David Paymer

| The In-Laws

| Cab Driver

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| Airplane II: The Sequel

| Court Photographer

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| Best Defense

| Kurly

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| Irreconcilable Differences

| Alan Sluiser

| Perfect

| Managing Editor

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| Howard the Duck

| Larry

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| Night of the Creeps

| Young scientist

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| No Way Out

| David

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| Rock 'n' Roll Mom

| Boris

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| No Holds Barred

| Unger

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| Crazy People

| George

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| City Slickers

| Ira Shalowitz

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| Mr. Saturday Night

| Stan Young

| Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture

| Searching for Bobby Fischer

| Kalev

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| Heart and Souls

| Hal the driver

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| City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold

| Ira Shalowitz

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| In Search of Dr. Seuss

| Ad Man

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| Quiz Show

| Dan Enright

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| Get Shorty

| Leo Devoe

| Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

| The American President

| Leon Kodak

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| Nixon

| Ron Ziegler

| Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

| Unforgettable

| Curtis Avery

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| City Hall

| Abe Goodman

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| Carpool

| Daniel Miller

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| The 6th Man

| Coach Pederson

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| Gang Related

| Elliot Goff

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| Amistad

| John Forsyth

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| The Lesser Evil

| George

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| Outside Ozona

| Alan Defaux

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| Mighty Joe Young

| Dr. Harry Ruben

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| Payback

| Arthur Stegman

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| Chill Factor

| Dr. Richard Long

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| Mumford

| Dr. Ernest Delbanco

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| The Hurricane

| Myron Bedlock

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| State and Main

| Marty Rossen

| Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cast
National Board of Review Award for Best Cast
Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast

| Bait

| Agent Wooly

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| Bounce

| Prosecuting Attorney Mandel

| Uncredited

| Enemies of Laughter

| Paul Halpern

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| Focus

| Mr. Finkelstein

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| Bartleby

| The Boss

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| The Burial Society

| Morry Zimmer

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| Alex & Emma

| John Shaw

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| In Good Company

| Morty

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| Spartan

| TV News Anchor

| Uncredited

| Balto III: Wings of Change

| Mel

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| Checking Out

| Ted Applebaum

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| Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

| Rafael Horowitz

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| My Suicidal Sweetheart

| Max, Sr.

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| School of Life

| Matt Warner

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| Resurrecting the Champ

| Whitley

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| Ocean's Thirteen

| V.U.P.

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| Redbelt

| Richard

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| Drag Me to Hell

| Mr. Jacks

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| Twixt

| Sam Malkin

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| The Five-Year Engagement

| Pete Solomon

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| Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

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| Two-Bit Waltz

| The Lawyer

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| The Pickle Recipe

| Uncle Morty

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| Lemon

| Dr. Gold

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| Accident Man

| Milton

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| The Sunlit Night

|Levi

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| Where'd You Go, Bernadette

| Jay Ross

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| Horse Girl

| Doctor

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| Bad Therapy

|Dr. Edward Kingsley

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| Bad Shabbos{{cite web |title=Bad Shabbos |url=https://tribecafilm.com/films/bad-shabbos-2024 |website=Tribeca Festival |access-date=11 June 2024}}

| Richard

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| ABC Afterschool Special

| Ralph

| Episode: "Make Believe Marriage"

| Barney Miller

| Felix Morrissey

| Episode: "Guns"

| Lou Grant

| Roy

| Episode: "Nightside"

| Happy Days

| Dwayne

| Episode: "If You Knew Rosa"

| House Calls

| Johnny Vance

| Episode: "No Balls, One Strike"

| This House Possessed

| Pasternak

| Television film

| Hart to Hart

| Orderly

| Episode: "Hart of Darkness"

| Cagney & Lacey

| Vinnie

| Episode: "You Call This Plain Clothes?"

| Open All Night

| Punker

| Episode: "Sitting Ducks"

| Taxi

| Ned

| Episode: "Alex the Gofer"

| Fame

| The Salesman

| Episode: "The Sell-Out"

|The Greatest American Hero

|The Gatekeeper

|Episode: "Wizards and Warlocks"

| Grace Kelly

| Jay Kanter

| Television film

| Gloria

| Robber

| Episode: "Gloria on the Couch"

| The Powers of Matthew Star

| Dr. Benson

| Episode: "Matthew Star D.O.A."

