Peter MacNicol

Known for: Acting

Born: 1954-04-10 (age 72)

From: Dallas, Texas, USA

Peter MacNicol (born April 10, 1954) is an American actor. He received a Theatre World Award for his 1981 Broadway debut in the play Crimes of the Heart. His film roles include Galen in Dragonslayer (1981), Stingo in Sophie's Choice (1982), Janosz Poha in Ghostbusters II (1989), camp counselor Gary Granger in Addams Family Values (1993), and David Langley in Bean (1997).

Filmography (75)

MOVIE★ 7.0
Home Delivery
2026
as Howard Evans
TV★ 4.8
All's Fair
2025
as Robert DeLancie
MOVIE★ 5.0
Shell
2025
as Dr. Thaddeus Brand
MOVIE★ 7.5
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
2024
as The Invader (voice)
MOVIE★ 3.7
Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story
2023
as Psycho Date
TV★ 7.4
All Rise
2019
as Albert Campbell
TV★ 7.5
Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure
2017
as Nigel the Advisor (voice)
TV★ 7.4
A Series of Unfortunate Events
2017
as Ishmael
TV★ 6.1
CSI: Cyber
2015
as Simon Sifter
TV★ 7.7
Star Wars Rebels
2014
as Tseebo (voice)
TV★ 7.5
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
2013
as Professor Elliott Randolph
MOVIE★ 7.5
Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright
2013
as Dewey Ottman (voices)
TV★ 6.3
The Mindy Project
2012
as Rabbi Adler
TV★ 7.5
Veep
2012
as Jeff Kane
MOVIE★ 5.9
Battleship
2012
as Secretary of Defense
TV★ 6.1
Doc McStuffins
2012
as Egghead (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.9
Game Change
2012
as Rick Davis
TV★ 6.6
Fairly Legal
2011
as Judge Smollet
TV★ 8.4
Young Justice
2010
as Professor Ivo / M.O.N.Q.I. (voice)
TV★ 7.2
G.I. Joe: Renegades
2010
as Firefly (voice)
TV★ 8.2
Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
2010
as Oliver / Forever Knight #1 (voice)
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Spectacular Spider-Man: Attack of the Lizard
2008
as Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus (voice)
TV★ 8.6
The Spectacular Spider-Man
2008
as Otto Octavius (voice)
TV★ 7.9
The Big Bang Theory
2007
as Robert Wolcott
MOVIE★ 5.3
Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild
2005
as Troopmaster (voice)
TV★ 8.2
Grey's Anatomy
2005
as Robert Stark
TV★ 7.0
American Dad!
2005
as Old Man Hanson (voice)
TV★ 7.0
Numb3rs
2005
as Larry Fleinhardt
TV★ 7.9
Boston Legal
2004
as Dr. Sydney Field
TV★ 8.0
The Batman
2004
as Langstrom (voice)
TV★ 8.3
Justice League Unlimited
2004
as David Clinton (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.0
Breakin' All the Rules
2004
as Philip Gascon
TV★ 8.3
Danny Phantom
2004
as Sidney Poindexter (voice)
TV★ 8.8
The Lyon's Den
2003
MOVIE★ 6.4
Balto: Wolf Quest
2002
as Muru (voice)
TV★ 7.8
24
2001
as Tom Lennox
MOVIE★ 6.6
Recess: School's Out
2001
as Fenwick (voice)
TV★ 8.0
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
2000
TV★ 6.6
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
2000
as Major (voice)
MOVIE★ 3.5
The Pooch and the Pauper
2000
as Liberty (voice)
MOVIE
Snowden's Christmas
1999
as Snowden (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.7
Olive, the Other Reindeer
1999
as Fido (voice)
MOVIE★ 4.1
Baby Geniuses
1999
as Dan
MOVIE★ 4.7
The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue
1999
as Narrator (voice)
TV★ 7.0
The Wild Thornberrys
1998
as Raju / Monkey (voice)
TV★ 7.1
CatDog
1998
as Runt (voice)
MOVIE★ 5.2
Silencing Mary
1998
as Lawrence Dixon
TV★ 6.5
Ally McBeal
1997
as John Cage
MOVIE★ 6.5
Bean
1997
as David Langley
TV★ 7.0
The Angry Beavers
1997
MOVIE★ 4.9
Mojave Moon
1996
as Tire Repairman
MOVIE★ 7.3
Abducted: A Father's Love
1996
as Roy Dowd
TV★ 7.1
TFI Friday
1996
MOVIE★ 6.1
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
1995
as Thomas Renfield
MOVIE★ 5.8
Radioland Murders
1994
as Son Writer
TV★ 7.2
Chicago Hope
1994
as Alan Birch
MOVIE★ 6.1
Roswell
1994
as Lewis Rickett
MOVIE★ 7.0
Addams Family Values
1993
as Gary Granger
MOVIE★ 6.2
Housesitter
1992
as Marty
TV★ 7.8
The Powers That Be
1992
as Bradley Grist
MOVIE★ 5.8
Hard Promises
1992
as Stuart
MOVIE★ 6.5
By Dawn's Early Light
1990
as Sedgwick
MOVIE★ 5.5
American Blue Note
1989
as Jack Solow
MOVIE★ 6.6
Ghostbusters II
1989
as Janosz Poha
TV★ 8.0
Tales from the Crypt
1989
as Austin Haggard (segment "Let the Punishment Fit the Crime")
MOVIE
Voices & Visions: Walt Whitman
1988
as Narrator
TV★ 6.8
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
1987
as Steve Cooper
MOVIE★ 5.8
Heat
1986
as Cyrus Kinnick
MOVIE★ 5.5
Johnny Bull
1986
as Joe Kovacs
MOVIE★ 6.2
The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers
1984
as Martin
MOVIE★ 7.3
Sophie's Choice
1982
as Stingo
TV★ 7.6
Cheers
1982
as Mario
TV★ 8.1
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
as Martin
MOVIE★ 6.6
Dragonslayer
1981
as Galen
MOVIE
Floss
—
as Dr. Rivus