Richard Bruce Kind (born November 22, 1956) is an American actor and comedian. His television roles include Carol & Company (1990–1991), Dr. Mark Devanow in Mad About You (1992–1999, 2019), Paul Lassiter in Spin City (1996–2002), Andy in Curb Your Enthusiasm (2002–2021), Captain Stan Yenko in East New York (2022–2023), and Vince Fish in Only Murders in the Building (2024). He appeared in the films Johns (1996), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2006), Big Stan (2007), A Serious Man (2009), The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014), All We Had (2016), Rifkin's Festival (2020), Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021), and The Out-Laws (2023). Kind is currently the announcer and sidekick on the Netflix live talk show Everybody's Live with John Mulaney.
Kind's voice performances in various Pixar films include Molt in A Bug's Life (1998), Van in the first two films of the Cars franchise (2006–2011), Bookworm in Toy Story 3 (2010), and Bing Bong in Inside Out (2015). He voices Marty Glouberman in the Netflix animated series Big Mouth (2017–present). Kind was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance as Marcus Hoff in the 2013 Broadway theatre production of The Big Knife.
He appeared in eight episodes of Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm, between 2002 and 2021 as Larry's cousin Andy. In 2006, he guest starred as Lucius Lavin in Stargate Atlantis, in the episodes "Irresistible" and "Irresponsible."
Kind had a recurring role in Scrubs, as Harvey Corman, an annoying hypochondriac, who claimed that having the same name as Harvey Korman did not "get him as much action as you may think". He also played a role on USA's crime comedy Psych as Hugo, an astronomer who killed a partner for credit for the discovery of a planet ("From the Earth to the Starbucks"), and later on as a wealthy philanthropist who kills his sister-in-law and niece to protect the money he uses to fund his philanthropic work (""). Kind guest-starred on the Disney Channel series Even Stevens, where he played the surly Uncle Chuck. He appeared in an episode of CBS' Two and a Half Men with former Spin City co-star Charlie Sheen on November 12, 2007. He also played a small role on TNT's hit show Leverage playing the part of a corrupt mayor in the second season two-part finale. Kind guest-starred episode "The Worst", playing the corrupt DEA officer Special Agent Schwartz in the Netflix series Disjointed.
He played the role of burnt spy Jesse's ex-boss Marv in three episodes of season 4 of Burn Notice. In 2011, Kind guest-starred in an episode of the ABC sitcom Mr. Sunshine as Rod the Bod. He starred in the HBO series Luck until its cancellation, and he is also the spokesman for On-Cor frozen foods. In February 2013, he made a guest appearance on Kroll Show.
In 2015, he played the GED instructor on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Mayor Aubrey James in Gotham.
In 2022, Kind starred as police captain Stan Yenko on the CBS police procedural crime fiction East New York, which was cancelled after its first season. In 2023, he played Saint Peter in Mel Brooks' History of the World, Part II.
In 2007, Kind played a short role in the indie film The Visitor, as Richard Jenkins's neighbor, Jacob. Kind starred in the independent black comedy feature, The Understudy in 2008. In 2008, Kind performed the role of Voltaire in the New York City Opera production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide. Kind played the major supporting role of Arthur Gopnik in the Coen brothers' dark comedy film A Serious Man. He had a small role in Clint Eastwood's Hereafter as Christos Andryo, in 2010. In 2011, he played a supporting dramatic role as Mr. Camp in the feature film Fancypants. In 2012, he was featured in Divorce Invitation.
Actor/director George Clooney is a close friend, and was best man at Kind's wedding to Dana Stanley in 1999. Kind later went on to play the part of a casting director in Clooney's directorial debut Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Kind also played himself in the short-lived HBO series Unscripted, which Clooney executive produced and directed with Grant Heslov, and played a small role in the film Argo, as screenwriter Max Klein, which was produced by both Clooney and Heslov. He also had a supporting role in Ari Aster's horror film Beau Is Afraid (2023).
Kind voiced Riley's imaginary friend Bing Bong in Pixar's Inside Out. He provides the voice of Olly and Saraline's dad Harvey Timbers in Welcome to the Wayne. In 2021, he voiced the Doopler on Star Trek: Lower Decks.
Kind resides on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.
He was inducted into the Pennsbury High School Hall of Fame in the inaugural class on October 13, 2022.
Prior to landing his role on ER, George Clooney stayed at Kind’s apartment in Los Angeles. While living there, Clooney played numerous pranks on Kind including one culminating with Clooney defecating in Kind's cat's litter box. Clooney also duped Kind into thinking he was both a Jeopardy
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