Michael McKean (born October 17, 1947) is an American actor, comedian, writer, composer and musician, perhaps best known for Laverne & Shirley, Spinal Tap and Better Call Saul.

Filmography

• 2026In Memoriam
• Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America — Michael Finney
• 2025Spinal Tap II: The End Continues — David St. Hubbins, Writer, Characters, Producer
• The Diplomat — President William Rayburn, President William Rayburn (archive footage)
• 2022Jerry & Marge Go Large — Howard
• 2022Weird: The Al Yankovic Story — Sleazy MC
• 2021My Little Pony: A New Generation — Argyle (voice)
• 2021Playing God — Frank
• Rugrats — Grandpa Lou Pickles (voice)
• Breeders — Michael
• 2020Pink Skies Ahead — Richard
• 2019Daddio — Paul
• Good Omens — Sergeant Shadwell
• 2019Image Makers: The Adventures of America's Pioneer Cinematographers — Narrator (voice)
• Billions — Melville Revere
• The Good Place — Doug Forcett
• 2016The Meddler — Mark
• Better Call Saul — Chuck McGill
• Grace and Frankie — Jack
• The 7D — Uncle Humidor (voice)
• 201310 Rules for Sleeping Around — Jeffrey Fields
• 2013Batman: The Dark Knight Returns — Dr. Bartholomew Wolper (voice)
• 2013Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 — Bartholomew Wolper (voice)
• Drunk History — Carl Laemmle
• Family Tree — Keith Chadwick
• 2012Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 — Dr. Bartholomew Wolper (voice)
• 2012The Words — Nelson Wylie
• Veep — Governor Ballentine
• Happy Endings — Big Dave
• Homeland — Jeffrey Turner
• Off the Map — Ed Greenman
• ThunderCats — Vultaire (voice)
• Glory Daze — Stu
• 2010Pure Country 2: The Gift — Angel Joseph
• Castle — Victor Baron
• 2009Spinal Tap: Back from the Dead — David St. Hubbins
• 2009Stonehenge: 'Tis a Magic Place — David St. Hubbins
• 2009Whatever Works — Joe - Boris' Friend #3
• 2008Adventures of Power — Harlan
• Childrens Hospital — Death
• 2007Billy & Mandy: Wrath of the Spider Queen — Kalgoron (voice)
• 2007Joshua — Chester
• 2007The Grand — Steve Lavisch
• 2007The Thick of It — Glen Glahm
• 2006For Your Consideration — Lane Iverson
• Help Me Help You
• 2006Open Wide: Tooth School Inside — Dr. Flossman (voice)
• 2006Relative Strangers — Ken Hyman
• The Unit — Dr. Donald Metz
• 2006The Year Without a Santa Claus — Snow Miser
• American Dad! — Emperor Zing (voice)
• 2005Arnie the Doughnut — Narrator / Arnie the Doughnut (voice)
• 2005Candor City Hospital — Patient
• Catscratch — Groink (voice)
• Hopeless Pictures
• 2005The Producers — Prison Trustee
• Boston Legal — Dwight Biddle
• 2004The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Music Edition — David St. Hubbins
• 2003A Mighty Wind — Jerry Palter, Songs
• 2003And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself — William Christy Cabanne
• 2003Haunted Lighthouse 4-D — Captain Van Legge
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — David St. Hubbins - Guest/Musical Guest, Self - Guest
• 2002100 Mile Rule — Howard
• 2002Auto Focus — Video Executive
• 2002Slap Her... She's French — Monsieur Duke
• 2002The Guru — Dwain
• 2002The Hunchback of Notre Dame II — Sarousch (voice)
• Alias — Atticus Liddell
• 2001Dr. Dolittle 2 — Bird (voice)
• Justice League — The Sportsman / Sgt. O'Shaughnessey (voice)
• 2001My First Mister — Bob
• 2001Never Again — Alex The Transvestite
• Oswald — Louie (voice)
• Primetime Glick — Adrien Van Voorhees