| The Jeffersons

| David

| Episode: "I Do, I Don't"

| Hill Street Blues

| Attorney Michael Shapiro

| Episode: "The Other Side of Oneness"

| Her Life as a Man

| Ted

| Television film

| The Paper Chase

| Myslesky

| 6 episodes

| Cagney & Lacey

| Todd Feldberg

| 10 episodes

| Scarecrow and Mrs. King

| Dr. Fronan

| Episode: "DOA: Delirious on Arrival"

| Hardcastle and McCormick

| Patrick Burke

| Episode: "The Yankee Clipper"

| Family Ties

| Larry Harris

| Episodes 58 & 66 "Oh Donna" & "Cold Storage"

| Cheers

| Reporter

| Episode: "King of the Hill"

| Love, Mary

| David Lewis

| Television film

| Diff'rent Strokes

| Mr. Wallace

| 2 episodes

| Moonlighting

| Camille's PR

| Episode: "Camille"

| Cheers

| Phil Schumacher

| 2 episodes

| Pleasures

| Stanley

| Television film

| Downtown

| Captain David Kiner

| 14 episodes

| 21 Jump Street

| Mike Ferris

| Episode: "16 Blown to 35"

| Rags to Riches

| Arnie

| Episode: "Born to Ride"

| My Sister Sam

| Bob

| Episode: "And They Said It Would Never Last"

| Private Eye

| Archie Hammond

| Episode: "Blue Hotel"

| It's Garry Shandling's Show

| Richard Kimble

| Episode: "The Fugitive"

| St. Elsewhere

| Mr. Bickle

| 2 episodes

| Simon & Simon

| Brian Sadler

| Episode: "Ain't Gonna Get It from Me, Jack"

| Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color

| Boris

| Episode: "Rock 'n Roll Mom"

| Who's the Boss?

| Jack

| Episode: "A Jack Story"

| A Year in the Life

| Defense Attorney

| Episode: "Fathers and Other Strangers""

| Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color

| Mr. Oliphant

| Episode: "The Absent-Minded Professor"

| Duet

| Andy

| Episode: "One Man Out"

| Matlock

| Lenny Marcus

| Episode: "The Prisoner: Part 1"

| Hooperman

| Leonard

| Episode: "The Sure Thing"

| L.A. Law

| Joey Paul

| Episode: "Whatever Happened to Hannah?"

| Mancuso, F.B.I.

| Lloyd

| Episode: "Adamant Five"

| Cop Rock

| Homeless Man

| Episode: "Oli of Ol' Lay"

| Murphy Brown

| Dr. Bishop

| 2 episodes

| Jake and the Fatman

| Henry Stocker

| Episode: "I'm Gonna Live Til I Die"

| Equal Justice

| Stuey

| Episode: "Sleeping with the Enemy"

| The Commish

| Arnie Metzger

| 10 episodes

| The Larry Sanders Show

| Norman Litkey

| 6 episodes

| Tales from the Crypt

| Andy Conway

| Episode: "Two for the Show"
Nominated—CableACE Award for Actor in a Dramatic Series

| Cagney & Lacey: The Return

| Feldberg

| Television film

| Aaahh!!! Real Monsters

| Murray

| Voice, 2 episodes

| Cagney & Lacey: Together Again

| Feldberg

| Television film

| Santo Bugito

| The Professor, Centipede, Biker Bug

| Voice, episode: "My Name Is Revenge"

| Boston Common

| Leonard Prince

| 32 episodes

| Crime of the Century

| David Wilentz

| Television film
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film

| Channel Umptee-3

| Sheldon S. Cargo

| Voice, 13 episodes

| The New Batman Adventures

| Frank

| Voice, episode: "Torch Song"

| Godzilla: The Series

| Dean Whitehead

| Voice, episode: "Talkin' Trash"

| The Wild Thornberrys

| Finch, Iguana

| Voice, 2 episodes

|Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain

|Shad Equippo

|Voice, 2 episodes

| Dash and Lilly

| Arthur Kober

| Television film

| Rocket Power

| Director

| Voice, episode: "The Wrath of Don"

| For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story

| Embassy interviewer

| Television film

| Partners

| Bob

| Television film

| Night Visions

| Jim Osgoode

| Episode: "Neighborhood Watch"

