David Ury
Known For
Acting
Born
1973-01-01
Biography
David Brian Ury (born September 30, 1973) is an American actor, stand-up comedian, YouTuber, and Japanese translation specialist. Ury was born and raised in Sonoma, California. He graduated from Sonoma Valley High School, where he acted in theatre productions. He earned a bachelor's degree in linguistics at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and studied abroad in Japan, where he became fluent in Japanese. Ury is a descendant of German Jewish impressionist painter Lesser Ury. Since studying abroad in Tokyo, Ury and has worked as a translator in film, television, and manga and currently (As of May 2011) translates and writes English adaptations for manga. Ury moved to Los Angeles in August 2001 where he began performing stand-up comedy. Cartoonist Keith Knight, a neighbor of his, described Ury's acting career as "Spooge man" and "a cavalcade of reprobates, sleazeballs, derelicts, & weirdos." Ury has made several film and television appearances, including an episode of Tim Kring's Crossing Jordan and in Shoot 'Em Up. He also appeared in Heroes, Malcolm in the Middle, Life, Without a Trace, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Zeke and Luther, and The Librarians. In March 2015, Ury was cast for Rob Zombie's slasher film 31 as Schizo-Head. A character actor, Ury has died on screen in almost every role he has portrayed. Ury also has several YouTube channels/accounts/personalities and alter-egos, which include Karaoke Steve and Ken Tanaka, the fictional adopted twin brother of David Ury. Tanaka is described as an Ashkenazi Jewish man adopted as an infant by Japanese parents Hideo and Mari Tanaka, and raised in Shimane Prefecture of Japan; he returns to Los Angeles to find his birth parents Jonathan and Linda Smith.
Most Known For
Breaking Bad
as Spooge
Bones
as Larry Wolfram
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Jayson Walt
The Mentalist
as Col. James Harris
Grimm
as Hofmann
Better Call Saul
as Spooge
Charmed
as Shapeshifter
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
as Spa Worker
Rizzoli & Isles
as Sandy Grotty
Community
as Rick
Mom
as Randy
Malcolm in the Middle
as Mechanic
Crossing Jordan
as Arthur Hay
Heroes
as Super
Heroes
as Landlord
Magnum P.I.
as Sam
Fresh Off the Boat
as Homeless Man
Private Practice
as Hank
Justified
as Hiram
Without a Trace
as Gil