobolowsky

Birth name	Stephen Harold Tobolowsky
Born	May 30, 1951 Dallas, Texas
Notable roles	Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day (1993)

Stephen Harold Tobolowsky (born May 30, 1951) is a Tony Award-nominated American charactor actor whose career has largely been in cast as supporting characters that are amiable, brainy, and/or clueless, in television, stage, and film.

1 Career
2 Awards & personal life
3 Filmography
- 3.1 Films
- 3.2 Television Appearances
4 External links

[edit] Career

After starting on the New York theater scene, he moved to Hollywood to enter the film business. He has appeared in over 100 films and at least as many television projects. Throughout his career he has maintained a connection to the theater by directing and acting in plays in New York and Los Angeles. He directed one movie, Two Idiots in Hollywood, which was based on his play of the same name. He also co-wrote the film True Stories with David Byrne. In 2005 he released a documentary film, Stephen Tobolowsky's Birthday Party, featuring a performance in which he tells stories from his life to a group of friends.

Perhaps through sheer force of repetition, he is known from his role in 1993's Groundhog Day, in which he played Bill Murray's annoying high school classmate and insurance salesman, Ned Ryerson, who Murray's character keeps running into when he keeps repeating February 2. He would later reunite with Murray 11 years later in the movie version of the comic strip Garfield: The Movie in which he played the villainous TV star Happy Chapman (Murray himself provided the voice of the orange feline). He appeared as a gentle sound man with a dark secret in the 1994 film Radioland Murders. He also had a memorable guest spot on Seinfeld as Tor Ackman, Kramer's holistic healer, in the second season episode, "The Heart Attack."

[edit] Awards & personal life

He was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Featured Actor in a Play for the 2002 revival of Morning's at Seven. He is married to actress Ann Hearn and is the father of two sons.

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Films

Howl (2008) as Christopher Cox
Wild Hogs (2007) as Charley
National Lampoon's Totally Baked : A Potumentary (2006) as Jesco Rollins
Blind Dating (2006) as Dr. Perkins
Pope Dreams (2006) as Carl
Stephen Tobolowsky's Birthday Party (2005) featuring a performance in which he tells stories from his life to a group of friends.
Garfield as Happy Chapman
Freaky Friday (2003) as Mr. Bates
Country Bears (2002) as Beary's Father
Freddy Got Fingered (2001) as Uncle Neil
Memento (2000) as Sammy Jankis
Bossa Nova (1999) as Trevor
The Insider (1999) as Eric Kluster, a network executive on the receiving end of an enraged Mike Wallace (Christopher Plummer)
Mr. Magoo (1997) as FBI Agent Chuck Stupak
Radioland Murders (1994) as Max Applewhite, the disgruntled studio sound engineer
Groundhog Day (1993) as Ned Ryerson, Bill Murray's annoying high school classmate and insurance salesman
Sneakers (1992) as hubristic engineer Werner Brandes, duped by the protagonists to gain access to his place of employment
Thelma and Louise (1991) as Max
Great Balls of Fire! (1989) as Jud Phillips
Mississippi Burning (1988) as Clayton Townley
Spaceballs (1987) as Captain of the Guards