Acting

Ian Roberts

Born July 29, 1965 · Queens, New York City, New York, USA (age 61)

Ian Michael Roberts – American actor, comedian, and writer, born 29 July 1965 in Queens, New York. Spent his childhood in Secaucus, New Jersey. A founding member of the Upright Citizens Brigade improv troupe (with Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, and Matt Walsh). His most notable film roles include Sparky Polastri in Bring It On (2000), the Stage Manager in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004),…

Known For

The Dictator

The Dictator · 2012

The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.

Step Brothers

Step Brothers · 2008

Brennan Huff and Dale Doback might be grown men. But that doesn't stop them from living at home and turning into jealous, competitive stepbrothers when their single parents marry. Brennan's constant competition with Dale strains his mom's marriage to Dale's dad, leaving everyone to wonder whether they'll ever see eye to eye.

I Love You, Man

I Love You, Man · 2009

I Love You, Man

MovieComedyRomance

Peter Klaven is a successful real estate agent who, upon getting engaged to the woman of his dreams, Zooey, discovers, to his dismay and chagrin, that he has no male friend close enough to serve as his Best Man. Peter immediately sets out to rectify the situation, embarking on a series of bizarre and awkward "man-dates."

Walk of Shame

Walk of Shame · 2014

A reporter's dream of becoming a news anchor is compromised after a one-night stand leaves her stranded in downtown L.A. without a phone, car, ID or money - and only 8 hours to make it to the most important job interview of her life.

Bring It On

Bring It On · 2000

The Toro cheerleading squad from Rancho Carne High School in San Diego has got spirit, spunk, sass and a killer routine that's sure to land them the national championship trophy for the sixth year in a row. But for newly-elected team captain Torrance, the Toros' road to total cheer glory takes a shady turn when she discovers that their perfectly-choreographed routines were in fact stolen.

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy · 2004

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

It's the 1970s and San Diego anchorman Ron Burgundy is the top dog in local TV, but that's all about to change when ambitious reporter Veronica Corningstone arrives as a new employee at his station.

The House

The House · 2017

MovieComedyCrime

When Scott and Kate Johansen’s daughter gets into the college of her dreams it’s cause for celebration. That is, until Scott and Kate learn that the scholarship they were counting on didn’t come through, and they’re now on the hook for tuition they can’t begin to afford. With the help of their friend and neighbor Frank also in need of a major payday they decide to open an illegal casino in his suburban house, risking everything together on a Vegas-style bacchanal where money flows, inhibitions are checked at the door, and all bets are off.

Get Hard

Get Hard · 2015

MovieComedyCrime

When millionaire hedge fund manager James is convicted of fraud and sentenced to a stretch in San Quentin, the judge gives him one month to get his affairs in order. Knowing that he won't survive more than a few minutes in prison on his own, James desperately turns to Darnell-- a black businessman who's never even had a parking ticket -- for help. As Darnell puts James through the wringer, both learn that they were wrong about many things, including each other.

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The Dictator

The Dictator · 2012

The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.

NYC Cop

Step Brothers

Step Brothers · 2008

Brennan Huff and Dale Doback might be grown men. But that doesn't stop them from living at home and turning into jealous, competitive stepbrothers when their single parents marry. Brennan's constant competition with Dale strains his mom's marriage to Dale's dad, leaving everyone to wonder whether they'll ever see eye to eye.

Male Therapist

I Love You, Man

I Love You, Man · 2009

I Love You, Man

MovieComedyRomance

Peter Klaven is a successful real estate agent who, upon getting engaged to the woman of his dreams, Zooey, discovers, to his dismay and chagrin, that he has no male friend close enough to serve as his Best Man. Peter immediately sets out to rectify the situation, embarking on a series of bizarre and awkward "man-dates."

Venice Broadwalk Jogger

Walk of Shame

Walk of Shame · 2014

A reporter's dream of becoming a news anchor is compromised after a one-night stand leaves her stranded in downtown L.A. without a phone, car, ID or money - and only 8 hours to make it to the most important job interview of her life.

Main Network Executive

Bring It On

Bring It On · 2000

The Toro cheerleading squad from Rancho Carne High School in San Diego has got spirit, spunk, sass and a killer routine that's sure to land them the national championship trophy for the sixth year in a row. But for newly-elected team captain Torrance, the Toros' road to total cheer glory takes a shady turn when she discovers that their perfectly-choreographed routines were in fact stolen.

