Acting

Michael McShane

Born June 25, 1955 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA (age 71)

Michael McShane is an American actor, singer, and improvisational comedian. He is known for playing Friar Tuck in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Dr. Swanson in Office Space, and for voice over work in cartoons and video games such as Final Fantasy X, A Bug's Life, Spawn, Castle in the Sky, Treasure Planet and Happily N'Ever After. He appeared on the original British television show Whose Line Is …

Known For

A Bug's Life

A Bug's Life · 1998

MovieAdventureAnimation

On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his bustling colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers led by the evil-minded Hopper.

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves · 1991

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

MovieActionAdventure

Nobleman crusader Robin of Locksley breaks out of a Jerusalem prison with the help of Moorish fellow prisoner Azeem and travels back home to England. But upon arrival he discovers his dead father in the ruins of his family estate, killed by the vicious sheriff of Nottingham, Robin and Azeem join forces with outlaws Little John and Will Scarlett to save the kingdom from the sheriff's villainy.

Treasure Planet

Treasure Planet · 2002

Treasure Planet

MovieScience FictionAdventure

When space galleon cabin boy Jim Hawkins discovers a map to an intergalactic "loot of a thousand worlds," a cyborg cook named John Silver teaches him to battle supernovas and space storms on their journey to find treasure.

Ri¢hie Ri¢h

Ri¢hie Ri¢h · 1994

MovieComedyFamily

Billionaire heir Richie Rich has it all, including Reggie Jackson as a batting coach and Claudia Schiffer as a personal trainer -- but no playmates. What's more, scoundrel Laurence Van Dough is scheming to take over the family empire. Uh-oh! Enter faithful butler Cadbury to save the day.

Office Space

Office Space · 1999

A depressed white-collar worker tries hypnotherapy, only to find himself in a perpetual state of devil-may-care bliss that prompts him to start living by his own rules, and hatch a hapless attempt to embezzle money from his soul-killing employers.

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust · 2001

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust

MovieAnimationFantasy

Legendary dhampir D competes with a motley family of bounty hunters to track down Charlotte Elbourne, a young woman seemingly abducted by undead nobleman Meier Link.

Big Trouble

Big Trouble · 2002

MovieActionComedy

The story of how a mysterious suitcase brings together, and changes, the lives of a divorced dad, an unhappy housewife, two hitmen, a pair of street thugs, two love struck teens, two FBI men and a psychedelic toad. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry's best-selling first novel, "Big Trouble."

Drop Dead Gorgeous

Drop Dead Gorgeous · 1999

Drop Dead Gorgeous

In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won't give up without a fight.

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A Bug's Life

A Bug's Life · 1998

MovieAdventureAnimation

On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his bustling colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers led by the evil-minded Hopper.

Tuck / Roll (voice)

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves · 1991

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

MovieActionAdventure

Nobleman crusader Robin of Locksley breaks out of a Jerusalem prison with the help of Moorish fellow prisoner Azeem and travels back home to England. But upon arrival he discovers his dead father in the ruins of his family estate, killed by the vicious sheriff of Nottingham, Robin and Azeem join forces with outlaws Little John and Will Scarlett to save the kingdom from the sheriff's villainy.

Friar Tuck

Treasure Planet

Treasure Planet · 2002

Treasure Planet

MovieScience FictionAdventure

When space galleon cabin boy Jim Hawkins discovers a map to an intergalactic "loot of a thousand worlds," a cyborg cook named John Silver teaches him to battle supernovas and space storms on their journey to find treasure.

Hands (voice)

Ri¢hie Ri¢h

Ri¢hie Ri¢h · 1994

MovieComedyFamily

Billionaire heir Richie Rich has it all, including Reggie Jackson as a batting coach and Claudia Schiffer as a personal trainer -- but no playmates. What's more, scoundrel Laurence Van Dough is scheming to take over the family empire. Uh-oh! Enter faithful butler Cadbury to save the day.

Professor Keenbean

Office Space

Office Space · 1999

A depressed white-collar worker tries hypnotherapy, only to find himself in a perpetual state of devil-may-care bliss that prompts him to start living by his own rules, and hatch a hapless attempt to embezzle money from his soul-killing employers.

