Richard Bruce Kind was born on November 22,1956 and is an American actor and comedian.
34 Facts About Richard Kind
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Richard Kind is known for his roles as Dr Mark Devanow in Mad About You, Paul Lassiter in Spin City, Andy in Curb Your Enthusiasm, and as Arthur in the Coen Brothers film A Serious Man.
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Richard Kind was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance as Marcus Hoff in the 2013 Broadway production of The Big Knife.
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Richard Kind was born to a Jewish family on November 22,1956, in the New Jersey capital of Trenton, the son of Alice, a homemaker, and Samuel Richard Kind, a jeweler who formerly owned La Vake's Jewelry in Princeton.
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Richard Kind attended Pennsbury High School with fellow actor Robert Curtis Brown, and he graduated in 1974.
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Richard Kind is an alumnus of The Second City in Chicago.
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Richard Kind portrayed Dr Mark Devanow on Mad About You throughout the show's run, although after he took the role of Paul Lassiter on Spin City, he appeared on Mad About You with less frequency.
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Richard Kind reprised his role in the 2019 revival of Mad About You.
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Richard Kind served as a guest panelist on the 2000 revival of the television game show To Tell the Truth.
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Richard Kind appeared in eight episodes of Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm between 2002 and 2021 as Larry's cousin Andy.
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Richard Kind guest-starred on the Disney Channel series Even Stevens, where he played the surly Uncle Chuck.
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Richard Kind appeared in an episode of CBS' Two and a Half Men with former Spin City co-star Charlie Sheen on November 12,2007.
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Richard Kind played the role of burnt spy Jesse's ex-boss Marv in three episodes of season 4 of Burn Notice.
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In 2011, Richard Kind guest-starred in an episode of the ABC sitcom Mr Sunshine as Rod the Bod.
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Richard Kind starred in the HBO series Luck until its cancellation, and he is the spokesman for On-Cor frozen foods.
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Richard Kind had a minor role as Gary Meyers, an archaeologist who translated the symbols on the Stargate prior to James Spader's character's involvement in the 1994 movie Stargate.
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Richard Kind appeared in the film National Lampoon's Bag Boy in 2007.
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Richard Kind starred in the independent black comedy feature, The Understudy in 2008.
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In 2008, Richard Kind performed the role of Voltaire in the New York City Opera production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide.
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Richard Kind played the major supporting role of Arthur Gopnik in the Coen brothers' dark comedy film A Serious Man.
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Richard Kind had a small role in Clint Eastwood's Hereafter as Christos Andryo, in 2010.
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Richard Kind later went on to play the part of a casting director in Clooney's directorial debut Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.
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Richard Kind played himself in the short-lived HBO series Unscripted, which Clooney executive produced and directed with Grant Heslov, and played a small role in the film Argo as screenwriter Max Klein, which was produced by both Clooney and Heslov.
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Richard Kind is set to appear in Ari Aster's horror film Beau Is Afraid.
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Richard Kind created the role of Addison Mizner in Stephen Sondheim's Bounce, and has appeared on Broadway in The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, The Producers, and Sly Fox.
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Richard Kind played Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at the Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts in Fairfield, Iowa.
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Richard Kind received a Tony Award nomination for his role in the 2013 Broadway production of The Big Knife.
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Richard Kind had a recurring role on the Disney Channel series Kim Possible as the villain Frugal Lucre.
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Richard Kind played the role of Gumbo in an episode of Chowder on Cartoon Network.
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Richard Kind guest-starred in Phineas and Ferb in the episode "Perry the Actorpus" as the Totally Tools executive.
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Richard Kind voiced Riley's imaginary friend Bing Bong in Pixar's Inside Out.
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Richard Kind provides the voice of Olly and Saraline's dad Harvey Timbers in Welcome to the Wayne.
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Richard Kind was married to Dana Stanley from 1999 to 2018.
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Richard Kind was inducted into the Pennsbury High School Hall of Fame in the inaugural class on October 13,2022.