Sparky Polastri

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy · 2004

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

It's the 1970s and San Diego anchorman Ron Burgundy is the top dog in local TV, but that's all about to change when ambitious reporter Veronica Corningstone arrives as a new employee at his station.

Stage Manager

The House

The House · 2017

MovieComedyCrime

When Scott and Kate Johansen’s daughter gets into the college of her dreams it’s cause for celebration. That is, until Scott and Kate learn that the scholarship they were counting on didn’t come through, and they’re now on the hook for tuition they can’t begin to afford. With the help of their friend and neighbor Frank also in need of a major payday they decide to open an illegal casino in his suburban house, risking everything together on a Vegas-style bacchanal where money flows, inhibitions are checked at the door, and all bets are off.

Driver at College Campus

Get Hard

Get Hard · 2015

MovieComedyCrime

When millionaire hedge fund manager James is convicted of fraud and sentenced to a stretch in San Quentin, the judge gives him one month to get his affairs in order. Knowing that he won't survive more than a few minutes in prison on his own, James desperately turns to Darnell-- a black businessman who's never even had a parking ticket -- for help. As Darnell puts James through the wringer, both learn that they were wrong about many things, including each other.

Screenplay

Drillbit Taylor

Drillbit Taylor · 2008

Drillbit Taylor

Dealing with a sociopathic school bully, three high school freshmen hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them, not realizing he is just a homeless beggar and petty thief looking for some easy cash.

Jim

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby · 2006

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

The fastest man on four wheels, Ricky Bobby, is one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history. A big, hairy American winning machine, Ricky has everything a dimwitted daredevil could want, a luxurious mansion, a smokin' hot wife, and all the fast food he can eat. But Ricky's turbo-charged lifestyle hits an unexpected speed bump when he's bested by flamboyant Euro-idiot Jean Girard and reduced to a fear-ridden wreck.

Kyle

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · 2007

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

MovieComedyMusic

Following a childhood tragedy, Dewey Cox follows a long and winding road to music stardom. Dewey perseveres through changing musical styles, an addiction to nearly every drug known and bouts of uncontrollable rage.

Drug Dealer

Semi-Pro

Semi-Pro · 2008

Jackie Moon is the owner, promoter, coach, and star player of the Flint Michigan Tropics of the American Basketball Association (ABA), the worst team in the league. In 1976 before the ABA collapses, the NBA plans to merge with the best teams of the ABA at the end of the season. Only the top four teams will make the move and the worst teams will fold. If the Tropics want to make it to the NBA, Jackie Moon must rally his team and start winning.

Spurs Coach

Freaks of Nature

Freaks of Nature · 2015

Freaks of Nature

MovieScience FictionComedy

In the town of Dillford, humans, vampires and zombies were all living in peace - until the alien apocalypse arrived. Now three teenagers-one human, one vampire, and one zombie-have to team up to figure out how to get rid of the visitors.

Chaz Sr

Reno 911!: Miami

Reno 911!: Miami · 2007

Reno 911!: Miami

MovieActionComedy

A rag-tag team of Reno cops are called in to save the day after a terrorist attack disrupts a national police convention in Miami Beach during spring break. Based on the Comedy Central series.

Captain Rogers, DHS

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard · 2009

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard

Don Ready is many things, but he is best-known as an extraordinary salesman. When a car dealership in Temecula teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, he and his ragtag team dive in to save the day. But what Ready doesn't count on is falling in love and finding his soul.

Selleck Customer - Gary

The Houses October Built

The Houses October Built · 2014

The Houses October Built

MovieHorrorThriller

Beneath the fake blood and cheap masks of countless haunted house attractions across the country, there are whispers of truly terrifying alternatives. Looking to find an authentic, blood-curdling good fright for Halloween, five friends set off on a road trip in an RV to track down these underground Haunts. Just when their search seems to reach a dead end, strange and disturbing things start happening and it becomes clear that the Haunt has come to them…

Feaster Bunny

Reno 911!: It's a Wonderful Heist

Reno 911!: It's a Wonderful Heist · 2022

Reno 911!: It's a Wonderful Heist

MovieComedyFantasy

It’s Holiday Season in Reno, and Lieutenant Dangle wishes he’d never been born. With the help of a roller skating “Angel,” he learns how much better the lives of the other deputies would be if he never existed. Will he decide to live on anyway? There’s still Christmas criminals to catch!

