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Lee Arenberg (born July 18, 1962) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Pintel, one of Captain Barbossa's crew, in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. He also had a recurring role as the dwarf Grumpy in the television series Once Upon a Time. He attended UCLA as a theatre major.
Arenberg has also guest starred on , , , and . Coincidentally, in two of his appearances, ("The Nagus" and "United"), he played a character named Gral, one a Ferengi and the other a Tellarite. In 1992, Lee appeared on the TV series Night Court. Arenberg also played the recurring role of bookie Mike Moffitt in two episodes of Seinfeld. In "The Parking Space", he and George Costanza had a parking dispute, while in "The Susie" his thumbs were accidentally broken while trying to repair Jerry Seinfeld's car trunk.
He also guest starred in the fifth season of Friends in an episode titled "The One with the Inappropriate Sister". He guest starred on an episode of Brotherly Love entitled "Motherly Love". He had a bit part as a bumbling Hold-up Man in RoboCop 3. Lee also played Dr. Moyer in the Scrubs episode "My Own American Girl". He also starred as the dwarf Elwood Gutworthy in Dungeons & Dragons (2000), and the pirate Pintel in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. He guest starred as "Hair Plugs" in Grounded for Life (2001). A graduate of Santa Monica High in 1980, he starred as the regular character "Grumpy/Leroy" on the hit ABC television series Once Upon a Time. As he confirmed when speaking at the Farpoint Star Trek Convention in Timonium, Maryland, Arenberg's character Pintel did not return in the .
Arenberg's face as skeletal Pintel from , can be seen popping up in the treasure caves on Pirate's Lair on Tom Sawyer Island in Disneyland.
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| 1987 | Cross My Heart | Parking Attendant | Armyan Bernstein | |
| 1988 | Tapeheads | Norton | Bill Fishman | |
| 1989 | The Wizard | Armageddon Registrar | Todd Holland | |
| 1990 | Brain Dead | Sacks | Adam Simon | |
| 1990 | Class of 1999 | Marv the Technician | Mark L. Lester | |
| 1992 | Bob Roberts | Religious Zealot | Tim Robbins | |
| 1993 | RoboCop 3 | Robber at donut shop | Fred Dekker | |
| 1993 | Freaked | The Eternal Flame | Alex Winter Tom Stern | |
| 1995 | Waterworld | Djeng | Kevin Reynolds | |
| 1997 | Warriors of Virtue | Mantose | Ronny Yu | |
| 2000 | Dungeons and Dragons | Elwood | Courtney Solomon | |
| 2003 | Pintel | Gore Verbinski | ||
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| 2007 | Happily N'Ever After | Additional Voices | Paul J. Bolger | |
| 2012 | Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Conspiracy | Billy Lee | Harold Cronk | |
| 2025 | Chain Reaction | Frank | Michel Biel | Short |
| TBA | Last Train to Fortune | Adam Rifkin | Post-production |
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| 2011 | In the Gray | Rob Holloway |
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| 2011 | In the Gray | screenwriter | Rob Holloway |
| Episode: "Night School Confidential" | |||
| 1988 | Sledge Hammer! | Buzzy | Episode: "Sledge, Rattle 'n' Roll" |
| Episode: "For Cryin' Out Loud" | |||
| 2 episodes | |||
| 4 episodes | |||
| Television film | |||
| Episode: "Halloween IV" | |||
| Episodes: "The Parking Space", "The Susie" | |||
| Episode: "Luck of The Bundys" | |||
| Episode: "" | |||
| Episode: "The Nagus" | |||
| Episode: "" | |||
| Episode: "Tempus, Anyone?" | |||
| 4 episodes | |||
| Episode: "Equal Writes" | |||
| Episode: "The One with the Inappropriate Sister" | |||
| Episode: "" | |||
| Miscellaneous episodes | |||
| Episode: "Once Again from the Beginning" | |||
| Episode: "Faith" | |||
| Episode: "Jay Gets Fired" | |||
| Episode: "Oh My Goddess (Part 1)" | |||
| Episode: "My Own American Girl" | |||
| 2 Episodes | |||
| Episode: "Circus, Circus" | |||
| Episode: "Razer" | |||
| Episode: "Monkey Business" | |||
| 55 episodes | |||
| 3 episodes | |||
| Episode: "Down the Rabbit Hole" | |||
| Episode: "The Ways of the Dead" | |||
| Grouped under "Featuring the Voice Talents" |
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