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Peter MacNicol
10 April 1954
Peter MacNicol played in 15 movies in the Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Music, Drama, Romance, Thriller, Comedy, Horror, Crime, Family, Sci-Fi, Animation, Mystery genres.
Peter MacNicol got succeed with average imdb rating 5.9.
Upon graduating from the University of Minnesota, Peter MacNicol traveled the space fully and breadth of the U.S. as a regional repertory actor.
In his first membrane, Dragonslayer (1981), MacNicol essayed one of his occasional leading-gazabo roles as Galen, a hapless assistant warlock who makes information. His most noted film assignment was as Stingo, the na‹ve-bystander narrator of Sophie's Choice. Most of the without delay, MacNicol has been seen in comical, sycophantic ro
... les, such as the hands down demonized Janocz in Ghostbusters II (1989) and the unctuous camp counselor in Addams Family Values (1993). On television, Peter MacNicol starred in the brief Norman Lear civil lampoon The Powers That Be (1992) and co-starred as Alan Birch on the CBS medical drama Chicago Faith (1994).
MacNicol continued to affect cooperate small but fixed roles in a variation of miserly but non-erasable films throughout the mid-'90s. There was 1992's underrated Housesitter with Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin; acclaimed director Mel Brooks' Dracula: Dull and Loving It (1995); and a starring r“le opposite cult humorist Rowan Atkinson in 1997's Bean. Despite his respectable feature-film sensation, how, MacNicol wouldn't get solid mainstream cognizance until the 1997 debut of Collaborator McBeal. The arrive featured MacNicol as John Cage, an immensely uncertain but highly gifted lawyer whose lovable, if all through-sensitive, nature tugged at the heartstrings of Ally (Calista Flockhart) and television audiences alike. MacNicol remained a lead character on the show from 1997 to 2002, and was able to participate not just as an actor, but also as a director, screenwriter, and clumsy karaoke singer. No longer the affable John Cage, MacNicol could be seen assigning Jamie Foxx the unpleasant major effort of letting his employees know of a rapidly approaching downsizing in 2004's Breakin' All the Rules.Read more Less
