Richard Kind
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| Richard Kind | |
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 Richard Kind, May 2007 |
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| Born | Richard J. Kind November 22, 1956 Trenton, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Spouse(s) | Dana Stanley (1999-present) |
Richard J. Kind (born November 22, 1956) is an American actor known for his roles in the sitcoms Mad About You and Spin City.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Kind was born in Trenton, New Jersey, the son of Alice, a homemaker, and Samuel Kind, a jeweler.[1] Together with his younger sister Joanne he grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Richard attended Pennsbury High School with fellow thespian, Robert Curtis-Brown. Kind is a 1974 graduate of Pennsbury High School and a 1978 graduate of Northwestern University where he was in the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon. He is also an alumnus of The Second City Chicago where one of his castmates was Dan Castellaneta.
[edit] Career
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 (2000), The Producers (2002), and Sly Fox (2004). He also appeared as the “Jury Foreman” in the film The Producers (2005). His voice credits include Larry the Anaconda in The Wild, “Clark” in the “Clark & Lewis Expedition” radio commercials for Horizon Air (with Patrick Warburton as “Lewis”), Molt in Disney/Pixar’s A Bugs Life, Van in Disney/Pixar’s Cars, the narrator for Disney’s Go Baby, and Tom (Jasper) the cat's voice in Tom and Jerry: The Movie. He also had a minor role as Gary Meyers, an archaeologist who translated the symbols on the Stargate prior to James Spader’s character involvement in the 1994 movie, Stargate. He appeared in three episodes of Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm between 2002 and 2005 as Larry's cousin Andy. In 2006 he guest starred on Stargate Atlantis as Lucius Lavin, in the episodes “Irresistible” and “Irresponsible.” He is currently the only actor to appear in both the original Stargate film, and in Stargate Atlantis, though not as the same character. He has a recurring role in Scrubs as Mr. Harvey Korman, an annoying hypochondriac, who claimed his actoreal name did not "get him as much action as you may think" on the sitcom. He also played a notable role on USA's crime comedy Psych as Hugo, an astronomer who killed a partner for credit for the discovery of a planet ("From the Earth to the Starbucks"), and later on Law & Order: Criminal Intent as a wealthy philanthropist who kills his sister-in-law and niece to protect the money he uses to fund his philanthropic work ("Privilege").
Actor/director George Clooney is a close friend, and was best man at Kind’s wedding. Kind later went on to play the part of a casting director in Clooney’s directorial debut Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Kind also played himself in the short-lived HBO series Unscripted which Clooney executive produced and directed with Grant Heslov.
Kind has performed in radio/audio plays for the LA Theatre Works and the Hollywood Theater of the Ear, and served as a guest panelist on the 2000 revival of the television game show To Tell the Truth. He also does the voice for Pongo the dragon in the Nick Jr cartoon Oswald, as well as the narrator for Disney’s Go Baby short-film series.
Kind played a small role on Disney Channel's show Even Stevens where he played the surly Uncle Chuck. He also appeared in an episode of CBS' Two and a Half Men on November 12, 2007 and played Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at the Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts in Fairfield, Iowa. The play ran from January 11 through 27, 2008. Kind has described Pseudolus as a 'dream role' for himself.[2]
