David Paymer

All Movies of David Paymer

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  7.4
  Minx (TV Series)
  10 episodes. In 1970s Los Angeles, an earnest young feminist named Joyce (Ophelia Lovibond) joins forces with a low-rent publisher to create the first erotic magazine for women.
   2022

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  6.5
  Dave (TV Series)
  10 episodes. A neurotic mid 20's suburbanite is convinced he's destined to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Now he has to prove it to everyone else.
   2020

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  7.6
  Star Trek: Picard (TV Series)
  Described as a follow-up series to 'Star Trek: Next Generation', and centers on Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the next chapter of his life.
  Character:  Dr. Moritz Benayoun 1 episode, 2020

   2020

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  6.1
  The Conners (TV Series)
  Spinoff of the comedy series 'Roseanne', centering on the family members of the matriarch. Dan, Jackie, Darlene and the other Conners reunite for this Hogan Family-like spin-off which sees the heartland clan wrestling with its mat...
  Character:  Gary 1 episode, 2018

   2018

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  8.2
  The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (TV Series)
  Manhattan, in the 1950s. A housewife from Upper West Side decides to become a standup comic in New York in 1958.
  Character:  Harry Drake 4 episodes, 2017-2019

   2017

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  6.5
  Lucifer (TV Series)
  Lucifer, bored from his sulking life in hell comes to live in Los Angeles only to help humanity with its miseries through his experience and telepathic abilities to bring people's deepest desires and thoughts out of them. While me...
  Director of the film

   2016

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  8.0
  Two-Bit Waltz
  Suspension from school, the loss of a friend, a broken heart and lack of inspiration lead to Maude's downfall in this romp through teenage error.
  Character: The Lawyer

   2014

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  5.8
  Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
  While working in the CIA’s covert intelligence office as a junior analyst, Ryan (Chris Pine) accidentally uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack. With no one to verify if the attack is legitima...
  Character: Ambassador Dixon Lewis

   2014

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  7.0
  Perception (TV Series)
  TV Series (2012-2015). Dr. Daniel Pierce is an eccentric neuroscientist who uses his unique outlook to help the federal government solve complex criminal cases.
   2012

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  6.1
  The Five-Year Engagement
  Exactly one year after promising chef Tom Solomon meets Violet Barnes, he surprises her with a ring. By all accounts, Tom and Violet are destined for their happily ever after. But unexpected events keep tripping them up as they lo...
  Character: Pete Solomon

   2012

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  Bunheads (TV Series)
  TV Series (2012-2013). 18 Episodes. Michelle, a Las Vegas showgirl marries a man on a whim and moves to his sleepy coastal town where she winds up working alongside her new mother-in-law at her dance school.
  Director of the film

   2012

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  Hart of Dixie (TV Series)
  TV Series (2011-2015). 4 Seasons. 76 Episodes. Fast-talking New Yorker and brand new doctor Zoe Hart has it all figured out - after graduating top of her class from medical school, she'll follow in her father's footsteps and becom...
  Director of the film

   2011

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  4.7
  Twixt
  A writer with a declining career arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named V. He's uns...
  Character: Sam

   2011

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  6.5
  No Ordinary Family (TV Series)
  The Powells are about to go from ordinary to extraordinary. After 16 years of marriage, Jim (Michael Chiklis, The Shield Fantastic Four) feels disconnected from his workaholic wife, Stephanie (Julie Benz, Dexter), and two teenage ...
  Director of the film

   2010

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  Melrose Place (TV Series)
  TV Series (2009-2010). 1 season. 18 episodes. In an elegant apartment building on Melrose in Los Angeles, a diverse group of 20-somethings have formed a surrogate family. Landlady Sydney Andrews is a central figure in the lives of...
  Director of the film

   2009

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  6.3
  Make It or Break It (TV Series)
  TV Series (2009-2012). 3 Seasons. 48 Episodes. Kaylie Cruz, Payson Keeler, Lauren Tanner, and Emily Kmetko strive in the world of gymnastics, training at one of the best gyms in the country, The Rock. But drama hits The Rock when ...
  Director of the film

