Mark Linn-Baker
Mark Linn-Baker | |
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Born | Mark Linn Baker June 17, 1954 |
Education | Yale University (BA, MFA) |
Occupation(s) | Actor, director |
Years active | 1979–present |
Spouses | |
Children | 1 |
Mark Linn-Baker (born Mark Linn Baker; June 17, 1954) is an American
Early life and education
Mark Linn-Baker was born with the
in 1979, and following that, found most of his early roles on stage.Career
He developed and performed in a two-man comedy show, The Laundry Hour, with Lewis Black, in the early 1980s.
He appeared in the 1983
His film debut was a small part in Woody Allen's 1979 film Manhattan. The majority of Linn-Baker's scenes were cut from the film. Three years later, he landed a far more memorable film role partly inspired by Allen himself, playing Benjy Stone in the 1982 comedy film My Favorite Year alongside Peter O'Toole. In a manner similar to his future role in Perfect Strangers, Linn-Baker played the straight man to O'Toole's outrageous character, Alan Swann.
Having attained success on stage and the big screen, Linn-Baker began to turn his sights toward television. In 1983, he appeared in an unsold detective show pilot called O'Malley. The following year saw a role on the television movie, The Ghost Writer, and in the summer series, The Comedy Zone. Soon, Linn-Baker was appearing in several high-profile television shows. He guest-starred on a 1984 episode of Miami Vice as Bonzo Barry and portrayed hapless office worker Phil West on a 1985 episode of Moonlighting titled "Atlas Belched". Linn-Baker starred with Charles Kimbrough in the 1985 CBS pilot The Recovery Room, a sitcom about a bar located across from a major city hospital and its inhabitants. Airing as a special that summer, the pilot did not lead to a regular series. Between parts, Linn-Baker also appeared during this time in television commercials pitching products ranging from Kellogg's Nutri-Grain to Kraft's Life Savers.
Linn-Baker starred in the
In 2005, he was a regular cast member on the WB Network sitcom Twins, which was canceled after a single season. He also appeared in the 2010 film How Do You Know as Ron. In 2011, he starred in his sixth Broadway show Relatively Speaking in a one-act play by Woody Allen. He previously appeared opposite Nathan Lane in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. In 2016 he appeared off-Broadway as Sir Peter Teazle in The School for Scandal at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.[5] As of 2017 he is playing the role of Carlton Miller, aide to Mayor Margaret Dutton (Lorraine Bracco) on the CBS police procedural drama Blue Bloods.
In 2019, he played Mayor George Shinn in the
Guest appearances
On a 1992 episode of
Linn-Baker also directed numerous episodes of Family Matters, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper,
He also appeared in a Christmas episode of Ally McBeal as a man fired for seeing a unicorn.
On a 2003 episode of
Linn-Baker provided the voice for one of a quartet of aardvarks in the 2002 Sandra Boynton album Philadelphia Chickens. The other three were voiced by Joe Grifasi, Michael Gross, and Devin McEwan.[6]
He joined his friend, fellow
In 2009, he appeared in an episode of the U.S. version of
Linn-Baker and Perfect Strangers are referenced in the HBO TV series The Leftovers, which takes place after a fictional global event called the Sudden Departure, the inexplicable, simultaneous disappearance of 140 million people, 2% of the world's population. Within the show, the entire cast of Perfect Strangers has departed, except for Linn-Baker, who has faked his own departure and escaped to Mexico.[8] Linn-Baker appears, as a fictional version of himself, in the episodes "Axis Mundi"[9] and "Don't Be Ridiculous."[10]
In 2009, he had a recurring guest-starring role in the revival of
Personal life
In 1995, Linn-Baker married Adrianne Lobel, the daughter of children's book author Arnold Lobel, best known for his Frog and Toad series.[11][citation needed] They divorced after having one daughter.[1] Linn-Baker helped adapt his father-in-law's stories into the Tony-nominated Broadway musical A Year with Frog and Toad, in which Linn-Baker played Toad and Jay Goede played Frog. On December 29, 2012, Linn-Baker married actress Christa Justus.[1]
Filmography
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1978 | All's Well That Ends Well | Bertram | Television film |
1982 | Alice at the Palace | Various | Television film |
1983 | O'Malley | Public Defender | Television film |
1984 | American Playhouse | Nathan Zuckerman | 1 episode |
1984 | Comedy Zone | Various | 2 episodes |
1985 | Miami Vice | 'Bonzo' Barry Gold | 1 episode |
1985 | The Equalizer | Ronnie | 1 episode |
1985 | Moonlighting | Phil West | 1 episode |
1986–1993 | Perfect Strangers | Larry Appleton | Lead role; 150 episodes |
1989 | The Hogan Family | Stan Forrest | 1 episode |
1991 | Bare Essentials | Gordon Perkins | Television film |
1992 | Ghostwriter | Police Officer | 1 episode |
1992 | Full House | Dick Donaldson | 1 episode |
1993 | The General Motors Playwrights Theater | The Student | 1 episode |
1994–1996 | Hangin' with Mr. Cooper | Larry Weeks /
Basketball Player with Glasses |
3 episodes (1 uncredited) |
1997 | Spin City | Dr. Benjamin | 1 episode |
1997 | Family Matters | Mr. Benner | 1 episode |
1997 | Soul Man | Gumdrop | 1 episode |
