Dan Bucatinsky (/ˌbʊkəˈtɪnski/) is an American actor, writer and producer, best known for his role as James Novak in the Shonda Rhimes drama series Scandal, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2013. In 2014, Bucatinsky starred on NBC's Marry Me and the revived HBO series The Comeback, which he also executive produced. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dan Bucatinsky, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026The Highest Stakes — Dr. Scott Stevens
• Mid-Century Modern — Writer
• 2025elle/elle
• Elsbeth — Kidder Hawes
• 2024Our Little Secret — Leonard
• 2023Air — Richard
• How I Met Your Father — Fred
• Pictionary
• 2022The Grotto — Kip Gorman
• Hacks — Rob
• Rebel — Professor Jason Erickson
• The Sex Lives of College Girls — Danny Marawitz
• The Baker and the Beauty — Lewis
• All Rise — Tim Landy
• 2019Ghosting: The Spirit of Christmas — Executive Producer
• A Million Little Things — Harrison
• 2018Every Act of Life — Dr. Jason Pepper (voice)
• 2018Second Act — Arthur Coyle
• 2018So Close — Christopher
• 24: Legacy — Andy Shalowitz
• The Good Doctor — Spence
• 2017The Post — Joe Alsop
• Will & Grace — Neil
• Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life — Jim Nelson
• Chicago Med — Richard Evans
• Grace and Frankie — Arnold
• Superstore — Steve
• Marry Me — Kevin Two
• Mom — Arthur
• Scandal — James Novak
• Web Therapy — Jerome Sokoloff, Creator
• 2010The Other Woman — Executive Producer
• Who Do You Think You Are? — Producer
• In Plain Sight — Fred Zeitlin
• Lipstick Jungle — Producer, Writer
• Web Therapy — Jerome Sokoloff, Producer, Creator
• Dirt — Dillon Frawley
• 2006When Do We Eat? — High Strung Client
• Grey's Anatomy — Jeffrey, Writer
• The Comeback — Billy, Executive Producer
• Weeds — Max
• 2004Call Waiting — Producer
• 2004The Best TV Shows That Never Were — Narrator (voice)
• All Grown Up! — TV Doctor / Body Cast Man (voice)
• 2003I Love Your Work — The Director
• 2003Picking Up & Dropping Off — Executive Producer
• CSI: Miami — Oscar Serino
• 2002Directed by Alan Smithee — Narrator
• MDs — Kurt
• That '80s Show — Rick
• 2001All Over the Guy — Eli Wyckoff, Writer
• 2001The Sky is Falling — Lab Technician
• Curb Your Enthusiasm — Man on the cell phone
• M.Y.O.B. — Reuben
• Significant Others
• 1998The Opposite of Sex — Timothy
• The Wild Thornberrys — Ramon (voice)
• Will & Grace — Neil
• Jenny — Carl
• The Pretender — Emery
• Cybill — Casting Director, Troy
• 1994Another Midnight Run — Bellhop
• Chicago Hope — Politico Man
• Friends — Waiter
• Party of Five — Check Out Guy
• Frasier — Jewelry Clerk
• 13 Going on 30
• August
• Carry Me — Creator
• She Gets It from Me — Writer, Executive Producer

Appearances as themselves (9)

• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire — Self - Contestant
• 25 Words or Less — Self
• Dinner at Tiffani's — Self
• Celebrity Name Game — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
• 2006Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema — Self
• Hell's Kitchen — Self - Restaurant Patron
• Entertainment Tonight — Self - It Got Better