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Actor Born: August 30, 1954 in Long Island, NY Biography:A former theatre and psychology major at the University of Michigan, actor "David Paymer"'s first Broadway success was in the long-running musical Grease. He tentatively launched his film career in the tiny but telling role of a cabbie in 1979's "The In-Laws", then returned to working "live" as a performer and writer for The Comedy Store. A character actor even in his early twenties, Paymer displayed his versatility in a wealth of TV supporting roles on such weeklies as "Cagney and Lacey", "Diff'rent Strokes", The Commish and "Downtown". "Billy Crystal" was so impressed with Paymer's work as ice-cream entrepreneur Ira Shalowitz in "City Slickers" (1991) that Crystal assigned him the plum role of Stan Yankelman, long-suffering brother and business manager of Berle-like comedian Buddy Young Jr., in "Mister Saturday Night" (1992). Convincingly playing an age range from 20 to 75, Paymer was honored... Full Biography
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