Michael McKean

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Known For

Acting

Born

1947-10-17

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA
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Michael McKean

Biography

Michael McKean (born October 17, 1947) is an American actor, comedian, writer, composer and musician, perhaps best known for Laverne & Shirley, Spinal Tap and Better Call Saul.

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Acting History

2025
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues as David St. Hubbins
2023
The Diplomat as President William Rayburn
2023
The Diplomat as President William Rayburn (archive footage)
2022
Who Done It: The Clue Documentary as Self
2022
Jerry & Marge Go Large as Howard
2022
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story as Sleazy MC
2022
Making of Better Call Saul: Finale as Self
2021
My Little Pony: A New Generation as Argyle (voice)
2021
Playing God as Frank
2021
Rugrats as Grandpa Lou Pickles (voice)
2020
Pink Skies Ahead as Richard
2020
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp as Self
2020
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall as Self
2020
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness as Self
2020
Breeders as Michael
2019
Image Makers: The Adventures of America's Pioneer Cinematographers as Narrator (voice)
2019
Daddio as Paul
2019
Good Omens as Sergeant Shadwell
2016
The Good Place as Doug Forcett
2016
50 Years of Star Trek as Self
2016
The Meddler as Mark
2016
Talking Saul as Self - Guest
2016
Billions as Melville Revere
2015
Food: Fact or Fiction? as Himself
2015
Grace and Frankie as Jack
2015
Better Call Saul as Chuck McGill
2014
21 Years: Richard Linklater as Self - Actor
2014
The 7D as Uncle Humidor (voice)
2013
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns as Dr. Bartholomew Wolper (voice)
2013
10 Rules for Sleeping Around as Jeffrey Fields
2013
Drunk History as Carl Laemmle
2013
Family Tree as Keith Chadwick
2013
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 as Bartholomew Wolper (voice)
2012
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 as Dr. Bartholomew Wolper (voice)
2012
The Words as Nelson Wylie
2012
Veep as Governor Ballentine
2011
Homeland as Jeffrey Turner
2011
ThunderCats as Vultaire (voice)
2011
Happy Endings as Big Dave
2011
Off the Map as Ed Greenman
2010
Glory Daze
2010
Pure Country 2: The Gift as Angel Joseph
2009
Unwigged & Unplugged: An Evening with Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer as Self
2009
Stonehenge: 'Tis a Magic Place as David St. Hubbins
2009
Whatever Works as Joe - Boris' Friend #3
2009
Spinal Tap: Back from the Dead as David St. Hubbins
2009
Castle as Victor Baron
2008
Childrens Hospital as Death
2008
Adventures of Power as Harlan
2007
Billy & Mandy: Wrath of the Spider Queen as Kalgoron (voice)
2007
The Grand as Steve Lavisch
2007
Joshua as Chester
2007
The Thick of It as Glen Glahm
2006
The Year Without a Santa Claus as Snow Miser
2006
For Your Consideration as Lane Iverson
2006
Help Me Help You
2006
Relative Strangers as Ken Hyman
2006
The Unit
2006
Open Wide: Tooth School Inside as Dr. Flossman (voice)
2005
The Producers as Prison Trustee
2005
Arnie the Doughnut as Narrator / Arnie the Doughnut (voice)
2005
Hopeless Pictures
2005
The Aristocrats as Self
2005
Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found as Self
2005
Candor City Hospital as Patient
2005
