Stephen Fisher, known professionally as Fisher Stevens, is an American actor, director, producer and writer. As an actor, he is best known for his portrayals of Ben in Short Circuit (1986) and Short Circuit 2 (1988). He is also a documentary filmmaker, having won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for The Cove (2009). He also directed the documentaries Crazy Love (2007) and Before the Flood (2016). Stevens is known for his roles in films such as Reversal of Fortune (1990), Bob Roberts (1992), Hackers (1995), Anything Else (2003), and Hail, Caesar! (2016). He has acted in the Wes Anderson films The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Isle of Dogs (2018), The French Dispatch (2021), and Asteroid City (2023). In television he portrayed Chuck Fishman in CBS series Early Edition (1996–2000), Marvin Gerard on NBC's The Blacklist (2015–2022), Gabriel Kovac in CBS's The Good Fight (2017–2020), and Hugo Baker in the HBO drama series Succession (2019–2023).

Filmography

• 2026In the Grey — William Horowitz
• Origin: The Story of the Basketball Africa League — Executive Producer
• 2025Origin: The Story of the Basketball Africa League — Executive Producer
• 2025PERFUMANIA — Burt
• 2025Song Sung Blue — Dr. Dave Watson
• 2025We Are Guardians — Producer
• 2024A King Like Me — Producer
• 2024Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg — Executive Producer
• 2024Coup! — Upton Sinclair
• RIPLEY — Edward T. Cavanach, Esq. (uncredited)
• 2024Sing: Thriller — Additional Voices (voice)
• 2023Asteroid City — Detective #1
• Beckham — Producer, Director
• Dear Edward — Director, Executive Producer
• The Lincoln Project — Executive Producer, Director
• 2021Palmer — Additional Voices (voice), Director
• 2021Sing 2 — Additional Voices (voice)
• 2021The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun — Story Editor
• Tiger King: The Doc Antle Story — Executive Producer
• 2020Blood on the Wall — Executive Producer
• 2020El Gran Fellove — Executive Producer
• Grant — Executive Producer
• Tiger King — Executive Producer
• 2019And We Go Green — Producer, Director
• 2019Motherless Brooklyn — Lou
• 2019Tigerland — Producer
• Basketball: A Love Story — Narrator (voice)
• Dirty Money — Director
• 2018Isle of Dogs — Scrap (voice)
• Succession — Hugo Baker
• 2017Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang — Producer
• The Good Fight — Gabriel Kovac
• 2016Before the Flood — Director, Producer
• 2016Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds — Self (uncredited), Director, Producer
• 2016Hail, Caesar! — Communist Writer
• The Night Of — Saul the Pharmacist
• Vice Principals — Brian Biehn
• 2015Racing Extinction — Producer
• 2015The Keyboard Cowboys: A Look Back at Hackers
• 2014Another World — Director, Producer
• 2014John Leguizamo: Ghetto Klown — Director, Executive Producer
• 2014Mission Blue — Self, Director, Producer
• Red Oaks — Jerry
• 2014The Grand Budapest Hotel — M. Robin
• 2014United Passions — Carl Hirschmann
• 2013Before the Spring: After the Fall — Executive Producer
• 2013Sunlight Jr. — Executive Producer
• 2013Tales From a Ghetto Klown — Producer
• The Blacklist — Marvin Gerard
• 2012Beware of Mr. Baker — Producer
• Elementary — Marty Ward
• 2012LOL — Roman
• 2012My Decisions — Director
• 2012One for the Money — Morty Beyers
• 2012Stand Up Guys — Director
• The Legend of Korra — Shady Shin (voice)
• 2011Blank City — Executive Producer
• 2011Deepest Dive: The Story of the Trieste — Director
• 2011Fake — Agent Tom Kozinski
• 2011Woody Allen: A Documentary — Executive Producer
• 2010Henry's Crime — Eddie Vibes
• 2010Rio Sex Comedy — Fish
• 2010Rising Stars — Mo
• 2010The Cove: My Friend is... — Producer
• 2010The Experiment — Archaleta
