David Paymer (born August 30, 1954) is an
American actor and
television director. He has been in films such as
Mr. Saturday Night,
Quiz Show,
Searching for Bobby Fischer,
City Slickers,
Crazy People,
State and Main,
Payback,
Get Shorty,
Carpool,
The American President,
Ocean's Thirteen, and
Drag Me to Hell. Paymer was nominated for an
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1992 for
Mr. Saturday Night. He played the lead role as the Boss in
Bartleby, an adaptation of
Herman Melville's "
Bartleby, the Scrivener." He played a
mob boss in the television series
Line of Fire.