Peter MacNicol
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Peter MacNicol, born on April 10, 1954, is an American actor and voice actor.
He was given a Theatre World Award for his 1981 Broadway debut in Crimes of the Heart.
Galen in Dragonslayer (1981), Stingo in Sophie's Choice (1982), Janosz Poha (1989), Addams Family Values (1993), and David Langley in Bean (1997).
MacNicol received the 2001 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role as eccentric lawyer John Cage in the FOX comedy-drama Ally McBeal (1997-2002).
Alan Birch, a doctor who appeared in the medical drama Chicago Hope (1994–98), as physicist Dr. Kevin Lennox in the sixth season of action-thriller 24 (2007).
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt of CBS crime drama Numbers (2005–10)
Grey's Anatomy (2010–11), Jeff Kane on the political comedy series Veep (2016–19), Doctor Octopus in The Spectacular Spider-Man, and Nigel the Advisor on Tangled: The Series.
Early life
MacNicol was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, the youngest of five children of Barbara Jean (née Gottlich), a homemaker, and John Wilbur Johnson, a Norwegian-American corporate executive who became an Episcopal priest later in life. He is a graduate of MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas.
Career
MacNicol appeared in productions of Hamlet and The Pretenders, which began in 1978 at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. In 1980, he made his New York debut in Crimes of the Heart, an off-Broadway play. In 1981, the company's revival went to Broadway, where he received the Theatre World Award. A casting agent noticed him during the course of this performance and called him to register for his forthcoming role in Sophie's Choice. He landed himself in 1981, opposite Sir Ralph Richardson, in his first film, Dragonslayer.
MacNicol appeared in the original production of Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men in 1987, which first appeared at the Dallas Theater Center. In consultation with the author, the adaptation was created.
The Broadway production of Black Comedy/White Lies is one of his other stage appearances. He has appeared in repertory theatre, including the New York Shakespeare Festival, in which he appeared in Richard II and Juliet, as well as in Twelfth Night, Rum and Coke, and Find a Peanut.
In this film, he played naive Southern writer who fell in love with Meryl Staep in Sophie's Choice, museum curator Janosz Poha in Ghostbusters II, and camp director Gary Granger alongside future Numbers co-star David Krumholtz in Addams Family Values. Housesitter and American Blue Note are two other film credits.
In the short-lived political comedy The Powers That Belonging, he appeared opposite John Forsythe, Holland Taylor, David Hyde Pierce, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as press secretary Bradley Grist from 1992 to 1993.
Alan Birch appeared in 1994, in 1994, and in the second season of Chicago Hope once creator David E. Kelley departed. He returned to Kelley in 1997 by appearing in another television series, Ally McBeal, a main guest star from Season 1 to Season 4 and a recurring character in Season 5. MacNicol is best known for his appearance in a Comedian series as eccentric lawyer John Cage, for which he received the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2001. He appeared in Numbers as Dr. Larry Flehichhardt, a physicist, and appeared in the sixth season of the hit FOX show 24. In the film 24: Redemption, MacNicol reprised his role as Lennox. In one episode of Cheers titled "Look Before You Sleep," he appeared as a hotel receptionist.
MacNicol has lent his voice to several comic book superheroes, including Dr. Kirk Langstrom of Man-Bat in Justice League Unlimited, Professor Ivo in Young Justice, Dr. Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus in the Young Justice series Batman: Robin Hood, Batman: Genesis, and Batman: The Spectacular Spider-Man. In G.I., he also spoke Firefly. Joe: Renegades.
On Grey's Anatomy, MacNicol played Dr. Stark, a pediatric surgeon.
MacNicol was nominated for an Emmy for outstanding guest actor in Veep's fifth season, but this was disqualified as a part-time "guest" and joining him in the ranks of Dennis Miller and Henry Winkler, whose nominations were also withdrawn. He was later nominated in the same category for the seventh season of Veep.