Steven Weber

For other people named Steven Weber, see Steven Weber (disambiguation).

Steven Robert Weber^[1] (born March 4, 1961)^[2] is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Brian Hackett on the television series Wings, voicing Charlie B. Barkin in All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series, and portraying Jack Torrance in the TV miniseries adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining. He had a recurring role on iZombie as Vaughn du Clark. He played Mayor Douglas Hamilton on NCIS: New Orleans in a recurring role and starred as Sergeant First Class Dennis Worcester in Hamburger Hill (1987).

Steven Weber
Weber on the Still Here Hollywood Podcast w/ Steve Kmetko in 2024
Born	Steven Robert Weber (1961-03-04) March 4, 1961 (age 63) New York, New York, U.S.
Education	State University of New York, Purchase (BFA)
Occupations	Actor comedian
Years active	1984–present
Spouses	Finn Carter ​ ​ (m. 1985; div. 1992)​ Juliette Hohnen ​ ​ (m. 1995; sep. 2013)​
Children	2

Early life

Weber was born in Queens, New York.^[3][4] His mother, Fran (née Frankel),^[1] was a nightclub singer, and his father, Stuart Weber, was a nightclub performer and manager of Borscht Belt comedians.^[5] Weber is Jewish and embraces his heritage despite not having received a formal religious education.^[6] Weber graduated from Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts (1979) and the State University of New York at Purchase.

Career

Weber started appearing in TV commercials in the third grade.^[7] After leaving college, he became a member of the Mirror Repertory Company and appeared opposite legendary actress Geraldine Page and Mason Adams in "Paradise Lost"^[8] before winning a role as Julianne Moore's ill-tempered and ill-fated boyfriend on the CBS daytime drama As the World Turns in 1985–1986. He appeared in several motion pictures and TV mini-series, such as The Flamingo Kid, Hamburger Hill, and the acclaimed The Kennedys of Massachusetts (as the young John F. Kennedy).

His best-known role is as Brian Hackett, a skirt-chasing airplane pilot on the sitcom Wings. Several years later, Weber starred in his own short-lived half-hour comedy Cursed (later renamed The Weber Show), joined the cast of ABC's Once and Again as the tortured artist Sam Blue, and starred the next year in the acclaimed show The D.A., also for ABC. Weber also had lead roles in the 1990s films Single White Female^[9] and Jeffrey.

Weber first appeared on Broadway in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing^[8] and in 2001-2002 took over for Matthew Broderick as Leo Bloom in the Broadway production of The Producers. In 2005, he appeared alongside Kevin Spacey in London at the Old Vic's production of National Anthems. Weber also wrote and produced 2003's Clubland, a Showtime film in which he and Alan Alda played father and son talent agents in 1950s New York City (for which Alda was nominated for an Emmy).

He appeared in four Stephen King adaptations: Desperation (2006), "You Know They Got a Hell of a Band" from the Nightmares & Dreamscapes (2006) mini-series, ”Revelations of Becka Paulson” from the “Outer Limits” revival series, and in the television mini-series version of Stephen King's The Shining (1997), playing the murderous writer Jack Torrance. He also narrated several audiobooks, including King's novel It and works by Harlan Coben and Dean Koontz. In 1998, he played the voice of wisecracking Alsatian Charlie B. Barkin in An All Dogs Christmas Carol, a role he earlier played in 1996 in All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series.

In 2007, he rejoined former Wings co-star Tony Shalhoub in a guest role on Monk. The same year, Weber played the role of network boss Jack Rudolph in the NBC series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. In 2008, Weber starred in Alliance Group Entertainment's feature film Farm House, where he played Samael, a mysterious vineyard owner. Weber also guest starred on the drama series Brothers and Sisters as Graham Finch, a business specialist. He also guest-starred on Psych as Jack Spencer, Shawn Spencer's uncle and Henry Spencer's brother. He also starred on Desperate Housewives in 2008. Weber appeared as a recurring guest on the 2008–2009 season of the CBS crime drama Without a Trace.

He was part of the cast of the ABC show Happy Town and had a major role in the television film A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! in which he played the villain Hugh Magnate. He stars occasionally in the live action comic Puddin', alongside actor Eddie Pepitone. He narrated an unabridged audio book of Stephen King's It. Between 2012 and 2017, Weber provided the voices of several characters on the Disney XD animated series Ultimate Spider-Man. In 2014, Weber rejoined former Wings co-star Rebecca Schull in Chasing Life in recurring character roles. In 2017, Weber made a guest appearance in the Curb Your Enthusiasm (episode: "The Shucker"). In 2020, he starred opposite Fran Drescher in the NBC comedy Indebted. By 2021 he had begun a recurring role as Dr. Dean Archer in the NBC series Chicago Med.