| Without a Trace

| Mr. Freedman

| Episode: "Birthday Boy"

| Justice League

| Chancellor

| Voice, episode: "War World"

| Joe and Max

| Joe Jacobs

| Television film

| RFK

| Dick Goodwin

| Television film

| Line of Fire

| Jonah Malloy

| 13 episodes
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama

| Static Shock

| Mason Andrews

| Voice, episode: "Hoop Squad"

| Century City

| Miller Sisto

| Episode: "Pilot"

| Jack & Bobby

| Adam Chasen

| 2 episodes

| School of Life

| Matt Warner

| Television film

| Into the West

| Daniel Royer

| Episode: "Ghost Dance"

| Warm Springs

| Louis Howe

| Television film

| Entourage

| Sammy Kane

| Episode: "I Wanna Be Sedated"

| Ghost Whisperer

| Adam Godfrey

| Episode: "A Grave Matter"

| Brothers & Sisters

| Donald Dudley

| Episode: "All in the Family"

| October Road

| Dr. Dough Levy

| Episode: "Dancing Days Are Here Again"; also directed 4 episodes

| My Name Is Earl

| Clark Clark

| Episode: "Monkeys Take a Bath"

| The Good Wife

| Judge Richard Cuesta

| 9 episodes

| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

| Dr. Stephen Elroy

| Episode: "Ace"

| The Mentalist

| James Panzer

| Episode: "Blinking Red Light"

| Perception

| Rueben Bauer

| 4 episodes

| Pure Genius

| Douglas Prescott

| Episode: "Hero Worship"

| There's... Johnny!

| Dr. Neuberger

| Episode: "Take Me to Church"

| I'm Dying Up Here

| Ernie Falk

| 5 episodes

| The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

| Harry Drake

| 5 episodes

| The Conners

| Gary

| Episode: "There Won't Be Blood"

| Brooklyn Nine-Nine

| Dr. William Tate

| Episode: "The Therapist"

| On Becoming a God in Central Florida

| Buck Bridges

| 2 episodes

| Room 104

| Robert

| Episode: "Night Shift"

| Star Trek: Picard

| Dr. Benayoun

| Episode: "Maps and Legends"

| Briarpatch

| Jimmy Jr.

| 3 episodes

| Dave

| Don

| 4 episodes

|The Morning Show

|Hannah's Father

|Episode: "Ghosts"

|Minx

|Myron

|Episode: "You happened to me"

| Everwood

| 4 episodes

| One Tree Hill

| 2 episodes

| Jack & Bobby

| Episode: "Stand by Me"

| Inconceivable

| Episode: "Face Your Demon Semen" (unaired)

| Windfall

| Episode: "Crash Into You"

| Grey's Anatomy

| Episode: "Break on Through"

| Pepper Dennis

| Episode: "Dennis, Bulgari, Big Losers at ACoRNS"

| Medium

| 2 episodes

| Brothers & Sisters

| Episode: "All in the Family"

| What About Brian

| Episode: "What About the Exes..."

| Gilmore Girls

| Episode: "Will You Be My Lorelai Gilmore?"

| Heartland

| Episode: "Domino Effect"

| Side Order of Life

| Episode: "Coming Out"

| Brothers & Sisters

| 4 episodes

| The Unit

| Episode: "Inquisition"

| Privileged

| 4 episodes

| Melrose Place

| Episode: "June"

| Make It or Break It

| 7 episodes

| Men of a Certain Age

| Episode: "Powerless"

| Life Unexpected

| Episode: "Bride Unbridled"

| Hellcats

| Episode: "Nobody Loves Me But My Mother"

| No Ordinary Family

| Episode: "No Ordinary Visitors"

| 90210

| Episode: "The Enchanted Donkey"

| Hart of Dixie

| 11 episodes

| Switched at Birth

| 6 episodes

| Bunheads

| 2 episodes

| The Carrie Diaries

| Episode: "Endgame"

| Mistresses

| Episode: "A Kiss Is Just a Kiss?"

| The Mentalist

| Episode: "Red and Itchy"

| The Fosters

| Episode: "Vigil"

| Franklin & Bash

| Episode: "Shoot to Thrill"

| Recovery Road

| Episode: "My Loose Thread"

| Lucifer

| Episode: "Favorite Son"