Dr. Swanson

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust · 2001

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust

MovieAnimationFantasy

Legendary dhampir D competes with a motley family of bounty hunters to track down Charlotte Elbourne, a young woman seemingly abducted by undead nobleman Meier Link.

Left Hand (voice)

Big Trouble

Big Trouble · 2002

MovieActionComedy

The story of how a mysterious suitcase brings together, and changes, the lives of a divorced dad, an unhappy housewife, two hitmen, a pair of street thugs, two love struck teens, two FBI men and a psychedelic toad. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry's best-selling first novel, "Big Trouble."

Bruce

Drop Dead Gorgeous

Drop Dead Gorgeous · 1999

Drop Dead Gorgeous

In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won't give up without a fight.

Harold Vilmes, Judge #2

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

Tucker: The Man and His Dream · 1988

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945. Engineer Preston Tucker dreams of designing the car of future, but his innovative envision will be repeatedly sabotaged by his own unrealistic expectations and the Detroit automobile industry tycoons.

Recording Engineer

Happily N'Ever After

Happily N'Ever After · 2007

Happily N'Ever After

MovieAdventureAnimation

An alliance of evil-doers, led by Frieda, looks to take over Fairy Tale Land. But when Ella realizes her stepmother is out to ruin her storybook existence, she takes a dramatic turn and blossoms into the leader of the resistance effort.

Rumpelstilzchen (voice)

Tom and Huck

Tom and Huck · 1995

MovieFamilyAction

A mischievous young boy, Tom Sawyer, witnesses a murder by the deadly Injun Joe. Tom becomes friends with Huckleberry Finn, a boy with no future and no family. Tom has to choose between honoring a friendship or honoring an oath because the town alcoholic is accused of the murder. Tom and Huck go through several adventures trying to retrieve evidence.

Muff Potter

Tower of Terror

Tower of Terror · 1999

Tower of Terror

MovieComedyFamily

A disgraced reporter investigates an abandoned luxury hotel where five people mysteriously disappeared sixty years earlier.

Chris 'Q' Todd

The Battle of Shaker Heights

The Battle of Shaker Heights · 2003

The Battle of Shaker Heights

MovieComedyDrama

A quirky teen with a penchant for war reenactments, Kelly Ernswiler obsesses over military tactics with his buddy Bart. The school bully is one of Kelly's regular headaches, and he also has to deal with a frustrating situation at home, where his father is a recovering drug addict. Kelly's life gets even more complicated when he falls for Tabby, Bart's pretty and soon-to-be-wed older sister.

Mr. Norway

The Spirit of '76

The Spirit of '76 · 1990

The Spirit of '76

MovieComedyScience Fiction

Future Americans decide to time travel to 1776 to ask the founding fathers for the solutions to their problems. A glitch in the time machine changes their destination to 1976. Still believing themselves to be in 1776, the time travellers attempt to study this "ideal" civilization. 70's jokes, props and stars abound.

Angry Driver

Memron

MovieComedyTV Movie

Mockumentary of the Enron scandal. The bankrupt company's CEO (McShane) is locked away at a country club prison where he spends his time practicing his golf swing. Meanwhile, his greedy wife (Forlani) spends what cash is left, and the company's former employees (all of whom seem to be mentally challenged) scramble to find new jobs.

Kenneth Clay

Thru the Moebius Strip

Thru the Moebius Strip · 2005

Thru the Moebius Strip

MovieAnimationFamily

In the not-too-distant future, a young boy travels to an alien world to find his father and learn of his destiny.

Hymo (voice)

Careless

Careless · 2007

MovieComedyMystery

Wiley Roth finds a severed human finger in his kitchen one night. Understandably freaked out, in a search across Los Angeles that brings them in contact with psychics, ineffectual police, crooked taxidermists, mysterious neighbors who might be on drugs, and a nine-fingered woman named Cheryl who might, improbably, end up being the girl of his dreams.

