Jeffrey Tambor Biography
Born: July 08, 1944
Character actor Jeffrey Tambor has built his career in comedies playing the role of the uptight boss, or more generally, the stuffy guy. After graduate school, teaching, and a prolific stage career, Tambor started making television guest-starring appearances in the early '70s. He showed up on Three's_Company enough that he eventually got a spot on the spin-off series The Ropers as the disapproving next-door neighbor Jeffrey. After the show's two-season run, he did a few TV movies before landing a reoccurring roles on the television version of 9 to 5, naturally playing the Dabney_Coleman boss character. Throughout the '80s and early '90s, he continued to play the role of the stuffy guy on television (The Golden Girls, L.A. Law, Max_Headroom) and movies (Mr._Mom, City_Slickers, Life_Stinks). His big break came in 1992, when he was cast as Garry_Shandling's smiling sidekick, Hank Kingsley, on HBO's The_Larry_Sanders_Show, his most recognizable role. For the rest of the '90s, he frequently returned to playing snide characters for movies (Teaching_Mrs._Tingle, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Muppets_From_Space), although he would be more well-known for his work on television. In 1999, he appeared on the AMC series The_Lot for its two-season run and provided voice talent for the MTV cartoon show 3 South. He played another boss type in the heist film Scorched in 2002. Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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