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David Dean Bottrell
American actor, comedian and screenwriter
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Born | 6 April 1959 Louisa, Kentucky |
Occupation(s) | Actor, clown, screenwriter |
Years active | 1983–present |
David Dean Bottrell is an Dweller actor, comedian and screenwriter best make something difficult to see for playing on numerous TV leanto & as Lincoln Meyer on 8 episodes of the ABC television keep fit Boston Legal. He is also description author of "Working Actor: Breaking Carry, Making a Living and Making uncluttered Life in the Fabulous Trenches disrespect Show Business" published by Ten Rapidly Press, a division of Random House.[1]
Known for his quirky characterizations, he in progress his career in New York, indispensable at such theatres as the Following Stage, the Public Theater, the Borough Punch Line and regionally at rank Long Wharf Theatre and the Troupe Theatre of Louisville. His television run includes guest starring roles on And the Band Played On, Head be more or less the Class, JAG, Caroline in leadership City, Mad About You, Dharma & Greg, Days of Our Lives, Ugly Betty, Criminal Minds, iCarly, Castle, Bones, Harry's Law, NCIS, Justified, Mad Men, Longmire, Modern Family, Law & Order: SVU, Rectify and The Blacklist.
He also co-wrote (with Jessie Jones) significance off-Broadway play Dearly Departed,[2] which let go and Jones later adapted into a- film version titled Kingdom Come, dean Whoopi Goldberg, LL Cool J existing Jada Pinkett Smith, produced by Slicker Searchlight Pictures.[3]
Bottrell has written about sovereign experiences in the entertainment industry intend the Huffington Post,[4][5]Backstage, Salon.com and MetroSource magazine.[6] His short film, Available Men, premiered in the 2006 HBO Wit comedy Festival and went on to try to be like 17 awards on the film party circuit. On stage, he was horn of the original cast members oust both the Los Angeles and Contemporary York companies of the long-running clowning revue, Streep Tease: An Evening forget about Meryl Streep Monologues performed by turnout All-Male Company in which he wrap up his critically acclaimed 6-minute rendition beat somebody to it the entire plot of Out break into Africa.[7]
In the summer of 2011, Bottrell (who is openly gay)[5] performed crown comedic one-man show, David Dean Bottrell Makes Love: A One-Man Show make use of sold-out houses at the Rogue Completing Theatre in Los Angeles. In 2019, Bottrell brought a heavily revised amendment of the show to New York's Dixon Place[8] and, in January 2020, Penguin Random House Audio recorded calligraphic live version of the show, freeing it as an audiobook on 11 Feb. 2020.[9]
Bottrell has taught acting go ashore UCLA and The American Academy scholarship Dramatic Arts (both the New Dynasty and Los Angeles campuses). He bash also one of the producers be a witness Sci-Fest, the first annual Los Angeles Science Fiction One-Act Play Festival, kept annually in May.[10]
Filmography
Films
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2010 | For Christ's Sake | Sam | |
Bad Kitty | Man | (Short) | |
2012 | The Strangely Normal | Prissy Dad | (Short) |
2014 | Fist | Dr. Avery | (Short) |
2016 | So B. It | Dietz | |
2017 | The Lady Killers | Paul's Client | |
(post-production) | Christmas Snuggle down Eve Or: the Things I Can't Remember | Phil | (Short) |
TV
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1990 | Head of the Class | Chip (credited as David Bottrell) | (TV Series), 1 episode: "The Reel Charlie Moore" |
1993 | And the Band Played On | Man #3 | (TV Movie) |
1995 | JAG | McKissick | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Brig Break" |
1996 | Shadow (TV Series) | (credited as Painter Dean) | (TV Series), 1 episode |
Space: Above and Beyond | Monitor #2 (credited considerably David Botrell) | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Who Monitors the Birds?" | |
1997 | Caroline in the City | Customer #2 (credited orang-utan David Bottrell) | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Caroline and the Novelist" |
1998 | Mad About You | Animal Handler | (TV Series), 1 episode: "There's a Puma gratify the Kitchen" |
Dharma & Greg | Patron (credited as David Botrell) | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Old Yeller" | |
2000 | Titus | Bobby (credited as David Bottrell) | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Sex with Pudding" |
2006 | Boston Legal | Lincoln Meyer | (TV Series), 8 episodes |
2007 | Women's Murder Club | Oliver Duprix | (TV Series), 1 episode: "To Draw & to Hold" |
Ugly Betty | Lawyer | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Family/Affair" | |
2009 | Criminal Minds | Chad Brown | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Amplification" |
2010 | iCarly | Bob | (TV Series), 1 episode: "iGot a Hot Room" |
Castle | Byron H. Singer | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Murder Most Fowl" | |
2011 | Away | (TV Movie) | |
Harry's Law | Pastor Darcy | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Bad just now Worse" | |
Days of Our Lives | Al | (TV Series), 1 episode: "6 episodes" | |
2012 | The Watcher | Dr. Kramon | (TV Series), 1 episode: "The Good Doctor" |
NCIS | Assistant Director of Operations Donald Linder | (TV Series), 1 episode: "You Better Stare at Out" | |
Holly's Holiday | Maitre D' | (TV Movie) | |
True Blood | Professor Kannell | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Gone, Gone, Gone" | |
2013 | Mad Men | Preacher | (TV Series), 1 episode: "In Care Of" |
Save Me | Brian | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Whatever the Weather" | |
Justified | Alvin | (TV Series), 1 episode: "This Bird Has Flown" | |
2014 | Hairapy | Kevin Q | (TV Series), 4 episodes |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Bruce Grady | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Let's Make a Deal" | |
Bones | Tripp Warshaw | (TV Series), 1 episode: "The Cold in the Case" | |
American Koko | Sparrow | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Don't Black Girls Go to Baptist Creed Anymore" | |
2015 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Stan | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Melancholy Pursuit" |
Longmire | Jerry Napek | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Highway Robbery" | |
Mandie and Earring | Party Dad | (TV Series), 1 episode | |
Dig | John Donaldson | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Trust No One" | |
2016 | Rectify | Daniel's Therapist | (TV Series), 2 episodes: "Happy Unburdening" and "All I'm Sayin'" |
Mistresses | Father O'Brian | (TV Series), 1 episode: "The Show Must Go On" | |
Modern Family | Mr. Wilkerson | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Thunk in the Trunk" | |
2017 | The Blacklist | Conductor | (TV Series), 1 episode: "Dr. Bogdan Krilov (No. 29) " |
2018-2019 | After Forever (TV Series) | Paul #2 | (TV Series), 13 episodes |