Stephen Tobolowsky movies

Stephen Harold Tobolowsky (born May 30, 1951) is a Tony Award-nominated American television, stage and film actor best known for playing characters who are amiable, brainy, and/or clueless.BiographyEarly lifeTobolowsky grew up in a middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. Known for his acting and debating skills, he was voted Most Likely to Succeed upon graduation from Justin F. Kimball High School in 1969. While there, he was also lead singer in the first band formed by guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan and his brother Jimmy Vaughn.Before graduating from the University of Illinois, he attended Southern Methodist University for two years, majoring in theater along with his friend and fellow Dallasite Patricia Richardson.

He was once briefly held hostage at gunpoint in a supermarket across the street from the SMU campus.
After starting on the New York theater scene, he moved to Hollywood to enter the film business. He has appeared in over 100 films and at least as many television projects. Throughout his career he has maintained a connection to the theater by directing and acting in plays in New York and Los Angeles. He directed one movie, Two Idiots in Hollywood, which was based on his play of the same name. He also co-wrote the film True Stories with David Byrne. In 2005 he released a documentary film, Stephen Tobolowskys Birthday Party, featuring a performance in which he tells stories from his life to a group of friends.Perhaps through sheer force of repetition, he is known from his role in 1993s Groundhog Day, in which he played Bill Murrays annoying high school classmate and insurance salesman, Ned Ryerson, who Murrays character keeps running into when he keeps repeating February 2.

Stephen Tobolowsky Movies

All movies starring Stephen Tobolowsky.

• Adaptation.
• Basic Instinct
• Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
• Failure to Launch
• Freaky Friday
• Garfield
• Groundhog Day
• Little Black Book
• Loveless in Los Angeles
• Memento
• Mississippi Burning
• My Father the Hero
• National Security
• Wild Hogs
• Howl