   2009

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  7.7
  Drag Me To Hell
  Christine Brown is an ambitious L.A. loan officer. Life is good until the mysterious Mrs. Ganush arrives at the bank to beg for an extension on her home loan. Should Christine follow her instincts and give the old woman a break? O...
  Character: Mr. Jacks

   2009

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  6.4
  Redbelt
  A fateful event leads to a job in the film business for top mixed-martial arts instructor Mike Terry (Ejiofor). Though his refuses to participate in prize bouts, circumstances conspire to force him to consider entering such a comp
  Character: Richard

   2008

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  6.3
  Resurrecting the Champ
  For all his ambition, Erik (Josh Hartnett) is a Denver sports reporter fast on his way to being yesterday's news. His writing lacks personality, and his editor, Metz (Alan Alda), is unwilling to pull him off the boxing beat. To ma...
  Character: Whitley

   2007

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  5.2
  October Road (TV Series)
  TV Series (2007-2008). 2 Seasons. 19 Episodes. Can you ever really go home again? That's the question that confronts acclaimed novelist Nick Garrett when he returns home after being away for ten years. Once back home on October Ro...
  Director of the film

   2007

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  6.7
  Ocean's 13 (Ocean's Thirteen)
  The sequel to Ocean's Eleven (2001) and Ocean's Twelve (2004). Ocean's Thirteen will be mostly filmed in a re-created casino on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, with some external scenes filmed in Las Vegas. This time around, the ...
   2007

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  6.5
  What About Brian (TV Series)
  TV Series (2006-2007). 2 Seasons. 24 Episodes. From the producers of Lost and Alias and the screenwriter of City of Angels and For Love of the Game comes a contemporary, heartwarming ensemble show about a group of supportive frien...
  Director of the film

   2006

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  7.1
  Payback: Straight Up
  Porter is shot by his wife and best friend and is left to die. When he survives he plots revenge.
  Character: Arthur Stegman (archive footage)

   2006

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  6.5
  Brothers & Sisters (TV Series)
  TV Series (2006-2011). 5 Seasons. 109 Episodes. Brothers and Sisters is a compelling, new one-hour primetime drama from executive producers Ken Olin and playwright Jon Robin Baitz about the California-based Walker family. In the s...
  Director of the film

   2006

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  7.3
  Warm Springs (TV)
  Following an early and promising political career, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is stricken with polio in 1921 at 39 years of age. This film follows his struggle with his paralysis, the refuge he took in an obscure and run-down Georg...
   2005

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  Checking Out
  A famed stage actor reunites his family for a party, and plans to commit suicide after-wards, unless they are able to convince him not to.
  Character: Ted Applebaum

   2005

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  5.5
  Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School
  Robert Carlyle is Frank Keane, a baker by trade but now a man consumed by his wife's death. When fate intervenes, he pulls over to help a stranger in a car wreck, a man near death (John Goodman) who urgently discloses a planned re...
  Character: Rafael Horowitz

   2005

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  6.0
  Spartan
  Robert Scott (VAL KILMER) is a career military officer working in a highly secretive special operations force. A man hardened by years of brutal service, he is respected by his peers and elders in the world of espionage. When Scot...
  Character: TV News Anchor

   2004

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  6.5
  In Good Company
  Filmmaker and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Paul Weitz ("About a Boy") turns his complex sense of humor on Synergy, an insightful comedy about the relationship between a 50-year-old businessman and his new, 26-yea...
  Character: Morty

   2004

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  4.8
  Alex & Emma (Alex and Emma)
  Character: John Shaw

   2003

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  Joe and Max (TV)
  American boxer Joe Louis (Leonard Roberts) meets German champion Max Schmeling (Til Schweiger) in the ring in 1936, and Schmeling emerges victorious. They fight in the ring once again in 1938, and Louis hospitalizes his German cou...
   2002

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  6.6
  Everwood (TV Series)
  TV Series (2002-2006). 4 Seasons. 89 Episodes. A widowed brain surgeon from Manhattan moves his two children to the small mountain town of Everwood, Colorado.
  Director of the film