Naked Man

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades · 2000

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades

MovieActionAdventure

Posing as a dancer for the Ballets Russes in Barcelona, Indy meets old friend Pablo Picasso, and narrowly outwits inept German spies. Dashing off to Prague, he then arranges for a telephone installation to await an important call, which becomes a bureaucratic nightmare until Franz Kafka intervenes.

Anton

Holly Hobbie and Friends: Christmas Wishes

Holly Hobbie and Friends: Christmas Wishes · 2006

Holly Hobbie and Friends: Christmas Wishes

MovieAnimationFamily

Holly Hobbie is excited about spending Christmas-time with her friends and family. She soon learns of the situation of a widow, Mrs. Deegan and her twin boys, Joey and Paul. She works together with her friends Amy Morris and Carrie Baker. They also take part in a Christmas pageant and Christmas caroling. Meanwhile, Holly's brother Robby dresses up as Santa Claus to earn extra money, but discovers the spirit of giving.

Jim Bidderman (voice)

The King of Black Goo

The King of Black Goo · 2026

The King of Black Goo

A bitter, lonely man undergoes a personality-altering medical procedure in the hope that it will make him worthy of love.

Bruno Bombolone

Tales from Hollywood

Tales from Hollywood · 1992

Tales from Hollywood

MovieTV MovieDrama

A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave their country during the Nazi-regime. A young playwriter (von Horvath) joins them and finds out, that there are gaps between the artistical attitudes and the real live behavior of authors like Thomas or Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger or Bertold Brecht.

Hal

Thunder Pig!

Thunder Pig! · 2001

MovieComedyAnimation

From the studio who brought you talking Chips Ahoy and Peperamis and the producer of Valiant comes a rare stop-motion pilot pitched and rejected by Nickelodeon in which a superhero pig who needs junk food for energy bawls over the loss of one single hair.

Thunder Pig

Holly Hobbie and Friends: Secret Adventures

Holly Hobbie and Friends: Secret Adventures · 2007

Holly Hobbie and Friends: Secret Adventures

This Holly Hobbie adventure is full of secrets! Holly learns many lessons about the importance of keeping secrets when she accidentally shares Carrie's secret that she's afraid of the dark. Then, Holly makes it a secret Hey Girls project to help her Mom and Aunt Jesse gather sap for the family's famous maple syrup recipe. When they spill the precious sap, rather than tell the adults, Holly and her best friends, Amy and Carrie, find themselves in a frightful situation - gathering more sap in a scary, dark forest!

Jim Bidderman / Station Manager (voice)

Wild Turkey

Wild Turkey · 1992

Jed, a New York cop, brings home the last Christmas turkey in the shop for his wife Sue. Unfortunately, they make a dramatic discovery whilst stuffing it - namely that it is not dead.

Bernard Matthews

NCIS

SeriesCrimeDrama

From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has any connection to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.

Matthew Heller

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."

(voice)

Frasier

Frasier · 1993

SeriesComedyFamily

After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets shot in the hip on duty.

Frank

Doctor Who

Doctor Who · 2005

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.

Grayle

King of the Hill

King of the Hill · 1997

King of the Hill

SeriesAnimationComedy

Set in Texas, this animated series follows the life of propane salesman Hank Hill, who lives with his overly confident substitute Spanish teacher wife Peggy, wannabe comedian son Bobby, and naive niece Luanne. Hank has conservative views about God, family, and country, but his values and ethics are often challenged by the situations he, his family, and his beer-drinking neighbors/buddies find themselves in.

Mountain Man (voice)

Seinfeld

Seinfeld · 1989

A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.

Franklin Delano Romanowski

NCIS: Los Angeles

NCIS: Los Angeles · 2009

NCIS: Los Angeles

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

The exploits of the Los Angeles–based Office of Special Projects (OSP), an elite division of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service that specializes in undercover assignments.

Warden John Newton

Malcolm in the Middle

Malcolm in the Middle · 2000

Malcolm in the Middle

A gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.

Dr. Phelps

American Playhouse

American Playhouse · 1982

American Playhouse

SeriesDramaComedy

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

Hal

ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.

