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Kevin Dunn
Born	February 26, 1956 (1956-02-26) (age 53) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1986–present

Kevin Dunn (born February 26, 1956) is an American actor who has appeared in supporting roles in a number of films since the 1980s.

Personal life

Dunn was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Margaret, a nurse, and John Dunn, a musician and poet.^[1] His sister is actor/comedian Nora Dunn. Dunn graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1977, and received and honorary doctorate in 2008 from the same school.

Career

Dunn's recent work includes Samantha Who?, a series appearing on ABC from 2007 to 2009. His film appearances include Small Soldiers, Stir of Echoes, Godzilla, Snake Eyes, Nixon, Mad Love, Ghostbusters II, Dave, Beethoven's 2nd, Hot Shots!, and 1492: Conquest of Paradise. Dunn also played Murry Wilson in a 2000 miniseries, The Beach Boys: An American Family. He played President Richard Nixon's White House Counsel, Charles Colson, in Nixon and played President Bill Clinton's National Security Advisor, Sandy Berger, in ABC miniseries The Path to 9/11 which aired on September 10 and September 11, 2006. In 2000, he co-starred in "Bette (TV series)," a sitcom starring Bette Midler, in which he played her husband in the show's first 11 episodes.

Dunn played Joel Horneck, Jerry's overzealous childhood friend, in the Seinfeld episode "Male Unbonding". He is also featured in Live Free or Die as well as the 2006 Sony Pictures film Gridiron Gang and Transformers, directed by Michael Bay.

Filmography

• Hot Shots! (1991) - Lt. Cmdr. James Block
• 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992) - Captain Mendez
• Chaplin (1992) - J. Edgar Hoover
• Dave (1993) - Alan Reed
• Little Big League (1994) - Arthur Goslin
• Nixon (1995) - Charles Colson
• Picture Perfect (1997 film) (1997) - Sam
• Godzilla (1998) - Colonel Hicks
• Almost Heroes (1998) - Hidalgo
• Small Soldiers (1998) - Stuart Abernathy
• God, The Devil and Bob (2003)
• Boston Public (2003) - Big Ed
• I ♥ Huckabees (2004) - Marty
• LAX (2004) - Vic Tilden
• Huff (2004) - Berkowitz
• Law & Order (2005) - Arnie MacLaren
• The Darwin Awards (2006) - Insurance Exec
• 7th Heaven (2004-2006) - Coach Terry Hardwick
• Lost (2006) - Gordy
• Live Free or Die (2006) - Monson
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2006) - Det. Carson Laird
• The Closer (2006) - Mr. Catalina
• All the King's Men (2006) - Alex
• The Black Dahlia (2006) - Elizabeth Short's Father (uncredited)
• Gridiron Gang (2006) - Ted Dexter
• Prison Break (2007) - Cooper Green
• Boston Legal (2006-2007) - Jonathan Weiner
• Transformers (2007) - Ron Witwicky
• Lions for Lambs (2007) - AFX Editor
• Samantha Who? (2008) - Howard Newly
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) - Mark Nash
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) - Ron Witwicky

References

External links

• Kevin Dunn at the Internet Movie Database