Personal life

Weber was married to actress Finn Carter from 1985 to 1992.^[10]

In 1995, he became engaged to Juliette Hohnen,^[11] then the Los Angeles bureau chief for MTV News,^[12] and they married on July 29 that year at Highclere Castle in Berkshire, England.^[13] In March 2013, it was reported that the couple filed for divorce.^[14]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	The Flamingo Kid	Paul Hirsch
1985	Walls of Glass	Sean
1987	The Little Fox	Adult Vic	Voice, English dub
	Hamburger Hill	Sergeant First Class Dennis Worcester
1990	Angels	Rickie
1992	Single White Female	Sam Rawson
1993	The Temp	Brad Montroe
1994	Benders	The Man
1995	Just Looking	Craig
	Take Out the Beast	Drummond	Short film
	Jeffrey	Jeffrey
	Leaving Las Vegas	Marc Nussbaum
	Dracula: Dead and Loving It	Jonathan Harker
1998	I Woke Up Early the Day I Died	Policeman in Alley
	Sour Grapes	Evan Maxwell
	Break Up	Officer Andrew Ramsey
	An All Dogs Christmas Carol	Charlie B. Barkin	Voice, direct-to-video[15]
1999	At First Sight	Duncan Allanbrook
2000	Timecode	Darren Fetzer
	Common Ground	Gil Roberts
	Sleep Easy, Hutch Rimes	Hutch Rimes
	Joseph: King of Dreams	Simeon, Slave Trader	Voice[15]
2004	Sexual Life	David Wharton
2005	Inside Out	Norman
	The Amateurs	Howard
2007	Choose Connor	Lawrence Connor
2008	Farm House	Samael
	Zip	Trip Stringer
2009	My One and Only	Wallace MacAllister
2011	Son of Mourning	Lt. Governor Fitch
	Being Bin Laden	Osama bin Laden
	The Big Year	Rick McIntire
	A Little Bit of Heaven	Rob Randolph
2012	Leader of the Pack	Jerry	Short
2013	Crawlspace	Aldon Webber
	Tom, Dick & Harriet/All's Fair in Love and Advertising	Tom Burns
2014	Kiss Me	Arthur
2016	Amateur Night	Dr. Kurtz
	Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders	Alfred Pennyworth	Voice[15]
2017	Ghost Recon Wildlands: War Within the Cartel	Deputy Director Davis	Short film
	Show Businesses	Bud	Short
	A Thousand Junkies	Moshe
	Handsome	Talbert Bacorn
	Batman vs. Two-Face	Alfred Pennyworth	Voice[15]
2018	The Perfection	Anton
	Return to Christmas Creek	Harry	Television film[16]
2019	Soliloquy or The Goose	Dave	Voice, short
TBA	You Above All		Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	American Playhouse	Tom Driscoll	Episode: "Pudd'nhead Wilson"
1985-1986	As the World Turns	Kevin Gibson	Episode: "The Ceremony", 8–9 months of episodes
1987	Crime Story	Gary Holiday	Episode: "Little Girl Lost"
1989	Kojak: Fatal Flaw	Conrad St. John	Television film
	When We Were Young	Ben Kirkland	Television film
1990–1997	Wings	Brian Michael Hackett	172 episodes
1990	The Kennedys of Massachusetts	John F. Kennedy	3 episodes
	In the Line of Duty: A Cop for the Killing	Matt Fisher	Television film
1991	Deception: A Mother's Secret	Terry	Television film
	Tales from the Crypt	Dale Sweeney	Episode: "Mournin' Mess"
1993	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Colonel Day	Episode: "The Siege"
	In the Company of Darkness	Kyle Timler	Television film
1994	Betrayed by Love	Agent Jeff Avery	Television film
1996	Stories from the Edge	Drummond	Segment ("Take Out the Beast")
1995–1997	Duckman	Brian Hackett	Voice, 2 episodes
1997	Austin Powers' Electric Psychedelic Pussycat Swingers Club	The Swingers Club
1996–1998	All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series	Charlie B. Barkin	Voice, 20 episodes
1997	The Outer Limits	8x10 Man	Episode: "The Revelation of 'Becka Paulson" Director
	Extreme Ghostbusters	Francois Russo	Voice, episode: "Dry Spells"
	The Shining	Jack Torrance	3 episodes Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television
1998	The Simpsons	Neil	Voice, episode: "King of the Hill"
1998–1999	Hercules	Odysseus	Voice, 2 episodes
1998	The New Batman Adventures	J. Carroll Corcoran	Voice, episode: "Judgment Day"[15]
	Thanks of a Grateful Nation	Jared Gallimore	Television film
1999	Stark Raving Mad	Rod	Episode: "The Stalker"
	The Expert	Dr. John Hardy	Episode: "Pilot"
	Love Letters	Andrew Ladd	Television film
	Late Last Night	Jeff	Television film
2000–2001	Cursed	Jack Nagle	17 episodes
2000–2002	Once and Again	Sam Blue	10 episodes (recurring season 1; regular season 3)
	Baby Blues	Dr. Gruber	Voice, 2 episodes
2000	Common Ground	Gil Roberts	Television film
2001	Club Land	Stuey Walters	Television film
	The Legend of Tarzan	Ed	Voice, episode: "Tarzan and the Mysterious Visitor"