American Dad! as Emperor Zing (voice)
2004
Boston Legal as Dwight Biddle
2004
The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Music Edition as David St. Hubbins
2004
The Tony Danza Show as Self - Guest
2003
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself as William Christy Cabanne
2003
Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) as Self
2003
A Mighty Wind as Jerry Palter
2003
Haunted Lighthouse 4-D as Captain Van Legge
2003
Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live! as David St. Hubbins
2002
100 Mile Rule as Howard
2002
Auto Focus as Video Executive
2002
The Guru as Dwain
2002
Slap Her... She's French as Monsieur Duke
2002
The Hunchback of Notre Dame II as Sarousch (voice)
2001
Justice League as The Sportsman / Sgt. O'Shaughnessey (voice)
2001
Recess Christmas: Miracle On Third Street as Mr. Bream (voice)
2001
Smallville as Perry White
2001
My First Mister as Bob
2001
Alias as Atticus Liddell
2001
Oswald as Louie (voice)
2001
Dr. Dolittle 2 as Bird (voice)
2001
Primetime Glick as Adrien Van Voorhees
2001
Teddy Bears' Picnic as Porterfield 'Porty' Pendleton
2001
Never Again as Alex The Transvestite
2001
The Lone Gunmen
2001
The Zeta Project
2000
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law as Evelyn Spyro Throckmorton (voice)
2000
Little Nicky as Chief of Police
2000
As Told by Ginger as Bobby Lightfoot (voice)
2000
Curb Your Enthusiasm as Matt Tessler
2000
Best in Show as Stefan Vanderhoof
2000
Catching Up with Marty DiBergi as David St. Hubbins
2000
Beautiful as Lance DeSalvo
2000
The Huntress
2000
Strip Mall
2000
Clerks as Professor Ram / Creepy Old Guy (voice)
1999
Snowden's Christmas as (voice)
1999
The Early Show as David St. Hubbins
1999
Mystery, Alaska as Mr. Walsh
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Kurt Sandow
1999
Teaching Mrs. Tingle as Principal Potter
1999
Where Are They Now? as Self
1999
SpongeBob SquarePants
1999
SpongeBob SquarePants as Captain Frostymug (voice)
1999
Uncomfortably Close with Michael McKean
1999
True Crime as Réverend Shillerman
1999
Family Guy as Pengrove Pig / Andy Rooney / Camel Salesman (voice)
1999
Family Guy as Pawtucket Pat (voice)
1999
Kill the Man as Mr. Livingston
1999
Batman Beyond as Ian Peek (voice)
1999
Providence as Sherman Smith
1998
101 Dalmatians Christmas as Jasper Badun
1998
With Friends Like These as Maxwell Hersh
1998
Archibald the Rainbow Painter as J.P. Bigelow
1998
Small Soldiers as Insaniac / Freakenstein (voice)
1998
Final Justice as Merle Hammond
1998
The Pass as Willie L.
1998
LateLine
1997
Veronica's Closet as Dave Whitby
1997
101 Dalmatians: The Series as Jasper Badun (voice)
1997
The New Batman Adventures as 50's Joker (voice)
1997
The Weird Al Show as Miner
1997
Casper: A Spirited Beginning as Bill Case
1997
Still Breathing as New Mark
1997
No Strings Attached as Elliot Lewis
1997
The View as Self
1997
Nothing to Lose as Phillip "P.B." Barrow
1997
That Darn Cat as Peter Randall
1996
Jungle Cubs (Volume 1): Born to be Wild as (Voice)
1996
Hey Arnold!
1996
Jungle Cubs
1996
Road Rovers as Dr. Jeffrey Otitus (voice)
1996
Jack as Paulie
1996
The Sunshine Boys as Scott Grogan
1996
Edie & Pen as Rick
1996
Tracey Takes On... as Barry
1995
Mr. Show with Bob and David as Professor Peens
1995
Caroline in the City as Father Damian
1995
The Brady Bunch Movie as Mr. Larry Dittmeyer
1995
Star Trek: Voyager as The Clown
1994
Radioland Murders as Rick Rochester
1994