Producer

Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie

Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie · 2004

Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie

While Ron Burgundy's rivalry with Veronica Corningstone escalates quickly, a group of unprofessional thieves better known as 'The Alarm Clock' try to make the truth known, whatever that may mean...

Stage Manager

Wild Girls Gone

Wild Girls Gone · 2007

Wild Girls Gone

In the Spring Break capital of White Sands, Florida, Sheriff Terry Moran outlaws the town's world famous ass contests to win the elderly vote in his campaign for Mayor - even though he is married to the town's former Ass Contest Queen, Doreen. Unhappy with how her husband is changing, Doreen breaks out of her bored drunk housewife existence to recapture her youth and to subvert her husband's campaign.

Writer

Reno 911!: The Hunt for QAnon

Reno 911!: The Hunt for QAnon · 2021

Reno 911!: The Hunt for QAnon

MovieTV MovieComedy

The Reno Sheriff’s Department find themselves in their stickiest situation yet, hunting down “Q," the person supposedly behind all of the conspiracy theories concocted by the QAnon movement. In their valiant efforts, the officers find themselves stuck at the QAnon convention at sea, and ultimately end up in more trouble when they escape only to discover that they’ve landed on Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous island.

Producer

Gigantic

Gigantic · 2008

MovieComedyRomance

Young mattress salesman Brian decides to adopt a baby from China but is distracted when he forms a relationship with quirky, wealthy Harriet whom he meets at his mattress store. As their relationship flourishes, unbeknownst to them, a hitman is trying to kill Brian.

John Weathersby

Freak Dance

Freak Dance · 2010

MovieMusicComedy

A spoiled rich girl who wants to be a dancer finds herself caught into between two rival dance groups set to do battle at an underground competition.

Dr. Starvos

Wah-Wah

Wah-Wah · 2005

Set at the end of the 1960s, as Swaziland is about to receive independence from United Kingdom, the film follows the young Ralph Compton, at 12, through his parents' traumatic separation, till he's 14.

John Traherne

Martin & Orloff

Martin & Orloff · 2002

Martin & Orloff

This is the story of a marketing man and his shrink. A suicide attempt and a softball game; A PHD-toting stripper and a deranged Desert Storm vet; A giant sparerib costume and the world's largest peenis; John Woo-style violence and Steel Magnolia-esque pathos. This is the story of Martin & Orloff.

Writer

American Dad!

American Dad! · 2005

SeriesAnimationComedy

The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his better half housewife, Francine Smith; their college-aged daughter, Hayley Smith; and their high-school-aged son, Steve Smith. Outside of the Smith family, there are three additional main characters, including Hayley's boyfriend turned husband, Jeff Fischer; the family's man-in-a-goldfish-body pet, Klaus; and most notably the family's zany alien, Roger, who is "full of masquerades, brazenness, and shocking antics."

Sensei Tom (voice)

Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live · 1975

Saturday Night Live

SeriesComedyNews

A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.

Hidden Camera Victim (uncredited)

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Brooklyn Nine-Nine · 2013

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

SeriesComedyCrime

A single-camera ensemble comedy following the lives of an eclectic group of detectives in a New York precinct, including one slacker who is forced to shape up when he gets a new boss.

Lucas Wint

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Curb Your Enthusiasm · 2000

Curb Your Enthusiasm

The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.

Fire Chief

New Girl

New Girl · 2011

Jessica Day is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. Goofy, positive, vulnerable and honest to a fault, Jess has faith in people, even when she shouldn't. Although she's dorky and awkward, she's comfortable in her own skin. More prone to friendships with women, she's not used to hanging with the boys—especially at home.

Billy

Parks and Recreation

Parks and Recreation · 2009

Parks and Recreation

In an attempt to beautify her town — and advance her career — Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana, takes on bureaucrats, cranky neighbors, and single-issue fanatics whose weapons are lawsuits, the jumble of city codes, and the democratic process she loves so much.

Ian Winston

Community

Community · 2009

Follow the lives of a group of students at what is possibly the world’s worst community college in the fictional locale of Greendale, Colorado.

Coach Chapman

Arrested Development

Arrested Development · 2003

Arrested Development

The story of a wealthy family that lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together.

