Bronson Pinchot

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Bronson Alcott Pinchot (born May 20, 1959) is an American actor.

Biography

Personal life

Pinchot was born Bronson Alcott Poncharavsky in New York City, New York, the son of Rosina (née Asta), a typist, and Henry Pinkasoff, a bookbinder. [ [http://www.filmreference.com/film/52/Bronson-Pinchot.html Bronson Pinchot Biography (1959-) ] ] [ [http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800023657/bio Bronson Pinchot Biography - Yahoo! Movies ] ] [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0026-1521(199723)2%3A55%3A2%3C8%3AAW%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6] His mother was Italian American and his father, who was born in New York and raised in Paris, was of Bukharian Jewish descent. [http://shlomomoussaieff.blogspot.com/2008/07/bronson-pinchot-aka-pinkhasoff.html] [ [http://www.susquehannatranscript.com/archives/12_07_04v4n24/main.htm Susquehanna County Transcript - Your Hometown Newspaper Online! ] ] [ [http://www.perfectstrangers.tv/usmagazine090886.htm Perfect Strangers Online - Articles ] ] [ [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CSTB&p_theme=cstb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB36D17204E3904&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Chicago Sun-Times:: Search ] ] Pinchot was raised in southern California. After graduating from South Pasadena High School, he then went to UNR he found his way back East to attend Yale University by way of a scholarship. He was a member of Morse College. He began college studying painting but became interested in acting. He retains an active interest in ancient Greek sculpture (460-31 BC). In December 2002, Pinchot became a Freemason. [ [http://www.pagrandlodge.org/freemason/0503/bron.html Pa Freemason May 03 - Bronson Pinchot ] ]

Since approximately 1999, Pinchot has spent a great deal of time in the town of Harford, Pennsylvania restoring the circa 1839 mansion of former Pennsylvania Senator Edward Jones. [ [http://www.susquehannatranscript.com/archives/11_30_04v4n23/main.htm#story1 Susquehanna County Transcript - Your Hometown Newspaper Online! ] ] He has since purchased a number of properties in the small, rural town of 1,300 [ [http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=60770 Harford, Pennsylvania PA, township profile (Susquehanna County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk ] ] in an effort to return the town to its 1800s appearance. He purchased the town store and demolished it. He paid the volunteer fire company to move outside of town. He is currently in the process of suing the town's historical society for the rights to a small triangular island, one of the last pieces of the town center he does not yet own [ [http://www.independentweekender.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=19267264&BRD=2279&PAG=461&dept_id=467076&rfi=8 Susquehanna Independent Weekend - Actor's lawsuit to return to Montrose ] ] .

Pinchot has a brother, Justin, who had a guest role on the "Perfect Strangers" episode "It Had to Be You".

Career

Pinchot has appeared in several feature films, including "Risky Business", "Beverly Hills Cop" (and reprising his popular supporting role in "Beverly Hills Cop III)", "True Romance", "Courage Under Fire" and "It's My Party". Pinchot is probably best known for his role in the ABC family sitcom "Perfect Strangers" (1986–1993) as Balki Bartokomous from the (fictional) island of Mypos. Like his character in "Beverly Hills Cop", Balki had a humorous foreign accent. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 1987 for this role.

In August 1993, just weeks after the last new episodes of "Perfect Strangers" aired on ABC, Pinchot returned to prime-time network television as the star of the CBS sitcom "The Trouble With Larry." Co-starring Perry King, Shanna Reed, and Courteney Cox, the show was universally panned by critics and canceled after just three weeks.

Pinchot was added to the ABC sitcom "Step by Step" in 1996, in part as a replacement for Sasha Mitchell, and remained on the show for a season. He played a character reminiscent of the character he played in "Beverly Hills Cop". Pinchot then starred in the short-lived 1997 science fiction comedy "Meego", which aired on CBS. He guest-starred in a first-season (1996) episode of the NBC sitcom "3rd Rock from the Sun", playing the younger brother of Dr. Mary Albright (Jane Curtin).

In 1999, Pinchot and Gailard Sartain played the nephews of the legendary Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, respectively, in the movie "" (1999). Although the film, which co-starred Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham, was denied a theatrical release and premiered on video, Pinchot was praised for his deft impersonation of Stan Laurel.

In 2003, Pinchot voiced the eccentric school chef, Pepe, for Nickelodeon series "All Grown Up!".

From March 12 to August 15, 2004, Pinchot performed in the revival of "Sly Fox" on Broadway, opposite Richard Dreyfuss, Eric Stoltz, René Auberjonois, Peter Scolari, and others.

Pinchot was a cast member on the fifth season of the VH1 series "The Surreal Life", which premiered July 2005.

2008 sees the release of Pinchot reading the novel The Learners in audio editions, author Chip Kidd's followup to The Cheese Monkeys. Pinchot is also the voice of Max, the fully restored Black 1964 VW Beetle in the Volkswagen "Das Auto" campaign. [http://www.usatoday.com/money/advertising/adtrack/2008-03-31-vw-adtrack_N.htm]

Filmography

*"Risky Business" (1983)
*"Beverly Hills Cop" (1984)
*"The Flamingo Kid" (1984)
*"After Hours" (1985)
*"Perfect Strangers" (1986–1993) (TV Series)
*"Second Sight" (1989)
*"Blame It On The Bellboy" (1992)
*"True Romance" (1993)
*"The Trouble with Larry" (1993–1993) (TV Series)
*"Beverly Hills Cop III" (1994)
*"The Langoliers" (1995) (TV)
*"Courage Under Fire" (1996)
*"The First Wives Club" (1996)
*"It's My Party" (1996)
*"Step by Step" (1996–1997) (TV Series)
*"Slappy and the Stinkers" (1998)
*"Quest for Camelot" (1998) (voice)
*"" (1999)
*"All Grown Up! (2003)
*"Second Best" (2004)
*"The Wager (2007)" (2007)
*"The Young and the Restless" (2008) (TV Series)

References

External links

*imdb name | id = 0001621 | name = Bronson Pinchot
* [http://www.bronsonpinchot.net Bronson Pinchot Fan Site]