Peter MacNicol

ActorWriterDirector Apr 10 (age 71) Dallas, Texas, USA 1981–2025 (44 year career)

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Biography

Peter MacNicol is an American actor. He received a Theatre World Award for his 1981 Broadway debut in the play Crimes of the Heart. His film roles include Galen in Dragonslayer (1981), Stingo in Sophie's Choice (1982), Janosz Poha in Ghostbusters II (1989), camp counselor Gary Granger in Addams Family Values (1993), and David Langley in Bean (1997). MacNicol was born in Dallas, Texas, on April 10, 1954. He attended the University of Dallas and the University of Minnesota, where he studied theat…

Known For

Film

24

Tom Lennox

Film

Addams Family Values

Gary Granger

Film

Ghostbusters II

Dr. Janosz Poha

Film

Battleship

Secretary of Defense

Film

Bean

David Langley

Film

Sophie's Choice

Stingo

Film

Numb3rs

Larry Fleinhardt

Film

Dracula: Dead and Loving It

Thomas Renfield

Filmography

Acting (80)

Movies (39)

Shell

2025

as Dr. Thaddeus Brand

5.1

The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

2024

as The Invader (voice)

7.6

Home Delivery

2024

as Howard Evans

Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story

2023

as Psycho Date

3.7

Secret of the Sundrop

2018

as Nigel the Advisor

8.7

Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright

2013

as Dewey Ottman (voices)

7.6

Battleship

2012

as Secretary of Defense

5.9

Game Change

2012

as Rick Davis

6.9

The Spectacular Spider-Man: Attack of the Lizard

2008

as Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus (voice)

6.9

Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild

2005

as Troopmaster (voice)

5.2

Danny Phantom: Reign Storm

2005

as Sidney Poindexter (Voice)

Breakin' All the Rules

as Philip Gascon

Balto: Wolf Quest

as Muru (voice)

Recess: School's Out

as Fenwick (voice)

The Pooch and the Pauper

as Liberty (voice)

Baby Geniuses

as Dan

Olive, the Other Reindeer

1999

as Fido (voice)

6.7

Snowden's Christmas

1999

as (voice)

Silencing Mary

1998

as Lawrence Dixon

3.3

The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue

as Narrator (voice)

Bean

as David Langley

Abducted: A Father's Love

as Roy Dowd

Mojave Moon

as Tire Repairman

Dracula: Dead and Loving It

as Thomas Renfield

Roswell

as Lewis Rickett

Radioland Murders

as Son Writer

Addams Family Values

as Gary Granger

Housesitter

as Marty

Hard Promises

as Stuart

By Dawn's Early Light

as Sedgwick

Ghostbusters II

as Dr. Janosz Poha

American Blue Note

as Jack Solow

Voices & Visions: Walt Whitman

1988

as Narrator

Heat

as Cyrus Kinnick

Johnny Bull

as Joe Kovacs

The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers

as Martin

Sophie's Choice

as Stingo

Dragonslayer

as Galen

Floss

as Dr. Rivus

Television (41)

All's Fair

as Robert DeLancie

All Rise

as Albert Campbell

Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure

2017

as Nigel the Advisor (voice)

7.3

A Series of Unfortunate Events

as Ishmael

CSI: Cyber

as Simon Sifter

Star Wars Rebels

as Tseebo (voice)

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

2013

as Professor Elliott Randolph

The Mindy Project

as Rabbi Adler

Veep

as Jeff Kane

Doc McStuffins

as Egghead (voice)

Fairly Legal

as Judge Smollet

Young Justice

as Professor Ivo / Amazo / M.O.N.Q.I. (voice)

8.4

Ben 10: Ultimate Alien

2010

as Oliver / Forever Knight #1 (voice)

8.2

G.I. Joe: Renegades

2010

as Firefly (voice)

7.2

The Spectacular Spider-Man

2008

as Otto Octavius (voice)

The Big Bang Theory

as Robert Wolcott

Grey's Anatomy

as Robert Stark

American Dad!

as Angel (voice)

Numb3rs

as Larry Fleinhardt

Numb3rs

as Larry Fleinhardt

Boston Legal

as Dr. Sydney Field

The Batman

as Langstrom (voice)

Justice League Unlimited

2004

as David Clinton (voice)

8.3

Danny Phantom

2004

as Sidney Poindexter (voice)

The Lyon's Den

as Tom Lennox

as Tom Lennox

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

2000

as Major (voice)

6.6

Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law

2000

as X the Eliminator (voice)

8.0

Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law

2000

as X the Eliminator (voice)

CatDog

The Wild Thornberrys

as Raju / Monkey (voice)

Ally McBeal

as John Cage

The Angry Beavers

Chicago Hope

as Alan Birch

Chicago Hope

as Alan Birch

The Powers That Be

as Bradley Grist

Tales from the Crypt

as Austin Haggard (segment "Let the Punishment Fit the Crime")

8.0

The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd

as Steve Cooper

Cheers

as Mario

Faerie Tale Theatre

as Martin

Crew (3)

Television (3)

Numb3rs

Writer

Boston Public

Director

Ally McBeal

Director