Literal Doctor

Craig of the Creek

Craig of the Creek · 2018

Craig of the Creek

SeriesAnimationAction & Adventure

Craig and his two friends, Kelsey and JP, embark on adventures in the untamed wilderness of the Creek, a place where children can run wild and free. The group of friends solve mysteries, fulfil quests and compete in battles against the other kids.

Neil (voice)

Superstore

Superstore · 2015

A hilarious workplace comedy about a unique family of employees at a super-sized mega store. From the bright-eyed newbies and the seen-it-all veterans to the clueless summer hires and the in-it-for-life managers, together they hilariously tackle the day-to-day grind of rabid bargain hunters, riot-causing sales and nap-worthy training sessions.

Gary

Reno 911!

Reno 911! · 2003

This partially unscripted comedy brings viewers into the squad car as incompetent officers swing into action, answering 911 calls about everything from speeding violations and prostitution to staking out a drug den. Within each episode, viewers catch a "fly on the wall" glimpse of the cops' often politically incorrect opinions, ranging from their personal feelings to professional critiques of their colleagues.

Steve Hardcastle

Veep

SeriesComedyWar & Politics

A look into American politics, revolving around former Senator Selina Meyer who finds being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she expected and everything everyone ever warned her about.

Governor John DeVito

Childrens Hospital

Childrens Hospital · 2008

Childrens Hospital

A hospital isn't a place for lazy people. It's a place for smart people who take care of people who aren't smart enough to keep themselves healthy. So begins Children's Hospital, a parody series that follows the lives, loves and laughs of a hospital staff.

Dr. Antoine

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt · 2015

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

When a woman is rescued from a doomsday cult and lands in New York City, she must navigate a world she didn't think even existed anymore.

Captain Mooney

Key & Peele

Key & Peele · 2012

Key & Peele is an American sketch comedy television show. It stars Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, both former cast members of MADtv. Each episode of the show consists of several pre-taped sketches starring the two actors, introduced by Key and Peele in front of a live studio audience.

Executive Producer

Happy Endings

Happy Endings · 2011

A fresh and funny take on modern friendship and what one urban family will do to stay friends after the perfect couple who brought them all together break up on their wedding day. The failed wedding forces them all to question their life choices. Then there are Alex and Dave themselves, who strike a truce and must learn to live with the changes their breakup has brought.

Bouncer

Party Down

Party Down · 2009

A group of struggling actors and dysfunctional dreamers wait for their big break while they are stuck serving hors d'oeurves for a Hollywood catering company 'Party Down.'

Jeff

Workaholics

Workaholics · 2011

The misadventures of three recent college dropouts, roommates, and co-workers at a telemarketing company and their drug dealer.

Cal

Teachers

Teachers · 2016

Written by and starring acclaimed comedy troupe The Katydids, Teachers shows their hilariously warped perspective as six elementary school teachers trying to mold young minds, even though their own lives aren’t really together.

Superintendent Greg

Baskets

Baskets · 2016

Chip Baskets wants to follow his dream of being a French clown—however, reality keeps interfering. Saddled with financial difficulties and facing an impenetrable language barrier, he moves back home to Bakersfield with high hopes. There, he is forced to confront his past while working as a rodeo clown and competing with his siblings for his mother's approval and affection.

Wallis

Carol & the End of the World

Carol & the End of the World · 2023

Carol & the End of the World

SeriesAnimationComedy

As a planetary apocalypse looms, a woman struggling to embrace end-times chaos searches for meaning in her last months on Earth.

(voice)

Home Movies

Home Movies · 1999

SeriesAnimationComedy

TV series about the life of Brendon Small, an eight-year-old visionary who, using his friends Jason and Melissa as actors, have managed to direct over a thousand homemade films. His parents are divorced, but it doesn't feel strange since so many other kids' parents are divorced. His friend Jason actually feels upset because his parents are still together. At school, he is taught soccer by his coach John McGuirk, or as he calls him, "that weird Irish guy".

Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat

Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat · 2026

Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat

Anthony, a real temp, is hired at Rockin' Grandma's Hot Sauce (a fake company) for its annual retreat - the final one for the company's CEO Doug before retirement. Doug's son Dougie Jr. struggles to prove his leadership abilities while a polished private-equity team courts the company for acquisition.

Scott Norris

American Auto

American Auto · 2021

SeriesComedyDrama

In the headquarters of a major American automotive company in Detroit, a floundering group of executives at Payne Motors must adapt to the changing times or be sent to the junkyard.

Charlie Altman