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David Paymer

Actor, director David Emmanuel Paymer is known for City Slickers, Mr. Saturday Night, Quiz Show, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Get Shorty, The Hurricane, Ocean's Thirteen, and Drag Me to Hell. He was memorable as mob boss Jonah Malloy in the television series Line of Fire, Judge Richard Cuesta in The Good Wife and as Don in Dave.

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Filmography

Horse Girl

2020

Fanboy

2019
as Angry Ice Cream Customer

The Sunlit Night

2019
as Levi

Accident Man

2018
as Milton

Lemon

2017
as Dr. Gold

The Pickle Recipe

2016
as Uncle Morty

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

2014
as Dixon Lewis

Two-Bit Waltz

2014
as The Lawyer

The Five-Year Engagement

2012
as Pete Solomon

Bad Teacher

2011
as Doctor Vogel

Twixt

2011
as Sam

Drag Me to Hell

2009
as Mr. Jacks

Redbelt

2008
as Richard

Ocean's Thirteen

2007
as V.U.P.

Payback: Straight Up

2006
as Arthur Stegman

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

2005
as Rafael Horowitz

Warm Springs

2005
as Louis Howe

My Suicidal Sweetheart

2005
as Max Sr.

Checking Out

2005
as Ted Applebaum

School of Life

2005
as Matt Warner

In Good Company

2004
as Morty

Alex & Emma

2003
as John Shaw

Partners

2003
as Bob

Joe and Max

2002
as Joe Jacobs

RFK

2002
as Dick Goodwin

The Burial Society

2002
as Morry Zimmer

Bartleby

2001
as The Boss

Focus

2001
as Mr. Finkelstein

For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story

2000
as Embassy interviewer

Enemies of Laughter

2000
as Paul

State and Main

2000
as Marty Rossen

Оттуда, где я сижу

2000
as Bob

Bait

2000
as Agent Wooly

Mumford

1999
as Dr. Ernest Delbanco

Chill Factor

1999
as Dr. Richard Long

The Hurricane

1999
as Myron Bedlock

Payback

1999
as Arthur Stegman

Outside Ozona

1998
as Alan Defaux

The Lesser Evil

1998
as George

Mighty Joe Young

1998
as Harry Ruben

The Sixth Man

1997
as Coach Pederson

Amistad

1997
as Secretary John Forsyth

The Long Way Home

1997
as Voice

Gang Related

1997
as Elliot Goff

Crime of the Century

1996
as David Wilentz

City Hall

1996
as Abe Goodman

Unforgettable

1996
as Curtis Avery

Carpool

1996
as Daniel Miller

Cagney & Lacey: Together Again

1995
as Deputy D.A. Feldberg

Nixon

1995
as Ron Ziegler

Get Shorty

1995
as Leo Devoe

The American President

1995
as Leon Kodak

In Search of Dr. Seuss

1994
as The Ad Man

Cagney & Lacey: The Return

1994
as Deputy Dist. Atty. Feldberg

Quiz Show

1994
as Dan Enright

City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold

1994
as Ira Shalowitz

Searching for Bobby Fischer

1993
as Kalev

Mr. Saturday Night

1992
as Stan

City Slickers

1991
as Ira Shalowitz

Crazy People

1990
as George

No Holds Barred

1989
as Unger

Rock 'N Roll Mum

1988
as Boris

No Way Out

1987
as Computer Technician

Howard the Duck

1986
as Larry, Scientist

Night of the Creeps

1986
as Young Scientist

Pleasures

1986
as Stanley

Love, Mary

1985
as David Lewis

Irreconcilable Differences

1984
as Alan Sluiser

This House Possessed

1981
as Pasternak

The In-Laws

1979
as Cabbie

Butterfly in the Typewriter

as Stanley Kauffmann