Rick Overton

Rick Overton
Rick Overton
	Los Angeles in 2017
Born	Richard Overton; August 10, 1954 (age 69); Forest Hills, Queens, New York, U.S.
Occupations	Screenwriter; actor; comedian;
Years active	1982–present

Richard Overton (born August 10, 1954)^[1] is an American screenwriter, actor and comedian. His writing credits include Dennis Miller Live, and his acting credits include Beverly Hills Cop, Million Dollar Mystery, Groundhog Day and Mrs. Doubtfire.

Life and career

Overton was born in

née Swain), a singer, and Hall Overton, a teacher and music arranger.^[1]^[2] He grew up in Englewood, New Jersey,^[3] where he attended Dwight Morrow High School.^[4]

Overton made his first onscreen appearance in the 1982 film Young Doctors in Love, followed by a small role in Airplane II: The Sequel later that year. In 1987, he wrote an episode of The New Adventures of Beans Baxter while also appearing in various films and television shows including Willow, Amazing Stories and Million Dollar Mystery.

In 1992, he landed a role in the FOX Network sketch comedy show The Edge. The show ended in 1993. Later that year, Overton appeared in two episodes of Seinfeld and landed a small role in Mrs. Doubtfire. The following year, he won an Emmy for writing an episode of Dennis Miller Live.

In 2005, Overton appeared on

H.G. Wells and Orson Welles in a podcast episode of The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd

that same year.
In 2009, Overton appeared in the film A Fork in the Road alongside Jaime King.
Overton appeared in a General Electric commercial as the father who wants his son to have his grandfather's hammer.^[5]

Filmography

Target...Earth? (1980, Documentary) – Himself

Young Doctors in Love (1982) – Dr. Thurman Flicker

Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) – Clerk

Beverly Hills Cop (1984) – Bonded Warehouse Night Supervisor

Odd Jobs (1986) – Roy

Gung Ho (1986) – Googie

A Fine Mess (1986) – Companion

Modern Girls (1986) – Marsalis

Million Dollar Mystery (1987) – Stuart Briggs

Willow (1988) – Franjean

Traxx (1988) – Frank Williams

Earth Girls Are Easy (1988) – Dr. Rick

That's Adequate (1989) – Stand-up Comic

A Sinful Life (1989) – Janitor

Blind Fury (1989) – Tector Pike

The Rocketeer (1991) – South Seas Patron

Galaxies Are Colliding (1992) – Rex

Groundhog Day (1993) – Ralph

Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) – Maitre D'

The High Crusade (1994) – Sir Roger

Devil in the Flesh (1998) – Dr. Milletson

My Giant (1998) – Director

EDtv (1999) – Barry

Jackpot (2001) – Roland

Extreme Honor (2001) – Dr. Lumber

Shoot or Be Shot (2002) – Sasha

Eight Legged Freaks (2002) – Deputy Pete Willis

Northfork (2003) – Rudolph

Motocross Kids (2004) – Hook

Serial Killing 4 Dummys (2004) – Mr. Korn

Off the Lip (2004) – McReady

Taxi (2004) – Man at Taxi Convention

Fat Albert (2004) – Coach Gillespie

Frostbite (2005) – Bartender

A Lot Like Love
(2005) – Tailor

Keep Your Distance (2005) – Dr. Floyd Beasley

Popstar (2005) – Mr. Thomas

Fun with Dick and Jane (2005) – Head Shop Clerk

Blue Sombrero (2005) – General Hard / Fabio / Major Cajones

Cloud 9 (2006) – Buckner

Billy Schulz (2006) – Billy Schulz

The Last Stand (2006) – Redneck Heckler

Comedy Hell (2006) – Wayne

The Tripper (2006) – Mayor Hal Burton

The Astronaut Farmer (2006) – Arnold 'Arnie' Millard

National Lampoon's Pledge This! (2006) – Janitor Jones

Chasing Robert (2007) – Thadeus Wrazinski

The Metrosexual (2007) – Meter Maid

A Plumm Summer (2007) – Agent Brinkman

Totally Baked (2007) – Himself – Street Interview

Cloverfield (2008) – Frantic Man

So Long Jimmy (2008) – Dimitri Adams

The Whole Truth (2009) – Uri Standinoff

Year One (2009) – Sodom Officer Rick (uncredited)

The Informant! (2009) – Terry Wilson

A Fork in the Road (in post-production, 2010) – Sheriff Thompson

Jelly (Post-Production, 2010) – Tad Wasserstein

Dinner for Schmucks (2010) – Chuck – Beard Champion

InSight
(2011) – Det. Gehrke

Bad Teacher (2011) – Philip

Frogtown (2011) – Steve

The Babymakers (2012) – Officer Raspler

Noobz (2012) – Martin Wilson

A Haunted House 2 (2014) – Professor Wilde

Such Good People (2014) – Sidney Talmadge

Muffin Top: A Love Story (2014) – Steve

Lethal Seduction (2015) – Deacon Williams

Body High (2015) – Abe

30 Years of Dark Seduction (2015) – Himself

Dave Made a Maze (2017) – Hobo

Literally, Right Before Aaron (2017) – Dean

A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018) – First Publisher

Duck Duck Goose (2018) – Stanley (voice)

Television

Remington Steele (1 episode, 1983) – New Wave Cop

Help Wanted: Kids (1986) – Photographer

Double Switch (1987) – DeeJay

Amazing Stories (1 episode, 1987) – John Aubrey

Jonathan Winters: On the Ledge (1987, TV Movie) – Additional Improviser

Encyclopedia Brown (1 episode, 1989) – Buddy Claggett

Babes
(10 episodes, 1990) – Ronnie Underwood

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures (animated) (1991) – voice of Rufus