• 2009Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach — Executive Producer
• 2009Tenderness — Executive Producer
• 2009The Cove — Producer
• 2009The Grean Teem — Executive Producer
• The Mentalist — Tolman Bunting
• 2008The Midnight Meat Train — Executive Producer
• 2007Awake — Dr. Puttnam, Producer
• Californication — Zig Semetauer
• 2007Crazy Love — Producer, Co-Director
• Damages — Therapist
• 2007Feast of Love — Executive Producer
• 2007Meet Bill — Producer
• 2006A Prairie Home Companion — Executive Producer
• 2006Kettle of Fish — Bruce
• 2006Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos — Producer
• Ugly Betty — Mr. Z
• 2006Wedding Daze — Executive Producer
• 2005Factotum — Manny
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia — Lyle Korman
• Medium — Neal Greybridge
• Numb3rs — John Buckley
• 2005Slow Burn — Alan Turlock, Executive Producer
• 2005Undiscovered — Garrett Schweck
• 2005Yes — Executive Producer
• Lost — George Minkowski
• 2004On The Couch — Gary
• 2003Anything Else — Manager
• 2003Easy Sex — Officer Donny
• Hope & Faith — Nick Spinelli
• 2003Kill the Poor — Stuffed Shirt
• 2003Replay — Blu
• 2003Uptown Girls — Fisher Stevens, Producer
• Hack — Donnie Franco
• 2002Just a Kiss — Director
• 2002Private Eye Princess — Rasputini / Spanish Dancer (voice)
• 2002Swimfan — Executive Producer
• 2002Undisputed — James 'Ratbag' Kroycek
• 20013 A.M. — Haplin
• 2001Jenifer — Dr. Aaron Sanders
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Ray Garnett, Gareth Sage
• 2001Piñero — Producer
• 2001Prison Song — Prosecutor
• 2001Sam the Man — Sam Manning, Story, Producer
• 2001The Château — Executive Producer
• 2000Lisa Picard Is Famous — Fisher Stevens, Executive Producer
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Alvin Gilbert, Ted Scott
• 1999Taxman — Kenneth Green
• 1998The Tic Code — Morris
• 1997Four Days in September — John Mowinckel
• The Hunger — Max Armstrong
• Early Edition — Chuck Fishman, Director
• 1996Four Tales of Two Cities — Director
• 1996Phinehas — Director
• 1996The Right to Remain Silent — Dale Myerson
• 1995Call of the Wylie — Director
• 1995Cold Fever — Jack
• 1995Hackers — Eugene Belford / 'The Plague' / Mr. Babbage
• 1995Nina Takes a Lover — Paulie
• Friends — Roger
• 1994Only You — Larry Corvatch
• Frasier — Sheldon Morey
• Homicide: Life on the Street — Jonathan Heine
• Key West — Seamus O'Neill
• 1993Super Mario Bros. — Iggy
• 1993When the Party's Over — Alexander
• 1992Bob Roberts — Rock Bork
• 1992Hero — Director of Channel 4 Crash Feature
• 1991Mystery Date — Dwight
• The General Motors Playwrights Theater — Wally Zuckerman
• 1991The Marrying Man — Sammy
• Law & Order — Defense Attorney Ross Fineman
• 1990Reversal of Fortune — David Marriott
• 1989Bloodhounds of Broadway — Hotfoot Harry
• 1988Short Circuit 2 — Ben Jahrvi
• 1986Ponce de Leon — Indian Chief
• 1986Short Circuit — Ben Jabituya
• 1986The Boss' Wife — Carlos Delgado
• 1985My Science Project — Vince Latello
• Tall Tales & Legends — Indian Chief
• 1984The Brother from Another Planet — Card Trickster
• 1984The Flamingo Kid — Hawk Ganz
• 1983Baby It's You — Stage Manager
• American Playhouse — Hotfoot Harry
• 1981The Burning — Woodstock
• On The Level
• Saturday Night Live — Smoker (uncredited)
• Columbo — Alex Brady
• Avenger — Producer
• Rubber Hut
• Shinjiro — Producer
• The Jet — Producer
• The Montreal Protocol — Director, Producer
• Untitled Kate Spade Documentary — Executive Producer

Appearances as themselves (7)

• Would I Lie to You? — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self
• 2014Super Mario Bros: This Ain't No Video Game — Self (archive footage)
• 2007Fired! — Self
• 2006...So Goes the Nation — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self