Jeffrey Tambor

Acting · Born 1944-07-08 in San Francisco, California, USA

Biography

Jeffrey Michael Tambor (born July 8, 1944) is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his television roles such as Jeffrey Brooks, the uptight neighbor of Stanley and Helen Roper in the TV sitcom The Ropers (1979–1980), as Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show (1992–1998), George Bluth Sr. and Oscar Bluth on Arrested Development (2003–2006, 2013, 2018–2019) and Maura Pfefferman on Transparent (2014–2017). For his role in the latter, Tambor earned two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series out of three nominations. In 2015, he was also awarded a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Pfefferman. His film roles include Jay Porter in ...And Justice for All (1979), Jinx Latham in Mr. Mom (1983), Sully in There's Something About Mary (1998), Mayor Augustus…

Filmography

• Meet Joe Black as Quince
• Girl, Interrupted as Dr. Potts
• The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie as King Neptune (voice)
• ...And Justice for All as Jay Porter
• The Hangover as Sid Garner
• Tangled as Big Nose Thug (voice)
• The Accountant as Francis Silverberg
• The Death of Stalin as Georgy Malenkov
• Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo as Mr. Calvin Curdles (voice)
• There's Something About Mary as Sully

TV

• M*A*S*H as Reddish
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Jerzy Skaggs
• Pinky and the Brain as Beetle Fiero (voice)
• The Twilight Zone as Kyle Montgomery (segment "Dead Woman's Shoes")
• Tales from the Crypt as Charlie Marno (segment "Dead Right")
• Dinosaurs as Hank Hibler (voice)
• Hill Street Blues
• Three's Company as Winston Cromwell III
• The Practice as Sid Herman
• Arrested Development as George Bluth Sr.