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David Paymer

Actor, director David Emmanuel Paymer is known for City Slickers, Mr. Saturday Night, Quiz Show, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Get Shorty, The Hurricane, Ocean's Thirteen, and Drag Me to Hell. He was memorable as mob boss Jonah Malloy in the television series Line of Fire, Judge Richard Cuesta in The Good Wife and as Don in Dave.

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Filmography

Bad Teacher

2011
as Doctor Vogel

Drag Me to Hell

2009
as Mr. Jacks

Ocean's Thirteen

2007
as V.U.P.

Mighty Joe Young

1998
as Harry Ruben

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

2014
as Dixon Lewis

The Five-Year Engagement

2012
as Pete Solomon

Horse Girl

2020

Chill Factor

1999
as Dr. Richard Long

Redbelt

2008
as Richard

Fanboy

2019
as Angry Ice Cream Customer

No Way Out

1987
as Computer Technician

Irreconcilable Differences

1984
as Alan Sluiser

Two-Bit Waltz

2014
as The Lawyer

State and Main

2000
as Marty Rossen

Lemon

2017
as Dr. Gold

RFK

2002
as Dick Goodwin

School of Life

2005
as Matt Warner

Checking Out

2005
as Ted Applebaum

Partners

2003
as Bob

Outside Ozona

1998
as Alan Defaux

Bait

2000
as Agent Wooly

The Sixth Man

1997
as Coach Pederson

Gang Related

1997
as Elliot Goff

Accident Man

2018
as Milton

Mr. Saturday Night

1992
as Stan

Night of the Creeps

1986
as Young Scientist

Cagney & Lacey: Together Again

1995
as Deputy D.A. Feldberg

Payback: Straight Up

2006
as Arthur Stegman

Butterfly in the Typewriter

as Stanley Kauffmann

Rock 'N Roll Mum

1988
as Boris

Pleasures

1986
as Stanley

Love, Mary

1985
as David Lewis

The In-Laws

1979
as Cabbie

City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold

1994
as Ira Shalowitz

Unforgettable

1996
as Curtis Avery

This House Possessed

1981
as Pasternak

Bartleby

2001
as The Boss

The Sunlit Night

2019
as Levi

The Burial Society

2002
as Morry Zimmer

In Search of Dr. Seuss

1994
as The Ad Man

Enemies of Laughter

2000
as Paul

Searching for Bobby Fischer

1993
as Kalev

Alex & Emma

2003
as John Shaw

Amistad

1997
as Secretary John Forsyth

City Slickers

1991
as Ira Shalowitz

City Hall

1996
as Abe Goodman

Mumford

1999
as Dr. Ernest Delbanco

Nixon

1995
as Ron Ziegler

For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story

2000
as Embassy interviewer

The American President

1995
as Leon Kodak

Focus

2001
as Mr. Finkelstein

Warm Springs

2005
as Louis Howe

Get Shorty

1995
as Leo Devoe

Payback

1999
as Arthur Stegman

The Hurricane

1999
as Myron Bedlock

Crazy People

1990
as George

The Pickle Recipe

2016
as Uncle Morty

Joe and Max

2002
as Joe Jacobs

Оттуда, где я сижу

2000
as Bob

Quiz Show

1994
as Dan Enright

Crime of the Century

1996
as David Wilentz

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

2005
as Rafael Horowitz

In Good Company

2004
as Morty

Twixt

2011
as Sam

Cagney & Lacey: The Return

1994
as Deputy Dist. Atty. Feldberg

Howard the Duck

1986
as Larry, Scientist

My Suicidal Sweetheart

2005
as Max Sr.

The Long Way Home

1997
as Voice

No Holds Barred

1989
as Unger

The Lesser Evil

1998
as George

Carpool

1996
as Daniel Miller