Armin Shimerman (born November 5, 1949) is an American actor and voice actor. Shimerman is known for playing the Ferengi bartender Quark in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Principal Snyder in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Kramer's caddy Stan on Seinfeld, voicing Dr. Nefarious in the Ratchet & Clank series, and Andrew Ryan, one of the antagonists of BioShock. He also played Dr. Potter in the 2011 movie adaptation of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.

Filmography

• Star Trek: very Short Treks — Quark (voice)
• 2023The Assassin's Apprentice: Silbadores of the Canary Islands — Roy
• 2021Ratchet and Clank: Life of Pie — Dr. Nefarious (voice)
• Close Enough — Phil (voice)
• Star Trek: Lower Decks — Quark (voice)
• 2020Unbelievable!!!!! — Male Moesha
• 2019The Circuit
• 20185th Passenger — Myers
• 2018Golden Boy — Cagan
• The Rookie — Judge Paloma
• 2018Wedding Swingers — Dr. Hans Meeker
• 2017Followed Back — Dr. Lane
• 2016Diani and Devine Meet the Apocalypse — Thomas
• Justice League Action — Zilius Zox (voice)
• 2016Ratchet & Clank — Dr. Nefarious (voice)
• Timeless — David Rittenhouse
• We Bare Bears — Additional Voices (voice)
• Nikki & Nora: The N&N Files — J. Hewitt Kemp
• 2014The Sublime and Beautiful
• 2013DC Nation - Tales of Metropolis - "Bizarro" — Brainiac (voice)
• DC Super-Pets — Jokerfish (voice), Superman (voice)
• Farm League — Aquamandrill (voice), Crainiac / Moo Face (voice)
• Tales of Metropolis — Brainiac (voice)
• Uncle Grandpa — Additional Voices (voice)
• DC Nation Shorts — Superman (voice), Jokerfish (voice)
• 2012Dropping Evil — CEO / 'Boss Man'
• Perception — Dr. Cutler
• Sword of the Atom — Commander / Solider (voice), Taren / Commander / Deraegis (voice), Taren (voice)
• 2011Atlas Shrugged: Part I — Dr. Potter
• 2011For Christ's Sake — The Pope
• Franklin & Bash — Stu Weston
• Regular Show — Mr. Murphy (voice), Zingo #3 / Guy #1 (voice), Waiter / Gopher Person / Guy (voice), Nightmare Alien (voice), Buttonwillow (voice), Dr. Henry (voice)
• 2009Bionicle: The Legend Reborn — Raanu (voice)
• Castle — Benjamin Donnelly
• 2009Fanboys — Anteaus (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Warehouse 13 — Charlie Martin
• Batman: The Brave and the Bold — Calculator (voice), Professor (voice), Psycho Pirate (voice)
• 2008Insanitarium — Hawthorne
• Leverage — Dr. Patemkin
• 2008Underfist: Halloween Bash — General Skarr / Candy Skeleton / Rat / Creepy Gnome (voice)
• 2007Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure — General Skarr / Pirate #7 (voice)
• 2007Billy & Mandy: Wrath of the Spider Queen — General Skarr (voice)
• 2006Dead and Deader — Coroner Flutie
• 2006What the Bleep! Down the Rabbit Hole — Old Man
• Ben 10 — Slix (voice)
• 2005Billy and Mandy Save Christmas — General Skarr (voice)
• Committed — Super
• Invasion — Josh Breims
• 2005Meet The Santas — Ernest
• Numb3rs — Patrick Holden
• South of Nowhere — Dr. Crawford
• 2005The Works — Gerald
• Boston Legal — Judge Brian Hooper
• Justice League Unlimited — Dr. Milo (voice)
• 2004Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus — Ernest
• 2004What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? — Older Man (in subway)
• Evil Con Carne — General Skarr/Stomach (voice), Writer
• Joan of Arcadia — Ronald Harbison
• Nip/Tuck — Ocularist
• The Handler — Maxwell Rosenheim
• Tremors — Cecil Carr
