Stephen Tobolowsky - Famous Voice Actor

Stephen Tobolowsky Net Worth

$4,000,000

Stephen Tobolowsky’s net worth is $4 million dollars. Tobolowsky is a famous American actor who has appeared in hundreds of films and TV series since the 198s, including notable roles in ‘Groundhog Day,’ ‘Single White Female,’ and ‘Memento,’ among others.

Key facts:

  • Stephen Tobolowsky is an American actor who has appeared in hundreds of films and television series since the 198s.
  • He is best known for his roles in popular films like 'Groundhog Day,' 'Single White Female,' and 'Memento.'
  • Tobolowsky has also had a successful career on television, appearing on popular shows like 'Heroes,' 'Glee,' 'Deadwood,' 'Californication,' and 'The Goldbergs.'
  • In addition to his acting career, Tobolowsky has a podcast called 'The Tobolowsky Files' where he shares personal life stories.
  • Despite appearing in over 200 films, Tobolowsky has mostly taken supporting roles throughout his career.

Basic Information About Stephen Tobolowsky

CategoryCelebrities β€Ί Actors
ProfessionsActor, Playwright, Theatre Director, Film director, Voice Actor, Screenwriter
Net worth$4,000,000
Date of birth1951-05-30 (73 years old)
Place of birthDallas
NationalityUnited States of America
Curiosities and TrademarksHe usually plays annoying business men-types that the heroes or villains loathe to deal with.
Often plays egomaniacal characters
SpouseAnn Hearn - (27 DecemberΒ 1988 - present)Β (2 children)
GenderMale
Height6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Social Mediaβ†—οΈŽ Wikipedia β†—οΈŽ IMDb

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Stephen Tobolowsky awards

Award Name State Movie / Series Name Year
CinEuphoria - Merit - Honorary AwardWinnerThe Goldbergs2020

Stephen Tobolowsky roles

Movie / Series Role
MementoSammy Jankis
SpaceballsCaptain of the Guard
Mississippi BurningTownley
Basic InstinctDr. Lamott
RobotsBigmouth Executive / Forge (voice)
FracturedDr. Berthram
Thelma & LouiseMax
The Time Traveler's WifeDr. Kendrick
The LoraxUncle Ubb (voice)
Groundhog DayNed
BuriedAlan Davenport (voice)
Freaky FridayMr. Bates
Failure to LaunchBud
Adaptation.Ranger Steve Neely (scenes deleted)
The InsiderEric Kluster
Single White FemaleMitchell Myerson
SneakersDr. Werner Brandes
Black DogMcClaren
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!George Ruddy
Freddy Got FingeredUncle Neil (uncredited)
Wild HogsCharley
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & FabulousTom Abernathy
GarfieldHappy Chapman
Mr. Peabody & ShermanPrincipal Purdy (voice)
National SecurityBilly Narthax
Bird on a WireJoe Weyburn
My Father the HeroMike
The Philadelphia ExperimentBarney
The GriftersJeweler
The ConfirmationFather Lyons
Great Balls of Fire!Jud Phillips
View from the TopFrank Thomas (uncredited)
Murder in the FirstMr. Henkin
Memoirs of an Invisible ManWarren Singleton
The Country BearsNorbert Barrington
Swing ShiftFrench deMille / Documentary Narrator
The Sasquatch GangDalrymple
RebaJudge 1 episode, 2005
Will & GraceNed Weathers 1 episode, 2004
The Mindy ProjectMarc Shulman 4 episodes, 2012-2015
According to JimDr. Ted 1 episode, 2004
The GoldbergsPrincipal Ball 34 episodes, 2014-2021
Ghost WhispererDr. Peltier 1 episode, 2006
CommunityProfessor Peter Sheffield 1 episode, 2011
Law & Order: Special Victims UnitEdwin Adelson / ... 2 episodes, 2010-2019
Silicon ValleyJack Barker 17 episodes, 2016-2017
The West WingDr. Max Milkman 1 episode, 2004
CalifornicationStu Beggs 30 episodes, 2011-2014
ArcherRobert 3 episodes, 2020
The PracticeClyde Burrows 1 episode, 1999