Hugo

The Drew Carey Show

The Drew Carey Show · 1995

The Drew Carey Show

Drew is an assistant director of personnel in a Cleveland department store and he has been stuck there for ten years. Other than fighting with co-worker Mimi, his hobbies include drinking beer and not being able to get dates. To make a few extra bucks he has a micro-brewery going in his garage with his buddies.

Ray

3rd Rock from the Sun

3rd Rock from the Sun · 1996

3rd Rock from the Sun

SeriesFamilySci-Fi & Fantasy

The high commander of an alien expedition lands on Earth -- what he considers to be the least-important planet -- in human form as Dick Solomon. Along for the ride are his alien compatriots Harry, Sally and Tommy -- who is the eldest of the group but is now angrily trapped in a teen's body.

Phil

Screen Two

Screen Two · 1985

Series of single made-for-television dramas.

Harley

Caroline in the City

Caroline in the City · 1995

Caroline in the City

SeriesComedyDrama

Caroline Duffy is a successful cartoonist in Manhattan whose eclectic friends are sometimes the subjects of her comic strip.

Boo

Wayward Pines

Wayward Pines · 2015

SeriesDramaMystery

Imagine the perfect American town... beautiful homes, manicured lawns, children playing safely in the streets. Now imagine never being able to leave. You have no communication with the outside world. You think you're going insane. You must be in Wayward Pines.

Big Bill

The Legend of Tarzan

The Legend of Tarzan · 2001

The Legend of Tarzan

SeriesAction & AdventureAnimation

The Legend of Tarzan picks up where the 1999 feature film left off, with the title character adjusting to his new role as leader of the apes following Kerchak's death, and Jane adjusting to life in the jungle. Rounding out the cast are Jane's father, Professor Archimedes Porter; Tantor, the germophobic elephant; and Terk, a wisecracking female gorilla and Tarzan's old wrestling buddy.

(voice)

The Word

The Word · 1990

The Word was a 1990s Channel 4 television programme in the United Kingdom. The show pushed forward the boundaries of youth TV, always coming close to going too far.

Seven Days

Seven Days · 1998

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

"Ever wish you could live your last week all over again? Well, my name's Frank B. Parker, and I do it all the time. I work for a secret government project experimenting in time travel. When things really get screwed up, I'm the guinea pig they send back to take care of it. The catch is, I can only go back 7 days."

Spawn

SeriesAction & AdventureAnimation

After being betrayed and murdered by his employer, a government assassin is resurrected as a Hellspawn and is forced to act as the reluctant leader of Hell's army.

Twitch Williams (voice)

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Whose Line Is It Anyway? · 1988

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

An un-scripted comedy show in which four guest performers improvise their way through a series of games, many of which rely on audience suggestions.

John Doe

John Doe · 2002

SeriesDramaMystery

John Doe tell the story of a man who wakes up naked on an island off the coast of Seattle, knowing everything in the world there is to know—except for who he is and how and why he ended up there.

Ray Brunellas

Brotherly Love

Brotherly Love · 1995

SeriesComedyFamily

Brotherly Love is an American sitcom that ran from September 16, 1995 to April 1, 1996, on NBC, and then moved to The WB, where it aired from September 15, 1996 until May 18, 1997. The series was created by Jonathan Schmock and Jim Vallely, and produced by Witt/Thomas Productions in association with Touchstone Television and Walt Disney Television. The primary focus of the series is on the relationship of three brothers, played by Joey Lawrence, Matthew Lawrence and Andrew Lawrence.

Lloyd Burwell

Clerks

SeriesAnimationComedy

The continuing adventures of store clerks Dante and Randal, who try to make the best of their menial labor, with no help from Jay and Silent Bob.

Officer Big Mac (voice)

Oliver Beene

Oliver Beene · 2003

Oliver Beene is an American sitcom. Set in 1962 and 1963, the show chronicled the trials and tribulations of the 11-to-12-year-old Oliver Beene, in first person perspective. Oliver Beene's other main characters are his parents Jerry and Charlotte Beene, his brother Ted Beene, and his two friends Joyce and Michael. The narrator, an older Oliver reflecting on his experience, is voiced by David Cross. Often in episodes, the story is interrupted by flashbacks and flash-forwards.

Fat Man