• 2001Recess Christmas: Miracle On Third Street — Mr. Bream (voice)
• Smallville — Perry White
• 2001Teddy Bears' Picnic — Porterfield 'Porty' Pendleton
• The Lone Gunmen
• The Zeta Project
• As Told by Ginger — Bobby Lightfoot (voice)
• 2000Beautiful — Lance DeSalvo
• 2000Best in Show — Stefan Vanderhoof
• 2000Catching Up with Marty DiBergi — David St. Hubbins
• Clerks — Professor Ram / Creepy Old Guy (voice)
• Curb Your Enthusiasm — Matt Tessler
• Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law — Evelyn Spyro Throckmorton (voice)
• 2000Little Nicky — Chief of Police
• Strip Mall
• The Huntress
• Batman Beyond — Ian Peek (voice)
• Family Guy — Pengrove Pig / Andy Rooney / Camel Salesman (voice), Pawtucket Pat (voice)
• 1999Kill the Man — Mr. Livingston
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Kurt Sandow
• 1999Mystery, Alaska — Mr. Walsh
• Providence — Sherman Smith
• 1999Snowden's Christmas — Drummer (voice)
• SpongeBob SquarePants — Captain Frostymug (voice), Lonnie (voice)
• 1999Teaching Mrs. Tingle — Principal Potter
• The Early Show — David St. Hubbins
• 1999True Crime — Réverend Shillerman
• Uncomfortably Close with Michael McKean
• 1998101 Dalmatians Christmas — Jasper Badun
• 1998Archibald the Rainbow Painter — J.P. Bigelow
• 1998Final Justice — Merle Hammond
• LateLine
• 1998Small Soldiers — Insaniac / Freakenstein (voice)
• 1998The Pass — Willie L.
• 1998With Friends Like These — Maxwell Hersh
• 101 Dalmatians: The Series — Jasper Badun (voice)
• 1997Casper: A Spirited Beginning — Bill Case
• 1997No Strings Attached — Elliot Lewis
• 1997Nothing to Lose — Phillip "P.B." Barrow
• 1997Still Breathing — New Mark
• 1997That Darn Cat — Peter Randall
• The New Batman Adventures — 50's Joker (voice)
• The Weird Al Show — Miner
• Veronica's Closet — Dave Whitby
• 1997Waiting for Guffman — Lyricist, Original Music Composer
• 1996Edie & Pen — Rick
• Hey Arnold!
• 1996Jack — Paulie
• Jungle Cubs
• 1996Jungle Cubs (Volume 1): Born to be Wild — (Voice)
• Road Rovers — Dr. Jeffrey Otitus (voice)
• 1996The Sunshine Boys — Scott Grogan
• Tracey Takes On... — Barry
• Caroline in the City — Father Damian
• Mr. Show with Bob and David — Professor Peens
• Pinky and the Brain — Toll Collector (voice)
• Star Trek: Voyager — The Clown
• 1995The Brady Bunch Movie — Mr. Larry Dittmeyer
• 1994Across the Moon — Frank
• 1994Airheads — Milo Jackson
• 1994Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman — Original Music Composer
• Duckman — Bob Hiney (voice)
• Friends — Mr. Rastatter
• 1994MacShayne: Final Roll of the Dice — Ozzie Evans
• 1994Radioland Murders — Rick Rochester
• Space Ghost Coast to Coast
• Animaniacs — Spink (voice), Jake (voice), Neivel Nosenest (voice)
• Boy Meets World — Jedediah Lawrence
• 1993Coneheads — Gorman Seedling, INS Deputy Commissioner
• Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman — Dr. Fabian Leek
• The Nanny — Noel Babcock
• The X-Files — Morris Fletcher
• 1992A Spinal Tap Reunion: The 25th Anniversary London Sell-Out — David St. Hubbins / Jerry Palter, Producer, Writer
• 1992Man Trouble — Eddy Revere
• 1992Memoirs of an Invisible Man — George Talbot
• 1992Metallica: A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica — David St. Hubbins
• 1991Amnesty International's Big 30 — David St. Hubbins