2002	The Zeta Project	Eugene Dolan	Voice, episode: "Lost and Found"[15]
2002–2003	Fillmore!	Various voices	4 episodes[15]
2003	The Lyon's Den	Allen Forrester	Episode: "Trick or Treat"
	I'm with Her	Kyle Britton	Episode: "The Last Action Queero"
2004	The D.A.	Dist. Atty. David Franks	2 episodes
	Higglytown Heroes	Gardener Hero	Voice, episode: "Twinkle Tooth"
	The Twelve Days of Christmas Eve	Calvin Carter	Television film
2005	Reefer Madness	Jack Stone	Television film
	American Dad!		Voice, episode: "Francine's Flashback"
	Masters of Horror	Frank Spivey	Episode: "Jenifer"
2005–2006	Will & Grace	Sam Truman	2 episodes
2006	Nightmares & Dreamscapes	Clark Rivingham	Episode: "You Know They Got a Hell of a Band"
	Stephen King's Desperation	Steve Ames	Television film
2006–2007	Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip	Jack Rudolph	18 episodes
2007	More of Me	Rex	Television film
	Monk	Max Hudson	Episode: "Mr. Monk Is on the Air"
	Side Order of Life	James Kendall	Episode: "Funeral for a Phone"
	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Matthew Braden	3 episodes
2007–2008	Brothers & Sisters	Graham Finch	8 episodes
2008	Psych	Jack Spencer	Episode: "The Greatest Adventure in the History of Basic Cable"
	Without a Trace	Clark Medina	4 episodes
	Desperate Housewives	Lloyd	Episode: "City on Fire"
2009	Party Down	Ricky Sargulesh	Episode: "Celebrate Ricky Sargulesh"
2010	Happy Town	John Haplin	8 episodes
	In Plain Sight	Mike Faber	3 episodes
	Backwash	Oliver	Episode: "Chapter Eight: Lake Pupik"
2011	Wainy Days	Mr. Stickland	Episode: "Kelly and Arielle Part 3"
	Parenthood	Jack Kraft	Episode: "Slipping Away"
	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Ben Langston	Episode: "Cadaver"
	Falling Skies	Dr. Michael Harris	3 episodes
2009-2011	Web Therapy	Robert Lachman	5 episodes
2011	A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!	Hugh J. Magnate Jr.	Television film
	Untitled Allan Loeb Project	Lomax
2012–2017	Ultimate Spider-Man	Norman Osborn / Green Goblin / Iron Patriot / Goblin King, Trapster, Venom, Green Goblin (Ultimate), Fancy Dan, additional voices	Voice, 28 episodes[15]
2012	Hot in Cleveland	Kyle	2 episodes
	The Daly Show		Episode: "The Daly Wings"
	Leap Year	Remy Doyle	2 episodes
	Wilfred	Jeremy	3 episodes
2012–2016	2 Broke Girls	Martin Channing	3 episodes
2012	Ruth & Erica	Cameron	2 episodes
	Malibu Country	Pete	Episode: "Bro Code"
	Duke	Terry Polaski	Television film
2013	Eve of Destruction	Dr. Karl Cameron	2 episodes
2013–2014	Dallas	Governor Sam McConaughey	5 episodes
2013	Childrens Hospital	John Tandy	Episode: "Old Fashioned Day"
	The Flipside		Episode: "Mittrel Ave"
2014	Regular Show	Jumpin' Jim	Voice, episode: "Rigby in the Sky with Burrito"[15]
2014–2015	Chasing Life	Dr. George Carver	22 episodes
2014	Murder in the First	Bill Wilkerson	10 episodes
	Bad Teacher	Ray	Episode: "What's Old Is New"
	How to Get Away with Murder	Max St. Vincent	Episode: "It's All Her Fault"
2014–2017	NCIS: New Orleans	Councilman/Mayor Douglas Hamilton	18 episodes
2015	Helix	Brother Michael	8 episodes
	Sleepy Hollow	Thomas Jefferson	Episode: "What Lies Beneath"
	Community	Detective Butcher	Episode: "Ladders"
2015–2016	House of Lies	Ron Zobel	6 episodes
2015	The Comedians	Jamie Dobbs	2 episodes
2015–2016	iZombie	Vaughn Du Clark	11 episodes
2015	The Mindy Project	James	Episode: "The Departed"
2017–2020	13 Reasons Why	Principal Gary Bolan	26 episodes
2017–2018	Ballers	Julian Anderson	5 episodes
2017	:Dryvrs	Doug	Episode: "Scare Tactics""
	Curb Your Enthusiasm	The Shucker	Episode: "The Shucker"
2017–2018	Mom	Patrick Janikowski	6 episodes
2017	The Librarians	Saint of Thieves	Episode: "And the Christmas Thief"
2018	Avengers Assemble	Beyonder	Voice, 4 episodes[15]
	Marvel Rising: Initiation	George Stacy	Voice, 2 episodes[15]
2018-2019	Get Shorty	Lawrence Budd	11 episodes
2018	Channel Zero	Abel Carnacki	6 episodes
2019	Drunk History	Various	2 Episodes
	Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?	Alfred Pennyworth	Voice, episode: "What a Night for a Dark Knight!"[15]
	This Close	Michael's Dad	2 episodes
	The Bravest Knight	The Head Knight	3 episodes
2020	Indebted	Stew Klein	Main cast, 13 episodes
2021–present	Chicago Med	Dr. Dean Archer	Recurring (Season 6), Main Cast (Season 7-)
2023	Celebrity Jeopardy!	Himself	Contestant

