Steve Hytner (/ˈhtnər/; born September 28, 1959)[1] is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Kenny Bania on the NBC series Seinfeld.

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Steve Hytner
Hytner in 2013
Born (1959-09-28) September 28, 1959 (age 65)
OccupationActor
Years active1990–present
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Biography

Hytner was born in Brooklyn, New York City,[2] and grew up on Long Island.[3] In 1979, he joined the company of Lexington Conservatory Theatre in Lexington, NY, serving as a technical assistant. He soon appeared onstage in an intern performance of The Wager by Mark Medoff. His first professional on-stage appearance was a year later, in George M. Cohan's The Tavern, the debut production of Capital Repertory Theatre.[4][5][6]

He appeared as a regular in The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage, Hardball, and Working, in several episodes of Roswell, and also in occasional episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; one episode of Friends; and in The King of Queens, Two and a Half Men, Dharma & Greg, The X-Files, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, That's So Raven, George Lopez, The Bill Engvall Show, The Jeff Foxworthy Show as Craig Lesko, and Mike & Molly. He portrays Ty Parsec in two episodes of The Adventures of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (2000).

He performed in the Disney Channel Original Series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody as Herman Spatz, in Good Luck Charlie as Marvin the bellman, and in Sonny with a Chance as Murphy the troublesome security guard. He plays a motivational workshop instructor in the HBO series Hung.

Hytner has appeared in In the Line of Fire, Forces of Nature, and Eurotrip.[7]

As Joseph the coroner, Hytner is one of two actors (the other being Christopher Walken) to appear in each of the first three films of The Prophecy series.

He appears in the 2006 comedy film Bachelor Party Vegas and reprised his role as Kenny Bania on the fictional Seinfeld reunion table read on Curb Your Enthusiasm in 2009. He was the Camp Superior counselor in the 2012 comedy film Fred 3: Camp Fred, and plays the role of client Roger Bodder in the comedy/thriller film Bad Vegan and the Teleportation Machine.

Partial filmography

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Year Title Role Notes
1990Ski PatrolMyron
1991The Marrying ManGeorge
1993The CommishArlo MannoEpisode: "Stoned"
The X-FilesDr. Denny MurphyEpisode: "Ice"
In the Line of FireTony Carducci
1994-98SeinfeldKenny Bania7 episodes
1994The ShadowMarine Guard
1995The ProphecyJoseph
1997Face/OffInterrogating Agent
1999Forces of NatureJack
Love StinksMarty Mark
2000Buzz Lightyear of Star CommandTy ParsecVoice, 2 episodes
2002CSI: Crime Scene InvestigationJonathan CladdonEpisode: "Cats in the Cradle..."
2003Charlie's Angels: Full ThrottleBathroom Guy
The Haunted MansionMr. Silverman
2004EuroTripAbsinthe Green Fairy
2006The Suite Life of Zack and CodyHerman SpatzEpisode: "Commercial Breaks"
2006-07That's So RavenPrincipal Stuckerman2 episodes
2007Totally BakedHack MurphySegment: "Mudslingers"
2008Man MaidMean Developer
Soccer MomCoach Kenny
2009Curb Your EnthusiasmSteve HytnerEpisode: "The Table Read"
Tom Cool
2010Darnell Dawkins: Mouth Guitar LegendKlaus
2011Good Luck CharlieMarvin StarkwellEpisode: "Snow Show"
About FiftyLarry of Lumpy's
2012Should've Been RomeoRick
2016Bad Vegan and the Teleportation MachineRoger Bodder
2019Extracurricular ActivitiesGary Vaughn
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