David Paymer
Department: Acting
Biography
David Emmanuel Paymer (born August 30, 1954) is an American actor, comedian, and television director.
Known For
Unforgettable
1996
City Slickers
1991
Payback
1999
Chill Factor
1999
In Good Company
2004
No Way Out
1987
Nixon
1995
State and Main
2000
Carpool
1996
Mumford
1999
Quiz Show
1994
Get Shorty
1995
Amistad
1997
The American President
1995
Mighty Joe Young
1998
School of Life
2005
Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993
The 6th Man
1997
Bait
2000
Pleasures
1986
Gang Related
1997
Perfect
1985
Crazy People
1990
No Holds Barred
1989
Drag Me to Hell
2009
In Search of Dr. Seuss
1994
The Absent-Minded Professor
1988
Warm Springs
2005
Alex & Emma
2003
RFK
2002
The In-Laws
1979
Bartleby
2001
The Five-Year Engagement
2012
The Lesser Evil
1998
Checking Out
2006
Mr. Saturday Night
1992
Twixt
2011
Fanboy
2019
Outside Ozona
1998
Irreconcilable Differences
1984
Joe and Max
2002
The Long Way Home
1997
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
2014
Crazy for Love
2005
Partners
2000
Lemon
2017
The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie
2001
Enemies of Laughter
2000
Two-Bit Waltz
2014
Focus
2001
The In-Laws
1979
This House Possessed
1981
Night of the Creeps
1986
The Hurricane
1999
City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
1994
Bounce
2000
City Hall
1996
Balto III: Wings of Change
2004
For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story
2000
Crime of the Century
1996
Mr. Saturday Night
2022
Redbelt
2008
Ocean's Thirteen
2007
Candor City Hospital
2005
Bad Shabbos
2025
Howard the Duck
1986
Love, Mary
1985
Best Defense
1984
Bad Teacher
2011
The Pickle Recipe
2016
Butterfly in the Typewriter
—
Rock 'N Roll Mom
1988
Accident Man
2018
Sky High
1990
From Where I Sit
2000
The Sunlit Night
2020
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2006
Resurrecting the Champ
2007
Heart and Souls
1993
Spartan
2004
Horse Girl
2020
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
2019
Bad Therapy
2020
Cagney & Lacey: The Return
1994
Cagney & Lacey: Together Again
1995
Airplane II: The Sequel
1982
Her Life as a Man
1984
Grace Kelly
1983
Dash and Lilly
1999
The Burial Society
2002
Lou Grant
1977
Cheers
1982
Family Ties
1982
October Road
2007
Line of Fire
2003
Brothers and Sisters
2006
21 Jump Street
1987
Static Shock
2000
L.A. Law
1986
Ghost Whisperer
2005
Fame
1982
Jack & Bobby
2004
Matlock
1986
Simon & Simon
1981
Entourage
2004
Tales from the Crypt
1989
The Jeffersons
1975
Moonlighting
1985
The View
1997
Room 104
2017
Hill Street Blues
1981
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
The Commish
1991
Without a Trace
2002
Happy Days
1974
Mancuso, F.B.I.
1989
Hart to Hart
1979
Cagney & Lacey
1982
Jake and the Fatman
1987
The New Batman Adventures
1997
Night Visions
2001
DAVE
2020
Channel Umptee-3
1997
Open All Night
1981
The Oscars
1953
Downtown
1986
The Wild Thornberrys
1998
Justice League
2001
Justice League
2001
The Wild Thornberrys
1998
Perception
2012
The Larry Sanders Show
1992
The Mentalist
2008
The Morning Show
2019
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Century City
2004
The Good Wife
2009
Taxi
1978
Santo Bugito
1995
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
2017
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
2013
The Conners
2018
Murphy Brown
1988
My Name Is Earl
2005
On Becoming a God in Central Florida
2019
Star Trek: Picard
2020
Barney Miller
1975
Glory Days
1990
Minx
2022
St. Denis Medical
2024
Bookie
2023
It's Garry Shandling's Show
1986
Good American Family
2025
Cop Rock
1990
The Commish
1991
Godzilla: The Series
1998
All's Fair
2025
There's... Johnny!
2017
St. Elsewhere
1982