Peter MacNicol

Acting · Directing

Born April 10, 1954, Dallas, Texas, USA

Peter MacNicol (born April 10, 1954) is an American actor. He received a Theatre World Award for his 1981 Broadway debut in the play Crimes of the Heart. His film roles include Galen in Dragonslayer (1981), Stingo in Sophie's Choice (1982), Janosz Poha in Ghostbusters II (1989), camp counselor Gary Granger in Addams Family Values (1993), and David Langley in Bean (1997).

Filmography

• 2026Home Delivery — Howard Evans
• All's Fair — Robert DeLancie
• 2025Shell — Dr. Thaddeus Brand
• 2024The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie — The Invader (voice)
• 2023Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story — Psycho Date
• All Rise — Albert Campbell
• A Series of Unfortunate Events — Ishmael
• Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure — Nigel the Advisor (voice), Nigel (voice)
• CSI: Cyber — Simon Sifter
• Star Wars Rebels — Tseebo (voice)
• Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. — Professor Elliott Randolph
• 2013Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright — Dewey Ottman (voices)
• 2012Battleship — Secretary of Defense
• Doc McStuffins — Egghead (voice)
• 2012Game Change — Rick Davis
• The Mindy Project — Rabbi Adler
• Veep — Jeff Kane
• Fairly Legal — Judge Smollet
• Ben 10: Ultimate Alien — Oliver / Forever Knight #1 (voice)
• G.I. Joe: Renegades — Firefly (voice)
• Young Justice — Professor Ivo / M.O.N.Q.I. (voice), Professor Ivo / Amazo / M.O.N.Q.I. (voice), Professor Ivo (voice)
• The Spectacular Spider-Man — Otto Octavius (voice), Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus (voice), Master Planner (voice), Master Planner / Otto Octavius (voice), Master Planner / Doctor Octopus (voice)
• 2008The Spectacular Spider-Man: Attack of the Lizard — Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus (voice)
• The Big Bang Theory — Robert Wolcott
• American Dad! — Old Man Hanson (voice), Santa's Elf (voice), Angel (voice)
• Grey's Anatomy — Robert Stark
• Numb3rs — Larry Fleinhardt, Writer, Story
• 2005Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild — Troopmaster (voice)
• Boston Legal — Dr. Sydney Field
• 2004Breakin' All the Rules — Philip Gascon
• Danny Phantom — Sidney Poindexter (voice)
• Justice League Unlimited — David Clinton (voice)
• The Batman — Langstrom (voice)
• The Lyon's Den
• 2002Balto: Wolf Quest — Muru (voice)
• 24 — Tom Lennox
• 2001Recess: School's Out — Fenwick (voice)
• Boston Public — Director
• Buzz Lightyear of Star Command — Major (voice)
• Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law — X the Eliminator (voice), X, the Eliminator (voice)
• 2000The Pooch and the Pauper — Liberty (voice)
• 1999Baby Geniuses — Dan
• 1999Olive, the Other Reindeer — Fido (voice)
• 1999Snowden's Christmas — Snowden (voice)
• 1999The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue — Narrator (voice)
• CatDog — Runt (voice)
• 1998Silencing Mary — Lawrence Dixon
• The Wild Thornberrys — Raju / Monkey (voice)
• Ally McBeal — John Cage, Director, Writer
• 1997Bean — David Langley
• The Angry Beavers
• 1996Abducted: A Father's Love — Roy Dowd
• 1996Mojave Moon — Tire Repairman
• TFI Friday
• 1995Dracula: Dead and Loving It — Thomas Renfield
• Chicago Hope — Alan Birch
• 1994Radioland Murders — Son Writer
• 1994Roswell — Lewis Rickett
• 1993Addams Family Values — Gary Granger
• 1992Hard Promises — Stuart
• 1992Housesitter — Marty
• The Powers That Be — Bradley Grist
• 1990By Dawn's Early Light — Sedgwick
• 1989American Blue Note — Jack Solow
• 1989Ghostbusters II — Janosz Poha
• Tales from the Crypt — Austin Haggard (segment "Let the Punishment Fit the Crime")
• 1988Voices & Visions: Walt Whitman — Narrator
• The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd — Steve Cooper
• 1986Heat — Cyrus Kinnick
• 1986Johnny Bull — Joe Kovacs
• 1984The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers — Martin
• Cheers — Mario
• Faerie Tale Theatre — Martin
• 1982Sophie's Choice — Stingo
• 1981Dragonslayer — Galen
• Floss — Dr. Rivus