   2002

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  6.0
  RFK (TV) (TV)
  Following the death of his brother John, Robert Kennedy is forced to rise to the challenge of leading his country and carrying on his brother's vision of what America could be.
  Character: Dick Goodwin

   2002

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  6.4
  Focus
  Set in New York during the height of World War II, FOCUS recounts the unraveling of an American community when the identity of a man (William H. Macy) and his wife (Laura Dern) are mistaken. Slowly ostracized at home and work, the...
  Character: Mr. Finkelstein

   2001

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  Bartleby
  A clueless boss has no idea what to do with his mundane office worker whose refusal of duties only gets worse each passing minute.
   2001

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  5.6
  Bounce
  A businessman gives up his seat on a plane to another man. The plane crashes and everyone dies. Feeling great guilt, the businessman seeks out the wife of the dead man, and then falls in love with her.
  Character: Prosecuting Attorney Mandel

   2000

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  7.7
  For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (TV)
  For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story chronicles the life of a man torn between his home and his devotion to his music. In a Golden Globe-nominated performance, Andy Garcia portrays the gregarious, passionate, and obstina...
  Character: Embassy interviewer

   2000

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  4.7
  Enemies of Laughter
  One of the strangest looking men in show business, Billy Crystal sidekick David Paymer (CITY SLICKERS) stars as Paul, neurotic, flailing sitcom writer. Though he is moderately successful at his job, he can't manage to get his love...
  Character: Paul

   2000

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  7.4
  State and Main
  Echoing the themes of Living in Oblivion and Irma Vep, David Mamet's seventh feature centers on the havoc wrought on the inhabitants of a small town by a troubled film production. After its leading man's propensity for teenage gir...
  Character: Marty Rossen

   2000

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  Dash and Lilly (TV)
  Biographical look at the bombastic love affair that writers Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman shared in 1940 and 50's Hollywood. Refusing to marry, but deeply in love, the two engaged in many affairs and battled the bottle. Das...
  Character: Arthur Kober, Lillian's Husband

   1999

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  6.6
  Mumford
  A man gives up his job with the IRS and relocates to a small town named Mumford of which he takes the name and passes it off as his own by being a psychologist. Having only set up practice for a few months, he quickly becomes the ...
  Character: Dr. Ernest Delbanco

   1999

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  7.6
  The Hurricane
  In June 1966, Rubin Hurricane Carter was a strong contender for the middleweight boxing title. When three people were murdered in a New Jersey bar, Carter's dreams were destroyed. Driving home from a nearby club, Carter was wrongl...
  Character: Myron Bedlock

   1999

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  5.9
  Payback
  Porter (Mel Gibson) is pulled into a heist by his old friend, Val (Brian De Palma regular, Gregg Henry). As they're stealing $130,000 in laundered drug money from Chinese Triads, no one is going to call the police. Everything goes...
  Character: Arthur Stegman

   1999

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  7.0
  Outside Ozona
  A serial killer is stalking the roads between New Mexico and Texas and the passengers that we meet are destined to become his victims. We meet our parties at a cafeteria where a trucker stops for coffee. In the restaurant are a wo...
   1998

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  5.6
  Mighty Joe Young
  After Mighty Joe Young is brought to America for safety reasons, he escapes and rampages through Hollywood, spurred by tormentors out for revenge.
  Character: Harry Ruben

   1998

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  6.0
  Gang Related
  Two cops kill an undercover DEA agent by mistake, and frantically try to cover their tracks by framing a homeless man for the crime. That involves juggling evidence, coaching witnesses, and improvising to keep their desperate sche
   1997

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  7.1
  Amistad
  Amistad is the name of a slave ship traveling from Cuba to the U.S. in 1839. It is carrying a cargo of Africans who have been sold into slavery in Cuba, taken on board, and chained in the cargo hold of the ship. As the ship is cro...
  Character: Secretario John Forsyth

   1997

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  5.8
  Carpool
  A man with an important business meeting finds himself having to take care of the carpool for the neighborhood school children when his wife gets sick. Stopping to get donuts for the kids, things go even more awry when he finds hi...
   1996