• Dinosaurs — Guy in the Lab Coat (voice), Mr. Myman (voice), Officer Bettleheim (voice), Kyle (voice), Ed (voice), Police Chief Parish (voice), Bryant (voice), Ansel (voice), Dr. Herder (voice), Les (voice), Inspector (voice), Hank (voice)
• Morton & Hayes — Director
• 1991Murder in High Places — Pettibone
• Sessions — Dan Carver
• 1991True Identity — Harvey Cooper
• 1990Book of Love — Adult Jack Twiller
• Dream On — Gibby Fiske, Director
• 1990Flashback — Hal Cresciman
• Grand — Tom Smithson
• Law & Order — Bill Nolan, Elias Grace
• 1989Hider in the House — Phil Dreyer
• 1989The Big Picture — Emmet Sumner, Screenplay
• The Simpsons — Jerry Rude (voice), David St. Hubbins (voice)
• 1988A Father's Homecoming — Michael Fields
• 1988Earth Girls Are Easy — Woody
• 1988Portrait of a White Marriage — Reverend Alfred 'Alfie' Prufrock
• 1988Short Circuit 2 — Fred Ritter
• 1987Daniel and the Towers — Wexler Hatch
• 1987Double Agent — Jason Starr / Warren Starbinder
• 1987Light of Day — Bu Montgomery
• 1987Planes, Trains and Automobiles — State Trooper
• 1986Classified Love — Pete Newly
• 1986Davy Crockett — Mr. Wallace
• 1986Johnny Appleseed — Mac Macintosh
• 1986Jumpin' Jack Flash — Leslie (uncredited)
• 1986The Hear 'n Aid Sessions — David St. Hubbins [Spinal Tap]
• 1986The History of White People in America: Volume II — Rev. Alfred 'Alfie' Prufrock
• 1985Clue — Mr. Green
• 1985D.A.R.Y.L. — Andy Richardson
• Tall Tales & Legends — Mac Macintosh, Mr. Wallace
• Murder, She Wrote — Ross McKay
• 1984This Is Spinal Tap — David St. Hubbins, Original Music Composer, Writer
• 1983Imps* — Fritz #2
• 1982Young Doctors in Love — Dr. Simon August
• 1981Likely Stories Vol. 1
• 1981Spinal Tap: The Final Tour — David St. Hubbins
• Goodtime Girls
• 1980Used Cars — Eddie Winslow
• 19791941 — Willy
• 1979The T.V. Show — Musician
• 1978More Than Friends — Terry Christopher
• 1977Cracking Up
• Laverne & Shirley — Lenny, Director
• 1975Jaws — ADR & Dubbing
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Various Characters, Self - Host, David St. Hubbins (uncredited), Announcer (voice) (uncredited), Writer
• Happy Days
• Spinal Tap at Stonehenge: The Final Finale — David St. Hubbins
• The Cackling of the Dodos

Appearances as themselves (28)

• 2022Who Done It: The Clue Documentary — Self
• 2020The Happy Days of Garry Marshall — Self
• 2020Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness — Self
• 2020Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp — Self
• Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time — Self
• 201650 Years of Star Trek — Self
• Talking Saul — Self - Guest
• Food: Fact or Fiction? — Himself
• 201421 Years: Richard Linklater — Self - Actor
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• 2009Unwigged & Unplugged: An Evening with Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer — Self
• 2005Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found — Self
• 2005The Aristocrats — Self
• The Tony Danza Show — Self - Guest
• 2003ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration — Self
• 2003Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) — Self
• Real Time with Bill Maher — Self
• 2001Adam Sandler Goes to Hell — Self
• Where Are They Now? — Self
• The View — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• Late Show with David Letterman — Self - Guest
• Jeopardy! — Self
• Fridays — Self - Guest Host
• CBS News Sunday Morning — Self
• Dinah! — Self
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self
• The Oscars — Self