Stephen Tobolowsky's Quotes

  • There was a part on Broadway...wow still hurts to talk about it. I flew to New York on my own dime. I had no career. But there was this part. I knew the playwright. He told me the role was perfect for me. I worked on the audition like crazy...I went in and killed on the audition. It was great. I got congrats from a lot of people. I was told I would be called back for final auditions in three weeks. I said I would be there. It meant me buying another plane ticket but I believed in myself and the play. I worked on the part for the next three weeks...then four weeks...then five...no phone call. Finally someone saw me with the script and asked what I was doing. I explained with some pride that I was going back to New York for a final call back on a Broadway show. She broke the news to me that the show had been in rehearsal for the last two weeks...ouch. I guess if I didn't run into that girl I would still be working on that audition! [on losing an important role]
  • My first day on Groundhog Day (1993), Bill Murray shook hands with me and said, "Hello, nice to meet you - now show me what you're going to do". I jumped into a few enormously energetic moments of "Ned Ryerson" and Bill held up his hand. "Fine, fine, you can do that", he said. "It's funny". Bill walked away. I then asked the director, Harold Ramis, if I should play "Ned" a little more down to earth. Harold laughed and said: "No. Bill is the lead. He's the stew. When you are a supporting character, you are the spice in the stew. Have fun".
  • The very best character actors are made of equal parts discipline and madness, and the fact that our faces are more familiar than our names is not our curse, but our blessing. The character actor's goal, after all, is not to earn the adulation of the public; it is to give lives to a hundred nameless spirits who make us laugh or cry, who are both familiar and new, who show us that their journey is our journey, and who, like everyone in the audience, never get to kiss RenΓ©e Zellweger.
  • [2011] Swing Shift (1984) was the first movie where I had a make-up person start to draw in hair on my head because I looked too bald. I had no idea what she was doing, and she said, "Honey, I can see your skull". And that's when it dawned on me that I was going to end up being one of those bald character actors. But that was the first film where they started drawing hair. They still thought it was worth the effort to draw in the hair.
  • [2011, on landing Basic Instinct (1992)] I had auditioned for Paul Verhoeven three months before to play some different part in the movie. And Howard Feuer, the casting director who did Groundhog Day (1993) and cast me in In Country (1989). He was also the casting director of Basic Instinct (1992). Again, in terms of a crime of opportunity, Howard Feuer called me up at home and said, "Stephen, are you a fast study?" and I said, "I think so", and he said, "Well, we have this part that shoots tomorrow, and we have no one to play it. Mr. Verhoeven liked your original audition three months ago for some other part, and said it would be okay if you could play it. Can you come in and read this part for Paul Verhoeven, again, and see if he okays it?" So I drove over to the studio, and they threw the part at me, and it was a huge kind of expository speech, and whenever I get those things, I try to channel Robert Duvall, because he is the greatest expository actor that ever could be. I don't know how he's done it. He's done it for years, where he gets all of the speeches where he kind of explains to "Michael Corleone" about how the laws work and everything like this, and it's fascinating. And this was a speech that said basically nothing, as I recall. I think I say that the principal, Sharon Stone, was either a murderer pretending to be crazy, or that she was crazy pretending to be a murderer. The speech didn't make a ton of sense, but I think that's what it was, and I tried to channel Mr. Duvall. I don't remember a lot about that film. Except I was doing another film, and that was one of the few times I did two films in the same week. I did that movie on Monday, and then on Wednesday, I did Where the Day Takes You (1992).

Interesting Facts about Stephen Tobolowsky

  1. He played Principal Flutie in the unaired Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) pilot episode.
  2. Attended Kimball High School. High School Debate champ.
  3. Stephen was originally cast to play Tim Taylor's "Tool Time" co-host, named Glen, on Home Improvement (1991), but a scheduling conflict prevented him from appearing in the pilot. Richard Karn was cast as Al, a temporary replacement, and after taping a few more episodes, Stephen was still unavailable and thus Karn was kept on permanently.
  4. Attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, with actress Patricia Richardson and playwright Beth Henley during late 1960s and early 1970s.
  5. Once held hostage at gunpoint at a supermarket in Snyder Plaza in Dallas.
  6. Was almost murdered twice in one week in Hartford, Connecticut by different people. As he admitted, "That's unusual." The first instance occurred when he was in a pub with Beth Henley. After a brawl with a man who was attacking Henley, he was held at gunpoint at the pub. Later that week, when he and Henley went to a pizza parlor next to the pub, where he was stabbed. Fortunately, the knife only partly penetrated his belt buckle.
  7. Surfing channels in Vancouver recently, he watched himself getting older and balder in old episodes of Seinfeld (1989), the film Thelma & Louise (1991) and the made-for-TV movie The Marla Hanson Story (1991).
  8. One of the actor's heroes is his late aunt, 'Hermine Tobolowsky', known as the "mother of the Texas Equal Rights Amendment".
  9. Was nominated for a Tony award in 2002 as Best Featured Actor in a Play for his role in the revival of "Morning's At Seven".
  10. Edwin Tobolowsky is his third cousin.
  11. His name is pronounced tow-buh-law-skee. He is of Polish Jewish and Austrian Jewish descent.
  12. Was the lead singer in the first band formed by guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan. They went to school together in Dallas.Not true. Please change to: In 1970, Tobolowsky recorded two songs on an album of Dallas garage bands called "A New Hi." Stevie Ray Vaughan played lead guitar with them. It was Stevie's first studio recording.
  13. To develop a plotline for the 1986 film True Stories (1986) he and rocker David Byrne once stared wordlessly for two hours at Byrne's wall. On the wall were hundreds of pencil drawings of ideas for the film by Byrne. That very night, he wrote a thirty-page treatment for the film and was soon hired as a writer.
  14. His aunt was the head librarian at Ben Franklin Junior High School in Dallas (now Hillcrest High School) for many years.
  15. Broke his neck in five places while horseback riding in Iceland underneath an active volcano after the wind picked he and the horse up off the ground and blew them off the road. He was required to wear a neck brace for three and a half months and maintains that the experience has taught him to cherish every day.
  16. Very good friends with cinematographer/director Robert Brinkmann.
  17. Played two characters with the last name "Ryerson". "Ned Ryerson" in Groundhog Day (1993) (movie) and "Sandy Ryerson" in Glee (2009) (TV).
  18. Inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame on March 7, 2013 in Austin, Texas.
  19. Has a form of ESP he calls "hearing tones". While working with David Byrne on his film "True Stories", he told Byrne about his gift, who was inspired to write the song "Radio Head" about him. The band Radiohead took its name from this song.
  20. He has appeared in three films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Thelma & Louise (1991), Groundhog Day (1993) and Memento (2000).

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