Across the Moon as Frank
1994
Friends as Mr. Rastatter
1994
Airheads as Milo Jackson
1994
MacShayne: Final Roll of the Dice as Ozzie Evans
1994
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
1994
Duckman as Bob Hiney (voice)
1993
The Nanny as Professor Noel Babcock PhD
1993
Boy Meets World as Jedediah Lawrence
1993
Animaniacs as Spink (voice)
1993
Animaniacs as Jake (voice)
1993
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman as Dr. Fabian Leek
1993
The X-Files as Morris Fletcher
1993
Coneheads as Gorman Seedling, INS Deputy Commissioner
1992
A Spinal Tap Reunion: The 25th Anniversary London Sell-Out as David St. Hubbins / Jerry Palter
1992
Metallica: A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica as David St. Hubbins
1992
Man Trouble as Eddy Revere
1992
Memoirs of an Invisible Man as George Talbot
1991
Amnesty International's Big 30 as David St. Hubbins
1991
True Identity
1991
Murder in High Places as Pettibone
1991
Dinosaurs as Guy in the Lab Coat (voice)
1991
Dinosaurs as Mr. Myman (voice)
1991
Dinosaurs as Officer Bettleheim (voice)
1991
Dinosaurs as Kyle (voice)
1991
Dinosaurs as Ed (voice)
1991
Dinosaurs as Police Chief Parish (voice)
1991
Dinosaurs as Bryant (voice)
1991
Dinosaurs as Ansel (voice)
1991
Dinosaurs as Dr. Herder (voice)
1991
Dinosaurs as Les (voice)
1991
Dinosaurs as Inspector (voice)
1991
Dinosaurs as Hank (voice)
1990
Law & Order as Bill Nolan
1990
Law & Order as Elias Grace
1990
Book of Love as Adult Jack Twiller
1990
Dream On as Gibby Fiske
1990
Flashback as Hal Cresciman
1990
Grand as Tom Smithson
1989
The Simpsons as Jerry Rude (voice)
1989
The Simpsons as David St. Hubbins (voice)
1989
The Big Picture as Emmet Sumner
1989
Hider in the House as Phil Dreyer
1988
Earth Girls Are Easy as Woody
1988
Portrait of a White Marriage as Reverend Alfred 'Alfie' Prufrock
1988
Short Circuit 2 as Fred Ritter
1988
A Father's Homecoming as Michael Fields
1987
Planes, Trains and Automobiles as State Trooper
1987
Daniel and the Towers as Wexler Hatch
1987
Double Agent as Jason Starr / Warren Starbinder
1987
Light of Day as Bu Montgomery
1986
Davy Crockett as Mr. Wallace
1986
Johnny Appleseed as Mac Macintosh
1986
Jumpin' Jack Flash as Leslie (uncredited)
1986
Classified Love as Pete Newly
1986
The Hear 'n Aid Sessions as David St. Hubbins [Spinal Tap]
1986
The History of White People in America: Volume II as Rev. Alfred 'Alfie' Prufrock
1985
Clue as Mr. Green
1985
Tall Tales & Legends as Mac Macintosh
1985
Tall Tales & Legends as Mr. Wallace
1985
D.A.R.Y.L. as Andy Richardson
1984
Murder, She Wrote as Ross McKay
1984
Jeopardy! as Self
1984
This Is Spinal Tap as David St. Hubbins
1983
Imps* as Fritz #2
1982
Young Doctors in Love as Dr. Simon August
1981
Spinal Tap: The Final Tour as David St. Hubbins
1981
Likely Stories Vol. 1
1980
Used Cars as Eddie Winslow
1980
Fridays as Self - Guest Host
1980
Goodtime Girls
1979
1941 as Willy
1979
CBS News Sunday Morning as Self
1978
More Than Friends as Terry Christopher
1977
Cracking Up
1976
Laverne & Shirley as Lenny
1975
Saturday Night Live as Self - Various Characters
1975
Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1975
Saturday Night Live as David St. Hubbins (uncredited)
1974
Dinah! as Self
1974
Happy Days
1961
The Mike Douglas Show as Self
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Spinal Tap at Stonehenge: The Final Finale as David St. Hubbins
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In Memoriam