David Emmanuel Paymer (born August 30, 1954) is an American actor, comedian, and television director.

Filmography

• Adults — Sandy Adler
• All's Fair — Dr. Pollan
• 2025Bad Shabbos — Richard
• Good American Family — Dr. Lawrence
• St. Denis Medical — Bob
• Bookie — Nathan
• Minx — Myron
• 2022Mr. Saturday Night — Stan Yankleman
• 2020Bad Therapy — Dr. Edward Kingsley
• DAVE — Don
• 2020Horse Girl — Doctor
• Star Trek: Picard — Dr. Moritz Benayoun
• 2020The Sunlit Night — Levi
• 2019Fanboy — Angry Ice Cream Customer
• On Becoming a God in Central Florida — Buck Bridges
• The Morning Show — Mr. Shoenfeld
• 2019Where'd You Go, Bernadette — Jay Ross
• 2018Accident Man — Milton
• The Conners — Gary
• 2017Lemon — Dr. Gold
• Room 104 — Robert
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel — Harry Drake
• There's... Johnny! — Dr. Neuberger
• Lucifer — Director
• Recovery Road — Director
• 2016The Pickle Recipe — Uncle Morty
• 2014Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit — Dixon Lewis
• 2014Two-Bit Waltz — The Lawyer
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine — Dr. Frederick Tate
• Mistresses — Director
• Bunheads — Director
• Perception — Rueben Bauer
• 2012The Five-Year Engagement — Pete Solomon
• 2011Bad Teacher — Doctor Vogel
• Franklin & Bash — Director
• Hart of Dixie — Director
• Switched at Birth — Director, Writer
• 2011Twixt — Sam
• Hellcats — Director
• Life Unexpected — Director
• No Ordinary Family — Director
• 2009Drag Me to Hell — Mr. Jacks
• Make It or Break It — Director
• Melrose Place — Director
• Men of a Certain Age — Director
• The Good Wife — Judge Richard Cuesta
• 90210 — Director
• Privileged — Director
• 2008Redbelt — Richard
• The Mentalist — James "Jim" Panzer, Director
• Heartland — Director
• 2007Ocean's Thirteen — The V.U.P.
• October Road — Director
• 2007Resurrecting the Champ — Whitley
• Side Order of Life — Director
• Brothers and Sisters — Donald Dudley, Director
• 2006Checking Out — Ted Applebaum
• 2006Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School — Rafael Horowitz
• Pepper Dennis — Director
• The Unit — Director
• What About Brian — Director
• Windfall — Director
• 2005Candor City Hospital — Director
• 2005Crazy for Love — Max Sr.
• Ghost Whisperer — Adam Godfrey
• Grey's Anatomy — Director
• Medium — Director
• My Name Is Earl — Clark Clark
• 2005School of Life — Matt Warner
• 2005Warm Springs — Louis Howe
• 2004Balto III: Wings of Change — Mel (voice)
• Century City — Miller Sisto
• Entourage — Sammy Kane
• 2004In Good Company — Morty
• Jack & Bobby — Director
• 2004Spartan — TV News Anchor (uncredited)
• 2003Alex & Emma — John Shaw
• Line of Fire — Jonah Malloy
• One Tree Hill — Director
• Everwood — Director
• 2002Joe and Max — Joe Jacobs
• 2002RFK — Dick Goodwin
• 2002The Burial Society — Morry Zimmer
• Without a Trace — Mr. Freedman
• 2001Bartleby — The Boss
• 2001Focus — Mr. Finkelstein
• Justice League — Chancellor / Nomad (voice), Chancellor / Captain (voice)
• Night Visions — Jim Osgoode (segment "Neighborhood Watch")
• 2001The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie — Male Rhinoceros Hornbill (voice)
• 2000Bait — Agent Wooly
