Jeffrey Tambor
Known For
Acting
Born
1944-07-08 in San Francisco, California, USA
Biography
Jeffrey Michael Tambor (born July 8, 1944) is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his television roles such as Jeffrey Brooks, the uptight neighbor of Stanley and Helen Roper in the TV sitcom The Ropers (1979–1980), as Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show (1992–1998), George Bluth Sr. and Oscar Bluth on Arrested Development (2003–2006, 2013, 2018–2019) and Maura Pfefferman on Transparent (2014–2017). For his role in the latter, Tambor earned two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series out of three nominations. In 2015, he was also awarded a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Pfefferman. His film roles include Jay Porter in ...And Justice for All (1979), Jinx Latham in Mr. Mom (1983), Sully in There's Something About Mary (1998), Mayor Augustus Maywho in How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Tom Manning in Hellboy (2004) and its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), Sid Garner in The Hangover trilogy (2009–2013), Francis Silverberg in The Accountant (2016), and Georgy Malenkov in The Death of Stalin (2017). Tambor has done voice acting for The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004), Monsters vs. Aliens (2009), Tangled (2010), and Trolls (2016). For his voice role in The Lionhearts (1998), he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award. From 2002 to 2003, he was an announcer for Hollywood Squares.
Most Known For
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Lester Cohen
Law & Order
as Barry Dilwynn
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Jerzy Skaggs
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
The Good Wife
as Judge George Kluger
Bob's Burgers
as Captain Flarty (voice)
Psych
as Lloyd French
Batman: The Animated Series
as Crocker (voice)
Murder, She Wrote
as Russell Armstrong
Arrested Development
as George Bluth Sr.
M*A*S*H
as Reddish
The Love Boat
as Lawrence Jurgens
The Love Boat
as Harold Rogers
The Love Boat
as Mr. Harold Rogers
The Colbert Report
as Self - Guest
Medium
as Todd Emory / Allison Dubois
Archer
as Torvald Utne (voice)
Archer
as Len Trexler (voice)
Hollywood Squares
as Self - Panelist