Paul Reiser

Highest Rated: 99% Aliens (1986)

Lowest Rated: 3% The Darkness (2016)

Birthday: Mar 30, 1957

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

One of the salutary byproducts of the TV series Seinfeld is that it created a market in the '90s for sitcoms built around the comedy routines of young, hip New York comics. One of the best of these programs was Mad About You, created by and starring Manhattan-born Paul Reiser. Reiser and Seinfeld share more than a similarity of sitcoms; together with comedians Larry Miller and Mark Schiff, they comprise what has been unofficially dubbed the Four Funniest Men in the World Club, which has met for lunch each New Year's Day for the past several years. Reiser's credentials include a degree from S.U.N.Y.-Binghamton, a short stint as a health food distributor, and a 1982 film debut in Diner. Most of his film roles have been in comedies, though he was effectively cast as a greedy space traveler (who comes to a well-deserved bad end) in 1986's Aliens. Reiser has noted that his weekly series Mad About You, in which he co-starred with Helen Hunt, was based on his relationship with his wife, Paula. In 1995, Paul Reiser took a brief respite from Mad About You to star in the "single dad" comedy Bye Bye Love.As the new decade began, and Mad About You came to a close, Resier appeared in One Night at McCool's, and four years later realized a personal dream by co-starring with Peter Falk in The Thing About My Folks, a film Resier co-wrote as well. He was interviewed in The Aristocrats, and appeared as himself in Funny People. In 2011 he masterminded the very short-lived NBC sitcom The Paul Reiser Show.

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Movies

		Credit
70%	Horse Girl	Gary	—	2020
No Score Yet	L'espion qui m'a dompée	Arnie	—	2018
27%	I Do... Until I Don't	Harvey	$0.3M	2017
78%	The Little Hours	Actor	$1.7M	2017
70%	Miles	Lloyd Bryant	$2.6K	2017
61%	War on Everyone	Lt. Gerry Stanton	$0.2M	2017
8%	The Book Of Love	Wendell	—	2017
3%	The Darkness	Simon Richards	$10.8M	2016
59%	Concussion	Dr. Elliot Pellman	$23.3M	2015
93%	Whiplash	Jim	—	2014
44%	Life After Beth	Noah Orfman	—	2014
69%	Funny People	Himself	$51.9M	2009
45%	The Thing About My Folks	Ben Kleinman Screenwriter Producer	$0.8M	2005
79%	The Aristocrats	Actor	$6.2M	2005
No Score Yet	Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy	Screenwriter Executive Producer	—	2004
No Score Yet	Women vs. Men	Bruce	—	2002
No Score Yet	Strange Relations	Dr. Jerry Lipman	—	2002
No Score Yet	Purpose	Ben	—	2002
No Score Yet	My Beautiful Son	Actor	—	2001
No Score Yet	Pros and Cons	Actor	—	2001
33%	One Night at McCool's	Carl	$5.7M	2001
No Score Yet	The Directors	Interviewee	—	2000
28%	The Story of Us	Dave	—	1999
71%	Get Bruce	Actor	—	1999
No Score Yet	Mr. Write	Charlie	—	1994
19%	Bye Bye, Love	Donny	—	1994
No Score Yet	The Tower	Tony Minot	—	1993
No Score Yet	Family Prayers	Dan Linder	—	1992
10%	The Marrying Man	Phil Golden	—	1991
37%	Crazy People	Stephen Bachman	—	1990
No Score Yet	Paul Reiser: Out On a Whim	Actor	—	1988
40%	Cross My Heart	Bruce Gaynor	—	1987
43%	Beverly Hills Cop II	Jeffrey Friedman	—	1987
No Score Yet	You Ruined My Life	Dexter Bunche	—	1987
99%	Aliens	Burke	—	1986
No Score Yet	Odd Jobs	Max	—	1986
No Score Yet	Aliens (Special Edition)	Actor Director	—	1986
No Score Yet	From Here to Maternity	Actor	—	1985
82%	Beverly Hills Cop	Jeffrey	—	1984
No Score Yet	Sunset Limousine	Jay Neilson	—	1983
92%	Diner	Modell	—	1982

TV

		Credit
39%	Mad About You 2019	Paul Buchman Paul	2109 2019
90%	The Kominsky Method 2018-2019	Martin	2019
No Score Yet	The Talk 2010	Guest	2018 2011
No Score Yet	Conan 2010	Guest	2017
No Score Yet	Last Call With Carson Daly 2007-2019	Guest	2017
No Score Yet	Rachael Ray 2015	Guest	2017
No Score Yet	Tavis Smiley 2013-2018	Guest	2017
No Score Yet	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 2014	Guest	2017
No Score Yet	Today 2017	Guest	2017
93%	Red Oaks 2014-2017	Getty	2017 2016 2015 2014
No Score Yet	The Late Show With Stephen Colbert 2015	Guest	2016
No Score Yet	Real Time with Bill Maher 2003	Guest	2015
No Score Yet	Late Night With Seth Meyers 2014	Guest	2015 2014
56%	Married 2014-2015	Shepard	2015 2014
No Score Yet	The Paul Reiser Show 2011	Creator Himself Executive Producer Producer	2011
No Score Yet	The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2003	Guest	2011 2005 2004 2003
No Score Yet	The Tonight Show With Jay Leno 1992-2014	Guest Performer	2011 2010 2001
92%	Curb Your Enthusiasm 2000	Himself	2002
No Score Yet	Lass es, Larry! 2000-2017	Himself	2002
No Score Yet	Mad About You 1992-1999	Creator Executive Producer Paul Buchman Paul Producer	1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992
No Score Yet	Saturday Night Live 1975	Host Guest	1995
No Score Yet	Remington Steele 1982-1987	Ivan	1983
81%	Fosse/Verdon 2019
83%	There's... Johnny! 2017	Screenwriter Executive Producer

QUOTES FROM Paul Reiser CHARACTERS

Simon Richards says: Sometimes the answer you're looking for is in the place you're not looking.

Jim says: Dying broke and drunk and full of heroin at the age of 34 is not exactly my idea of success.

Andrew Neyman says: I'd rather die drunk, broke at 34 and have people at a dinner table talk about me than live to be rich and sober at 90 and nobody remember who I was.

Carter Burke says: I made a bad call.

Carter Burke says: How about we make a campfire, sing a couple of songs?

Esther Lipman says: Jerry: Toxteth, Mother, Toxteth. Sort of a combination of toxic and death. Esther: so it's a slum? Jerry: It aspires to be a slum.

Dr. Jerry Lipman says: Toxteth, Mother, Toxteth. Sort of a combination of toxic and death.

Esther Lipman says: So it's a slum?

Dr. Jerry Lipman says: It aspires to be a slum.

Ellen Ripley says: You're going out there to destroy them, right? Not to study. Not to bring back, but to wipe them out?

Carter Burke says: That's the plan.

Pvt. Hudson says: Game over man! Game over! What the fuck are we going to do now? What are we gonna do?

Carter Burke says: Maybe we can build a fire, sing a couple of songs, huh?

Carter Burke says: Ripley...! You know, I... I expected more from you. I thought you'd be smarter than this.

Carter Burke says: Ripley! You know, I... I expected more from you. I thought you'd be smarter than this.

Ellen Ripley says: I'm happy to disappoint you.

Carter Burke says: Maybe we could build a fire and sing couple of songs, huh? Why don't we try that?!