Biography
Kevin Pollak is an American actor, comedian, impressionist, and podcast host who has appeared in over 90 films, including Rob Reiner’s A Few Good Men, Jacob Goldman in Grumpy Old Men and its sequel Grumpier Old Men, Todd Hockney in The Usual Suspects, Phillip Green in Martin Scorsese’s Casino, and Bobby Chicago in End of Days.
Age
He is 66 years old as of 30 October 2023. He was born in 1957 in San Francisco, California, United States. His real name is Kevin Elliot Pollak.
Family – Education
He is Elaine Harlow and Robert Pollak’s younger son. Craig, his older brother, lives in San José, California. He attended Pioneer High School in San Jose. Pollak grew up in Reform Judaism.
Wife
Pollak and comedian Lucy Webb married in 1995. They divorced in 2008 after being separated since 2005.
Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $6 million.
Poker
Pollak is an ardent poker player. He finished 134th out of 6,598 players at the 2012 World Series of Poker, earning $52,718. He also hosts weekly home games including Hollywood celebrities.
Podcasts
Pollak and Jason Calacanis launched Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show, a weekly Internet chat show, in April 2009. The show’s guests include film directors Kevin Smith and Mike Binder, comedians Jimmy Pardo and Bill Burr, and actors Nia Vardalos, Illeana Douglas, Bryan Cranston, Dana Carvey, Billy West, John DiMaggio, Matthew Perry, Jon Hamm, Paul Rudd, Adam Carolla, Anthony Cumia, Jason Alexander, Seth MacFarlane, Tom Hanks, Larry David, and Jason Lee.
The guest interviews are quite in-depth and usually last more than an hour, if not two hours. Common subjects include the guests’ childhoods, how they came into their current career (usually show business), how they were motivated to start specific artistic ventures, and unique experiences they have had while working. During the presentation, viewers can communicate through a chat room, and questions presented to the guest are sometimes answered live.
Pollak launched the Talkin Walkin podcast in 2012, in which he spends an hour or more with a fresh guest dressed as Christopher Walken. After three episodes, iTunes rated the show as one of the top five comedy podcasts. As a guest on the Sklar Brothers/Daniel Van Kirk podcast Dumb People Town, he was the only person to go “2 for 2” (two exact matches) in the “Guess the Age” game. The achievement was accomplished in the episode released on April 2, 2018. Pollak launched Alchemy This, a comic improvisation podcast, on the iHeartRadio platform in 2018. It has a regular cast of five members: Craig Cackowski, James Heaney, Chris Alvarado, Vanessa Ragland, and Joey Greer, as well as several guests.
Stand-up
Pollak’s most well-known work as a comic was the 1991 HBO special Stop with the Kicking, which was directed by fellow comedian David Steinberg and produced by comedy writer Martin Olson. In July 2010, Showtime aired his most recent comedy special, The Littlest Suspect. Pollak was nominated to Comedy Central’s Top 100 Comedians of All Time list.
Career
As an entertainer, Pollak’s jobs incorporate the dearest companion, family or partner characters to the main men, as he did in Kick back (1991), A Couple of Good Men (1992), Testy Elderly people Men (1993) and its continuation Grumpier Elderly people Men (1995), Gambling club (1995), Finish of Days (1999), and The Wedding Organizer (2001).
In any case, he has likewise played a wide assortment of parts, like an entertaining brownie in Willow (1988), the philandering sibling of Sarah Jessica Parker in Miami Song (1995), a criminal in The Typical Suspects (1995), a dad in She’s All That (1999), and a hoodlum in All the way (2000). His most significant job to date was in Discouragement (1999), in which he played the primary person, a VP who should take over for a departed President and manage an atomic emergency.
Pollak momentarily facilitated Superstar Poker Confrontation in its most memorable season. In December 2006, he played Karl Kreutzfeld in the Science fiction Station miniseries The Lost Room. Through 2008, he played a common part as a lead prosecutor on the TV series Shark. In Walk 2008, Pollak played himself in the web series The Scholars Room on Pop. In 2010, he depicted Sheriff Tom Wagner in Pick.
In January 2010, Pollak was booked to have Our Little Virtuoso on FOX, however the series was pulled before it could air on TV. Pollak was then seen facilitating Million Dollar Cash Drop for FOX toward the finish of 2010; the show ran for 12 episodes.
In 2014, Pollak started a repetitive job as Alvin Biletnikoff on the CBS sitcom Mother. His experience on the show finished with the passing of his personality. Beginning in 2016, Pollak assumed the part of Marion in the FX series Better Things. His personality was repeating all through each of the five seasons. In 2017, Pollak joined the cast of the Brilliant Globe-winning The Great Mrs. Maisel, a unique series from Amazon, as Moishe Maisel, the fundamental person’s father by marriage.
In 2019, Pollak showed up in five episodes of the fourth season on Kickoff’s Billions, as Douglas Artisan. Pollak’s first time at the helm was on the awfulness web series Vamped Out, included on the web TV stage Babelgum. Jason Antoon, Seana Kofoed, Samm Levine and Pollak all acted in the outfit cast. The screenbook depended on a basic joke that Antoon and Pollak had between them.[8] Pollak’s element movie first time at the helm, the parody narrative Wretchedness Loves Satire, debuted at the 2015 Sundance Film Celebration. The film offered North American privileges to Tribeca Film, a US conveyance organization. Pollak coordinated the satire film The Delayed prodigy, featuring Johnny Simmons, which was delivered in 2016.
Movies
♦ 2024 – Goodrich
♦ 2023 – Sweetwater
♦ 2021 – Injustice
♦ 2019 – Goalie
♦ 2019 – Teacher
♦ 2019 – Apparition
♦ 2018 – Lez Bomb
♦ 2018 – Benjamin
♦ 2018 – The Front Runner
♦ 2017 – Axis
♦ 2017 – Three Christs
♦ 2016 – Max Rose
♦ 2016 – Compadres
♦ 2016 – Special Correspondents
♦ 2016 – The Tiger Hunter
♦ 2016 – War Dogs
♦ 2016 – The Late Bloomer
♦ 2015 – Borealis
TV Shows
♦ 2023–24 – The Neighborhood
♦ 2023 – The Santa Clauses
♦ 2022 – Willow
♦ 2021 – Impeachment: American Crime Story
♦ 2019 – Billions
♦ 2018 – NCIS
♦ 2018 – The Simpsons
♦ 2018 – The Comedy Central Roast
♦ 2017–23 – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
♦ 2017–22 – Better Things
♦ 2017 – The Good Fight
♦ 2017 – Hot Date
♦ 2016 – Angel from Hell
♦ 2016 – Angie Tribeca
♦ 2016 – Drunk History
♦ 2015 – House of Lies