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Jeffrey Tambor
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July 8, 1944 in San Francisco, CA
Biography:Character actor Jeffrey Tambor has built his career in comedies playing the role of the uptight boss, or more generally, the stuffy guy. After graduate school, teaching, and a prolific stage career, Tambor started making television guest-starring appearances in the early '70s. He showed up on Three's Company enough that he eventually got a spot on the spin-off series The Ropers as the disapproving next-door neighbor Jeffrey. After the show's two-season run, he did a few TV movies before landing a reoccurring roles on the television version of 9 to 5, naturally playing the Dabney Coleman boss character. Throughout the '80s and early '90s, he continued to play the role of the stuffy guy on television (The Golden Girls, L.A. Law, Max Headroom) and movies (Mr. Mom, City Slickers, Life Stinks). His big break came in 1992, when he was cast as Garry Shandling's smiling sidekick, Hank Kingsley, on HBO's The... Full Biography
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From left, the cast of "Arrested Development", writer Mitchell Hurwitz Jason Bateman, Jeffrey...
Jeffrey Tambor, left, Sasha Barrese and Sondra Currie in "The Hangover" (Warner Bros. Pictures)
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