• For the People — Dr. O'Neill
• 2001Breathing Hard — Conrad
• Citizen Baines
• Crossing Jordan — Dr. McCain
• 2001Evil Con Carne — General Skarr/Stomach (voice)
• Grim & Evil
• 2001Just Ask My Children — Prison Psychiatrist
• The Agency — Dr. Oliver
• The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy — General Skarr
• The Guardian — Judge Smitrovich
• The Tick — The Terror
• Thieves
• Boston Public — Honorable Judge David Semel
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Oscar
• The Invisible Man — Tommy Walker / Augustin Gaither
• Judging Amy — Anthony Cara
• Rocket Power
• 1999The Auteur Theory — Detective Blank
• The West Wing — Richard III
• Charmed — The Wizard
• Martial Law — Daniel Darius
• 1998The Lost World — Professor George Edward Challenger
• Ally McBeal — Judge Walworth
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer — Principal Snyder
• 1997Snide and Prejudice — Eckart
• Stargate SG-1 — Anteaus
• The Practice — Garth Moskin
• Bruno the Kid
• 1996Eye for an Eye — Judge Arthur Younger
• 1995Dream Man — Staatsanwalt Van Horn
• Dumb and Dumber — Casaba / Questioner #3 (voice), Varp (voice)
• 1995Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Way of the Warrior — Quark
• Star Trek: Voyager — Quark
• ER — Levine
• 1993Slaughter of the Innocents — Dr. Mort Seger
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Quark
• 1993Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Emissary — Quark
• Brooklyn Bridge
• Cop Rock
• 1990Death Warrant — Dr. Gottesman
• Good Grief
• Grand — Dr. Kasmurski
• 1990Miracle Landing — Rick, Maui Tower Operator
• Alien Nation — Cyril Roman
• 1989Arena — Weezil
• 1989Big Man on Campus — Dr. Oberlander
• Seinfeld — Stan the Caddy
• 1989She Knows Too Much — Plahte
• 1988Dangerous Curves — Boggs
• 1988The Verne Miller Story — Mortician
• 1988Tricks of the Trade — Criminal
• Beauty and the Beast — Pascal
• 1987Blind Date — French Waiter
• Duet — Dr. Jordan / Jury Foreman
• 1987Like Father Like Son — Trigger's Dad
• Married... with Children — Mr. Lovejoy
• Star Trek: The Next Generation — Quark, Letek, DaiMon Bractor, Gift-Box Face
• It's Garry Shandling's Show — Doctor
• L.A. Law — Timothy Wiseboro, Ernie Frye
• Sledge Hammer! — Malcolm Dench
• 1986The Hitcher — Interrogation Sergeant
• 1985Stoogemania — Larry II
• The Four Seasons — Dental Examiner
• Trauma Center — Bernard Hopper
• Cagney & Lacey — Officer Green
• Remington Steele — Nestor Bartholomew
• Hill Street Blues
• 1980Stardust Memories — Eulogy Audience
• The Facts of Life
• 1979Women at West Point — Maj. Logan
• Alice
• Holograms All the Way Down — Quark
• Pellett — Victor

Appearances as themselves (14)

• Star Trek: Legenden — Self - Quark
• The D-Con Chamber — Self
• 2024To the Journey: Looking Back at Star Trek: Voyager — Self
• The Shuttlepod Show — Self
• Star Trek Day — Self
• 2019That Guy... Who Was In That Thing 3: Trek Stars — Self
• 2018What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Self
• 201650 Years of Star Trek — Self
• 2007Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier — Self
• Space Cadets — Self
• 1996Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond — Self
• 1996The Making of Star Trek Deep Space Nine Trials And Tribble-ations — Self
• 1994Journey's End - The Saga of Star Trek: The Next Generation — Self
• 1993Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Behind the Scenes — Himself