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures (live action) (1992) - Rufus

The Edge (7 episodes, 1992–1993)

Seinfeld (2 episodes, 1993) – The Drake

Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women (1994, TV Movie) – Officer Brown

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (2 episodes, 1994–1995) – Victor

Duckman (1 episode, 1995) – (voice)

Encino Woman (1996, TV Movie) – Raji

The Single Guy (2 episodes, 1996) – Carl Gannon / Gannon

Married... with Children (2 episodes, 1996) – Dr. Fisher

Ned and Stacey (1 episode, 1997) – Rod

ER (1 episode, 1997) – Mr. McNamara

The Weird Al Show (1 episode, 1997) – Mr. Molasses

Mad About You (2 episodes, 1998) – Earl / Shepherd

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show (1 episode, 1998) – George

It's Like, You Know... (2 episodes, 1999–2001) – Evan / Milosevic

The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne (5 episodes, 2000) – Count Gregory

Charmed (3 episodes, 2000) – Triad Member #3

JAG (1 episode, 2001) – William Markey

Curb Your Enthusiasm (1 episode, 2001) – Angry Gentile

Comic Remix (1 episode, 2002)

My Guide to Becoming a Rock Star (11 episodes, 2002) – Dole Greyson

NYPD Blue (1 episode, 2002) – Richard Webb

According to Jim (1 episode, 2004) – Rick

Six Feet Under (1 episode, 2004) – Thomas Sheedy

Joan of Arcadia (1 episode, 2004) – Bad Stand-Up Comedian God

Alias (1 episode, 2005) – Alexei Vasilevich

Family Plan (2005, TV Movie) – Owens

Lost (1 episode, 2005) – Matthew Reed

Van Stone: Tour of Duty (2006, TV Movie) – Gary Seibert's Dad

Rodney (1 episode, 2006) – Max

Drive (1 episode, 2007) – Bank Manager

Leverage (3 episodes, 2008–2009) – Taggert / FBI Agent Taggert

The Office (2 episodes, 2009) – William Beesly

True Jackson, VP (1 episode, 2010) – Jimmy’s Dad

The George Lucas Talk Show (1 episode, 2020) – Self

Video game

The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction (2005)

Writer

An Evening at the Improv (1 episode, 1983)

The New Adventures of Beans Baxter (1 episode, 1987)

Dennis Miller Live (Unknown episodes, 1994)

Awards and nominations

Emmy Awards

Nominated: Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program, Dennis Miller Live (1997)

Won: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing for a Variety or Music Program, Dennis Miller Live (1996)

Writers Guild of America Award

Nominated: Comedy/Variety (Including Talk) – Series, Dennis Miller Live (1997)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Rick Overton Biography (1954–)

^ Mikael J. "DCC4N's Rick Overton Interview", DC Comedy: 4 Now, May 12, 2009. Accessed June 18, 2009. "I Grew up in Forest Hills until 1966, at which point we moved to Englewood NJ because Dizzy Gillespie found us a house near him!"

The Record (Bergen County)
, November 29, 1998. Accessed October 27, 2007.

^ Hu, Winnie. "Forced to Pick a Major in High School", The New York Times, August 16, 2007. Accessed August 17, 2007. "The comedians David Feldman and Rick Overton, alumni of the high school, are scheduled to conduct a comedy writing workshop in October."

Akron Beacon-Journal
.

External links

www.realrickoverton.com

Rick Overton at
IMDb

Rick Overton on MySpace

Rick Overton interviewed about growing up with a jazz legend father

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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series (1990–1999)

Billy Crystal / Jerry Belson, James L. Brooks, Marc Flanagan, Dinah Kirgo, Jay Kogen, Marilyn Suzanne Miller, Heide Perlman, Ian Praiser, Sam Simon, Tracey Ullman and Wallace Wolodarsky (1990, tie)

Billy Crystal, Hal Kanter, Buz Kohan, David Steinberg, Bruce Vilanch and Robert Wuhl (1991)

No award (1992)

Judd Apatow, Robert Cohen, David Cross, Brent Forrester, Jeff Kahn, Bruce Kirschbaum, Bob Odenkirk, Sultan Pepper, Dino Stamatopoulos and Ben Stiller (1993)

No award (1994)

No award (1995)

David Feldman, Eddie Feldmann, Mike Gandolfi, Tom Hertz, Leah Krinsky, Dennis Miller and Rick Overton (1996)

Chris Rock (1997)

Jose Arroyo, David Feldman, Eddie Feldmann, Jim Hanna, Leah Krinsky, Dennis Miller and David Weiss (1998)

Tom Agna, Vernon Chatman, Louis C.K., Lance Crouther, Gregory Greenberg, Ali LeRoi, Steve O'Donnell, Chris Rock, Frank Sebastiano, Chuck Sklar, Jeff Stilson, Wanda Sykes and Mike Upchurch (1999)

Complete list

(1957–1969)

(1970–1979)

(1980–1989)

(1990–1999)

(2000–2009)

(2010–2019)

(2020–present)

Authority control databases
International

ISNI
2

VIAF
2

National

Germany

United States
2

Korea

Artists

MusicBrainz

People

Deutsche Synchronkartei

Deutsche Biographie

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[filmr-1] Rick Overton Biography (1954–)

[2] Mikael J. "DCC4N's Rick Overton Interview", DC Comedy: 4 Now, May 12, 2009. Accessed June 18, 2009. "I Grew up in Forest Hills until 1966, at which point we moved to Englewood NJ because Dizzy Gillespie found us a house near him!"

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