1998 | Ally McBeal | Sheldon Maxwell | 1 episode |
1999, 2010 | Law & Order | Dr. Vincent Balicheck /
Tom Wilder |
2 episodes |
2001 | Laughter on the 23rd Floor | Val Skotsky | Television film |
2003, 2007 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Wally Stevens | 2 episodes |
2005–2006 | Twins | Alan Arnold | 18 episodes |
2009 | Life on Mars | Lincoln Hart | 1 episode |
2009–2010 | The Electric Company | Sigmund Scrambler | 4 episodes |
2012 | The Good Wife | Judge Don Linden | 1 episode |
2015, 2017 | The Leftovers | Himself | 2 episodes |
2016 | Red Oaks | Rabbi Ken | 4 episodes |
2017 | The Good Fight | Judge Don Linden | 1 episode |
2017–2018 | Blue Bloods | Carlton Miller | 9 episodes |
2019 | Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt | Dave Hoffman | 1 episode |
2019 | The Blacklist
|
Dr. Jonathan Nikkila | 1 episode |
2019-2021 | Succession | Maxim Pierce | 2 episodes |
2020 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Dr. Paul Capezio | 1 episode |
2021 | Younger | Clive Wexler | 1 episode |
2021 | Ghosts
|
Henry | 2 episodes |
2022 | She-Hulk: Attorney at Law | Morris Walters | Disney+ series; 4 episodes |
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1979 | Manhattan | Shakespearean Actor | Scenes deleted |
1981 | The End of August | Victor LeBrum | |
1982 | My Favorite Year | Benjy Stone | |
1988 | Me and Him | Him | |
1988 | Going to the Chapel | Norman Brinkmann | |
1992 | Noises Off | Tim Allgood | |
2005 | 12 and Holding | Mr. Farmer | |
2009 | Adam | Sam Klieber | |
2010 | How Do You Know | Ron | |
2018 | Accommodations | Eugene Beltzer |
Stage
As actor
Year | Title | Role(s) | Venue | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1978 | Sganarelle: An Evening of Molière Farces | In The Flying Doctor: Sganarelle In The Forced Marriage : Marphurius, understudy Alcidas |
Yale Repertory Theatre | [12] | |
1978 | All's Well That Ends Well | Bertram | New York Shakespeare Festival
|
[13][14] | |
1979 | Othello | Othello's orderly | New York Shakespeare Festival
|
[15] | |
1980 | Alice in Concert | performer | The Public Theater | [16] | |
1981 | The Laundry Hour | performer | The Public Theater | [17] | |
1982 | Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong | performer | Astor Place Theater
|
[18] | |
1982 | The Death of von Richthofen as Witnessed From Earth | William Evans | The Public Theater | [19] | |
1982 | Waiting for Godot | Vladimir | American Repertory Theater | [20][21] | |
1983 | Doonesbury | Mark | Biltmore Theater | Broadway debut | [22][23] |
1984 | The Miss Firecracker Contest | Delmount Williams | Manhattan Theater Club
|
[24] | |
1990 | Signature | Maxwell T-Thorp | New York Stage and Film | [25][26] | |
1993 | Face Value | Bernard Sugarman | Cort Theatre
|
[27][28] | |
1993 | Laughter on the 23rd Floor | Val | Richard Rodgers Theater
|
[29] | |
1996 | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Hysterium | St. James Theater
|
[30] | |
1998 | A Flea in Her Ear | Victor Chandebise, Dodo | Laura Pels Theater
|
[31] | |
1999 | As You Like It | Touchstone | Williamstown Theatre Festival | [32][33] | |
1999 | Chesapeake | Kerr | Second Stage Theater | Drama Desk Award nomination | [34] |
2002 | The Pajama Game | Hines | New York City Center | [35] | |
2002 | A Year with Frog and Toad | Toad | Children's Theatre Company | [36] | |
2003 | A Year with Frog and Toad | Toad | Cort Theater
|
[37] | |
2006 | Losing Louie
|
Tony | Biltmore Theater | [38] | |
2007 | Romantic Poetry | Jilly Brilla, Carl | Wartel Theater | [39] | |
2008 | Almost an Evening | In Waiting: McMartin In Debate: God Who Loves |
Atlantic Stage 2 | [40] | |
2008 | Romantic Poetry | Carl | New York City Center | [41] | |
2011 | One Slight Hitch | Doc Coleman | Williamstown Theatre Festival | [42] | |
2011 | Relatively Speaking | In Honeymoon Motel: Sam Roth | Brooks Atkinson Theater
|
[43] | |
2012 | One Slight Hitch | Doc | George Street Playhouse | [44] | |
2014 | You Can't Take It With You | Paul Sycamore | Longacre Theater
|
[45] | |
2015 | On the Twentieth Century | Oliver Webb | American Airlines Theatre
|
[46] | |
2016 | The School for Scandal | Sir Peter Teazle | Lucille Lortel Theatre | [47] | |
2016 | The Music Man | Mayor Shinn | The Muny | [48] | |
2017 | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Senex | The Muny | [49] | |
2018 | Good For Otto | Timothy | Signature Theatre Company | [50] | |
2019 | The Music Man | Mayor Shinn | Kennedy Center
|
[51] | |
2019 | Fern Hill | Billy | 59E59 Theaters | [52] | |
2022 | The Music Man | Mayor Shinn | Winter Garden Theatre | [53] |
As director
Year | Title | Venue | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1985 | Savage in Limbo | 47th Street Theater
|
[54] | |
1986 | L.A. Freewheeling | Hartley House Theatre | [55] | |
1988 | Zero Positive | The Public Theater | direction by Kenneth Elliott, original direction by Mark Linn-Baker | [56] |
1998 | Black Humor | Cherry Lane Theatre | [57] | |
2001 | Once Around the City | Second Stage Theater | [58] |
As author
- The Laundry Hour (1981) - co-authored with Lewis Black, William Peters and Paul Schierhorn [17]
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External links
- Mark Linn-Baker at IMDb
- Mark Linn-Baker at the Internet Broadway Database
- Mark Linn-Baker at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
- Mark Linn-Baker at AllMovie