David Paymer (born 30 August 1954) is an American character actor, seen in such films as The In-Laws, Crazy People, State and Main, Payback, Get Shorty, Armistad, Carpool, City Hall, and Into the West. Paymer plays a wide variety of roles ranging from a sweet mental patient in Crazy People to a take no bull movie producer in State and Main. August 30 is the 242nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (243rd in leap years), with 123 days remaining. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A character actor is an actor who predominantly performs supporting parts, often in similar roles throughout the course of a career. ... The In-Laws is a 1979 comedy film starring Alan Arkin and Peter Falk. ... Crazy People is a 1990 movie starring Dudley Moore as an advertising executive. ... State and Main is a 2000 comedy film, directed by David Mamet, starring Alec Baldwin and Philip Seymour Hoffman. ... Revenge is retaliation against a person or group in response to wrongdoing. ... European book cover Get Shorty is a novel by American novelist Elmore Leonard, first published in 1990, and a movie adaptation of the same name, released in 1995. ... Amistad (Spanish for friendship) is a 1997 Steven Spielberg film based on a slave mutiny that took place aboard a ship of the same name in 1839, and the legal activity that followed. ... In small towns, the town hall may also incorporate other functions, such as a post office. ... Into the West is a 2005 miniseries produced by Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks which began as a six-week event on June 10, 2005 on Turner Network Television (TNT). ... Crazy People is a 1990 movie starring Dudley Moore as an advertising executive. ... State and Main is a 2000 comedy film, directed by David Mamet, starring Alec Baldwin and Philip Seymour Hoffman. ...

Paymer was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1992 for Mr. Saturday Night. The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... Mr. ...

He also played exceptionally against type as a Mob boss in the short-lived series Line of Fire. The Mafia, also referred to in Italian as Cosa Nostra (Our Thing or This Thing of Ours), is a secret society that evolved from Italian Organized Crime in mid-19th century Sicily. ... Line of Fire is a political drama television series that was broadcast on ABC for 11 episodes in the winter of 2003-2004. ...

Trivia

In the television series Angel, there is a running gag about Cordelia Chase socializing with Paymer and his brother, Steve. Angel was the popular spin-off from the American television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ... Cordelia Chase (born January 14, 1981 in Sunnydale, California, died in 2004 in Los Angeles) is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the cult television programs, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. ...

External link

• David Paymer at the Internet Movie Database