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  6.0
  Crime of the Century
  In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindberg was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested, convicted, and executed. This film dramatizes the i...
  Character: David Wilentz

   1996

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  7.2
  Get Shorty
  Chili Palmer, a Miami mobster, loan-sharks for Ray Bones, a violent thug with a big chip on his shoulder. Ray sends Chili to Vegas after a bad debt, and a casino boss enlists Chili to find an even bigger deadbeat: Harry Zimm, Holl...
  Character: Leo Devoe

   1995

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  6.0
  City Hall
  In this urban thriller the accidental shooting of a six-year-old during an altercation between cops and a drug dealer shakes a New York City mayors office to its core, as the resulting investigation unveils the seamy truths behind...
  Character: Abe Goodman

   1995

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  6.5
  The American President
  Widowed before his election, the President of the United States (Michael Douglas) begins to date three years into his presidency and finds an unlikely match. Despite political opposition, the president falls head over heels for an...
   1995

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  7.1
  Nixon
  Director Oliver Stone brings us a film about the 37th president of the United States, Richard Milhous Nixon (Sir Anthony Hopkins), and his wife, Pat Nixon (Joan Allen). The film begins with the Watergate burglary, where five intr...
   1995

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  8.2
  Quiz Show
  This acclaimed drama, directed by Robert Redford, tells the true story behind the quiz show scandal of 1959. Herbert Stempel (John Turturro), a disgruntled former champion, prompts a congressional investigation into the popular ga...
  Character: Dan Enright

   1994

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  6.0
  Tales from the Crypt: Two for the Show (TV)
  A man murders his beautiful younger wife when she threatens to leave him. He then packs her body in a big suitcase and boards a train, where he is stalked by an inquisitive detective.
   1993

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  7.0
  Heart and Souls
  Character: Hal the Bus Driver

   1993

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  8.6
  Searching for Bobby Fischer
  Searching for Bobby Fischer was inspired by the life of chess prodigy Josh Waitzkin, as written by his father Fred Waitzkin. Josh (Max Pomeranc) is a "regular kid" who begins evincing signs of being a genius at chess. Hi...
  Character: Kalev

   1993

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  7.2
  The Larry Sanders Show (TV Series)
  The Larry Sanders Show is a satirical television sitcom that originally aired from August 1992 to May 1998 on the HBO cable television network in the United States. It starred stand-up comedian Garry Shandling as vain, neurotic ta...
   1992

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  5.9
  Mr. Saturday Night
  Billy Crystal co-wrote, directed, and starred in this ambitious 1992 comedy-drama about an aged comedian named Buddy Young Jr., whose foul attitude and poor judgment have a strongly negative effect on his career and the people who...
   1992

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  6.7
  City Slickers
  Mitch is a middle aged big-city radio ads salesman. He and his friends Ed and Phil are having mid-life crisis. They decide the best birthday gift is to go on a two week holiday in the wild west driving cattle from New Mexico to Co...
  Character: Ira Shalowitz

   1991

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  3.0
  No Holds Barred
  Rip is the World Wrestling Federation champion who is faithful to his fans and the network he wrestles for. Brell, the new head of the World Television Network, wants Rip to wrestle for his network. Rip refuses and goes back to hi...
   1989

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  The Wonderful World of Disney: Rock 'n' Roll Mom (TV)
  A woman with two teenage children, who usually composes some songs and present them in community shows, has one of her songs discovered by a music producer that turns her into a star.
   1988

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  Rags to Riches (TV Series)
  A wealthy widowed businessman adopts five daughters to live with him at his mansion.
   1987

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  7.3
  No Way Out
  Thriller in which a naval commander begins dating an alluring woman who happens to be the girlfriend of his boss (the Secretary of Defense). When the woman is murdered, the Secretary assigns the task of tracking down the killer to...
  Character: Technician

   1987

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  3.5
  Howard the Duck
  A scientific brings Howard the Duck to earth, and a group of teenagers must keep him from the scientists tracking him down.
  Character: Larry, Scientist

   1986