Kevin Pollak
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Kevin E. Pollak (born October 30, 1957) is an American actor, impressionist and comedian. He started performing stand-up comedy at the age of ten and touring professionally at age twenty. In 1988, Pollak landed a role in George Lucas’ Willow, directed by Ron Howard, and began an acting career.
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[edit] Actor
As an actor, Pollak's trademark is usually playing the best friend or confidant characters to the leading men, as he did in Ricochet, End of Days, A Few Good Men (1992) and The Wedding Planner. However, Pollak has played a wide variety of parts; he played a gangster in The Whole Nine Yards (2000) and a criminal in The Usual Suspects (1995). He also briefly hosted Celebrity Poker Showdown in its first season.
In December 2006, he played Karl Kreutzfeld in the Sci Fi Channel miniseries The Lost Room. He currently has a recurring role as a District Attorney on the television series Shark.
[edit] Comedian
As a comedian, Pollak's most popular work was his 1992 HBO special Stop With the Kicking: Kevin Pollak in Concert, directed by comedian David Steinberg and produced by Boston comedy writer Martin Olson.
Pollak is also known for having one of the best Christopher Walken impersonations in show business. One specific Walken impression routine, "Frankenstein never scared me", has become one of the most requested sound bites on the Bob and Tom Show, and the routine is a code word to see if another person is a Bob and Tom fan. In an appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Pollak recounted that he was invited to introduce Walken at the unveiling of his Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, despite the fact that the two had never met.
Pollak is also notorious for his impression of William Shatner; specifically, imitations of the performances Shatner gave in his best-known role as Star Trek Captain James T. Kirk. In a 1994 special edition of Canadian TV Guide, published to commemorate the final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Pollak writes a guide of how to do an impersonation of Kirk. Shatner himself has said that Pollak does the best impersonation of him that he had ever seen.
[edit] Personal life
Kevin announced on the Adam Carolla Show (4/10/08) that he is divorced from his wife of 20 years and is currently dating a 26 year old.
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[edit] References
Kevin Pollak is also referenced in the Television Show Family Guy in the episode Brian Wallows Peter's Swallows.
