1. Richard Bruce Kind was born on November 22,1956 and is an American actor and comedian.
40 Facts About Richard Kind
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Richard Kind appeared in the films Johns, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With, Big Stan, A Serious Man, The Angriest Man in Brooklyn, All We Had, Rifkin's Festival, Tick, Tick.
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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 in the New Jersey capital of Trenton.
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Richard Kind is the son of Alice, a homemaker, and Samuel Kind, a jeweler who formerly owned La Vake's Jewelry in Princeton.
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Richard Kind's family is of Russian Jewish origin and his ancestors lived in the Pale of Settlement region of the Russian Empire.
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When Richard Kind was in the fourth grade, he moved with his family to Yardley, Pennsylvania, where he grew up alongside his younger sister, Joanne.
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Richard Kind attended Pennsbury High School in Fairless Hills with fellow actor Robert Curtis Brown, graduating in 1974.
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Richard Kind is an alumnus of The Second City in Chicago.
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Richard Kind then portrayed Dr Mark Devanow on Mad About You, throughout the show's run, and played the role of Paul Lassiter on Spin City.
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Richard Kind reprised his role in the 2019 revival of Mad About You.
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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 guest-starred episode "The Worst", playing the corrupt DEA officer Special Agent Schwartz in the Netflix series Disjointed.
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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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In 2022, Richard Kind starred as police captain Stan Yenko on the CBS police procedural crime drama East New York, which was cancelled after its first season.
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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 played David's father in the Prime series "Red Oaks".
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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 had a supporting role 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.
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Clooney duped Richard Kind into thinking he was both a Jeopardy expert and an aspiring painter.