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984–1985	The Real Thing	Billy
1984	Come Back Little Sheba	Bruce
1985	Homefront	Jeremy
1986	Loot	Various
1988	Made in Bangkok		[8][9]
2002–2003	The Producers	Leo Bloom
2005	National Anthems	Arthur Cook	The Old Vic
2009	The Philanthropist	Donald
2013	The Parisian Woman	Tom
2017	Mamma Mia!	Bill Austin	Hollywood Bowl

Radio/podcast/audio book

Year	Title	Role
2001	Tell No One by Harlan Coben	Narrator, Audie Award winner
2009	Long Lost by Harlan Coben	Narrator
2010	Original Meanings by Jack N. Rakove	Narrator
	What the Night Knows by Dean Koontz	Narrator
2011	Live Wire by Harlan Coben	Narrator
	Against All Enemies by Tom Clancy and Peter Telep	Narrator
	Darkness Under the Sun by Dean Koontz	Narrator
2016	It by Stephen King	Narrator[17]
	Home by Harlan Coben	Narrator
	We're Alive, Lockdown	Jeremy
2017	Don't Let Go by Harlan Coben	Narrator
2018	The Brick Slayer, Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie, Panic, The Pied Piper, The Pirate, and Rampage by Harold Schechter	Narrator
2019	Run Away by Harlan Coben	Narrator
2020	The Boy from the Woods by Harlan Coben	Narrator
	Dog People by Jennifer Weiner	Narrator
2021	Win by Harlan Coben	Narrator
2021	Falling by T.J. Newman	Narrator
2023	Code Red by Vince Flynn & Kyle Mills	Narrator

References

1. "Births". The New York Times. March 12, 1960. p. 87. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
2. "UPI Almanac for Thursday, March 4, 2021". United Press International. March 4, 2021. Retrieved July 12, 2021. ... actor Steven Weber in 1961 (age 60)
3. "Steven Weber". TV Guide. Retrieved July 12, 2021.
4. "Steven Weber Broadway and Theatre Credits". BroadwayWorld. Retrieved July 12, 2021.
5. "Steven Weber profile". SouthJersey.com. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
6. "In a Sense, Abroad Part Trois: I's Real, Oy!". huffingtonpost.com. November 25, 2011. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
7. "Tisha Campbell-Martin, Hamish Linklater and Steven Weber Complete Cast of MAMMA MIA! at The Hollywood Bowl". Broadway World. 13 July 2017. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
8. Brennan, Patricia (1993-01-03). "WEBER FOLDS 'WINGS' ROLE TO PLAY KILLER". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
9. Arkatov, Janice (1992-09-19). "'Wings' Quipster Steven Weber Gets to Play Darker Roles Too". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
10. "Steven Weber of Wings Getting Divorced". People. Archived from the original on 7 March 2013. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
11. Lynn, Allison (May 29, 2013). "Passages". People. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
12. "Star Tracks". People. March 13, 1995. Archived from the original on October 22, 2013. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
13. Lynn, Allison (August 21, 1995). "Passages". People. Archived from the original on February 18, 2015. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
14. "'Wings' actor Steven Weber and wife Juliette divorcing". United Press International. March 5, 2013. Retrieved December 18, 2022.
15. "Steven Weber (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved December 2, 2023. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
16. Dwilson, Stephanie Dube (November 17, 2018). "Where Was 'Return to Christmas Creek' Filmed?". Heavy. Retrieved July 4, 2021.
17. King, Stephen; Weber, Steven (January 2016). It. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-5082-1711-4.

External links

• Steven Weber at IMDb
• Steven Weber at the Internet Broadway Database
• Steven Weber at Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Steven Weber's Huffington Post Blog