• 2000Bounce — Prosecuting Attorney Mandel (uncredited)
• 2000Enemies of Laughter — Paul
• 2000For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story — Embassy interviewer
• 2000From Where I Sit — Bob
• Gilmore Girls — Director
• 2000Partners — Bob
• 2000State and Main — Marty Rossen
• Static Shock — Mason Andrews (voice)
• 1999Chill Factor — Dr. Richard Long
• 1999Dash and Lilly — Arthur Kober
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Stephen Elroy
• 1999Mumford — Dr. Ernest Delbanco
• 1999Payback — Arthur Stegman
• 1999The Hurricane — Myron Bedlock
• Godzilla: The Series — Dean Whitehead (voice)
• 1998Mighty Joe Young — Harry Ruben
• 1998Outside Ozona — Alan Defaux
• 1998The Lesser Evil — George
• The Wild Thornberrys — Finch / Iguana (voice), Male Rhinoceros Hornbill (voice)
• 1997Amistad — Secretary John Forsyth
• Channel Umptee-3 — Sheldon S. Cargo (voice)
• 1997Gang Related — Elliot Goff
• 1997The 6th Man — Coach Pederson
• 1997The Long Way Home — (voice)
• The New Batman Adventures — Frank (voice)
• 1996Carpool — Daniel Miller
• 1996City Hall — Abe Goodman
• 1996Crime of the Century — David Wilentz
• 1996Unforgettable — Curtis Avery
• 1995Cagney & Lacey: Together Again — Deputy D.A. Feldberg
• 1995Get Shorty — Leo Devoe
• 1995Nixon — Ron Ziegler
• Santo Bugito — The Professor (voice)
• 1995The American President — Leon Kodak
• 1994Cagney & Lacey: The Return — Deputy Dist. Atty. Feldberg
• 1994City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold — Ira Shalowitz
• 1994In Search of Dr. Seuss — The Ad Man
• 1994Quiz Show — Dan Enright
• 1993Heart and Souls — Hal the Bus Driver
• 1993Searching for Bobby Fischer — Kalev
• 1992Mr. Saturday Night — Stan
• The Larry Sanders Show — Norman Litkey
• 1991City Slickers — Ira Shalowitz
• The Commish — Arnie
• Cop Rock — Louis Newman
• 1990Crazy People — George
• Glory Days — Mac Ten's Lawyer
• 1990Sky High — Vic
• Mancuso, F.B.I.
• 1989No Holds Barred — Unger
• Tales from the Crypt — Andy Conway
• Murphy Brown — Dr. Bishop
• 1988Rock 'N Roll Mom — Boris
• 1988The Absent-Minded Professor — Mr. Oliphant
• 21 Jump Street — Mike Ferris
• Jake and the Fatman
• 1987No Way Out — Technician
• Downtown — Capt. David Kiner
• 1986Howard the Duck — Larry, Scientist
• It's Garry Shandling's Show — Richard Kimble
• L.A. Law — Joey Paul
• Matlock — Lenny Marcus
• 1986Night of the Creeps — Young Scientist
• 1986Pleasures — Stanley
• 1985Love, Mary — David Lewis
• Moonlighting — Camille's PR
• 1985Perfect — Managing Editor
• 1984Best Defense — Kurly
• 1984Her Life as a Man — Ted
• 1984Irreconcilable Differences — Alan Sluiser
• 1983Grace Kelly — Jay Kanter
• Scarecrow and Mrs. King
• 1982Airplane II: The Sequel — Court Photographer
• Cagney & Lacey — Todd Feldberg
• Cheers — Phil Schumacher
• Fame
• Family Ties — Larry Harris
• St. Elsewhere — Mr. Bickle
• Hill Street Blues
• Open All Night
• Simon & Simon
• 1981This House Possessed — Pasternak
• Hart to Hart
• 1979The In-Laws — Cabbie, Cab Driver
• Taxi — Ned
• Lou Grant
• Barney Miller — Felix Morrissey
• The Jeffersons
• Happy Days
• Butterfly in the Typewriter — Stanley Kauffmann

Appearances as themselves (2)

• The View — Self
• The Oscars — Self