Mark Linn-Baker was born on June 17,1954 and is an American actor and director who played Benjy Stone in the film My Favorite Year and Larry Appleton in the television sitcom Perfect Strangers.
26 Facts About Mark Linn-Baker
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Mark Linn-Baker was born with the given names Mark Linn and the surname Baker in St Louis, Missouri.
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Mark Linn-Baker later changed his surname to a compound surname by hyphenating his middle name Linn with his surname Baker, producing Linn-Baker.
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Mark Linn-Baker's mother, Joan, was a dancer, and his father, William Nelson Baker, co-founded the Open Stage Theater in Hartford.
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Mark Linn-Baker's parents were both active in theatre and participated in civil rights activism.
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Mark Linn-Baker graduated from Wethersfield High School in Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1972, and from Yale University in 1976.
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Mark Linn-Baker then attended the Yale School of Drama, receiving a MFA in Drama in 1979, and following that, found most of his early roles on stage.
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Mark Linn-Baker developed and performed in a two-man comedy show, The Laundry Hour, with Lewis Black, in the early 1980s.
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Mark Linn-Baker appeared in the 1983 Broadway version of the Doonesbury comic strip.
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Mark Linn-Baker appeared in Laughter on the 23rd Floor in 1993; the 1996 revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; the 1998 Roundabout Theatre Company production of A Flea in Her Ear; the 2003 musical A Year with Frog and Toad; and the 2006 comedy Losing Louie.
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Mark Linn-Baker's film debut was a small part in Woody Allen's 1979 film Manhattan.
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Mark Linn-Baker guest-starred on a 1984 episode of Miami Vice as Bonzo Barry and portrayed hapless office worker Phil West on a 1985 episode of Moonlighting titled "Atlas Belched".
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Mark Linn-Baker starred with Charles Kimbrough in the 1985 CBS pilot The Recovery Room, a sitcom about a bar located across from a major city hospital and its inhabitants.
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Between parts, Mark Linn-Baker appeared during this time in television commercials pitching products ranging from Kellogg's Nutri-Grain to Kraft's Life Savers.
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Mark Linn-Baker starred in the ABC series Perfect Strangers as Larry Appleton, a young man living on his own for the first time in Chicago.
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Mark Linn-Baker appeared in the 2010 film How Do You Know as Ron.
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Mark Linn-Baker previously appeared opposite Nathan Lane in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
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Mark Linn-Baker guested three times on Hangin' with Mr Cooper as Larry Weeks.
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Mark Linn-Baker directed numerous episodes of Family Matters, Hangin' with Mr Cooper, Step By Step and The Trouble with Larry.
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Mark Linn-Baker appeared as a spokesperson for Peter Pan peanut butter in a series of commercials in the late 1980s and 1990s.
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Mark Linn-Baker appeared in a Christmas episode of Ally McBeal as a man fired for seeing a unicorn.
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Mark Linn-Baker's character made a return cameo appearance in the season 6 episode "Endgame", where it was revealed Goren has kept in touch with the character through correspondence.
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Mark Linn-Baker provided the voice for one of a quartet of aardvarks in the 2002 Sandra Boynton album Philadelphia Chickens.
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Mark Linn-Baker joined his friend, fellow Yale Drama School graduate and former sidekick Lewis Black, on the audiobook version of Black's second book Me of Little Faith where he and Black recreate The Laundry Hour, an act they did in New York City in the early 1980s.
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In 1995, Mark Linn-Baker married Adrianne Lobel, the daughter of children's book author Arnold Lobel, best known for his Frog and Toad series.
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Mark Linn-Baker helped adapt his father-in-law's stories into the Tony-nominated Broadway musical A Year with Frog and Toad, in which Mark Linn-Baker played Toad and Jay Goede played Frog.